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Offline Yeager

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« Reply #15 on: December 22, 2005, 11:55:12 AM »
a movie about Iwo is being made?

Clint?  Clint who?  Eastwood?

Links please
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« Reply #16 on: December 22, 2005, 12:06:01 PM »
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« Reply #17 on: December 22, 2005, 07:04:52 PM »
Author James Bradley, - son of "Doc" Bradley, one of those who raised the flag.
Copyright owner & producer AFAIK is Steven Spielberg.
Director (da boss) is Clint Eastwood.
Spent some odd 3 weeks on the set. Mostly cold and bored, except sometimes it ROCKED.
Must admire Clint's workmanship. Honoured to have been there.

Clint deserves some :aok :aok :aok :aok :aok
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« Reply #18 on: December 22, 2005, 07:15:34 PM »
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Originally posted by Angus
Author James Bradley, - son of "Doc" Bradley, one of those who raised the flag.
Copyright owner & producer AFAIK is Steven Spielberg.
Director (da boss) is Clint Eastwood.
Spent some odd 3 weeks on the set. Mostly cold and bored, except sometimes it ROCKED.
Must admire Clint's workmanship. Honoured to have been there.

Clint deserves some :aok :aok :aok :aok :aok
Are you an extra on the film?
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Offline Angus

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« Reply #19 on: December 23, 2005, 03:17:03 AM »
That would be yes.
"Private Farmer" was my nick ;)
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It was very interesting to carry out the flight trials at Rechlin with the Spitfire and the Hurricane. Both types are very simple to fly compared to our aircraft, and childishly easy to take-off and land. (Werner Mölders)

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« Reply #20 on: December 23, 2005, 03:38:36 AM »
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A post about Iwo Jima and  Jim Thorpe hasn`t been mentioned yet? Hmmmmm.


Most threads about Iwo Jima will not mention Jim Thorpe as he was born in 1888 and would have been 57 years old during the battle.  An athlete in 1912 Olympics, he won the decathalon and pentathalon and was later stripped of victory due to playing semi pro baseball. The Medals where restored posthumosly.  

Ira Hayes is who you mean. (hey, they were both Indians)
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« Reply #21 on: December 23, 2005, 04:42:11 AM »
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Most threads about Iwo Jima will not mention Jim Thorpe as he was born in 1888 and would have been 57 years old during the battle.  An athlete in 1912 Olympics, he won the decathalon and pentathalon and was later stripped of victory due to playing semi pro baseball. The Medals where restored posthumosly.  

Ira Hayes is who you mean. (hey, they were both Indians)



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"Born Dec. 7, 1919, in San Francisco, Thorpe grew up with a father he described as a hobo.

Thorpe came to Carson City in 1935, and enrolled himself in the eighth grade. Though he attended several technical and trade schools, he never graduated from public school, but came away with, in his words, an "equivalent education."

He spent four years with the U.S. Navy, most of it on the USS Tennessee, where he fought in the battle of Iwo Jima."
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Offline Holden McGroin

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« Reply #22 on: December 23, 2005, 06:00:30 AM »
"A barber in the Navy, he went to California after the war and honed his skills."

My apologies Jackal...

I know of a guy named Thomas Jefferson who isn't 250 yrs old.  Maybe I can weave him into a thread sometime.
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« Reply #23 on: December 23, 2005, 06:29:08 AM »
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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
"A barber in the Navy, he went to California after the war and honed his skills."

My apologies Jackal...

I know of a guy named Thomas Jefferson who isn't 250 yrs old.  Maybe I can weave him into a thread sometime.


:rofl That`s the third time that has worked. :)
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« Reply #24 on: December 23, 2005, 12:10:28 PM »
So was the guy famous or what?
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