Author Topic: Mustangs against Japan (Read 2994 times)

Badboy · « **on:** December 28, 2006, 06:15:05 AM »

Real life is getting so realistic, it's almost exactly like Aces High.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzVTmeHhd9o

Badboy

SkyChimp03 · « **Reply #1 on:** December 28, 2006, 06:18:36 AM »

Thanks for clip badboy always enjoy clips like this. Only half way through it atm..

Platano · « **Reply #2 on:** December 28, 2006, 11:46:07 AM »

that video made me

Lusche · « **Reply #3 on:** December 28, 2006, 12:15:06 PM »

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Originally posted by Platano
that video made me

Until I saw the poor fishermen running from .50cal rounds... not that funny to me seeing people run for their lives.

Shuffler · « **Reply #4 on:** December 28, 2006, 12:41:37 PM »

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Originally posted by Lusche
Until I saw the poor fishermen running from .50cal rounds... not that funny to me seeing people run for their lives.

Looks funny to me after seeing what they did to Pearl

Lusche · « **Reply #5 on:** December 28, 2006, 12:46:59 PM »

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Originally posted by Shuffler
Looks funny to me after seeing what they did to Pearl

These fishermen most certainly did...

Bucky73 · « **Reply #6 on:** December 28, 2006, 12:56:03 PM »

Lusche....maybe you should watch "Hell in the Pacific" and see if that changes your outlook.

Lusche · « **Reply #7 on:** December 28, 2006, 01:15:37 PM »

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Originally posted by Bucky73
Lusche....maybe you should watch "Hell in the Pacific" and see if that changes your outlook.

Regardless if I think of any measures taken in major war "rightful / useful / justified" to win it or not, I will never find any poor human being (wether American, Japanese, Arab or Finn or whatever) running for its life a funny thing. I do not laugh about fear of death. Those fishermen are just poor victims like several millions of people around the world in that war.

RELIC · « **Reply #8 on:** December 28, 2006, 01:56:22 PM »

Don't waste your time Lusche. These boards are a haven for internet tough guys to anonymously spout off the crap they cannot openly say in public. To expect them to display any small measure of empathy is setting yourself up for nothing but disappointment.

Treize69 · « **Reply #9 on:** December 28, 2006, 03:05:41 PM »

<-- Internet tough guy.

IRL I just scare me enemies with gross displays of lunacy and off-balance comments.

Thrawn · « **Reply #10 on:** December 28, 2006, 03:18:05 PM »

I don't think those fishermen being shot at is funny, but they don't get an ounce of sympathy from me either.

SKJohn · « **Reply #11 on:** December 28, 2006, 03:34:18 PM »

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Originally posted by Lusche
Until I saw the poor fishermen running from .50cal rounds... not that funny to me seeing people run for their lives.

When I lived in Japan, one of our friends told us about how when he was a child, they had hid under a table in their house while the P-51's were strafing their fishing village. He watched his 12 yr old older brother take a .50 caliber slug thru his back and die. Mother was also hit but survived.

It's very easy to build up a hatred for "those people" because of Pearl Harbor, etc. - until you get to know them as PEOPLE and realize they are just like us. As in most wars, it was their leaders that got them into the war - not the ordinary people. But in the end, it is the ordinary people like Mr. Funaki's older brother who end up paying the price. . .

Bucky73 · « **Reply #12 on:** December 28, 2006, 03:50:16 PM »

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Don't waste your time Lusche. These boards are a haven for internet tough guys to anonymously spout off the crap they cannot openly say in public. To expect them to display any small measure of empathy is setting yourself up for nothing but disappointment.

MajWoody · « **Reply #13 on:** December 28, 2006, 04:17:27 PM »

I saw several segments of this footage yesterday on the Milt channel I think it was. In this vid at 2:08 it showed a guy bailing out of his fighter. The video showed that the guy slipped out of his harness & went hurling to earth the hard way.

Oh btw,
The show was about gun camera footage.

Treize69 · « **Reply #14 on:** December 28, 2006, 04:22:01 PM »

Talks about something similar in Tom Blackburns book. Was making a run in to strafe a Japanese in his chute (I don't approve, don't jump all over me please) when he noticed nobody in the harness. He figured the harness must have burned through or torn and left the pilot to fall 18,000 feet or so.

Think I'd rather be strafed.