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Former President George H.W. Bush's Navy airplane on display in Eden Prairie (MN)
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| 12/2/18
| Joe Mazan
Posted on 12/02/2018 7:44:33 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
If George H W Bush hadn’t been picked up by a Navy submarine off the island of Chi Chi Jima he wouldn’t have survived the war. None of the other US personnel capture on that island did. Read The book “Fly Boys” a follow on to “Flags of Our Fathers”. It’s a grim read but so was the book about Iwo Jima. What we gave up to have an airfield for wounded bombers bombing Japan is pretty sobering. H W was lucky and I’m sure he knew it.
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12/02/2018 9:45:11 PM PST
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Equine1952
(Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought.she)
To: virgil
Single, clean gear strut. Yes. N2S, as I recall. The N3N had an ugly, cluttered landing strut.
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12/03/2018 12:37:26 AM PST
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YogicCowboy
("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
"... trained as a fighter pilot..." Well, not quite.
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12/03/2018 1:12:39 AM PST
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A strike
(Import Third World become Third World)
To: Tucker39
"That is a Grumman Avenger" ummm.... no, just NO....
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12/03/2018 3:28:47 AM PST
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Trump_the_Evil_Left
(FReeper formerly known as Enchante (registered Sept. 5, 2001), back from the wild....)
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