*stands at attention* *salutes* *wipes away a tear* D
One point mentioned in the WotL episode was that the landings were so hard that some pilots suffered broken backs. Sort of like jumping off the...
We've got thunder moving in here in north-central Alabama. No sleep for me for a while. DaveBj
Page 51 of the 4 Oct. 1943 Life Magazine has a Boeing ad with the in-flight picture of this wounded B-17. It can be found here: LIFE - Google...
My father said the same thing about the actresses he saw during the WWII USO tours -- no makeup = not so great-looking. DaveBj
My LG EnV sends and receives phone calls and texts, and that's about all. It will play music, but I have an mp3 player that's a lot better at...
I read One Day in the original in '75, when I was in my intermediate Russian course at DLI/Monterey. It was not an easy read, but not as hard as...
Alexandr Solzhenytsin's novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich dealt with this. The protagonist was accused of being a German spy and...
Not Polish. Ukrainian. The give-away is the cyrillic lettering in the upper right of the video screen; Polish uses Roman letters. Oh, and the...
Just out of curiosity, are there any flyable 87s left? (Sad, how we let history disappear.)
Wouldn't be the first time Life got something wrong.
I'm reading through WWII-era Life magazines; one article had a pic of a load of wheels and axles, and the caption said they were cast iron.
I'm doing some research for a story I might write, and I was wondering -- were the drivers and idlers used on WWII-era American tanks made of cast...
What bothered me (besides the original story) was why the conservative politicians weren't all over this. LibDems Pelosi and Reid were outraging...
Good on him for lasting this long, and good on those who are enabling him to go. Side note: My father (a Norsky farmer's son from NoDak) was...
I probably need to absorb the articles before I comment, and there's a LOT of stuff there to absorb, but one thing I can point out now is that...
This is just a WAG -- might they perhaps have been thinking about the use of the Caucasus oil by the German forces closest to the Caucasus? DaveBj
The History Channel did a series called Battle 360 on the activities of the Enterprise during WWII. The DVDs can be purchased, or one can also...
I was thinking U.S.-flagged ships; for some reason, Soviet- and neutral-flagged ships didn't enter my mind. D'oh! Lend-Lease is not one of my...
As a side note, one of the Doolittle Raid crews landed their B-25 bomber at an airfield near Vladivostok and were interned. They escaped some...
