The FReeper Foxhole Remembers the Mosquito Fleet (PT Boats) - Aug. 22, 2005

www.dav.org ^ | Rob Lewis

[Iris7]

Haw.

Well, this fellow I am thinking about could very easily have had a Red Badge. Not of courage, however.

Enough evidence to give a suspicion, and a tiny bit more. Throw in his Dad's ties with Armand Hammer and close adherance to the Moscow Line during the 1935-41 period, starts looking a bit more than just fishy to me.

Shoot, let's ask Phil. Phil, you there?

[Iris7]

Read your home page. Pleasure to have you with us, sir.

[Soaring Feather]

~Roger Miller~Hampster Dance~
Yee Haw!! Party Hardy!

[Colonial Warrior]

Thanks. I am enjoying the company and learning new things.

[USMCBOMBGUY]

The IEDs are the problems, mostly placed on the side of the roads, so side armor helps a great deal. Thankfully most of the roads there are asphalt so it is very difficult to place anything a vehicle would pass over. We are getting some specialized vehicles, such as the cougar, in now that offer great protection.

Mines are not the primary worry, there is some threat but not substantial. Many times when mines have been used it has been done so poorly that they pose no real threat. I found a string along a road side that was heavily used, most of the mines had been driven over at least a couple of times, all Italians (Italians make very effective mines), every one of them was improperly armed or had no fuze at all.

[SAMWolf]

IIRC, his dad made some money running rum during prohibition and supported appeasement of Hitler when he was Ambassador to England in the late 30's. Also there's something about "buying" his son the Presidency. ;-)

[U S Army EOD]

I had two uncles in the Pacific during WWII. One was on a minesweeper and the other Harold L. Bunch was skipper of a PT boat. I have been trying to get his son Andy to join the Freepers.

Uncle "Bud" did tell me a few stories. He was in the Solomons and went after the Japanese barges. He said that the Marines would beg to go with them. They would get close enough to the barges to where you could throw hand grenades into them. You could hear the Japs screaming when they would open up on them with the 50's and 20mm plus small arms.

[U S Army EOD]

See post 47: According to my Uncle "Bud" there were actually two types of engines. The newer ones generated about 300 more HP than the older ones. He also informed me that the Japanese had what he called an "I" Class destroyer that could out run but not out turn some of the older boats. They had an incident where one of the older boats had to play ring around a small island all day for the boat to get away. The PT boat could get in closer to the island and both the Jap destroyer and PT boat spent almost an entire day running around an island. The island was high enough to where the destroyer could not fire across the island to hit the PT boat.

[Iris7]

Thanks. I feel better.

Thanks again.

[snippy_about_it]

"Who's on first?"

My favorite skit of all time. ;-)

[snippy_about_it]

Prayers up for tomorrow's surgery and a quick recovery (with lots of time off though)!

[alfa6]

I'll see you're F/A-18 and raise you a BUFF...

Here's a pic of a F-4 Phantom from VX-4 back in 1971 doing the shock wave gig.

One more Phabulous Phantom pic for you and the denizens of the Foxhole.

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[U S Army EOD]

There are two airplanes that just flat look like predators, one was the ME109, the other the F4.

[alfa6]

IMHO the P&W R-2800 was the most important American aircraft engine of WW-II. A partial listing of the aircraft that used the R-2800 would be...
F6F Hellcat, the P-47 Thunderbolt, the F8F Bearcat, the A-26 Invader, F4U Corsair and the P-61 Black Widow

While the F8F Bearcat did not make it into the fight a quick look show that two of the three Navy fighters in WW-II had the R-2800. The P-47 while not a bad escort fighter was an even better fighter-bomber. The A-26 came in late but did good work in the Attack category.

The Allison V-1710 suffer from lack of an integral supercharger. It was the integral supercharger that made the Rolls-Royce Merlin the premier in-line engine for the Allies in WW-II.

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[Professional Engineer]

National Religious Software Week Begins

Cool! I can pray and my computer won't cra

[PhilDragoo]

Comrade Camelot slept as IJN Amagiri bore down on the fastest vessel in the US fleet.

Daddy Bootlegger, Adolf's bootlicker, fixed it.

When Marilyn would not take "the president is not available" for an answer, Peter Lawford fixed it, with the barbiturate enema.

Drew Pearson said Theodore C. Sorensen ghosted Profiles until Clark Clifford pressured him to retract. Clifford's daughter bought the Holzer's house here. Clifford knew nothing of the BCCI scandal. We are asked to believe so much. At a point, suspension of disbelief fails catastrophically and we are calling liars liars, crooks crooks, and traitors by their real names.

Packard 4M-2500, Super Charged V-12 Gasoline Marine Engine

[investigateworld]

Thanks.

[w_over_w]

Thanks for the ping . . .

We are asked to believe so much. At a point, suspension of disbelief fails catastrophically and we are calling liars liars, crooks crooks, and traitors by their real names.

And then John Kerry runs for President and we are asked all over again.

Camelot! Camelot!
I know it sounds a bit bizarre,
But in Camelot, Camelot
That's how conditions are.

[Samwise]

[Victoria Delsoul]

Nice pics. Here is Marilyn singing...

Click on it