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Offline Jake54

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« on: May 23, 2006, 10:16:52 AM »
What made you guys like WW2 and flying?

I loved WW2 because I saw the movie Pearl Harbor when I was a kid and never stoped watching it! And flying well when I was a kid I went flying on airlines ALOT! My mom told me when we were landing I always looked out the window and saw the blinking lights and my head went back and forth for each light lol. So the movie Pearl Harbor is about 75% of what got me like to fly.
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Offline Mustaine

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« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2006, 10:20:15 AM »
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« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2006, 01:35:11 PM »
I grew up on war movies like Battle of the Bulge , Midway, and lots of older ones. Ive always loved the story of the air war in ww2. Im a big history buff, and this game is the thing Id dream of as a teenager. Wondering if someday we could fly in planes against real people and re-create some of what happened back then.
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Offline SirLoin

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« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2006, 01:42:15 PM »
The movie "Pearl Harbour"..?

Don't you mean "Tora Tora Tora"..?


I blame my AHness on that flick..:D
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Offline 68DevilM

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« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2006, 01:42:57 PM »
Started watching alot of history channel, and what awwed me was the amount of destruction and lives taken during that war........idk sumthing about 80 divisions fighting it out on a front.......massive......:aok

the marines made me this way, wasnt born into it.......:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :t
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Offline benytree

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« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2006, 01:57:41 PM »
I dont know at all... when we first got DTV i watched the history channel and the airforce(?) channel wich is now the military channel...ive always loved aviation:aok
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Offline Curval

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« Reply #6 on: May 23, 2006, 02:01:31 PM »
You watched Pearl Harbour as "a kid"?

FYI...you still ARE a kid then.  ;-)

Sgt. Rock comics got me interested in WW2.
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Offline Creton

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« Reply #7 on: May 23, 2006, 02:07:25 PM »
http://www.wtv-zone.com/badcompany/index.1.html

Goto my website and you'll see why.
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Offline bigsky406

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« Reply #8 on: May 23, 2006, 02:12:15 PM »
John Wayne movies as a kid, the TV show "BaBa Black Sheep" as a older kid.

Now I see the WWII birds like the classic cars of the 50's. Their just cool.
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« Reply #9 on: May 23, 2006, 02:15:41 PM »
when i was a Little Roo we used to go past this Corsair that lived at this small air field ... well one day My Grandpa and I stopped ..Well he knew the owner and all that (i think he knew everyone) and well I got to pet it and sit in it .. I've had the Fever ever since.
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Offline WldThing

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« Reply #10 on: May 23, 2006, 03:41:13 PM »
I always enjoyed seeing the love in pictures that were taken by squadrons.  Bundle of kinds around 18-19 years old brought together from all around the world, and this somehow portrayed a picture of care for one another..  And post-war WWII veterans these days still talk about their early days, and remember all those that died, and don't feel ashamed to shed tears for them.  Shows me that this was much much more than just a bunch of kids flying and killing for the heck of it, they were there to protect each other.  Which is much deeper than their civic duties.  This truly entitles them to limitless respect from me.
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« Reply #11 on: May 23, 2006, 03:50:51 PM »
Hey is Jake54 really SkyChimp? :cool:
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Offline Brenjen

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« Reply #12 on: May 23, 2006, 03:57:32 PM »
I grew up hearing the stories some of my uncles told, I had one who earned the silver & bronze star & a few purple hearts in WWII & he didn't mind talking about it. He was actually my great uncle but we don't make a distinction in my family.

 I then got into reading Sgt.Rock & many other war comics & I watched the heck out of every war movie made, & Baa Baa Blacksheep caused me to fall in love with the graceful lines of the gull winged corsair. That plane looks fast & deadly sitting still on the tarmac.
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Offline red26

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« Reply #13 on: May 23, 2006, 03:58:09 PM »
My Grandfather flew the P-51D and the P-47 in normandy and Asia He would always tell me that I would be a fighter pilot but they have jets now and there is no shivelry in shooting a man 10 miles away with a rocket i call that chicken. My father was a Marine In Viet-Nam and he used to tell me about the Bah Bah black sheep and he would set down and watch the show with me so I got hooked at that point.
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Offline MINNOW

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« Reply #14 on: May 23, 2006, 05:06:50 PM »
As a kid, I grew up near a small airfield and every year they would have airshows. My father & I would go up and see the WWII birds and I was hooked. F4U's have always been my favorite planes along with P40's & P38's... The Confederate Air Force also would bring up some of their vintage Bombers. Those were awesome to see flying over my house in Colorado with the Mountains not far away. It was pretty damn cool.

Plus with the classic movies that were out I can never get enough of them even tho my favorite WWII movie was Patton....lol
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