Author Topic: Thomas MacGuire (Read 1463 times)

Angus · « **Reply #30 on:** July 01, 2004, 02:13:02 PM »

How and when did Bong die?

Ack-Ack · « **Reply #31 on:** July 01, 2004, 02:36:34 PM »

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Originally posted by straffo
If he have been so great he wouldn't have broke his own rule and perhaps survived.

You know, that's really pathetic. You can't contribute anything intelligent or meaningful to this thread so you have to bash on a war hero. Just like your flying skills, very sad.

ack-ack

simshell · « **Reply #32 on:** July 01, 2004, 02:38:38 PM »

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Originally posted by Kweassa
Maybe his flaps retracted.

on a for real note he got greedy and paid for it with his life and a other i see that as a very dumb thing on his part

you can spin it anway you want but the fact is that what he did was wrong and its a shame he had to take a other with him

was he a great ace yes but his life book ended with that dumb mission and a other life

Ack-Ack · « **Reply #33 on:** July 01, 2004, 02:41:55 PM »

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Originally posted by Angus
How and when did Bong die?

He died on August 6th, 1945 test flying the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star. He was 24 years old at the time of his death.

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MiloMorai · « **Reply #34 on:** July 01, 2004, 02:42:55 PM »

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Originally posted by Angus
How and when did Bong die?

Dick Bong was intrigued by the new jet fighter and enthusiastic about his assignment. On August 6, 1945 (the day the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima) Dick Bong was killed when the P-80 he was testing stalled on takeoff and he bailed out at low altitude. His body, partially wrapped in the shrouds of his parachute, was found 100 feet from the plane's jet engine. On 8 August 1945 he was burried in the Poplar cemetary, Poplar, Wisconsin.

from http://usfighter.tripod.com/bong.htm

straffo · « **Reply #35 on:** July 01, 2004, 02:57:53 PM »

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Originally posted by Ack-Ack
You know, that's really pathetic. You can't contribute anything intelligent or meaningful to this thread so you have to bash on a war hero. Just like your flying skills, very sad.

ack-ack

Wan't to duel ?

muahahah

Seek professionnal help for your inflated ego first.

Ack-Ack · « **Reply #36 on:** July 01, 2004, 03:00:09 PM »

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Originally posted by straffo
Wan't to duel ?

muahahah

Seek professionnal help for your inflated ego first.

why waste my time? you wouldn't last more than half a turn on merge.

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straffo · « **Reply #37 on:** July 01, 2004, 03:06:45 PM »

The only time we met you head on me when I was nursing my typhoon having a lost wingtip ...

Next you screamed on open channel I was a HO potato...

It pictured you and your spirit perfectly I don't want to know more.

Kweassa · « **Reply #38 on:** July 01, 2004, 03:26:56 PM »

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on a for real note he got greedy and paid for it with his life and a other i see that as a very dumb thing on his part

you can spin it anway you want but the fact is that what he did was wrong and its a shame he had to take a other with him

was he a great ace yes but his life book ended with that dumb mission and a other life

And maybe thats what happens to AH2 P-38 pilots too, when they rely too much on flaps.

>End Hijack<

Sikboy · « **Reply #39 on:** July 01, 2004, 03:28:48 PM »

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Originally posted by Kweassa

>End Hijack<

If only it were that easy lol

-Sik

Angus · « **Reply #40 on:** July 01, 2004, 05:56:05 PM »

TY for the Bong (and others) link Ack Ack.
Always a tragic side, and reminds one how close to death those guys used to live.

Well, Cheers to their memory.

Ack-Ack · « **Reply #41 on:** July 01, 2004, 06:23:13 PM »

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Originally posted by Angus
TY for the Bong (and others) link Ack Ack.
Always a tragic side, and reminds one how close to death those guys used to live.

Well, Cheers to their memory.

It amazes me how young Bong was when he died. At 24 I was smoking bongs and playing AW and wondering which party to go to that night.

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Muddie · « **Reply #42 on:** July 02, 2004, 01:57:57 PM »

Different war, but still

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWfonck.htm

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Originally posted by Slash27
Bong is certainly a better example of what an ace is.

What would the French know about "aces" ?