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Offline MotleyCH

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« Reply #15 on: May 23, 2006, 05:35:16 PM »
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You watched Pearl Harbour as "a kid"?

FYI...you still ARE a kid then.  ;-)

Sgt. Rock comics got me interested in WW2.


Maybe he was talking about Tora Tora Tora :-)
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« Reply #16 on: May 23, 2006, 05:43:37 PM »
I just like to HO and Pick. My love of HOing started when I used to play chicken with the neighborhood kids in our bikes. My affinity for picking surfaced one day when I was playing laser tag with my friends. It was a free for all death match and two of my buddies were having a fantastic fight downstairs. They must not have seen me when I ran from upstairs and got them both with my Laser Tag Grenade.

I fly the P38 because it has 2 Engines. 2 is better than one right?
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« Reply #17 on: May 23, 2006, 06:36:42 PM »
P38 is nothing more than a twin engined bomber.

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« Reply #18 on: May 23, 2006, 06:59:11 PM »
A little game call "Aces over Europe".
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Offline Jake54

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« Reply #19 on: May 23, 2006, 07:08:48 PM »
I watch the history and Military channel 24/7 and the Movie Pearl Harbour made me cry after the japs left and the sad music was playing when the dead bodies were floating around. And the last part when ray lost his best friend danny because a jap shot him that made me cry:cry but when I heard about the 2 atoms that bombed japan I was cheering!:D but it was sad:(
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« Reply #20 on: May 23, 2006, 07:26:42 PM »
As a 6 yr old kid walking to school i noticed lots of iron fences cut off at the roots.  Dad said it was about the war effort.  Many of the factories were still camouflaged Dunlop, Herberts, Jaguar, and Alvis.  Some houses were missing and the towns cathedral was just a shell.  

So there was a war ummm  not knights in armour and long bows this time.  Christmass I got Airfix kitts of fighter planes.  So there was a war umm not muskets and lines of red coated men shooting at lines of blue coated men (french).  I got air fix ships later not sailing ships with rigging but big turreted things.

Then late in the family parties dad would talk about collecting shrapnel off the street.  Talk about being smuffered by his mum under the kitchen table as the bombs came in.  About old Mrs so an so getting a direct hit and all his house windows being blown in.  Uncle would talk about the stick of bombs that ploughed his dads fields.

So there was a big war and we won. TV, comics, history at school and Air Fix shaped my early years in the 60's then some 30 yrs later I was bored with trawling the net and thought "i know, I'll down load a game".  Was looking for pin ball but found "AOL Fighter Ops".  All that stuff as a kid came back and bingo .....take that in the face you dirty Fokker in the 109:D

P.S  When I cleared my late farthers home I came across a dimmino box crambed with the very shrapnel my dad had collected.  I still have it.
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Offline KONG1

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« Reply #21 on: May 23, 2006, 07:35:49 PM »
The wwii Casualties by country

Axis ww2 casualties

Country Military casualties / Civilian casualties
Germany 3.250.000 / 3.810.000
Austria 230.000 / 80.000
Italy 330.000 / 85.000
Rumania 200.000 / 465.000
Hungary 120.000 / 280.000
Bulgaria 10.000 / 7.000
Finland 90.000 / n/a
Japan 1.700.000 / 360.000

Allied ww2 casualties

Country Military casualties / Civilian casualties
British Empire and Commonwealth 452.000 / 60.000
France 250.000 / 360.000
USA 295.000 ---
Soviet Union 13.600.000 / 7.700.000
Belgium 10.000 / 90.000
Holland 10.000 / 190.000
Norway 10.000 / n/a
Poland 120.000 / 5.300.000
Greece 20.000 / 80.000
Yugoslavia 300.000 / 1.300.000
Checoslovaquia 20.000 / 330.000
China 3.500.000 / 10.000.000

Over 54 mil dead

Cool hardware

B****in' paint jobs

What's not to like
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Offline TequilaChaser

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« Reply #22 on: May 23, 2006, 08:32:09 PM »
Being in a Navy squadron, seeing the old WWII, Korean and vietnam pictures of my squad in the ready room among other places, quarterdeck etc...

learning to work on radial engines, then joiningthe Navy  becoming a jetmech......

watching 12 O'Clock High , Baa Baa Black Sheep among other series and also WW2 movies........

reading At Dawn We Slept, Battle Of Midway,  reading  "the Official World War II Guide to the Army Air Forces AAF ( A Directory/Almanac/Chronicle of Achievements - completely indexed ) explains how the AAF made it possible from Training to equipment manufacturing and shipping to the front lines ( Excellent Guide/ read ) 1988 edition's ISBN 0-517-66803-3  (orginally published 1944/45)


sitting and listening to relatives who was there, listening to different people I have met through the years who were gunners mates on a ship or a B17 tail gunner, or a F6F5 flyer...etc...

serious addiction to military prop  aircraft and the people who flew them regardless of what country they fought for....

not wanting to forget or let others forget of what it was once like, verses today's technology, then the shear enjoyment of being able to immerse myself as if I was in a true dog fight and flying one of these magnificant birds of prey......

hmm....that bout sums it up for me :)
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« Reply #23 on: May 23, 2006, 08:55:29 PM »
I wanted to be a fighter pilot but my eyesight didn't cut it. So they asked if I
wanted to fly around underwater so I went submarines:eek:
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« Reply #24 on: May 23, 2006, 09:38:53 PM »
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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.


That movie sucked.

Welcome to adolescence. Things will begin to change for you soon.  Especially hair.

Just kiddin.
(not about the movie though. It really did suck)
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« Reply #25 on: May 23, 2006, 09:41:52 PM »
I died behind the right seat of a C-47...at the hands of treachery.
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« Reply #26 on: May 23, 2006, 09:43:02 PM »
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Murphy in 3000 Miles to Graceland. (Kevin Costner).

What do I win?
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« Reply #27 on: May 23, 2006, 10:06:29 PM »
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P38 is nothing more than a twin engined bomber.



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« Reply #28 on: May 23, 2006, 11:07:57 PM »
2 books

The Sweinfert Regensburg Mission - by MArtin Middlebrook

.heart breaker..INSANE...bad things happen when timelines arent met

Ploesti- by Dugan and Stewart

Bomber Pilot by Phillip Ardery

my grandfather was a test pilot during ww2...I have always loved flying..then after i solo'd I reallly love flying...nothn better then the sound of those radials..well turbo props are pretty nice too

then I started reading the Submarines....first the u-boots..then the US's subs..WOW...insane books...Steel Coffin..Thunder Below...ect..INSANE


What these people did back then..blows my mind..even compared to today
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« Reply #29 on: May 23, 2006, 11:09:25 PM »
oh yaa..back in 5th grade..playing  Beeeee...SEVENTEEN ....BOOOOOOMer

on Commodore..with Intelivoice..I think thats what it was called

first game consule with a voice...Bandits...12 OKLOK....FLAK...FLAK....

what a great game
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