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  1. CAC

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    Favourite Seaplane? The B-29 of course...

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    Kee Bird before her ill fated "almost" recovery.
     
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    Black were on equal status with other enlisted men until the steam navy came along. Then the "black gang" (because they were covered in coal dust most often) began to live up to its name. There was nothing unique about US racism. The German navy required that Jews serve only in the engineering fields. The Russians segregated based on religion, in a country where you had to ask a person their family name to get clue as to their religion.
     
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    i read when Stalin came into power he closed all the churches and then after he passed the churches reopened, many churches became under ground books were hidden in some cases split up and hidden by different families so if caught only part would be lost.
     
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    Hahaha, is that the one that landed on a lake in Alaska they tried to salvage and accidentally destroyed it?
     
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    That was sad they worked so hard and they guy who financed it I read went bankrupt. Had put everything into its recovery and hoped to make back his money on the recovery. Guess might of been better if he could have gotten some investors or something.
     
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    AFAIK, He did not go bankrupt, and his salvage operation was financed by a group of California investors.
     
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    Guess that's another story of misinformation, though it's still sad after all that work they were so close and lost it.
     
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    He returned all the icons to the churches as part of his effort to rally the people when Op. Barbarossa hit. I can't verify that people who attended the newly re-opened churches were noted and reported.
     
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    I read hitler tried to suppress the Catholic Church as well but the German people were too rooted in the faith. Do dictators fear the people will be more loyal to their faith than to their dictator? That they must root out all things that can sway the people from oppression and war?
     
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    The German Catholic church cooperated with the NDSAP through orders from Pope Pius.
     
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    Is that Orange County airport, south of LA?
     
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    Not sure. Around Malibu. Check out the link : video of Leno popping out of the nose hatch !
     
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    That would be Oxnard, I think.
     
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    Flying Boats in Darwin...

    Black cats at Doctor's Gully...

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    Doctors Gully today
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    It's more famous today for it's fish feeding...
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    More flying boats in Darwin...

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    For those of you who don't know how the sheep are separated from the goats:

    "Flying boats" land with their fuselage in the water, usually with some vague nod to "boat-shaped".

    "Sea planes", or "Float planes" have pontoons where the wheels go. From there up they tend to look like ordinary planes. Float planes are usually smaller that flying boats, with the usual exceptions, of course.
     
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    Uhh..."Sea planes" are any type of aircraft capable of taking off, floating on, or landing on, water. "Flying boats" & "float planes", are all sea planes.

    Don't forget "Amphibians", which can take off, float on, or land on water, as well as taking off and landing on land.
     
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