Re: Is America a racist nation?
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2022 10:08 am
Did you watch this one?
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I had many of the same thoughts and feelings as you as I watched all three episodes.
Kismet, you’re about to regret providing that extra info, as it provides me the same opportunity. Apologies in advance for steering this away from its actual topic.Kismet wrote: ↑Thu Sep 22, 2022 6:25 amActors Jimmy Stewart (pilot and ops officer) and Walter Matthau (tailgunner) were both in the 453rd.NattyBohChamps04 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 22, 2022 12:29 amGive 'em hell 453rd...SCLaxAttack wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 7:02 pmThe airfield where he was stationed still exists, along with a few of the WWII era buildings and Quonset huts, as a private airport on the outskirts of Attleboro England, with a museum dedicated to his bomber group. A trip there is on my bucket list.
Check out The Wild Blue by Stephen Ambrose and certainly the great 1949 war film Twelve O'Clock High.
Lastly, in the Burns film, they mentioned that USA alone lost 51,000 people (aircrews) during the war bombing Germany and mainland Europe both in daylight and nighttime.
not a problem. Thx for sharing.SCLaxAttack wrote: ↑Thu Sep 22, 2022 11:47 amKismet, you’re about to regret providing that extra info, as it provides me the same opportunity. Apologies in advance for steering this away from its actual topic.Kismet wrote: ↑Thu Sep 22, 2022 6:25 amActors Jimmy Stewart (pilot and ops officer) and Walter Matthau (tailgunner) were both in the 453rd.NattyBohChamps04 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 22, 2022 12:29 amGive 'em hell 453rd...SCLaxAttack wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 7:02 pmThe airfield where he was stationed still exists, along with a few of the WWII era buildings and Quonset huts, as a private airport on the outskirts of Attleboro England, with a museum dedicated to his bomber group. A trip there is on my bucket list.
Check out The Wild Blue by Stephen Ambrose and certainly the great 1949 war film Twelve O'Clock High.
Lastly, in the Burns film, they mentioned that USA alone lost 51,000 people (aircrews) during the war bombing Germany and mainland Europe both in daylight and nighttime.
Stewart was group ops officer from Mar 31 - Jul 1, 1944. My dad and the rest of his crew (initial bomb crews trained together and then flew their new plane to their assignment) arrived at the group on June 4, 1944. They flew 35 missions, remarkably without injury to any of their crew. He and his crew returned to the US by ship on Dec 22, 1944 and arrived in NY eight days later. (Their plane, nicknamed Lace for a well known pinup cartoon character at the time, wasn’t so lucky. I have a photo my dad kept from the local British paper showing the crew next to the nose art after a Purple Heart had been painted on her chest for wounds she took in action.)
There’s some pretty good historical information that’s survived about the 8th Air Force 453rd Bomber Group. They flew from “Old Buckenham” Airfield from 12/23/43 until 4/12/45. 197 B24 bombers were known to have flown in the group at one time or another. They took part in 259 missions over Belgium, The Netherlands, and Germany. 58 of those planes were either shot down or returned so damaged as to not be salvageable. 366 crewmen lost their lives.
A few years after my dad passed I was talking to a friend who worked for a German subsidiary of my employer. He mentioned his family came from Paderborn, and that sounded so familiar. I looked through my dad’s war memorabilia and saw that three of his missions were to the Paderborn Luftwaffe airfield. After telling my friend he said he still remembered his parents telling him how afraid they were the days that airfield was bombed, as “precision bombing” in WWII wasn’t that at all. I felt great relief when he told me none of his family were killed or injured during any of those raids.
Brett is a welfare king.
Good thing he didn’t take a knee for the anthem, right?
He wouldn’t take a knee unless it is to bend over to pick up welfare checks.Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Fri Sep 23, 2022 5:44 pmGood thing he didn’t take a knee for the anthem, right?
Some coverage:Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Fri Sep 23, 2022 5:59 pmHe wouldn’t take a knee unless it is to bend over to pick up welfare checks.Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Fri Sep 23, 2022 5:44 pmGood thing he didn’t take a knee for the anthem, right?
Free Favre!CU88 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 26, 2022 12:05 pm Remember when Brett Favre said kneeling players cause “turmoil”?
Or when he said it’s “hard to believe” Derek Chauvin meant to kill George Floyd?
Or when he tweeted he was voting Trump 2020?
I just keep thinking how “stealing from poor folks” fits PERFECTLY with all that stuff.
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hey - give him a break .... at least he didn't send those kids "richard"-PicksCU88 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 26, 2022 12:05 pm Remember when Brett Favre said kneeling players cause “turmoil”?
Or when he said it’s “hard to believe” Derek Chauvin meant to kill George Floyd?
Or when he tweeted he was voting Trump 2020?
I just keep thinking how “stealing from poor folks” fits PERFECTLY with all that stuff.
DEPLORABLE
He traded those picks for a bottle of oxy already.HooDat wrote: ↑Mon Sep 26, 2022 12:23 pmhey - give him a break .... at least he didn't send those kids "richard"-PicksCU88 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 26, 2022 12:05 pm Remember when Brett Favre said kneeling players cause “turmoil”?
Or when he said it’s “hard to believe” Derek Chauvin meant to kill George Floyd?
Or when he tweeted he was voting Trump 2020?
I just keep thinking how “stealing from poor folks” fits PERFECTLY with all that stuff.
DEPLORABLE