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Eighth-Grader Helps Debunk Lindbergh Myth
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| 12-26-2005
Posted on 12/28/2005 9:01:54 AM PST by Cagey
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To: beyond the sea
LOL!
Fox News...We report...You decide
CBS News...We report...You prove that we're right.
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posted on
12/28/2005 9:46:29 AM PST
by
kidd
To: kidd
CBS News...We report...You prove that we're right.ROFL
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posted on
12/28/2005 9:47:50 AM PST
by
beyond the sea
(If you need a really new idea ..................... read a really old book.)
To: BenLurkin
"when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor."
Check your history book. You are off by a continent.
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posted on
12/28/2005 9:52:32 AM PST
by
B4Ranch
(No expiration date is on the Oath to protect America from all enemies, foreign and domestic.)
To: Young Werther
Charles Lindbergh would have his Air Force Rank reinstated... He didn't have his rank instated. Rousevelt was very vindictive and refused to let him back in the Army Air Force. He went to work for Henry Ford for the B24s that were built by Ford.
He later went to work for Consolidated Aircraft as a test pilot and consultant for the F4U Corsair fighter.
He went to the South Pacific as a civilian factory rep. He was flying missions as a factory rep and General MacArthur had him go to the Marine and Army Air force units to train pilots for better fuel management. That made the Yammamoto mission possible.
He flew many bombing missions on the Japanese held islands. He shot down one Japanese Zero. Mostly he helped develop and mount bomb racks on fighters. That is why they didn't use B17s in the Pacific.
My wife got me a book of his war time journal. Very interesting reading.
To: B4Ranch; BenLurkin
Are you saying it wasn't carrier based Messerschmidts that hit Pearl?
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posted on
12/28/2005 9:55:21 AM PST
by
Cagey
(Some men are Baptists, others Catholics, my father was an Oldsmobile man.)
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To: Young Werther
Chance Encounter with the Lone Eagle A Marine pilot works closely with Lindbergh on bomb-carrying Corsairs
By Col. Fran Clark, USMC (Ret.)
Above: May 1944: before he went to check out Fran Clarks outfit, Charles Lindbergh (second from left) flew Corsairs off Emirau Island.
(Photo courtesy of Pat Ranfranz.)
Above: While on Emirau Island, Lindbergh corrected certain F4U problems and established better communications between the Marine Corps and the United Aircraft Co. From here, he flew his first combat missions with the Corps.
(Photo courtesy of Pat Ranfranz.)
Above: Flying a Corsair, Lindbergh takes off from Roi Namur Island with a 1,000-pound bomb between the two fuel tanks.
(Photo by Capt. W.E. Scarborough USN [Ret.] courtesy of John Underwood.)
To: notigar
No, they struck us because we cut off their oil supply.
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posted on
12/28/2005 10:01:04 AM PST
by
LEPEN
To: LEPEN
No, they struck us because we cut off their oil supply. Which we did in response to Japan's refusal to obey League of Nations directives to cease their war of aggression in China.
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posted on
12/28/2005 10:05:14 AM PST
by
ko_kyi
To: B4Ranch; BenLurkin
Check your history book. You are off by a continent. Arcane reference to movie humor that some of us thought
insanely funny in a low key sort of way.
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posted on
12/28/2005 10:06:53 AM PST
by
higgmeister
(In the Shadow of The Big Chicken.)
To: BenLurkin
"He was proven wrong when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor."
I know the Japanese history revisionists are hard at work, but this is too much. LOL.
To: B4Ranch; reagan_fanatic
like reagan_fanatic for example.
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posted on
12/28/2005 10:08:28 AM PST
by
higgmeister
(In the Shadow of The Big Chicken.)
To: beyond the sea
Without the HAND signed HAND typed letter, all she has is a faxed forgery.
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posted on
12/28/2005 10:08:42 AM PST
by
weegee
(Christmas - the holiday that dare not speak its name.)
To: A.A. Cunningham; SteveJudd; Young Werther
Interesting information, A.A.. Thanks.
The following link contains some good information on John Mitchell's "Yamamoto Mission". It also contains a list of the 18 Pilots on the flight team.
http://www.acepilots.com/usaaf_mitchell.html
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posted on
12/28/2005 10:11:44 AM PST
by
Cagey
(Some men are Baptists, others Catholics, my father was an Oldsmobile man.)
To: Cagey
Navy Type 97 Carrier Attack Planes "Kates" made up the majority if I recall correctly. There was some midget submarines that made it to the harbor too.
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posted on
12/28/2005 10:19:47 AM PST
by
B4Ranch
(No expiration date is on the Oath to protect America from all enemies, foreign and domestic.)
To: higgmeister
Okay, I see where you're coming from now.
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posted on
12/28/2005 10:20:36 AM PST
by
B4Ranch
(No expiration date is on the Oath to protect America from all enemies, foreign and domestic.)
To: A.A. Cunningham; nutmeg
Flying a Corsair...
Yay! Vought-Sikorsky and Chance Vought Aircraft! Stratford and Bridgeport Connecticut! Yay! (click the pic)
Nutmeg: local-and-proud semi-ping. :D
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posted on
12/28/2005 10:29:54 AM PST
by
solitas
(So what if I support an OS that has fewer flaws than yours? 'Mystic' dual 500 G4's, OSX.4.2)
Comment #38 Removed by Moderator
To: bobbdobbs
Maybe you need to be put on "Double Secret Probation".
To: B4Ranch; BenLurkin
"when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor."Check your history book. You are off by a continent.
"Forget it, he's on a roll!"
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