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Offline muzik

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Reincarnated fighter pilot
« on: June 03, 2008, 04:22:13 PM »
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Re: Reincarnated fighter pilot
« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2008, 05:01:27 PM »
I'd be a bit more disbelieving if he'd said he was Dick Bong :)

If you are going to make it up, you don't pick a pilot off a no name escort carrier that gets shot down.  Too bad the NBC folks don't know a Corsair from a Hellcat however since they showed Hellcats when they talked Corsairs

Interesting stuff.  That's always been the running joke in my family as my obsession with WW2 aviation goes back to that age too, and there were no pilots or vets in my family to get me interested.  But it's been a life long obsession from pre-school til now at age 48. 
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Re: Reincarnated fighter pilot
« Reply #2 on: June 03, 2008, 05:49:57 PM »
Wow, either that kid is really smart, or a ghost  :noid :noid :noid

And I always want to tell those idiots that none of those planes that they are showing are F4Us
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Re: Reincarnated fighter pilot
« Reply #3 on: June 03, 2008, 07:18:44 PM »
Being a hog dweeb it made me cringe when they showed the wrong plane... but the rear gunner on the TBM should have noticed what he was holding was not a F4U and it doesnt add up... i think that yes its a re incarnation..... but.. the fact that their showing f6s in the video where he got shot down sorta kills my thoughts...
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Re: Reincarnated fighter pilot
« Reply #4 on: June 03, 2008, 09:50:05 PM »
"No mom that's a droptank!"

"Drop tank?  I've never even heard of a drop tank before!"



That's evidence?  That's just not knowing planes, I don't see that as an amazing feat.


The rest of it is pretty interesting though.
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Re: Reincarnated fighter pilot
« Reply #5 on: June 04, 2008, 12:35:05 AM »
The pilot, James M. Huston Jr. was shot down as a member of VC 81 flying an FM 2.  So, they weren't actually showing the TBM gunner with the wrong plane.  They just skipped the detailed details.  What "regular" tv viewer knows an F4u from an FM2?  First thing I thought was "Corsair on an escort carrier?  Uuummmm."

Intersting story though.

Read more http://www.ntcsites.com/acadianhouse/nss-folder/publicfolder/AP/cover_feature_24_3.htm


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Re: Reincarnated fighter pilot
« Reply #6 on: June 04, 2008, 02:15:48 AM »
Quote from: muzik on June 03, 2008, 04:22:13 PM
I told you I was Dick Bong  :P

ummm...... <---    :t
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Re: Reincarnated fighter pilot
« Reply #7 on: June 04, 2008, 07:24:50 AM »
parents wanna be on tv and go online to fabricate some story, the dad is a ww2 airplane fanatic. they tutour the kid. case closed.
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Re: Reincarnated fighter pilot
« Reply #8 on: June 05, 2008, 03:02:23 AM »
Boy you guys missed the boat on that one didnt ya! A WWII fighter pilot comes back to life and all you can talk about is a bunch of news guys too lazy to find footage of Corsairs in flight.  lol

Roscoe, the TBM gunner forgot his model corsair that day!

And I'd say any 2 year old who can tell the difference between a drop tank and a bomb, let alone name it, is proof enough for me.

How are you ever going to prove or disprove this story unless you personally do as much or more investigating than the journalist? Do you ever believe what you hear in the media?  When someone who knows the parents well, comes out and calls them frauds I'll have reason to doubt their story. Until then, I think I ran across ol James back in '43.  lol

WOW RumbleB I see you've figured out the secrets of the universe before the rest of the world. When you gonna tell me how I can create a woman who doesnt talk or spend money?
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Re: Reincarnated fighter pilot
« Reply #9 on: June 05, 2008, 09:23:50 AM »
Bah... just another squeeker we're gonna have to endure within the next coupla years  :D
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Re: Reincarnated fighter pilot
« Reply #10 on: June 05, 2008, 01:33:46 PM »
reminds me of "the boy who lived before".
Try youtube...
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« Reply #11 on: June 05, 2008, 03:01:00 PM »
   What do they clean corsairs with?





























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Re: Reincarnated fighter pilot
« Reply #12 on: June 05, 2008, 03:21:58 PM »
wow! thats wild!

i personally think somethin is up if he knows that much bout planes and his parents have NO clue what he's talkin bout and they didn't teach him. somethin is goin on...cool kid though :)
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Re: Reincarnated fighter pilot
« Reply #13 on: June 05, 2008, 04:54:00 PM »
I find the guy saying "STRANGE obsession is with airplanes" ver offencive. but it is a cool video.
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Re: Reincarnated fighter pilot
« Reply #14 on: June 05, 2008, 05:42:30 PM »
Quote from: muzik on June 05, 2008, 03:02:23 AM
When you gonna tell me how I can create a woman who doesnt talk or spend money?

Try the morgue you sicko!
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