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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: CAP1 on August 17, 2008, 11:49:52 PM
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I stopped by the R/C field today, to sit and relax, and got the bad news of one of our club members having passed away this past wednsday. Wed. August 16, 2008, Bob Emme passed on.
He flew both the P51D, and the P47(i don't know which varient though), during WWII. He named his aircraft "Dottie" after his wife.
Most of his models bore the same name. He was a great builder, and took great pleasure in helping new, and younger R/C pilots learn to fly.
It was generally hard to get him to talk too much about the war, but once you got him started, he would talk till he couldn't anymore. He used to tell us a lot about the planes, from having to burn off the aft fuse tank first in the pony, to the P47 engine that brought him home missing two cylinders.
He never actually thought that he did anything special in his service, but I(and the rest of us that knew him) think differently. He always had the attitude, of he was just an ordinary guy doing his job.
When I found out about his passing today, I offered to get an Honor Guard detail for him from CAP, and found out that he specifically stated that no one was to make any big deal about anything after his passing.
We're gonna miss him at the field.
:salute CAVU forever now.
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God bless him and a huge thank you to him for his service.
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Another sad loss. :salute
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High Flight
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air. . . .
Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or ever eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
— John Gillespie
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Could this be a shot of him?
(http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/149/p51d20441411220dottie20lx9.jpg)
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Could this be a shot of him?
(http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/149/p51d20441411220dottie20lx9.jpg)
YA KNOW, that may be.....i need to go through the clubs photo album again........and i don't remember him having nose art besides his wifes name on it.........
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Sad to see another veteran lost.
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(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa135/1LTCAP/354th-32.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa135/1LTCAP/bob20in20front20of20dottie.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa135/1LTCAP/dottie.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa135/1LTCAP/dottie20destroyed.jpg)
these are some pics of Bob, and his aircraft
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:salute very sad...
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:salute To a truly great generation of men still with us and those who have passed :salute
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You are so fortunate to have met someone like him. :salute
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You are so fortunate to have met someone like him. :salute
i feel the same way. we lost a b17 top turret gunner about 2 years ago....also in the club.
they both gave this club it's life i think.
each and every time i meet one of these great men, i feel honored, and am sure to at least shake their hand(as in when i met the b24 bombadier at trenton)
:salute all of them. they were more of men, at 20 than most of us ever will be
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