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DiabloTX · « **Reply #2115 on:** April 01, 2007, 07:32:30 PM »

Ahhhhh, ok. Now that I can see the whole pic it makes complete sense.

The "CT" dance!

"2 weeks."

That's 88. Front row, to the right.

JB88 · « **Reply #2116 on:** April 01, 2007, 07:52:30 PM »

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Originally posted by DiabloTX
Ahhhhh, ok. Now that I can see the whole pic it makes complete sense.

The "CT" dance!

"2 weeks."

That's 88. Front row, to the right.

thats corporal diablo in the evening dress. oh, wait, they cropped him out.

DiabloTX · « **Reply #2117 on:** April 01, 2007, 08:09:40 PM »

So which airplane would you most like to see added to the AH hangar?

P-39 for me.

But I'd also like to see a "1946" arena that had airplanes that barely got passed the drawing board and some that actually flew. There's that creative side to me again. I don't like that "Must have seen combat!" mantra. What harm could come to adding something paying customers actually want?

Dichotomy · « **Reply #2118 on:** April 01, 2007, 08:15:36 PM »

I'm voting B25 but I really don't care. If we get it I'll 'fly' it but the 39, 36, whatever are fine with me.

It's all about fun and making new friends.

Word

JB88 · « **Reply #2119 on:** April 01, 2007, 08:16:45 PM »

me-410

DiabloTX · « **Reply #2120 on:** April 01, 2007, 08:17:05 PM »

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Originally posted by Dichotomy
I'm voting B25 but I really don't care. If we get it I'll 'fly' it but the 39, 36, whatever are fine with me.

It's all about fun and making new friends.

Word

Word.

There are a LOT of planes I'd like to see get added but I've been jonesing for the 39 for years. I finally got the Ki-84 and I do like that ride quite a bit. Nothing quite like a A6M on steroids. Now, if only we had a Ki-100...

JB88 · « **Reply #2121 on:** April 01, 2007, 08:19:34 PM »

im really not that keen for any of them, but the 410 seems the most radical.

besides...this is a virtual universe, lacking the real life variables such as production and in some ways timing...so i am interested to see how it will perform here.

eskimo2 · « **Reply #2122 on:** April 01, 2007, 08:22:27 PM »

P-39

My father-in-law was a P-39 & RP-63 Pilot:

DiabloTX · « **Reply #2123 on:** April 01, 2007, 08:22:48 PM »

So what is your fave WWII airplane and why?

I've always had a thing for 190's and Corsairs as well as 47's. Something about the manly radials on the front of those planes. Inlines seem so limp-wristed to me.

DiabloTX · « **Reply #2124 on:** April 01, 2007, 08:25:25 PM »

That is awesome eskimo. He'd get sick of me always asking him to talk about it. One of my shipmates back in the navy married a german girl. Her dad used to work on the 109 assembly line back during WWII. We used to call her "Miss Messerschmitt". lolz

eskimo2 · « **Reply #2125 on:** April 01, 2007, 08:32:25 PM »

I married his daughter over 10 years ago. He and his wife and my wife and I and our three kids have lived together for the past 5 years. He’s my best friend; we do all kinds of thing together almost daily. I’ve certainly grilled him about his experiences over the years.

DiabloTX · « **Reply #2126 on:** April 01, 2007, 08:38:41 PM »

I had a golden opportunity back in '90. When I was flying back from Europe to process out of the navy I ran into a bunch of WWII Army Air Corps vets waiting to go to England for a reunion. They were just DYING for someone to come and ask about thier WWII memories. And I was more than willing to listen to them while we waited for our flights. The odd thing that I found out, well not odd, it's sad really, is the only ones with the squadron that went to reunions were the ground crews. Almost none of the air crews ever went to reunions. I actually talked to a 24 nose gunner who was one of the first to report seeing a 262 in combat. Thrilling stuff indeed.

JB88 · « **Reply #2127 on:** April 01, 2007, 08:41:37 PM »

old friends

Old friends,
Old friends
Sat on their park bench
Like bookends.
A newspaper blown though the grass
Falls on the round toes
Of the high shoes
Of the old friends.

Old friends,
Winter companions,
The old men
Lost in their overcoats,
Waiting for the sunset.
The sounds of the city,
Sifting through trees,
Settle like dust
On the shoulders
Of the old friends.

Can you imagine us
Years from today,
Sharing a park bench quietly?
How terribly strange
To be seventy.
Old friends,
Memory brushes the same years
Silently sharing the same fears.

- simon and garfunkle

eskimo2 · « **Reply #2128 on:** April 01, 2007, 08:53:12 PM »

My father-in-law and I attend the “World War II – Korean War Roundtable” in our area once a month. They have a guest or member speaker/veteran who tells his tale for an hour or two. It’s a pretty amazing group and is very diverse. You’d think that the ground crew guys would outnumber the flyers 10:1, since that’s what it really took, but in this group there are an amazing amount of pilots. We have a colonel who flew Corsairs in WWII and Korea and was shot down 5 times. We had a speaker who was in the Finish Army, German Army and Russian Army; he defected and assumed a new identity and rank whenever the options looked bad. Two of our speakers were among the first 12 African American paratroopers in the US Army.

A year ago I was driving my father-in-law and two of our veteran neighbors to these meetings; they were all 86. My father-in-law is the only one left.

http://www.wwiirt.com/

DiabloTX · « **Reply #2129 on:** April 01, 2007, 09:19:05 PM »

Amazing.

A few years ago I went with my father to one of his ship reunions in Corpus Christi. It was a reunion of all sailors from his ship the USS Halsey Powell, a Fletcher-class DD. I actually got to meet his CO, Capt. Castagliano, who had to be in his late 80's. The odd thing is that there is almost never any WWII vets at the reunions as they feel that they deserve their own WWII-only reunion. I find that very odd but understandable. Like you I heard some good sea stories at that event. This is me and dad at that event, Oct. '02.