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Watch out, Putin! Huge American B-52s that can carry nuclear weapons land at RAF base as [Trunc}
Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | March 17, 2019 | Harry Howard

Posted on 03/17/2019 12:22:01 PM PDT by Cecily

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To: hanamizu

OMG , I was 9 or 10. It was an Armed Forces Day. We were playing ball on a diamond in East River Park when the ground shook and the sound of roaring thunder erupted. We looked up and there were three B36s in V formation flying south, following the river. A truly awesome sight.


21 posted on 03/17/2019 1:55:43 PM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: Joe 6-pack; JAKraig

LOL, I was born in the South and grew up a military brat, but it wasn’t until I joined the USN at age 18 that I realized for some, the Civil War had never ended!


22 posted on 03/17/2019 1:56:53 PM PDT by rlmorel (If racial attacks were as common as the Left wants you to think, they wouldn't have to make them up.)
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To: SubMareener

I don’t think the BUFFs are stationed at Offutt, Just Minot ND. and Barksdale La.


23 posted on 03/17/2019 1:58:19 PM PDT by Ed Condon (subliminal messages here in invisible ink)
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To: MichaelCorleone

Were the “4 burning” JATO bottles?


24 posted on 03/17/2019 2:09:29 PM PDT by Tucker39 ("It ishttps://y impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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To: Ed Condon

It appears you are correct. Thanks.


25 posted on 03/17/2019 2:09:39 PM PDT by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR)
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To: Cecily

26 posted on 03/17/2019 2:19:44 PM PDT by Delta 21
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Our mom was born in 1925. Her mom came to the US from Yugoslavia shortly before WW1 broe out. Hard to imagine.
Mom was raised for a few years on a farm in northern Wisconsin by Aunts and Uncles while her mom worked a menial job in Chicago. Mom has lived through the Depression, Pearl Harbor, September 11 and more. In fact she got married rather young and her husband shipped to Europe as crew member of a bomber; he was injured on his first mission and died in hospital in England about a week later.
Still she has much for which to be grateful. By comparison my life has been rather uneventful.


27 posted on 03/17/2019 2:23:11 PM PDT by Honest Nigerian
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

My paternal grandmother Ida at 12 years of age was “farmed out” to a farm down in Maryland, 1880s, where there had been slaves, who stayed there and now worked for wages, living in the slave quarters like always. Ida lived with the former slaves, who taught her to cook and bake, and taught her the Bible. She either knew or knew-of Harriet Tubman. Tubman’s original name was Araminta, nicknamed “Minty”, but changed it to Harriet. When Ida’s first granddaughter arrived, she had her daughter name her Araminta. Other than Tubman, I have never ever heard of another Araminta. I wish I’d learned this stuff while Ida was still living. I would so loved to have gleaned what she’d experienced.


28 posted on 03/17/2019 2:24:18 PM PDT by Tucker39 ("It ishttps://y impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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To: Delta 21

I have no idea how Sterling Hayden and Peter Sellers got through even one take of some of their scenes without laughing. They were pros!

“I do not avoid women, Mandrake, but I do deny them my essence.”


29 posted on 03/17/2019 2:29:20 PM PDT by Cecily
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To: Cecily

Oh, puleeze. Much ado about nothing. The only people trolling Russia are the msm.


30 posted on 03/17/2019 2:30:17 PM PDT by bgill (when you badmouth women, you are badmouthing your mama and the good women on FR)
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To: Tucker39

Were the “4 burning” JATO bottles?


No, there were two jet engines in a single nacelle (like a B-52) mounted outside the three pusher engines on each wing for a total of ten engines. There’s a movie, Strategic Air Command that shows the plane in action.


31 posted on 03/17/2019 2:32:10 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Cecily

Only a stupid-assed fool would allow Georgia to join NATO.

The US must not have any part in encouraging it.


32 posted on 03/17/2019 2:51:05 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: yarddog

Was that CWO4 Novasol?IIRC.


33 posted on 03/17/2019 3:10:43 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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Weren’t B-52s the Wright brothers design. They are so ancient they’re no threat to Russia.


34 posted on 03/17/2019 3:11:15 PM PDT by Retvet (Retvet)
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To: Tucker39

Nope, jet engines.6 recips and 4 suck and blows.


35 posted on 03/17/2019 3:13:26 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Cecily

No doubt really good stuff.


36 posted on 03/17/2019 3:17:45 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Retvet

Yup. And you can tell from the smoke trail that they are coal powered.


37 posted on 03/17/2019 3:18:25 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

My Great-grandpa was born in 1868, was eight years old when Custer was killed, and lived long enough to see the B-52 come into service. I still remember him.

Cool.

My father served in the US 7th Cavalry in the mid-50’s as a teenager, 17-19, and in later years moved far away from us to coincidentally later be interred at Fort Custer, MI.


38 posted on 03/17/2019 3:21:35 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: HANG THE EXPENSE

Not sure who that was but he was a Col.


39 posted on 03/17/2019 3:23:00 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: MichaelCorleone

“Four burning and six turning, eh?”

A real episode.

A B52 lost an engine and declared an emergency. A pilot (probably a fighter jock) did not identify himself but simply said, “The dreaded 7 engine approach.”


40 posted on 03/17/2019 3:31:13 PM PDT by cpdiii ( canecutter, deckhand, roughneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR)
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