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Offline Cthulhu

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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #600 on: October 24, 2008, 09:12:43 AM »
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Offline 1Boner

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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #601 on: October 24, 2008, 10:14:37 AM »
Lorne Green of Bonanza fame.
"Life is just as deadly as it looks"  Richard Thompson

"So umm.... just to make sure I have this right.  What you are asking is for the bombers carrying bombs, to stop dropping bombs on the bombs, so the bombers can carry bombs to bomb things with?"  AKP

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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #602 on: October 24, 2008, 10:16:43 AM »
Lorne Green of Bonanza fame.
Yep :aok
Lorne Greene
Lorne Green began acting while attending Queen's University in Kingston, where he also acquired a knack for broadcasting with the Radio Workshop of the university's Drama Guild on the campus radio station CFRC.
He gave up on a career in chemical engineering and, upon graduation, found a job as a radio broadcaster for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). He was assigned as the principal newsreader on the CBC National News. The CBC gave him the nickname "The Voice of Canada"; however, his role in delivering distressing war news in sonorous tones following Canada's entry into World War II in 1939 caused many listeners to call him "The Voice of Doom".
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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #603 on: October 24, 2008, 10:43:58 AM »
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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #604 on: October 24, 2008, 12:03:40 PM »
Ted Kennedy?
"Life is just as deadly as it looks"  Richard Thompson

"So umm.... just to make sure I have this right.  What you are asking is for the bombers carrying bombs, to stop dropping bombs on the bombs, so the bombers can carry bombs to bomb things with?"  AKP

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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #605 on: October 24, 2008, 12:07:23 PM »
Joe Kennedy Jr
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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #606 on: October 24, 2008, 12:52:12 PM »
Joe Kennedy Jr


Oooooooo good call Rusty!!
"Life is just as deadly as it looks"  Richard Thompson

"So umm.... just to make sure I have this right.  What you are asking is for the bombers carrying bombs, to stop dropping bombs on the bombs, so the bombers can carry bombs to bomb things with?"  AKP

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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #607 on: October 24, 2008, 12:55:22 PM »
ty sir  :D
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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #608 on: October 24, 2008, 01:25:46 PM »
Joe Kennedy Jr
Yep, Joe Jr. :aok


Joe Kennedy Jr (left) with father Joe Sr and younger brother John.

(Not shown: 20,000 cases of illegal Canadian Whiskey :D)
Joeseph Kennedy Jr.  left Harvard Law before his final year to enlist in the United States Navy as an aviator. He earned his wings in May 1942 and was sent to England in September 1943. He piloted the PB4Y Liberator on anti-submarine and other missions on two tours of duty throughout the winter of 1943-44. Although Kennedy had completed his 25 combat missions and was eligible to return home, he volunteered for an Operation Aphrodite mission in which he died on August 12, 1944.

Operation Aphrodite was the name of a series of bombing runs by explosive-laden airplanes piloted by a skeleton crew who would jettison themselves from the plane before detonation. After previous US Army Operation Aphrodite missions first conceptualized on July 23, 1944, Kennedy and Lt. Wilford John Willy (born May 13, 1909 in New Jersey) were the crew - Lt Wilford J. Willy had pulled rank over Ensign FNU Simpson (who was the regular co-pilot with Joe Kennedy Jr) in order to be on this mission - in a modified version of the B-24 Liberator (code name Anvil) in the US Navy's first Aphrodite mission. After the two Lockheed Ventura mother planes and a navigation plane had taken off, the BQ8 "robot" aircraft completed take-off from RAF Fersfield, England loaded with 21,170 pounds (9,600 kg) of Torpex to use as a guided missile on the V-3 cannon site in Mimoyecques, France. Following approximately 300 feet behind the drone was Colonel Elliott Roosevelt in a de Havilland Mosquito to film the mission. Kennedy and Willy remained on board while the BQ8 completed its first remote-control turn. Approximately two minutes later and ten minutes before the planned crew bail out, the Torpex detonated and destroyed the drone - the plane came down near to the village of Blythburgh in Suffolk.


Rusty, Boner, kinda early in the day for me to have to deal with both you guys isn't it? :)
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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #609 on: October 24, 2008, 01:42:18 PM »
hehe  :D
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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #610 on: October 24, 2008, 04:38:47 PM »
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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #611 on: October 24, 2008, 04:42:30 PM »
Scarecrow?   ;)
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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #612 on: October 24, 2008, 04:46:03 PM »
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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #613 on: October 25, 2008, 04:45:02 AM »
Played R.J. Mitchell in "First of the Few."

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Re: See Anybody Special??
« Reply #614 on: October 25, 2008, 08:11:14 AM »
Leslie Howard?
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