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Offline 38ruk

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« Reply #30 on: May 23, 2006, 11:43:36 PM »
My father took me to a local barn that had a SBD under restoration . Between that and the Black sheep squadron series , i was bitten . Hope my 1-1/2 year old son doesnt think daddys a nut job when he realizes all the little diecast and plastic warbirds  arent his . 8)
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« Reply #31 on: May 23, 2006, 11:47:03 PM »
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Originally posted by KONG1
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



We lost 295 and the Germans only lost 3 1/4? What the hell?
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« Reply #32 on: May 23, 2006, 11:54:42 PM »
A long time ago, and in what seems like another galaxy, a high school teacher of English Lit., trying to get a punk kid interested in reading ANYTHING, assigned me Douglas Bader's "Reach for the Sky" for a report. It worked. After I devoured that, I looked for more: A. Galland's "The First and the Last"; Hans Ulrich Rudel's "Stuka Pilot"; and a book on Typhoons stand out. After that, it was into building model planes and looking for any book, magazine, or movie, about WWII birds I could get my hands on.

Stoopid old teachers! What do they know eh?

I haven't read much about Japanese pilots though. Any suggestions?
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« Reply #33 on: May 24, 2006, 12:30:09 AM »
Ive always loved planes as long as I can remember started with plastic models. As I grew older I got more and more interested in history, in general. Then my interest in history got more and more focused on modern history as one can see how it has affected the society we live in today.

Ive also always been very interested in tactics and strategy. Hence wars and battles have always been very interesting.

Ive also always been very much in love with stories about heros. Be it history, fantasy or sf.

Finally my family history during the WW2 is very interesting and horifying. At the time my family lived in Prague and was a jewish catholic family. Basicly 95% of the jewish part of the family didnt survive the war. The catholic part of the family worked very activly in hiding and smugling jews out of the country.

Its this background that makes me really uneasy flying german planes.

The games that got me hooked on ww2 sims where "Aces over Europe" and "Aces over the Pacific".

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« Reply #34 on: May 24, 2006, 12:43:47 AM »
I got into it young. My Grandfather was a mechanic working on f4-u at Quonset Point. He had all kinds of picture of them and the bombers (cant remember which bombers) that were assembled there.

All of the WWII movies made throughout the 50's and 60's along with Baa Baa Black Sheep also helped.
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« Reply #35 on: May 24, 2006, 01:45:47 AM »
Biggles story books, Blue Max game on the 286, Dawn Patrol game, RAF museums, BoB tirbute flyby, watching big birds of prey and most importantly; 1001 vivid dreams in the depths of sleep where I can spread my arms and lift off the ground (as long as i dont think about it too hard)
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« Reply #36 on: May 24, 2006, 02:07:22 AM »
in 2nd grade i had an hernia oporation, when i was lying in bed at home a friend  bought me a plastic model plane, think that was the trigger.
exept that i was always interested in history, esp. wars.
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« Reply #37 on: May 24, 2006, 02:23:25 AM »
Memphis Belle got me interested in planes... I still love that movie.

Aces Over the Pacific was the flight sim that got me hooked on the games.
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« Reply #38 on: May 24, 2006, 05:00:15 AM »
Liking? Love? WW2?

What a weird choice of words.

:p

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« Reply #39 on: May 24, 2006, 05:57:32 AM »
I was 6 years old when the war started. We used to collect airplane cards that came in the Wings cigarette packs. We tried to identify the different planes that flew over NYC. I remember the air raid sirens and blackouts and air raid wardens shouting at people to put that light out. The scrap drives all the kids helped with. The ten cent victory stamps we bought in school and pasted in our victory book. My grandmother bought a $25.00 victory bond for me which I never cashed in and still have. I remember the annoucement in school that allied forces have landed on the beaches in France and we all prayed for them. The blue and sometimes gold star flags in a lot of apartment windows. The pictures of well over 100 guys in the window of the local A.C. club of the guys in uniform and the souvenirs they sent home. Helmuts, pistols, swords, bayonets and flags. I remember the VE and VJ day celebrations in the city.
I saw Guadalcanal Diary when it first came out and have probably seen every WW2 movie that was ever made.
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« Reply #40 on: May 24, 2006, 06:45:05 AM »
Because chicks in this era wore them H. O. T. stockings with the seam up the back. Why else?
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« Reply #41 on: May 24, 2006, 07:18:20 AM »
Oh ya how could I forget Sgt Rock comics and Baa Baa Blacksheep?
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« Reply #42 on: May 24, 2006, 08:01:53 AM »
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P38 is nothing more than a twin engined bomber.

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Ow, that hurts,  but you just might be right:confused:
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« Reply #43 on: May 24, 2006, 08:49:04 AM »
"Because chicks in this era wore them H. O. T. stockings with the seam up the back. Why else?"

Oh yeah! :aok

http://www.skylighters.org/sweethearts/bgindex.html
http://www.skylighters.org/photos/pinups.html

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« Reply #44 on: May 24, 2006, 08:52:02 AM »
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Murphy in 3000 Miles to Graceland. (Kevin Costner).

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a pat on the back and a WTG :aok honestly wtg that one took like over a month for someone to figure out.

will put new one up in a few minutes
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