Just remember.....

[Guppy35]

I would be proud to wear that bottom sketch's noseart in the game.

I used that guys name for my AH ID for a while as Slack, for Tom Slack.  The Nose art was "The Micheldever Monarch".  It was a cartoon of himself with a crown and a blue and white checked scarf he wore all the time while flying.

[Guppy35]

  I don't get it, I  miss the point of this thread. So, If some like to romanticize and emulate actions and tactics of the last real heroes of this world in a recognition of their sacrifice and valor, they're just not cartoon enough for your attention deficit disordered little mind?

I've spent a lot of time with those guys, and stayed in the home of the guy in the photo on the top.  I was privilaged enough to get to read Tom Slack's biography and proof read it for him before it was published.  They're my hero's.  To try and put anything we do in are cartoon game up against what they really did is just silly to me.  That's my point.  I'm not in their league and won't ever pretend to be. 

[moot]

I used that guys name for my AH ID for a while as Slack, for Tom Slack.  The Nose art was "The Micheldever Monarch".  It was a cartoon of himself with a crown and a blue and white checked scarf he wore all the time while flying.

Hell.. I'll find one of those vintage goggles and wear that too

[Delirium]

Umm, m00t? Don't tell anyone I told you, but here is a link for you.

http://www.hartfordyork.com/product/644/gift-ideas

[moot]

Mein Gott, nicht zind luftgogglen!    Thanks, I bookmarked it..  Gonna make a nice present for myself this christmas.

[33Vortex]

I've spent a lot of time with those guys, and stayed in the home of the guy in the photo on the top.  I was privilaged enough to get to read Tom Slack's biography and proof read it for him before it was published.  They're my hero's.  To try and put anything we do in are cartoon game up against what they really did is just silly to me.  That's my point.  I'm not in their league and won't ever pretend to be. 

I totally agree with that but... don't belittle yourself either. You don't know what you'd do in their situation unless you've been there, that is what separates you from them. The fact that they lived through it is a combination of luck and skill. Who is to say you lack the skill to survive a situation you have not yet faced? To say that you're not as good as them is as stupid as saying you're as good as them. During military training a man is measured in many ways, in war, he is measured by the situations he face. Some guys go through armed conflict without ever facing a dangerous situation, let alone a life-threatening one. Does the sole fact that they've been part of a war make them men? Not from my point of view.

[Delirium]

deleted- no point in banding my head against a wall

[uptown]

and he was nothing but a kid 

[crims]

I'm not sure But I'll go out on a limb. I think he is comparing AH Cartoon Pilots and the Pilots of WW2. For us is a Game, for them it was Real. But I'm no Rocket Surgeon      




Crims