Charles Lindbergh with the hat on :D :rockWTG Rusty :salute
Sadly, too few Americans knew then, or are aware even today, of the combat courage of Charles Augustus Lindbergh.
Lindbergh flew every combat mission with VMF-115 from the date of his arrival until the unit was sent home on June 1. He arrived a celebrity to the young Marines on Emirau, but became an admired friend, not for what he'd done twenty years before but for his courage and dedication in this new war.
During his visit to Foss and VMF-115 a photographer snapped a photograph of Charlie and Foss, which was promptly printed in Parade magazine, finally advertising to the world the man's presence in the war zone. (Lindbergh's Pacific mission had been sanctioned by the Navy without the knowledge or assent of the President.)
Major Foss was suddenly deluged with letters, hundreds of them, from citizens on the home front who had seen that photo. Most of the letters admonished Foss for associating with "bad company" and advised him to avoid Charles Lindbergh.
Foss was furious, as were the other men that flew missions with Charlie, and as a unit they undertook to answer each and every one of more than 700 such letters. Foss himself pulled no punches in his own replies, stating: "Lindbergh's out here fighting a war at his own expense while YOU'RE at home!"
As you probably know, Lindbergh's negative image back home was a result of his staunch isolationist position prior to Pearl Harbor. He'd even spent time in Nazi Germany in the late 30's , being "duped" on carefully guided tours, to see the benefits of Germany's new path. Still a patriot at heart, he nonetheless saw the threat that Germany's new military posed to that of pre-war America and returned determined to help whereever he could, in spite of being black-balled with practically every aircraft manufacturer courtesy of FDR's administration. Only Henry Ford was willing to take him in as a consultant.
Looks like Tom Hanks dad on the right.:rofl :rofl
LBJKnow where he is?
Is he guy with the vest?Yeah. He's on the way to "earning" his Siver Star. A pretty disgusting story. Anybody want to fill the rest of the class in? Bueller..... Bueller....
Something about being an observer in some type of bomber that came under attack.It never came under attack. Never got close to the target. Turned back due to mechanical difficulties. I'll find more info when I get home. Too many sites blocked here at work.
He was the only member of the crew to receive a silver star.
He was some type of politician at the time and a member of the reserves.
That is the gist of it,I think.
Maybe someone has more detailed info.
Cluelessly yours,
Boner :confused:
It never came under attack. Never got close to the target. Turned back due to mechanical difficulties. I'll find more info when I get home. Too many sites blocked here at work.
Johnson's biographer, Robert Caro, stated, "The most you can say about Lyndon Johnson and his Silver Star is that it is surely one of the most undeserved Silver Stars in history. Because if you accept everything that he said, he was still in action for no more than 13 minutes and only as an observer. Men who flew many missions, brave men, never got a Silver Star."
LBJ's Silver Star: THE MISSION THAT NEVER WAS (http://www.b-26marauderarchive.org/ms/MS1709/MS1709.htm)Thanks ack-ack. I'd read that site earlier, but can't get to it now. Seems that Lockheed Corporate is more paranoid than ever now... :rolleyes:
A comment from Johnson's biographer, Robert Caro on LBJ's Silver Star
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I know that actor Eddie Albert was at Tarawa...and I thought he was a coxswain of a landing craft...is this perhaps the person to whom you refer?WTG :aok
Here's a different twist. See if you can find and post a picture of the person described below:
Ok, while you muddle that one over, here's a really easy one:
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Is that an HL-10 lifting body behind Scottie?Yup. Care to take a stab at the guy with the girl on his shoulders?
Looks like Robert Stack, I don't know if he did any service.Stack was a gunnery instructor in the Navy. Nope, not Robert Stack.
Grampa Munster? :DAl Lewis?... No
Bob Barker?Very Good Mother :aok. Once you know, it's obvious huh?
Are they spies?Your job is to figure out who that "?" guy is. Now ask yourself... why would guys have to dress up in drag. Hmmmm....
The guy with the question mark over his chest kinda looks like Vladimir Putin...
Your job is to figure out who that "?" guy is. Now ask yourself... why would guys have to dress up in drag. Hmmmm....because they were born with man body parts? :(
There all p.o.w.'s I cant see the "?" gents face that well.Very good Rusty. In fact, they're all British POW's. And from that receding hairline, I'd say Mister "?"'s head is gonna be shiny real soon. Keep thinking POW's.
need more hints :aokObviously an actor. Film actor. MANY films.
Desmond Llewelyn?:aok Outstanding Seth. :aok It appears the Google is strong in you. Pleasance was a crewman on Lancs of 166 Squadron. Shot down in August 1944.
edit: no, it was Donald Pleasence. Bingo.
Looks like Gomer Pyle to me. :lol :rockYou got some kinda death wish? This guy would take you apart if he heard you compare him to Gomer Pyle.
ps: and yes, the internets came through for me on that previous one
The guy from "streets of san francisco" ?Nope, not Carl Malden.
Carl Malden?
Before his nose caught on fire.
Look at his lip...wonder who that is.Angus, are you toying with the class? It's not like anybody needs more hints. I practically told them already. :D
oooooooooooooo i know him he plays in Indiana Jones :D :DAnd "Trading Places"
Stacey Keats?Nope. I think he got the lip fixed later in life. I already gave you guys a HUGE clue. Just gotta find it. ;)
(To be fair, even knowing who it is, the picture really doesn't look like him)
Starred in "trading places"? And doesn't look like the picture?
Eddie Murphy
Robert Vaughan?Nope, not Robert Vaughn.
Charles Bronson:aok Ain't Google Wonderful?
and that's my final answer.
You got some kinda death wish? This guy would take you apart if he heard you compare him to Gomer Pyle.:D :D :D
Peter Cushing?Nope. When you find out you'll laugh about that one.
Yul Brynner.Nope. He's not Russian either. In fact, he's not even European.
Nope. He's not Russian either. In fact, he's not even European.So he not even from this world. :huh
So he not even from this world. :huhApparently, our World is a bit larger than yours glock.
Apparently, our World is a bit larger than yours glock.Meany. :frown:
Hint time: He worked for the same studio which brought us this charming guy.run!! itsa godzilla!!!!! :O :O
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Hint time: He worked for the same studio which brought us this charming guy.AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH RUN LIKE HELL. :lol
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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH RUN LIKE HELL. :lolquick shoot it with rockets and bomb it :lol
quick shoot it with rockets and bomb it :lolK i get a nuke. :D
K i get a nuke. :D:rofl
:rofl:noid
Grown-ups, next clue::mad:
Most of Clint Eastwood's "spagetti westerns" were "cowboy copies" of this guys films.
what we can't have a little fun every so often :DEvery so often is fine. And it's "Godzirra". And I saw your lips moving when you talked, so that's points off. :D
Every so often is fine. And it's "Godzirra". And I saw your lips moving when you talked, so that's points off. :Di always thought it was "Godzilla" not "Godzirra"
i always thought it was "Godzilla" not "Godzirra"Japanese accent...
i always thought it was "Godzilla" not "Godzirra"Actually, that's a joke. Japanese people have a problem saying "L's". The original 1954 version (in Japanese) was titled "Gojira".
Akira KurosawaThank you Rusty, but that's the director's name. This ain't him. But you're damned close. :aok
Actually, that a joke. Japanese people have a problem saying "L's". The original 1954 version (in Japanese) was titled "Gojira".Oh man, this just made me remember the scene from 'A Christmas Story'... 'Deck the harrs with barrs of horey, fa ra ra ra ra, ra ra ra ra'... :rofl
Oh man, this just made me remember the scene from 'A Christmas Story'... 'Deck the harrs with barrs of horey, fa ra ra ra ra, ra ra ra ra'... :roflYeah, that and the bar scene in "Air America" where the two guys on stage are singing "Horse With No Name". :rofl :rofl
Yeah, that and the bar scene in "Air America" where the two guys on stage are singing "Horse With No Name". :rofl :rofl:rofl
007Rusty, stop playing with your food and finish this thing off. ;)
Toshirō Mifune:aok
hint??? :Dit's a guy
lol British???yeah
yeahIs he from this world? :huh
Is he from this world? :huhYep :D. glock, you should recognize this guy too.
Yep :D. glock, you should recognize this guy too.Did he play in a cowboy movie or something?
Did he play in a cowboy movie or something?Pretty sure no cowboy movies, but definitely some something.
None other than...."Q"...famous from the James Bond films?Very good Patches1. :aok It's amazing how little he changed.
Very good Patches1. :aok It's amazing how little he changed.He the 1 who took my money. :furious
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Next: (Easy one)were is it?
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were is it?In the picture.
In the picture.No i see no picture trying 2 pull a fast 1? :aok :huh
No i see no picture trying 2 pull a fast 1? :aok :huhglock, you may have a problem connecting to Image Shack. It should be ok in a little bit.
what person in the pic.??? :huhCome on Rusty, work for it. Doesn't anybody in that pic look familiar? I'm open to questions....
glock, you may have a problem connecting to Image Shack. It should be ok in a little bit.Is it from this world? My daddy?
Come on Rusty, work for it. Doesn't anybody in that pic look familiar? I'm open to questions....
Is it from this world? My daddy?From this world... yes. Your daddy... well, your mom might know. :rofl
From this world... yes. Your daddy... well, your mom might know. :rofl:lol :lol
the guy on the left with the white shirt i know jsut cant think of his name and the woman also ,,,,, errrrrr :furiousand....
and....Still can't see it. :lol
Help us Obi Wan.:lol :lol
Help us Obi Wan.Outstanding! :aok
Next: (and this one really better be easy)He look like a dork. :lol :lol :lol
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wtg i was eating dinner my looked at the pic and started humming the theme to star wars lol ,, whos the woman in the pic.??no idea.
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(http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c135/007rusty/12698741kh9.jpg)WTG. :aok I have it, but my browser history isn't something you delve into w/o packing a lunch. ;)
found it hehe
When RAAF members of No. 78 Fighter Wing, stationed in Malta, visited the location for the film 'Malta Story' they were asked by famous screen star Alec Guinness (left) the best way to fill in some leisure moments. Out came the 'kip' and LAC M. Dunn, Newcastle, New South Wales, showed him how to arrange the pennies for the traditional game of 'Two Up'. Watching the instructor are, left to right. Sergeant G. Stockham. (Kilburn South Australia), Corporal J. Sabien (Grafton, New South Wales), actress Muriel Pavlow and actor Anthony Steel, who played the role of a RAF wing commander in the film.
WTG. :aok I have it, but my browser history isn't something you delve into w/o packing a lunch. ;)YOU. :lol
Now, how about our next guy?
YOU. :lolThe mystery guy and I are about the same size. :aok
The mystery guy and I are about the same size. :aokWell were the picture?
Chuckie D? ;)Uh, no.
Only going by my crude built in facial recognition software, my 20th century history database is weak. :uhohNo, though both were decorated in combat.
Looked like a young Charles Durning to me. :(
Richard Erdman???Nope
Plant as in vegatable matter or spy?Vegetable matter. Honest. :D I believe the actual term was "intelligent carrot".
James Arness?:aok Very Good Boner.
Played The Thing (a plant)
And in Gunsmoke too, I think.
His brother was the guy from mission impossible.
dam i had the movie Stalag 17 just the wrong guys name, I read it to fast , wtg gentsGreat movie. :aok Best actor for Holden.
Was this guy a plant too??Well, he did kinda "take root" on TV for a while. ;)
Yours Truly,
Tom Cruise
Look at the face!!I'm thinking you need to think some more. :D
I think i got it,but will wait for more hints.
I'm thinkin the Shining.
Are we gonna get some perkies for the correct answers?No B-29. :furious
I hope so, I'm trying to save up enough perks for the B-29! :O
Tom Cruise. :rock
No B-29. :furious
:huh :huh ur kidding right?
Whatcha mean?
Heard its comin in the next update!!
Patiently waiting,
Tom
Yes!!had me worried for a minute.... if we did get it it would be impossible to get to way up there...my 190 wouldn't even make it up there :cry it would run out of gas before ammo
Your Favorite Prankster,
Tom Cruise
Lindy was abit of a player....I don't trust Wikipida.
Taken from Wikipida
"Children from other relationships
From 1957 until his death in 1974, Lindbergh had an affair with German hat maker Brigitte Hesshaimer who lived in a small Bavarian town called Geretsried (35 km south of Munich). On November 23, 2003, DNA tests proved that he fathered her three children: Dyrk (1958), Astrid (1960) and David (1967). The two managed to keep the affair secret; even the children did not know the true identity of their father, whom they saw when he came to visit once or twice per year using the alias, "Careu Kent." Astrid later read a magazine article about Lindbergh and found snapshots and more than a hundred letters written from him to her mother. She disclosed the affair after both Brigitte and Anne Morrow Lindbergh had died. At the same time as Lindbergh was involved with Brigitte Hesshaimer, he also had a relationship with her sister, Marietta, who bore him two more sons – Vago and Christoph. Lindbergh had a house of his own design built for Marietta in a vineyard in Grimisuat in the Swiss canton Valais.[89]
A 2005 book by German author Rudolf Schroeck, Das Doppelleben des Charles A. Lindbergh (The Double Life of Charles A. Lindbergh), claims seven secret children existed in Germany. It says Lindbergh "came and went as he pleased" during the last 17 years of his life, spending between three to five days with his Munich family about four to five times each year. "Ten days before he died in August 1974, Lindbergh wrote three letters from his hospital bed to his three mistresses and requested 'utmost secrecy'," Schroeck writes, whose book includes a copy of that letter to Brigitte Hesshaimer.
Two of the seven children, were from his relationship with the East Prussian aristocrat Valeska, who was Lindbergh's private secretary in Europe. They had a son in 1959 and a daughter in 1961. She had been friends with the Hesshaimer sisters and was the one who introduced them to Charles Lindbergh. In the beginning, they lived all together in his apartment in Rome. However, the friendship ended when Brigitte Hesshaimer became pregnant from him as well. Valeska lives in Baden-Baden and wants to keep her privacy, as mentioned in many German and International Reuter's newspaper articles, in Rudolf Schroek's book and a TV documentary by Danuta Harrich-Zandberg and Walter Harrich.
In April 2008, Reeve Lindbergh, his youngest daughter, published Forward From Here, a book of essays that includes her discovery in 2003, of the truth about her father's three secret European families and her journeys to meet them and understand an expanded meaning of family. [90]"
I don't trust Wikipida.
I dont trust my old US History book, but it makes for an entertaining read.:aok :aok
Hint: Left the Navy before the war startedYou?
Always thought he was a tank commander in North Africa!Nicely done Boner :aok
Wrong again.
Heres lookin at you kid,
The Maltese Falcon
Phyllis DillerNope. Think sit-coms. ;)
She was in the war??Yep. State-side I believe.
Curiously yours,
Boner Frankel
bea arthur??Very Good Rusty :aok
Then who the heck was Bernice Frankel??Sorry, I saw both your posts at the same time, and naturally zeroed in on Rusty's. Care to guess what Bea Arthur's given name was before she changed it?
Ray Charles
Ray CharlesYeah, there's a HUGE demand for blind servicemen.
Yeah, there's a HUGE demand for blind servicemen.Might have been a great SONAR operator. ;)
Might have been a great SONAR operator. ;)True that. :aok
politician?????nope, not a politico.
Alex Haley!!!
WTG Sir :aokBtw, calling Skyeho a sir will get us both slapped. :uhoh
Btw, calling Skyeho a sir will get us both slapped. :uhoh
:rofl sorry wont do it again :salute
Don knottsLike I said, easy huh? :aok
Hey Lucy! I'm Ricky Ricardo
Hey Lucy! I'm Ricky Ricardo
Senator Dan Inouye?Inouye fought the Germans in Europe, returned home as a Captain with a Distinguished Service Cross (the second highest award for military valor), Bronze Star, Purple Heart with cluster and 12 other medals and citations. His Distinguished Service Cross was recently upgraded to a Medal of Honor, the nation's highest award for military valor. He received that medal from the President of the United States on June 21, 2000.
Isoroku yamato??Good try Rusty, but this guy is wearing an Army uniform.
2nd Lt. Hiroo OnodaWay to go Rusty :aok
Phyliss Diller!!
Phyliss Diller!!Yeah, this was during her metrosexual period.
Werner Klemperer ?Nope, Not Col. Klink, :( although Klemperer did serve in the Army during the war, having fled Germany with his parents in 1935 (His father being Jewish). Did you know that Werner's father Otto was considered one of the greatest orchestra conductors of the 20th century, and that Klink himself was an accomplished violinist and pianist?
hint :DEnglish
Monty?Nope, no swagger stick in sight. In fact, I believe this guy was somewhat humble. Then again, who wasn't compared to Monty? :rolleyes:
2nd Lt. Hiroo Onoda
WTG....SIR :aok
More hints please.Not an actor.
Sergeant Major Stanley HollisThis guy? Nope.
Joe BarringtonNope.
Hint: His work proved vital during the Berlin Airlift.Flew the c-47?
Flew the c-47?Nope.
Nope.Is he smart?
Hint: He postulated about the feasibility of telecommunications satellites long before they became real.
Is he smart?No, he's a complete moron. Most people who are nominated for Nobel prizes are.
No, he's a complete moron. Most people who are nominated for Nobel prizes are.
No, he's a complete moron. Most people who are nominated for Nobel prizes are.:lol
Arthur C ClarkeThank you Baggy :aok
Arthur C Clarke
WTFG Sir I could not find that pic. errr :furious :aokThe annoying part is finding a great candidate only to hit a brick wall when you can't find an old picture. :mad:
Although it is often conjectured that the name HAL was based on a one letter shift from the name IBM, this has been denied by both Clarke and 2001 director Stanley Kubrick. In 2010: Odyssey Two, Clarke speaks through the character of Dr. Chandra, who characterized this idea as: "tter nonsense! [...] I thought that by now every intelligent person knew that H-A-L is derived from Heuristic ALgorithmic".[2][3]Alas, nobody fell into that trap... :D
Clarke more directly addressed this issue in his book The Lost Worlds of 2001:[4]
As is clearly stated in the novel (Chapter 16), HAL stands for Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer. However, about once a week some character spots the fact that HAL is one letter ahead of IBM, and promptly assumes that Stanley and I were taking a crack at the estimable institution ... As it happened, IBM had given us a good deal of help, so we were quite embarrassed by this, and would have changed the name had we spotted the coincidence.
The annoying part is finding a great candidate only to hit a brick wall when you can't find an old picture. :mad:
Was he in the wizard of Oz?:lol :lol
Nope--but almost.
Did he have one of the hottest daughters on tv?
You bet.
Was he in the wizard of Oz?WTG Boner :aok I figured this one would be easy.
Nope--but almost.
Did he have one of the hottest daughters on tv?
You bet.
Yaaaaaaaay."Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends..." :)
Glad to see the game is still going!!
I assume you're talking bout the guy on the right.
LOL! You posted that while I was editing my post!Well, it's not like this one was hard. Care to guess who the guy on right is?
Yaaaaaaaay.
Glad to see the game is still going!!
I assume you're talking bout the guy on the right.
Watch Out! Theres a road sign ahead!!
fred thompson?Nope
Rod sterllingIt was. New guy up FireDragon.
Charlton Heston?No, sorry.
Arleigh Burke?You realize I'm talking about the guy and not the ship right? ;)
Or
Phyliss Diller!!
Tv news?No, sorry.
Almost looks like he has Andy Rooney eyebrows.
Nute Rockne?I remember that movie. Who played Knute?
Ronald Reagan?
Is our mystery photo Gerald Ford??
Thank you Rusty, but that's the director's name. This ain't him. But you're damned close. :aok
Our mystery guy was easily Korosawa's biggest star.
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This guy had a screen presence that few could equal.
Glad you liked it ink. Mifune was one of a kind. :aok
awesome
Glad you liked it ink. Mifune was one of a kind. :aok
Another Hint: Actor
He sure did. Check out a movie set in the old west called "Red Sun" too. Teamed with Bronson. Interesting movie. :aok
didn't he portray Miyamoto Musashi?
Scotty Beckett ?Nope
He sure did. Check out a movie set in the old west called "Red Sun" too. Teamed with Bronson. Interesting movie. :aok
Kendall "Brezzy Brisbane" McComas?No, sorry.
Yul Brynner or Terry Savalas?Nope, but you got the look down. :)
"Uncle Fester"...aka Jackie Coogan??
I knew the kid from the picture (honestly) but thought the light bulbe was a question of another person.Glad I could throw you off :D
Very famous picture from cinema history.Absolutely :aok It's hard to imagine anyone upstaging Chaplin, but Coogan did it. He really made an impact on Chaplin too.
Nicely done Patches :aok Did the light bulb help? :D
Coogan enlisted in the US Army in March 1941. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, he requested a transfer to US Army Air Forces as a glider pilot because of his civilian flying experience. After graduating from glider school, he was made a Flight Officer and he volunteered for hazardous duty with the 1st Air Commando Group. In December 1943, the unit was sent to India. He flew British troops, the Chindits, under General Orde Wingate on 5 March 1944, landing them at night in a small jungle clearing 100 miles behind Japanese lines in the Burma campaign.
Check out this article from TIME magazine, dated March 27, 1944:
"The airborne operation was commanded by Colonel Philip G. Cochran of Erie, Pa., who won five medals as a fighter pilot in North Africa, even wider acclaim as the model for "Flip Corkin," Cartoonist Milton Caniff's hero of Terry and the Pirates. First glider pilot to land was handsome Flight Officer Jackie ("The Kid") Coogan, first husband of blond Pin-Up Girl Betty Grable (her second: Jive Bandsman Harry James). Said Flight Officer Coogan: "I sure feel confident riding with Indian troops as passengers." One of Cochran's transport pilots: Lieut. John ("Buddy") Lewis, lanky, hard-hitting third baseman for the Washington Senators."
"The Kid" w/ Charlie Chaplin
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You believe this guy
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was married to her :O
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I have a documentary DVD about wartime glider pilots that tells a pretty funny story. After landing his glider back at their base in Burma, Coogan was forced to wait his turn for a tractor to tow his plane back to it's assigned parking spot. Being in a hurry to drink beer with his fellow pilots, Coogan said "screw that" and commandeered a Burmese farmer and his elephant to tow his glider for him.
With Coogan at the controls, a rope was connected, and the elephant began to pull the glider over to it's parking spot. Now remember, work elephants usually drag logs and such, never anything as big as a military glider. Well everything is going fine, until the elephant happens to look over it's shoulder and sees the big glider "chasing" him. The elephant freaks out, and starts running as fast as he can for what he considers safety; the nearby forest. By the time the farmer gets the beast stopped, Coogan has been thrown all over the cabin, the glider's wings are missing, and the glider is a total write-off. All Coogan can do is dust himself off, pay the farmer for his help, then report to his C.O. for a royal bellybutton chewing. :rofl
wow great story :saluteThx Rusty. He was a Hell of a guy. Still amazed he was married to Grable.
Ted Cassidy (Lurch from Addams Family)?Nope, afraid it's not Ted Cassidy. :(
More hints, more hintsPolitician
Nevermind, I got it.....Robert Joseph "Bob" DoleWell Done :salute
In "Treehouse of Horror VII", the 1996 Halloween special episode of The Simpsons (and just days before the 1996 presidential election), both President Bill Clinton and Dole are abducted by aliens. While being abducted, Dole remarks, "Bob Dole doesn't need this."
Lindbergh??? I know he flew them.Nope. That's funny. Go back and look at page one. ;)
Hint me. :noidHint: Not Lindbergh
I was gonna reply the same thing but let me throw out a guess.Afraid not. Yeager was an AAF pilot. Not likely to see him in an F4U.
Chuck Yeager
Come on Cthulhu, you're online, I need some hints before I have to leave.Sorry, had to chase someone out of my office.
Ted Williams!! Red Sox GreatAbsolutely!! :aok Most beautiful swing ever!
Ted Williams!! Red Sox Great
Groucho MarxNo, sorry. Groucho woiuld have been about 40 during the war.
Henry Kissinger?
Nice Boner :aok, though I'm thinking that was maybe a wild-ass guess.
All of 'em?If you feel so compelled, but I have no idea who three of them are. Funny thing is, he's the dorkiest looking one in the bunch. :D
Groucho MarxYou know, except for the hair, it does kinda look like Groucho.
The 2nd one from the left? This one's gonna be hard without some helpful hints.Hey, if Boner can get Henry Kissinger, then anything is possible. But ok, here's your hint. Not the second from the left. After a closer look, they all look dorky.
Hey, if Boner can get Henry Kissinger, then anything is possible. But ok, here's your hint. Not the second from the left. After a closer look, they all look dorky.Lol, they do all look dorky but he looked the dorkiest to me.
Lol, they do all look dorky but he looked the dorkiest to me.Hint: Not an actor. Actors train for years learning how not to look dorky. Unless of course you're a character actor who's specialty is dorkiness.
So let me see if I get this.It was supposed to be hard when you named Henry Frikkin' Kissinger, you bastage!! No hints for you. :D
Its not the second one from the left, and he's not an actor?
We have to pick someone out of those 3?
This is startin to get hard :cry
Well pm me a hint then cuz I'm clueless. It's funny I checked this last when I left for work yesterday afternoon and we're still stuck on this. I was hoping someone would get it by now so I could hopefully get an easy one.You know, questions are perfectly acceptable.
Ron Jeremy, lol :roflThose weren't ladies. Actually, we prefer them to ladies. :D
Ok, was he another baseball player? And the one on the far right?Not the one on the far right.
Ok, what about the fist question I asked you in that post?Oh yeah, he's a ball player. :D
Joe DiMaggioYep, Joltin' Joe :aok, and he does look pretty dorky in that pic.
Joe Louis wtg Champ:aok After his pic was up for like an hour with no guesses I was really starting to feel old.
You know that I need hints, come on, I'm only in my 20's.Hey, I knew who this guy was when I was in my teen's, and I'm in my 50's now.
I suck at this game. :roflMaybe, but make that the late 60's. ;)
Was thinking Steve McQueen but his daughter was born after he got out of the military.Definitely not Steve McQueen. People liked him.
People like who? Mcqueen or this guy?Steve McQueen was the King of Cool. This guy, very uncool.
It just hit me Lee Harvey OswaldWow, you are young. :D Nope, not Oswald, but they did somewhat share something in common.
He looks like a little loser that was in my boot camp platoon.At one time, he was despised by millions. :D
Can't remember this guys first name, but I think his last name may have been Caley?Yeah but your wild guesses sometimes score. :)
Lt. Caley maybe?
Killed a whole bunch of his fellow soldiers?
Obviously just a wild guess.
Yeah but your wild guesses sometimes score. :)Really who would of know.
Lt. William Calley was convicted for the My Lai Massacre, but that massacre occurred in 1968. This guy served in WW II. If I was in my 50's and had only made 2nd Lt. by '68, I think I'd find a new line of work. :D
BTW, it was Vietnamese civilians who were killed.
George Wallace??Damn NOT :aok It does look exactly like him doesn't it?
I agree with NOT!!Nice try Boner, but I'm thinking your cigar will get lost in the mail. :D
Hartmann?Don't think so. Hartmann had much narrower features.
The Pope
Thank you... Thank you :D
I told you it was easy! ;)Never seen that pic before. Just took the date on the pic and matched it to his age at the time. He was 14.
Next and make it really easy for me :aok :roflOK, email me your High School graduation pic. ;)
Got any more? Feeling lazy. :)
Here's that pic:
(http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/3128/popess1.png) (http://imageshack.us)
This could cause a firestorm, but did you know there seems to be evidence indicating that the Catholic Church was complicit in helping the Nazi's identify and round up the Jews in some of the occupied countries?
So was most of Europe, including the Vichy French. The point is that the Church is supposed to be above politics, not that their complicity was anything special.Agreed.
Your sig is hilarious! :roflThanks :salute. I have another one I use as well:
This could cause a firestorm, but did you know there seems to be evidence indicating that the Catholic Church was complicit in helping the Nazi's identify and round up the Jews in some of the occupied countries?
I'm not going to bother editing the photo to turn it into a quiz, but this is a funny one:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Witt_and_Hitler.jpg)
Dangit Jim, Im a doctor my name is Deforest Kelly not bonesThis guy can also sing. I'm pretty sure I never heard (or wanted to hear) the good Dr. McCoy sing. :uhoh
Let me take a shot at this....Nope, afraid not. :( Does Peter Cushing sing? Can't quite get my head around that.
Peter Cushing.
Nope, he didn't (he died a long while ago ;) ) but he was a great Doctor Frankenstein and a Professor Van Helsing! I missed the clue on singing....Nope, the singing figures prominenty into this guy's career.
Am I right if I think TARDIS? That was my second guess as Doctor.....
Rex Harrison
Russell David Johnson
After high school, in the midst of the Second World War, Johnson joined the United States Army Air Forces as an aviation cadet. He flew 44 combat missions as a bombardier in B-25 Mitchell bombers. During the war, his plane was shot down in the Philippines in March 1945 during a bombing run against Japanese targets. The plane had to crash land on the port of Zamboango. In this mission, he broke both his ankles and earned his Purple Heart. He was also awarded the Air Medal, the Good Conduct Medal, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with three service stars, the Philippine Liberation Ribbon with one service star, and the World War II Victory Medal. He was honorably discharged with the rank of first Lieutenant on November 22, 1945. He then joined the Army Reserves and used the GI Bill to fund his acting studies.
"The Professor" on Gilligan's Island
ACTOR?Not really ;)
I know that face.In his time, this guy was known world wide. ;)
Time for more hintsLet me see...
Jack Dempsey, commissioned in the Coast Guard in WWII.
Next please. And btw, where do you find these pics at?Brute Google Force :D
You must have Google bot cuz I google about every pic and can't find any of them.Nope :D I'm old and I know stuff. :aok
Is this guy a singer?? :rockYou suck Boner :cry
That reply just didn't sound right. :noidHey, when you pick a name like 1Boner, you takes your chances. :D He's knocking at the door and the bastage knows it. :cry
You suck Boner :cry
ok it's the guy in the middle of the picOh the Russia front?
(http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/94/48194-004-8502C2B0.jpg)
if you get him i'll be amazed
Oh the Russia front?nope.....
nope.....Was in Africa?
no picture was taken at a defense network the germans built thats all i'll say :DRommel?
The last picture you posted Cthulhu resembles Gene Autry to me.Probably because it is. :aok
Rommel?The face told me.
I understand completely. Before the witness protection program, I was Lance Hardwood.
Wtf is that supposed to mean? :O
And sadly enough, I didn't pick my name, my parents did.
I know,just ribbin him :PI'm guessing Boner didn't want to soil his prodigeous intellect with something as easy as Gene Autry. :D
Was she a cook? :pray(Best FogHorn LegHorn Voice: ;))
Oooops, did I say was? I meant is she famous for cookin now?
Before she started cookin, was she some sorta spy chick? :noid
I concur with 1Boner, again. As an aside, Robert Clary was born Max Widerman, and was imprisoned at Buchenwald as a teenager. Isn't it odd that many years later he would become a television star in the series, Hogan's Heroes ?:aok
That it?I'm thinking you're the one drinkning heavily. ;)
We done?
Ya had enough?
Drinkning heavily,
Boner
Standing by :DI got some hint pics lined up, but we'll just let people stew on that first pic a while.
Sir Lawrence Olivier? :prayNope :cry
Nope :cry
Cool, now I can use another clue :)
(http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/7619/feetag4.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
got it............. The Avengers ........Very Good Rusty :aok
Patrick Macnee :D
ed mcmahonYeah, we're just churning thru the easy stuff now. :aok
Did I steal some of your thunder?Not at all man. :)
hint?Maybe... later. :) Pretty sure you've seen him before. Depends on your age.
lol ok i'm in my 40's :DThen I'd say there's a good chance you guys are old friends. ;)
lol you made it to easy i'll wait till some else guess :DYa think so? Maybe you should PM me just to make sure.
dam this ones tuff :furiousWant a weird off-the-wall clue?
yes please :D(http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/4320/rhnb9.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
(http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/4320/rhnb9.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)This is getting to weird even for me.
Told ya it was weird. :D
This is getting to weird even for me.Maybe not too weird for Rusty. Maybe we should be afraid.... very afraid. :uhoh :D
Maybe not too weird for Rusty. Maybe we should be afraid.... very afraid. :uhoh :DI'm just going to walk away. :uhoh
I'm just going to walk away. :uhohProbably the smart thing to do. :aok
Probably the smart thing to do. :aokI leave you alone with your cross dressing picture.
Its from the movie "The Rocky Horror Picture Show"I know were it from but it give me nightmares. :uhoh
Its from the movie "The Rocky Horror Picture Show"Well yeah, there's a significant clue in that part of the movie. ;)
Well yeah, there's a significant clue in that part of the movie. ;)Well I'm not going to look it up your bringing up bad memories again. :eek:
Thinking it's all Greek to glock. :DMeanie. :furious
He looks like Paul Hourning of Packer fame but I didnt think he servedAfraid not Hungry :(
Can he leap Rook alt monkeys in a single bound?Been waiting for you to weigh in Boner.....
Is he faster than a Noe 110 base take? :noid
Oooops wrong one. Confused him with George.Very Good Boner :aok (Did the "Rocky Horror" clue help? :D)
Its the Hercules one.
Steve Reeves.
| 1946 - Mr. Pacific Coast 1947 - Mr. Western America 1947 - Mr. America 1948 - Mr. World 1950 - Mr. Universe | (http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/237/stevereevesmruniversefd0.png) (http://imageshack.us) |
Can he leap Rook alt monkeys in a single bound?Can't figure why this guy never played Superman. The guy that did, George Reeves, was built like Michael Moore compared to Steve.
Is he faster than a Noe 110 base take? :noid
Next, and back to the easy ones while you're at it, and don't say the last one was. :aokHey, that one was a good find. I used to watch those Hercules movies as a kid.
Now I can't get that music out of my head. ;)
"If you want something visual,
that's not too abysmal,
we could take in an old Steve Reeves movie"
:D :D
No, the Benny Hill theme is stuck in my head.Yakety Sax. Damn it! Now I got it stuck in my head! :furious
| (http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/7964/bennyhillsalutezv7.jpg) (http://imageshack.us) | Alfred Hill took his stage name (Benny) from American comedian Jack Benny whom he admired. Benny was in the British Army in WW2, serving with the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He saw service in Normandy in September, 1944. |
Yup--the Rocky horror clue did it!
Must have been to at leat 10 midnite showings over the year--quite the party!!
whats the link between Steve Reeves and Rocky horror ???When Tim Curry makes his entrance as Dr. Frank N. Furter, he's singing "Sweet Transvestite":
I'm just throwing out a guess here....Tom Poston??Nope
Edgar Bergen?Nope
NopeTime for you know what.
Nope
Interesting guesses though.
I wish I could find a dog gone picture of one I thought of I might just have to tell ya anyway.Here ya go:
Time for you know what.
I'm sure I have explained this before, I'm an 80's baby. :lolNot a problem. Luckily evolution moves vvvveeeerrrryyyy slowly. Odds are your generation would still recognize this as a woman. I'm sure you know her name. And don't call me baby. :D
Dan RowanWTG Hap :aok
Pat morita?Nope, sorry.
George Takei?
Hey low, you can knock this one out of the park. It looks exactly like him. Uncanny.Lol, I had a meeting, then we had a little fire here at work, I just got back. I should have recognized Goldie Hawn, I used to watch old re-runs of Rowan and Martin when I was a kid, and why don't you want me calling you baby? :rofl
Next:
(http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/6674/suefz3.gif) (http://imageshack.us)
Ok, hint time: "Don't you hate it when..."
(http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/1103/oldmf0.th.jpg) (http://img208.imageshack.us/my.php?image=oldmf0.jpg)(http://img208.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif) (http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php)
Got it, try that one, it's a terrible pic, I'll see if I can find more.
I'm probably wrong, but hasn't she been done before?Does kinda look like her Boner. Let's see...
Does kinda look like her Boner. Let's see...I guess I shoulda searched for that one or looked harder.
Yeah, it's Maude.
Well according to my google prowess as you would say, she hasn't been done before.Bernice Frankel aka Bea Arthur
Want some hints now?
You had done that one before, I just noticed it, man I thought I had a good one.It was a good one. Never saw that pic either. :salute
Took me a while to find it, here's another hint. If I put one up they'll most likely be a Marine. :saluteGood to know. Any idea who this is?
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr?Nope. Funny, but nope. :D
Anthony Quinn?Noooope. Getting warmer though. :)
Caeser Romaro?Yep Cesar Romero :aok, The Joker was in the Coast Guard during the war.
| (http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/1134/cesarromerojokerhe0.jpg) (http://imageshack.us) | In 1942 Romero enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard. Romero had already served as a lieutenant in the California State Guards, as a member of the Evacuation Corps, and as an air warden. During his three-year stint with the Coast Guard, Romero rose to the highest of noncommissioned ranks, chief boatswain's mate. |
Yogi Berra!!Yep :aok
| (http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/5926/yogiberrasz2.jpg) (http://imageshack.us) | When Yogi turned 18 he joined the Navy. World War II was in full swing and Yogi played his part. He participated in the D-Day invasion at Omaha Beach as a gunner's mate, served in North Africa and Italy, and then was finally stationed back in the States. |
Yogi Berra had one of those faces that neveer changed much, he is instantly recognizable.True. Same goes for the way he often fractured the English language. Classic Yogi. :)
LMFAO!!:D
I'm gonna leave this one alone.
But I will say that it is a very appropriate choice, considering the season. :devil
Next:
(http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/2447/someguykq7.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Herman Munster? Fred Gwynn?Yep :aok Fred Gwynne
| (http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/8548/hermanmunsternc1.jpg) (http://imageshack.us) | During World War II, he joined the US Navy, and served as a radioman aboard a subchaser. Leaving the Navy at the end of the war, he went to Harvard University (Herman Munster went to Harvard!),where he majored in English. At Harvard he was a member of the Fly Club, sang with the a cappella group the Harvard Krokodiloes, was a cartoonist for the Harvard Lampoon (eventually becoming its president), and acted in the Hasty Pudding Theatricals shows. Gwynne was 6 ft 5 in tall, an attribute that contributed to his being cast as Herman Munster. For his role he had to wear 40 or 50 lb of padding, makeup, and 4-inch elevator shoes. His face was painted a bright violet because it captured the most light on the black-and-white film. Gwynne was known for his sense of humor and retained fond recollections of Herman, claiming in later life, "... I might as well tell you the truth. I love old Herman Munster. Much as I try not to, I can't stop liking that fellow." In addition to his acting career, Gwynne sang professionally, painted, and wrote and illustrated children's books, including A Chocolate Moose for Dinner, The King Who Rained, Best In Show, Pondlarker, and A Little Pigeon Toad. Very Cool Guy :aok |
Lorne Green of Bonanza fame.Yep :aok
| (http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/6070/bencartwrightge2.jpg) (http://imageshack.us) | 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". |
Joe Kennedy Jr
Joe Kennedy JrYep, Joe Jr. :aok
| (http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/4817/kennedys2bd4.jpg) (http://imageshack.us) 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. |
Scarecrow? ;)Uhmm, .. No
I with Hungry. Leslie Howard.
If it is here's a piece of trivia, he was lost in the same plane as a Glenn Miller over the english channel I think.Not the English Channel, but close enough.
| (http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/7923/lesliehowardasashleywilrm5.jpg) (http://imageshack.us) He is best known by international audiences as Ashley Wilkes in the film Gone with the Wind | Long, but a good read :aok) Leslie Howard (April 3, 1893 - June 1, 1943) was an English stage and Academy Award nominated film actor. He is best known by international audiences as Ashley Wilkes in the film Gone with the Wind. He was an accomplished actor whose film roles included Professor Higgins in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion (1938), The Petrified Forest (1936) and Intermezzo (1939). Howard died in 1943 when he was returning to England from Lisbon on KLM Royal Dutch Airlines/BOAC Flight 777. The aircraft was shot down by a German Junkers Ju 88 over the Bay of Biscay. It has been rumoured that Howard was engaged in secret war work at the time, and that the Germans believed the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, who had been in Algiers, to be on board. Howard's manager, Alfred Chenhalls, physically resembled Churchill, while Howard was tall and thin, like Churchill's bodyguard, Walter H. Thompson. However, this story has been completely discredited. Churchill himself seems to have been to blame for the spread of it; in his autobiography, he expresses sorrow that a mistake about his activities might have cost Howard his life. The truth, revealed in several exhaustively detailed books such as Bloody Biscay (which comes to a slightly different conclusion), Flight 777 by Ian Colvin, and In Search of My Father by Howard's actor son Ronald, is that the Germans were almost certainly out to shoot down the plane in order to kill Howard himself. His intelligence-gathering activities (while ostensibly on "entertainer goodwill" tours), as well as the chance to demoralise Britain with the loss of one of its most outspokenly patriotic figures, were behind the Luftwaffe attack. Ronald Howard's book, in particular, explores in great detail written German orders to the Staffel assigned to intercept the airliner, as well as communiques on the British side which verify intelligence reports of the time indicating a deliberate attack on Howard. It also makes clear that the Germans were well aware of Churchill's whereabouts at the time and were not so naïve as to believe the British Prime Minister would be traveling alone aboard an unescorted and unarmed civilian airliner when both the secrecy and air power of the British government were at his command. Howard was traveling through Spain and Portugal, ostensibly lecturing on film, but also meeting with local propagandists and shoring up support for the Allied cause. The Germans in all probability suspected even more surreptitious activities. (German agents were active throughout Spain and Portugal, which, like Switzerland, was a crossroads for persons from both sides of the conflict, but even more accessible to Allied citizens.) A book by Spanish writer José Rey-Ximena called 'El Vuelo del Ibis' ('The Flight of the Ibis') claims that Howard was on a top secret mission for Churchill to warn Franco to keep out of the war. Howard had contacts with Ricardo Gimenez-Arnau, head of Spains Foreign Office via an old girlfriend, Conchita Montenegro. Ronald Howard, Leslie's son, was of the conviction that the orders to liquidate Leslie came from Goebbels, who had been ridiculed in one of Howard's films and who believed Howard to be the most dangerous propagandist in the British service. Howard was flying from Portela (Lisbon), Portugal back home to England on a regularly scheduled flight that did not pass over what would commonly be referred to as a war zone. The Luftwaffe records indicate that the Staffel was sent beyond its normal patrol area to intercept and shoot down the airliner, even though this flight had never before been disrupted. There were about fourteen other passengers, most of them either British executives with corporate ties in Portugal, or various British comparatively lower echelon government functionaries. There were also two or three children, the offspring of British military personnel. The DC-3 was attacked by eight German JU-88s, despite the fact that Luftwaffe patrols in the nearest normal vicinity usually consisted of single planes. According to German documents, the plane was shot down at longitude 10.15 West, latitude 46.07 North, some 500 miles (800 km) from Bordeaux, France. (The DC-3's last radio message indicated it was being fired upon at longitude 09.37 West, latitude 46.54 North.) The German pilots photographed the wreckage floating in the Bay of Biscay. After the war, copies of these captured photos were sent to Howard's family. Christopher Goss's book Bloody Biscay, however, quotes Oberleutnant Herbert Hintze, Staffel Führer of 14 Staffel, based in Bordeaux, France, as remarking that his Staffel shot down the DC-3 merely because the plane was recognised as an enemy aircraft, unaware that it was an unarmed civilian plane. Hintze states that his fellow Staffel pilots were angry that the Luftwaffe had not informed them of a scheduled flight between Lisbon and the UK, and that had they known, they could easily have escorted the plane to Bordeaux and captured it and all aboard. More recently, Spanish author Jose Rey-Ximena has claimed in a book that the actor's plane was shot down as he was returning to England from a secret mission ordered by then-Prime Minister Winston Churchill, to dissuade Franco from joining the war with Hitler and Mussolini. |
Played R.J. Mitchell in "First of the Few."Hey Old Sport, had to go check on that one. Yep, Howard starred in and directed "First of the Few". WTG :aok
Hey Old Sport, had to go check on that one. Yep, Howard starred in and directed "First of the Few". WTG :aok
:DThanks :salute
And who was R.J. Mitchell if not designer of the Spitfire?
(i.e. relevant to "Aircraft and Vehicles")
Nice thread by the way :aok
Dr. Strangelove
| Inspector Clueso: (http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/7097/inspectorcluesofp7.jpg) (http://imageshack.us) Dr. Strangelove: (http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/7415/drstrangelovedb7.png) (http://imageshack.us) | During World War II, Sellers was an airman in the Royal Air Force, rising to corporal, though he had been relegated to ground staff due to poor eyesight. His tour included India and Burma, although the duration of his stay in Asia is unknown, and he may have exaggerated its length. He also served in Germany and France after the war. As a distraction from the life of a non-commissioned officer, Sellers joined the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA), allowing him to hone his drumming and comedy. He occasionally impersonated his superiors, and his portrayal of RAF officer Lionel Mandrake in the film Dr. Strangelove may have been modelled on them. He bluffed his way into the Officers Club using mimicry and the occasional false moustache, although as he told Michael Parkinson in the 1972 interview, occasionally older officers would suspect him. The voice of Goon Show character Major Dennis Bloodnok came from this period. And who can forget this scene from Dr Strangelove :D (http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/8870/bombstrangeloveyy9.jpg) (http://imageshack.us) |
Group Captain Lionel Mandrake
Tough one--really small picture.Nope, sorry.
Dick VanDyke?
Had to put my glasses on but it allmost looks like Ernie Kovacs?:D
Boinnnnnnngggggggggg :aokOh yeah. You, and every guy since your granddad. :D
Clue:
Tyrone Power?Nope, but you're on the right track.
-C+
Cary Grant?Nope.
Some old Vic? ;)Could be. ;)
Ok, its Victor Mature.You guys sure like to play wth your food. :D
-C+
| (http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/9684/victorrita2sh4.jpg) (http://imageshack.us) Shown here with his "squeeze" Rita Hayworth. :O | He was a petty officer in the Coast Guard during World War II. He served on the troop transport ship Admiral Mayo. His service carried him to the North Atlantic, including Normandy, the Mediterranean, Caribbean and many islands in the South Pacific. He was on Okinawa when the A-bomb was dropped on Japan. After the war, Mature was cast by John Ford in My Darling Clementine, playing Doc Holliday opposite Henry Fonda's Wyatt Earp. For the next decade, Mature settled into playing hard-boiled characters in a range of genres such as Westerns and Biblical films, such as The Robe (with Richard Burton and Jean Simmons) and its popular sequel, Demetrius and the Gladiators (with Susan Hayward). Both films deal with the fate of the robe worn by Jesus before the crucifixion. Mature also starred with Hedy Lamarr in Cecil B. DeMille's Bible epic, Samson and Delilah (1949) and as Horemheb in The Egyptian (1954) with Jean Simmons and Gene Tierney. He reportedly stated he was successful in Biblical epics because he could "make with the holy look". |
I think that of his co-actors Carole Landis is more attracting than Rita. Too bad she passed away young and depressed.:rock :rock
http://bp2.blogger.com/_tFk9wtrDGZo/RzT8QWIjKxI/AAAAAAAAAN8/e-m5DJLXwDA/s1600-h/carole_landis_pool.jpg
-C+
John Houseman?No, sorry. :)
Prince Philip?'fraid not. :)
Richard Burton?Nope :)
Sir Laurence Olivier ?Nope, sorry. :)
That picture looks like Sean Connery. Is that part of the clue?Not Sean Connery :)
I meant the pic above my post. Who is it?No Sean Connery pics in sight, and we did Donald Pleasance way back on page 4. :)
Ernst Blofeld the subject in question? Donald Pleasence was in an actual POW camp and on film.
Sir John Mills?Nope, sorry. :)
Trevor Howard?Nope, this isn't Trevor Howard :)
Does he have a pair of famous daughters? Was he knighted?No daughters
Captain P. H. HugoNo, not Hugo.
'fraid not. :)
Clue:
(http://img370.imageshack.us/img370/8738/swirlhl4.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
The fine gentleman with the sword :Dmaybe
Prolly had something to do with giving those pilots a ride.
What kind of a ride?Hey Angus, you just hear this "whooshing" sound pass over your head? :D
LOL, Noel Coward used to hang out with Pilots.
I bet he's the guy L. Howard played in that film F.O.T.F.maybe
| (http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/7193/reginaldmitchellspitfirjr6.jpg) (http://imageshack.us) Sir Reginald Mitchell (http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/4646/rjmitchellwithplans715mw5.jpg) (http://imageshack.us) At work (http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/1453/supermarines6bsmallsk7.jpg) (http://imageshack.us) Supermarine S.6B (Schneider Trophy Winner) (http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/1322/supermarinespitfireprotwa6.jpg) (http://imageshack.us) Spitfire prototype K5054 (http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/1774/spitfirev220smallrd9.jpg) (http://imageshack.us) Spitfire Vb (http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/8781/supermarinespitfiremkxvam3.jpg) (http://imageshack.us) Spitfire LF XVIe | Early Years Reginald Joseph Mitchell was born on 20th May 1895 at 115 Congleton Road, Butt Lane, near Stoke-on-Trent. He was the eldest of the three sons of Herbert and Eliza Jane Mitchell (née Brain). His father, a Yorkshireman, served as headmaster successively in three Staffordshire schools and later established a printing business in the Hanley District of Stoke. Mitchell spent his childhood in Normacott, near Longton, and attended the Queensberry Road Higher Elementary School before moving to Hanley High School. This was where he first became interested in aviation; designing, making and flying model aeroplanes. His fellow students were said to comment "He's mad about aeroplanes". At the age of sixteen Mitchell began an apprenticeship with a locomotive engineering firm; Kerr, Stuart and Co. at Stoke. His training started in the engine workshop and progressed to the drawing office. He also undertook evening classes in engineering drawing, mechanics and higher mathematics. Joining Supermarine Mitchell's interest in aviation persisted and in 1917, after completing his apprenticeship, he applied for a job as assistant to Hubert Scott-Pain, the owner and designer of The Supermarine Aviation Works, Woolston, Southampton. He was offered the position and sent for his belongings rather than travelling back to the Midlands. Within a year he was promoted to the post of assistant to the works manager. In the same year, 1918, he married Florence Dayson, headmistress of Dresden Infants' School, who he had been courting before his move to Southampton. They later had one son, Gordon, who was born in 1920. In 1919, aged twenty-four, Mitchell was appointed chief designer and in the following year he was then made chief engineer. His short but illustrious career was to see him design and develop 24 aeroplanes over a 20 year period. From its formation in 1912, Supermarine had specialised in flying-boat manufacture, and Mitchell built on the company's tradition. Working through designs such as the Sea Eagle, the Scarab and the Swan, he progressed to an armed military boat called the Southampton. The Swan had effectively been the prototype for this new flying-boat and the Air Ministry took the then unusual step of ordering six ‘off the drawing board’ in August 1924, seven months before the Southampton's maiden flight on 10 March 1925. The Southampton equipped six RAF squadrons and remained operational until 1936, establishing Britain at the forefront of marine aviation and helping to transform Supermarine into one of the most profitable enterprises in the aircraft industry. The Southampton was eventually succeeded by such aircraft as the Walrus and the Stranraer, both of which saw action in the Second World War. Schneider Trophy Despite the success of his flying-boats, Mitchell is more commonly associated with the design of high-speed aircraft for the Schneider Trophy races between 1922 and 1931. The first of such aircraft, a small biplane flying-boat named Sea Lion II, won the 1922 race achieving an average speed of 145.7 m.p.h. However, Mitchell was profoundly influenced by the American Curtiss seaplanes which dominated the race in 1923. He began developing a series of float seaplanes soon afterwards and produced four streamlined float planes. The S4 (the S stood for Schneider), although unsuccessful, provided invaluable experience for the development of its successor. The S5 recaptured the Trophy in 1927, the third aircraft, the S6 retained it in 1929 while the fourth and most famous, the S6B won the Schneider Trophy outright in 1931, averaging 340 m.p.h. around the course above the Solent. This aircraft went on to set a new world speed record of 407.5 m.p.h. Mitchell was awarded the CBE in 1932 for his contribution to high-speed flight. The technical prowess of his flying-boats and seaplanes established Mitchell as the foremost aircraft designer in Britain. A ten-year contract, commencing in 1923, signified his indispensability to Supermarine, and a technical directorship followed in 1927. When Vickers acquired Supermarine a year later it was a condition of the purchase that Mitchell should be contractually bound to the company, without the option of terminating his service agreement, until 1933. The legendary Spitfire Perhaps Mitchell's greatest legacy was the Spitfire single-seat fighter, designed between 1934 and 1936. It was a hybrid of many diverse technical developments. Using high-speed flight experience gained through the Schneider Trophy successes, influences from the German aircraft manufacturer, Junkers, and learning vital lessons from Supermarine's unsuccessful Type 224, the Spitfire was a masterpiece of practical engineering design that Mitchell would never see fly in combat. The first prototype Spitfire, K5054, flew for the first time on 5 March 1936 at Eastleigh, Hampshire. In later tests, it reached 349 mph, consequently, before the prototype had completed its official trials, the RAF ordered 310 production Spitfires. Mitchell is reported to have said that "Spitfire" was "just the sort of bloody silly name they would choose." |
Nope, this isn't Trevor Howard :)
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How come every good one I find, I can't find any pictures of them in uniform, this isn't any good. :frown:Welcome to my world.
Lol, you posted when I did, so everyone gets 2 for 1.Glenn Ford
Fonck?Nope, sorry.
Glenn FordDid you already do that one, because I searched and didn't see it.
Did you already do that one, because I searched and didn't see it.No, didn't do Ford because it was so obvious.
I thought that pic may have been a little tougher, but I guess not. You my friend are too good, therefore, I shall no longer post pics, only wrong answers to yours. :saluteNot good, just old. Too much TV as a kid. :D Feel free to post whatever you want. Be advised though, once these guys get on a roll, they can shred any pic in seconds.
I'm not worried about it. I find this to be one of my favorite threads. If I don't ever find another one to put up, it'll be just fine by me. I just like seeing the ones everybody else puts up and learning who these people are.Good enough. If that's the case, you're gonna love the one I just put up.
? Does the bell toll for thee ?Survey says.... Nope :(
But you do get a lifetime supply of Rice-A-Roni and the home version of our game. :)
The kids are all going.... "Wut??"
My favorite, Rice-a-Roni that San Francisco treat!
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Walt Disney :roflOutstanding Low :aok :aok
| (http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/1280/waltdisneysnowwhite1937ci7.jpg) (http://imageshack.us) | Disney dropped out of high school at the age of sixteen to join the Army, but the army rejected him because he was underage. After his rejection from the army, Walt and one of his friends decided to join the Red Cross. Soon after he joined The Red Cross, Walt was sent to France for a year, where he drove an ambulance. |
Holy smokes, I just checked and I got it right. Wooooohoooooooooooooooooooooo oo
And I read the whole story about the leaving the ambulance thing, it was pretty neat. I just got lucky with the mustache.Got anything for us?
Okay. Try this!Any chance of using ImageShack. Apparently my employer has decided that your picture hosting service is a threat to national security. :confused:
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Any chance of using ImageShack. Apparently my employer has decided that your picture hosting service is a threat to national security. :confused:That's funny cuz mine hasn't.
(http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/7413/cadetmx7.th.jpg) (http://img75.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cadetmx7.jpg)(http://img75.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif) (http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php)MacArthur as a cadet
Michael Wittmann?One on the left, or on the right? :)
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One on the left, or on the right? :)The left? :lol
Ok, Hildegard Burmester on the left and MW on the right, right?Yep, The man himself :aok Michael Wittman
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| (http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/2353/michaelwhitman2my5.jpg) (http://imageshack.us) (http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/7220/michaelwhitmangunnerhq1.jpg) (http://imageshack.us) Bobby Woll, The huge talent behind the Legend (http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/3614/michaelwhitmanbarrellx2.jpg) (http://imageshack.us) | Wittmann began his career as a tank ace in actually an assault gun; the StuG III. In the Ukraine Whitmann found success with the StuG III against T-34's. He was credited with several victories during this time. On July 12, 1941, Wittmann received the first of many awards; the Iron Cross Second Class. When asked, at the presentation of the medal, if he had any special requests, Wittmann requested that a T-34 crew be given treatment afforded any brave soldier. His request was granted. Whitmann was awarded the; Iron Cross First Class on September 8th, 1941. Wittmann, his crew, and their StuG III nicknamed "Buzzard" were quickly making a name for themselves fighting against superior T-34/76. On December 20th 1942 Wittmann completed the Officer Training course at Bad Tölz. He was commissioned a SS-Untersturmführer (2nd Lieutenant) and assigned to Heavy Panzer Replacement Battalion 500. Wittmann checked out in a long-barreled PzKw IV. Soon after Wittmann began training in the weapon that would make him famous; the PzKw VI "Tiger." As fortune would have it, he was paired with an excellent crew. One the soon to be best gunners in the Waffen-SS, Rottenführer Balthasar "Bobby" Woll first met Wittmann during this training. With Whitmann, Woll, loader Rottenführer Karl Berges, driver Rottenführer Gustav 'Gustl' Kirschmer and gunner/radio operator Rottenführer Herbert Pollmann the Waffen-SS had assembled one of the best tank crews in history. Whitmann returned to the Russian Front assigned to 1 SS Panzer Grenadier "Leibstandarte." Whitmann was assigned to first a PzKw III J, but soon received command of a Tiger. During Operation "Zitadelle" (Kursk) Wittmann is credited with 30 victories and 28 anti-tank guns. Wittmann was awarded the Knight's Cross. The famed battle that took place near Villers-Bocage. Wittmann single handedly blunt a large British offensive attempting capture Caen. In this action Whitmann destroyed 22 British armored vehicles August 8th 1944 would be Wittmann's last battle. Wittmann's last crew consisted of; SS-Unterscharführer Karl Wagner as gunner, SS-Sturmmann Günther Weber as loader, SS-Unterscharführer Heinrich Reimers as driver, and SS-Sturmmann Rudolf 'Rudi' Hirscheas bow machine gunner and radio operator. Much controversy has surrounded Wittmann's death. Both Polish and British unit claim destroying his Tiger. Wittmann's remains were located in 1982 and buried in France in 1983 at the Germany cemetery at La Cambe in Normandy (sorry for the crappy grammar, I copied this) |
By the looks, starved Marseille's father :tHe does look a bit on the skinny side. I'm keeping my poker face on for this one, you guys are getting way too effective at this. ;)
Dönitz has ears like that...Maybe, but those aren't the good admiral's ears. :)
A piece of the puzzle:
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btw ignore my hawker post,was asleep at the wheel...At least you're at the wheel. I keep nodding off and banging my head on my monitor here at work. AH is making me nocturnal. :uhoh
Canadian?Nope
Looks Like Dwight David Eisenhower.:aok I agree sir, him and Mamie in the second pic when he was stationed at Fort Hood and was coach of the football team at St. Louis College (now St. Mary's University in San Antonio, TX).
wrongway
More hints, more hints, more hints.We're gonna let people think about this one a while. ;)
I'm absolutely lost on this one.Kinda the idea. Here let me add to your general malaise. :)
david letterman?Nope. Thinking he's way too young.
| (http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/2346/eddiesloviksmallqe4.jpg) (http://imageshack.us) (http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/3717/28thinfantrypatchlp6.gif) (http://imageshack.us) 28th Infantry Patch ("Keystone" Division) (http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/2301/eisenhowertentgo1.jpg) (http://imageshack.us) General Eisenhower | Edward Donald Slovik (February 18, 1920 – January 31, 1945) was a private in the United States Army during World War II and the only American soldier to be executed for desertion since the American Civil War. Although over twenty-one thousand soldiers were given varying sentences for desertion during World War II—including forty-nine death sentences—only Slovik's death sentence was carried out. Desertion While enroute to his unit, Slovik and a friend, Private John Tankey, took cover during an artillery attack and became separated from their detachment. The next morning, they found a Canadian military police unit and remained with them for the next six weeks. Tankey wrote to their regiment to explain their absence before he and Slovik reported for duty on October 7. No charges against them were filed. The following day, on October 8, Slovik informed his company commander, Captain Ralph Grotte, that he was "too scared" to serve in a rifle company and asked to be reassigned to a rear area unit. He told Grotte that he would run away if he were assigned to a rifle unit and asked him if that would constitute desertion. Grotte confirmed that it would and refused his request for reassignment, assigning him to a rifle platoon. The next day, October 9, Slovik approached an MP and gave him a note in which he stated his intention to "run away" if he were sent into combat. He was brought before Lieutenant Colonel Ross Henbest, who offered him the opportunity to tear up the note and face no further charges. Slovik refused and wrote a further note, stating he understood what he was doing and its consequences. Slovik was taken into custody and confined to the division stockade. The divisional judge advocate, Lieutenant Colonel Henry Summer, again offered Slovik an opportunity to rejoin his unit and have the charges against him suspended. He also offered Slovik a transfer to another infantry regiment. Slovik declined these offers, saying, "I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial." Court Martial The 28th Division was scheduled to begin an attack on Hurtgen Forest. The attack was common knowledge in the unit and casualty rates were expected to be very high. Men indicated they preferred to be imprisoned rather than remain in combat and the rates for desertion and other crimes had begun to rise. Slovik was charged with desertion to avoid hazardous duty and court martialed on November 11, 1944. The prosecutor, Captain John Green, presented witnesses to whom Slovik had stated his intention to "run away." The defense counsel, Captain Edward Woods, announced that Slovik had elected not to testify. The nine officers of the court found Slovik guilty and sentenced him to death. The sentence was reviewed and approved by the division commander, Major General Norman Cota. On December 9, Slovik wrote a letter to the Supreme Allied commander, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, pleading for clemency. However, desertion had become a problem, and Eisenhower confirmed the execution order on December 23. The execution by firing squad was carried out at 10:04 a.m. on January 31, 1945, near the village of Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines. Slovik was twenty-four years old. |
ok one moreCharles Durning
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Who is he?That's a tough one.
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Does red26 know since he knows nazis? ;)
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GJ low!If you'll uncheck the Include details box, those extra numbers won't show up. :)
"And how did the title to the pic help? I'm still trying to figure that one out."
I'm not sure if it "helps" but that is his grave location. Arlington Cemetery, Section 60, number 8136. It was in clearer format but Imageshack screwed it up to look like that and added some extra numbers...
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The guy on the right was born in St. Jo Missouri, where my brother in law is from.
Would that be Walter Cronkite?
And I just got on btw Cthulhu
| (http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/3781/waltercronkitezx2.jpg) (http://imageshack.us) (Later years) (http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/7987/waltercronkitekennedyshai7.png) (http://imageshack.us) (Nov 22, 1963) (http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/1903/waltercronkitevietnamra3.png) (http://imageshack.us) Cronkite in Vietnam (1965) | Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. (born November 4, 1916) is a retired American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years (1962–81). During the heyday of CBS News in the 1970s and 1980s he was often cited in viewer opinion polls as "the most trusted man in America," because of his professional experience and kindly demeanor. War Correspondent In Kansas City, he joined the United Press in 1937. He became one of the top American reporters in World War II, covering battles in North Africa and Europe, while also serving in the United States Coast Guard. He was one of eight journalists selected by the U.S. Army Air Forces to fly bombing raids over Germany in a B-17 Flying Fortress. He also landed in a glider with the 101st Airborne in the battle of the Netherlands and covered the Battle of the Bulge. After the war, he covered the Nuremberg trials, and served as the United Press main reporter in Moscow for two years. Kennedy Assassination Cronkite is vividly remembered by many Americans as breaking the news of the death of President Kennedy on November 22, 1963. The first bulletins broke into the live broadcast of the daytime soap opera As The World Turns. However, since the studio camera was not ready yet, Cronkite's report was accompanied by a "CBS News Bulletin" bumper slide. The first report came in at 1:40 p.m. EST, fifteen minutes after the President had been shot: "Here is a bulletin from CBS News. In Dallas, Texas, three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade in downtown Dallas. The first reports say that President Kennedy has been seriously wounded by this shooting." A second bulletin arrived as Cronkite was reading the first one, which detailed the severity of President Kennedy's wounds: "More details just arrived. President Kennedy shot today just as his motorcade left downtown Dallas. Mrs. Kennedy jumped up and grabbed Mr. Kennedy, she called "Oh no!," the motorcade sped on. United Press [International] says that the wounds for President Kennedy perhaps could be fatal. Repeating, a bulletin from CBS News: President Kennedy has been shot by a would-be assassin in Dallas, Texas. Stay tuned to CBS News for further details." While speaking, he was handed a bulletin by one of the news editors, who had just pulled it off the AP wire machine. Cronkite stopped speaking, put on his glasses, looked over the bulletin sheet for a moment, took off his eyeglasses, and made the official announcement: "From Dallas, Texas, the flash, apparently official: (reading AP flash) President Kennedy died at 1 p.m. Central Standard Time, 2 o'clock Eastern Standard Time, some 38 minutes ago." After making that announcement, Cronkite paused briefly, put his glasses back on and swallowed hard to maintain his composure. There was noticeable emotion in his voice as he intoned the next sentence of the news report: "Vice President Johnson has left the hospital in Dallas, but we do not know to where he has proceeded. Presumably, he will be taking the oath of office shortly and become the 36th president of the United States." |
I've got a question, can we post pics of people that are famous for their service, or are we only doing people that are famous outside of the military?No problem, that'll work. :)
:D
Keep 'em comin' fellas.
The other night I was looking up Keystone bombers, thinking that Pvt. Slovic's wedding photo might be B. Mitchell. But alas, wrong plane, and no likeness between the two.
So, looked for something else Keystone wwii, and found a reference to Okinawa, so I checked, Nimitz, Spruance, Geiger, Halsey, etc. etc. No go.
Then I started looking for the "Key"stone arsenal, and after a few minutes, slapped my head :lol and went to bed (I'm several timezones ahead of you guys).
While getting ready, I was thinking to myself, "Who would be a good subject to post ... How 'bout that poor guy :frown:... 'the execution of... of Private Slovik."
So the next day after work I take a look, and :O lo and behold, Private Slovik. RIP
Lol, that's just wrong, :rofl
:D This was the next hint coming on Slovik.
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Just the facts ma'am.
| (http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/6546/jackwebbtz3.jpg) (http://imageshack.us) | After serving in the United States Army Air Force as a crewmember of a B-26 Marauder in World War II, he relocated to San Francisco to star in his own radio show, The Jack Webb Show, a half-hour comedy program that had a limited run on ABC radio in 1946. Probably his most famous motion picture role was as the combat-hardened drill instructor on Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island in the film The D.I., with Don Dubbins as a callow Marine private. Webb's characterization in this role would color most of his later acting. Dragnet and Stardom Webb had a featured role as a crime lab technician in the 1948 film He Walked by Night based on the real-life murder of a California Highway Patrolman. The film was made in semidocumentary style with technical advice/assistance provided by Detective Sergeant Marty Wynn of the Los Angeles Police Department. It was this film that gave Webb the idea for Dragnet. After getting much assistance from Sgt. Wynn and legendary LAPD chief William H. Parker, Dragnet hit radio the airwaves in 1949 (running until 1954) and then television in 1951 on the NBC network. Webb starred as Sgt. Joe Friday, and Barton Yarborough co-starred as Sgt. Ben Romero. Webb was a stickler for attention to detail. He believed that viewers wanted "realism" and strove to give it to them. Webb had tremendous respect for the people in law enforcement. He often mentioned in interviews that he was angry about the "ridiculous" amount of abuse to which police were often subjected by the press and the public. He said that he wanted to perform a service for the police by showing them as low-key working class heroes. In 'Dragnet' he moved away from earlier portrayals of the police in shows such as 'Jeff Regan' and 'Pat Novak,' which often showed them as brutal and even corrupt. Despite his reputation for accuracy, he wasn't above bending the rules. According to one Dragnet technical advisor, when he (the advisor) pointed out that several circumstances in one episode were extremely unlikely in real life, Webb responded, "You know that, and now I know that. But that little old lady in Kansas will never know the difference." Dragnet began with the narration "The story you are about to see is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent." At the end of each show, the results of the trial of the suspect and severity of sentence were announced by Hal Gibney. Webb frequently re-created entire floors of buildings on soundstages, such as the police headquarters at Los Angeles City Hall for Dragnet and a floor of the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner Building for the 1954 film. During the early days of Dragnet, Webb continued to appear in other movies, notably as the best friend of William Holden's character in the 1950 Billy Wilder film Sunset Boulevard. |
Want me to tell you the secret on how I figured out the keystone? hehehehe
Yes, tell us, please :DFor that one, with my extreme google powers, I just looked for a solid red keystone emblem and went from there to finding what was special about that unit.
This one will require many many hints
I just looked for a solid red keystone emblem and went from there to finding what was special about that unit.
This one will require many many hints
Ditto :)
I didn't even know it was the emblem of an outfit, :lol
Now let's have some fun:Richard Todd who starred in The Longest Day?
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Richard Todd who starred in The Longest Day?Nooooope :)
Lol, I just checked back in, I hate working, I'd much rather do this....and yes, really quickly because I have to leave in a little while. :aok
Oh come on now :roflThat's a good solid clue. More to follow. ;)
Oh come on now :roflOK, fine.... here :D
Let me tell you where I went with this one before I leave work.....Not bad... but that's a bolt action rifle. :D
The barbed wire could be for a prison
The M1 Carbine was developed in large part to David Williams who developed the short stroke piston for it while in prison
There was a movie titled "Carbine Williams" in 1952
Tons of actors were in it to include James Arness who was wounded severely in the foot at the landing at Anzio Italy.
That's all I've got, I know I'm barking up the completely wrong tree.
LolBe careful what you laugh at ;)
Sergeant Schultz!
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:D
| (http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/7080/sgtshultzhm3.jpg) (http://imageshack.us) Born - January 28, 1910 Died - January 28, 1973 (That sux :( ) (http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/9342/johnbanner1942smallhn3.jpg) (http://imageshack.us) | John Banner (January 28, 1910–January 28, 1973) was a Jewish-Austrian actor. Fondly remembered for his role of 'Sergeant Schultz' in the classic 1960s television sitcom "Hogan's Heroes" (1965 - 1971). Schultz was constantly encountering evidence that the inmates of his Stalag prison camp were planning mayhem, and he was aware that he would be better off if he pretended ignorance: thus his constant catch phrase "I know nothing! Nothing!" One episode of Hogan's Heroes is actually titled "At Last: Schultz Knows Something." An Austrian actor of Jewish descent in his hometown of Vienna, he was forced to leave when Germany and Austria unified in 1938, at the age of 28, during the Anschluss (union) between the two countries. There are reports that he spent time in a German Concentration Camp, but these are unconfirmed. At the time of the Anschluss, he was touring Switzerland with an acting company, and with Hitler's anti-semitic policies, he decided to immigrate to the United States. Rapidly picking up English, he obtained work in the early 1940s in Hollywood, oddly enough playing Nazis or Germans in war films, often uncredited. His trim Nordic look and accent typecast him in the roles of the very villains who would murder his family that had been left behind in Austria - all of whom perished in the Holocaust. His first Hollywood role was in the 1941 film, "Accent on Love," but he more often than not was uncredited in his roles. He regularly found work in such films as "Desperate Journey" (1942), "Immortal Sergeant" (1943), "Tonight we Raid Calais" (1943), "Tangier" (1946), "Rendezvous 24" (1946), "My Girl" (1948), "King Solomon's Mines" (1950), "The Beast of Budapest" (1958), "Operation Eichmann" (1961), "The Interns" (1961), and "Bedtime Story" (1964). He would also play guest star roles on television, finding steady work in such shows as The Lone Ranger, Fireside Theatre, Hallmark Hall of Fame, Father Knows Best, and The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin. By 1965, he had gained an additional 100 pounds, weighing 280 pounds, and had won the role of Sergeant Georg Schultz, on the comedy series "Hogan's Heroes." He told TV Guide in 1967, "Schultz is not a Nazi. I see Schultz as the representative of some kind of goodness in any generation." |
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ok try this one?
Which one of these fine gentlemen would you like to know about?That's up to you.
All of them were B-25 pilots part of 477th Bomber Group
From Left to Right
Lt. R. Highbaugh, Lt. Sam Lynn, Lt. Daniel "Chappie" James, Lt. Harvey Pinkney, and Capt. Fitzroy Newsum
Daniel "Chappie" James was probably the most notable who eventually became the highest ranking black officer in the history of the United States military when he was promoted to the rank of General (4 stars), and was given command of NORAD.
(http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/2121/chappiejamesgeneralru8.jpg) (http://imageshack.us) General Daniel "Chappie" James Jr. (Commander in Chief NORAD) (http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/9113/ubonrobinoldschappiejamhr4.jpg) (http://imageshack.us) Chappie with Robin Olds (Ubon AFB, Thailand) (http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/9637/chappiejamesphantommv4.jpg) (http://imageshack.us) Chappie & his F-4C | Daniel "Chappie" James Jr., was the first African-American promoted to the rank of Air Force four-star general. He was another of the great Tuskegee Airmen, but didn't see action until the Korean War. His career spanned three wars and 30 years, and he was a recognized civil rights pioneer. He was an eloquent speaker for the Air Force known for his thoughts on Americanism and patriotism. He remained at Tuskegee as a civilian instructor pilot in the Army Air Corps Aviation Cadet Program until January 1943, when he entered the program as a cadet and received his commission as second lieutenant in July 1943. Throughout the remainder of World War II he trained pilots for the all-African-American 99th Pursuit Squadron and worked in other assignments. In September 1949 James went to the Philippines and was assigned to the 18th Fighter Wing, at Clark Field. In July 1950 he went to Korea where he flew 101 combat missions in F-51 and F-80 Shooting Star aircraft during the Korean War. James returned to the United States and in July 1951 went to Otis Air Force Base, Mass., where he was assigned as an all-weather jet fighter pilot, and later as the squadron commander. After assignments in England and Arizona, James went to Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand in December 1966, as deputy commander for operations, 8th TFW, and in June 1967 was named wing vice commander, under the legendary Colonel Robin Olds, a triple ace. Both in their mid-40's, they formed a legendary team nicknamed "Blackman and Robin." James flew 78 combat missions into North Vietnam, many in the Hanoi/Haiphong area, and led a flight in the "Operation Bolo" Mig sweep in which seven Communist Mig-21's were destroyed, the highest total kill of any mission during the Vietnam War. He was named vice commander of the 33rd Tactical Fighter Wing at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., in December 1967. While stationed at Eglin AFB, the Florida State Jaycees named him as Florida's Outstanding American of the Year for 1969; and he received the Jaycee Distinguished Service Award. He was transferred to Wheelus Air Base in the Libyan Arab Republic, in August 1969, as commander of the 7272nd Fighter Training Wing. General James became Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) on March 31, 1970, and was designated Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) on April 20, 1973. General James was promoted to four-star grade and assigned as commander in chief, NORAD/ADCOM, Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., Sept. 1, 1975. In these dual capacities, he had operational command of all United States and Canadian strategic aerospace defense forces. His last position was special assistant to the Air Force chief of staff. He was awarded the George Washington Freedom Foundation Medal in 1967 and again in 1968. He received the Arnold Air Society Eugene M. Zuckert Award, in 1970, for outstanding contributions to Air Force professionalism. His citation read "...fighter pilot with a magnificent record, public speaker, and eloquent spokesman for the American Dream we so rarely achieve." James retired from active service on Feb. 1, 1978 and died later that month on Feb 25. |
Yeah, I'll be waiting on something else, lol.That's an easy one.
Have we not been through this, easy to you = a 20 on a scale of 1 to 10 for me.Wait till some of the old farts weigh in and you'll see just how easy it is.
Ben Kingsley. :D
""" me""" I'm a little slow no beer yet waiting for the beer goddess to come home with my prize :DOk, here ya go. Maybe that "brain lube" will work it's magic.
"I've never seen a men beat the snake before":confused: That's it. No more heroin for you.
The pic looks like the guy in madmax with the gyrocopter.
:confused: That's it. No more heroin for you.Can i have the rest of it then? :pray
is that guy dead on the ground or taking a nap? and did the old guy take the pic???Good question :D
| (http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/3479/erniepylenormandywb8.jpg) (http://imageshack.us) (http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/4115/erniepylerationskd5.jpg) (http://imageshack.us) (http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/2828/erniepyledogbs8.jpg) (http://imageshack.us) | "No man in this war has so well told the story of the American fighting man as American fighting men wanted it told. He deserves the gratitude of all his countrymen." President Harry S. Truman Ernest Taylor Pyle (August 3, 1900 – April 18, 1945) was an American journalist who wrote as a roving correspondent for the Scripps Howard newspaper chain from 1935 until his death in combat during World War II. Ernie Pyle was the uncle to the actor Denver Pyle, famous for his role of Uncle Jesse on the Dukes of Hazard. His articles, about the out-of-the-way places he visited and the people who lived there, were written in a folksy style much like a personal letter to a friend. He enjoyed a loyal following in as many as 300 newspapers. Ernie's columns, done in foxholes, brought home all the hurt, horror, loneliness and homesickness that every soldier felt. They were the perfect supplement to the soldiers' own letters. Though he wrote of his own feelings and his own emotions as he watched men wounded, and saw the wounded die, he was merely interpreting the scene for the soldier. In one of his first columns from Africa he had told how he'd sought shelter in a ditch with a frightened Yank when a Stuka dived and strafed, and how he tapped the soldier's shoulder when the Stuka had gone and said, "Whew, that was close, eh?" and the soldier did not answer. He was dead. Ernie never made war look glamorous. He hated it and feared it. Blown out of press headquarters at Anzio, almost killed by our own planes at St. Lo, he told of the death, the heartache and the agony about him and always he named names of the kids around him, and got in their home town addresses. By September, 1944, he was a thin, sad-eyed little man gone gray at the temples, his face seamed, his reddish hair thinned. "I don't think I could go on and keep sane," he confided to his millions of readers. He wrote, "I am leaving for just one reason . . . because I have just got to stop. I have had all I can take for a while." But Ernie knew that death would reach for him. The slight, graying newspaper man, chronicler of the average American soldier's daily round, in and out of foxholes in many war theatres, had gone forward early morning to observe the advance of a well-known division of the Twenty-fourth Army Corps. He joined headquarters troops in the outskirts of the island's chief town, Tegusugu. Our men had seemingly ironed out minor opposition at this point, and Mr. Pyle went over to talk to a regimental commanding officer. Suddenly enemy machine gunners opened fire at about 10:15 A.M. (9:15 P.M., Tuesday, Eastern war time). The war correspondent fell in the first burst. |
sorry sir was fired up,,, I got it with no beer :D dam beer goddess is late errrrr :furiousYou Da Man :salute
Karl MaldenNooope :)
Nicholas Cage :roflThe notion of this guy as an "Action Hero" is downright funny.
Don KnottsWe did Don Knotts back on page 15
Is it Minnesota Slim?
The famous Pocket Pool player??? :rock
Or could it be that Openheimer guy?
Be careful what you laugh at ;)
Wtg Gian :aok, Sgt. Shultz... John Banner
Yup. Aaron Copland.
-C+
| (http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/2564/aaroncoplandconductinghw0.png) (http://imageshack.us) Conducting (http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/2871/coplandandbernstein1945xb2.jpg) (http://imageshack.us) With fellow composer Leonard Bernstein | Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was an American composer of concert and film music, as well as an accomplished pianist. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as “the dean of American composers.” Copland's music achieved a balance between modern music and American folk styles. The open, slowly changing harmonies of many of his works are said to evoke the vast American landscape. His pieces Lincoln Portrait and Fanfare for the Common Man have become patriotic standards. Fanfare for the Common Man Fanfare for the Common Man is a work by American composer Aaron Copland, and one of the most recognizable pieces of 20th century American classical music. The piece was written in 1942 for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under conductor Eugène Goossens. Copland, in his autobiography, wrote of the request: "Eugene Goossens, conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, had written to me at the end of August about an idea he wanted to put into action for the 1942-43 concert season. During World War I he had asked British composers for a fanfare to begin each orchestral concert. It had been so successful that he thought to repeat the procedure in World War II with American composers". A total of eighteen fanfares were written at Goossens' behest, but Copland's is the only one which remains in the standard repertoire. Goosens had suggested titles such as Fanfare for Soldiers, or sailors or airmen, and he wrote that "it is my idea to make these fanfares stirring and significant contributions to the war effort...." Copland considered several titles including Fanfare for a Solemn Ceremony and Fanfare for Four Freedoms; to Goossens' surprise, however, Copland titled the piece Fanfare for the Common Man. Goossen wrote "Its title is as original as its music, and I think it is so telling that it deserves a special occasion for its performance." Fanfare for the Common Man http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiB8B4XsBRk Lincoln Portrait The work involves a full orchestra, with particular emphasis on the brass section at climactic moments. The work is narrated with the reading of excerpts of Abraham Lincoln's great documents, including the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln Portrait was written by Copland as part of the World War II patriotic war effort in 1942. Copland was asked to write a musical portrait of an "eminent American", by the conductor Andre Kostelanetz. Originally, Copland wanted to portray Walt Whitman, but it was decided that a political figure was needed. "From this moment, Lincoln seemed inevitable" (Copland). Copland used material from speeches and letters of Lincoln and quoted original folk songs of the period, including "Camptown Races" and "Springfield Mountain". He finished the piece in April 1942 and its first performance was by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra on May 14, 1942, with William Adams as the narrator. Lincoln Portrait (Gregory Peck narrating. IMHO James Whitmore does the best job) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vJLJdrS_Go Famous Narrators The piece has been narrated by a variety of famous people, including: James Bultman (President of Hope College), Hope College Wind Symphony Richard Butler (Governor of Tasmania), Sydney Symphony Walter Cronkite, U.S. Air Force Symphony Orchestra Henry Fonda, London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Aaron Copland Al Gore, New York Philharmonic Edward Heath, Cleveland Orchestra Katharine Hepburn, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra Charlton Heston, Utah Symphony Orchestra James Earl Jones, Seattle Symphony Orchestra William Clarence Marshall, Cleveland Orchestra Walter Mondale, Minnesota Orchestra Paul Newman, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Barack Obama, Chicago Symphony Orchestra James L. Oberstar MC, Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra Gregory Peck, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra Vincent Price, Yale Symphony Orchestra Carl Sandburg, New York Philharmonic, conducted by Andre Kostelanetz Norman Schwarzkopf, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Adlai Stevenson, Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy James Taylor, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra Margaret Thatcher, London Symphony Orchestra Samuel L. Jackson, Orchestra of St. Luke's conducted by James Levine Gore Vidal, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas William Warfield, several orchestras and conductors |
| (http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/396/billmauldinawardap8.jpg) (http://imageshack.us) (http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/4278/billmauldinpulitzercartsv6.jpg) (http://imageshack.us) Pulitzer Prize winning cartoon | William Henry "Bill" Mauldin (October 29, 1921 – January 22, 2003) was a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist from the United States. He was most famous for his World War II cartoons depicting American soldiers, as represented by the archetypal characters Willie and Joe. These cartoons were broadly published and distributed in the American army abroad and in the United States. Mauldin entered the U.S. Army via the Arizona National Guard in 1940. While in the 45th Infantry Division, Mauldin volunteered to work for the unit's newspaper, drawing cartoons about regular soldiers or "dogfaces". Eventually he created two cartoon infantrymen, Willie (who was modeled after his fellow comrade and friend Irving Richtel) and Joe, who became synonymous with the average American GI. His cartoon work continued as he fought in the July 1943 invasion of Sicily and the Italian campaign. Mauldin began working for Stars and Stripes, the American soldiers' newspaper; by March 1944 he was given his own jeep by which he roved the front, collecting material and producing 6 cartoons a week. His cartoons were viewed by soldiers all over Europe during World War II, and also published in the United States. Willie was on the cover of Time Magazine in 1945, and Mauldin himself made the cover in 1958. Those officers who were raised in the army during peacetime were generally offended by Mauldin, who parodied the spit-shine and obedience-to-order-without-question view that was more easily maintained during that time of peace. General George Patton once summoned Mauldin to his office and threatened to "throw his bellybutton in jail" for "spreading dissent," this after one of Mauldin's cartoons made fun of Patton's demand that all soldiers must be clean-shaven at all times, even in combat. But Dwight Eisenhower, the Supreme Commander, told Patton to leave Mauldin alone, because he felt that Mauldin's cartoons gave the soldiers an outlet for their frustrations. Mauldin told an interviewer later, "I always admired Patton. Oh, sure, the stupid bastard was crazy. He was insane. He thought he was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude, but I certainly respected his theories and the techniques he used to get his men out of their foxholes." Mauldin's cartoons made him a hero to the common soldier. GIs often credited him with helping them to get through the rigors of the war. Mauldin himself served on the front lines, landing at Anzio, and receiving a Purple Heart after being wounded by an artillery shell fragment. He attained the rank of sergeant and was awarded the Army's Legion of Merit for his cartoons. In 1945, at the age of 23, Mauldin won the Pulitzer Prize. |
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So now we're in a more of a supported the troops mood?We're in a "what I can find" mood. Figured I'd tell a broader story than just soldiers.
I've got one....
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Spiro Agnew? :rofl j/kNope, not at Belleau Wood
Was he at Belleau Wood?
Is that a Kennedy?Nope. :)
I've got a feeling you're going to make this one a little tougher due to my Bill Donovan post.Actually, this should be really easy. Very well known guy.
Jack Lord--Hawaii 5-0
Damn, now I can't shake that song outta my head!!
| (http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/9240/jacklord50yi9.jpg) (http://imageshack.us) | John Joseph Patrick Ryan (Jack Ryan?) (December 30, 1920 – January 21, 1998), best known by his stage name Jack Lord, was an American television, film, and Broadway actor. He was best known for his starring role as Steve McGarrett in the American television program Hawaii Five-O from 1968 to 1980. Lord also appeared in several classic feature films earlier in his career, among them Man of the West (1958) starring Gary Cooper and the first James Bond film Dr. No (1962) starring Sean Connery. He attended New York University on a football scholarship, and earned a degree in Fine Arts. He spent the first year of World War II with the War Department's Corps of Engineers, building bridges in Persia. He then returned to the Merchant Marine as an Able Seaman before enrolling in the deck officer course at Fort Trumbull. While making maritime training films, he took to the idea of acting. Lord was the first actor to play the character of Felix Leiter in the James Bond film series, introduced in the first Bond film, Dr. No. One story alleges that the film producers did not ask Lord to reprise the role in later films, since they felt that having the same actor playing Leiter would upstage the dominance of Sean Connery as the leading man. There is another story that Lord demanded co-star billing, a bigger role and more money to reprise the Felix Leiter role in Goldfinger which resulted in director Guy Hamilton casting the role to an older actor to make Leiter more of an American 'M'. In 1965, Jack Lord was considered for the role of Captain Kirk on Star Trek; the role ultimately went to William Shatner. Because Lord wanted to co-produce and have a percentage in ownership of the series, he was ultimately rejected by both Gene Roddenberry and Desilu Studios. |
Here's a gimme:
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The sad thing is I know that uniform I just can't seem to place it.That could be the uniform of any South American Chief of Police. :D
That's funny, need hints.Ok. Don't think he spoke Spanish or Portuguese. ;)
:aokRobert Culp.
His chin did it for me. But I never would have guessed Jack Lord either, even though the eyes looked familiar. I was about to say a Matt Damon HS photo widened about 10 percent. :lol
So here's one - should be easy for you guys.
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:aok"MATT DAMON" :rofl
His chin did it for me. But I never would have guessed Jack Lord either, even though the eyes looked familiar. I was about to say a Matt Damon HS photo widened about 10 percent. :lol
So here's one - should be easy for you guys.
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Okay -Robert Cummings. Lemme see what I can find on that B-25.
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Bonus question: Tell us about the B-25.
Good Show :aokKnow who taught him to fly? ;)
Love that Bob!
Know who taught him to fly? ;)
Know who taught him to fly? ;)
Orville himself :aok, and I don't mean the popcorn guy.
Robert Culp.
What Zone of operations was it in?Well that particular B25 was a B-25C-10NA Serial # 42-32354 which was only used for that show and never saw action being as it was built in the 1960's. The storyline for the show had the plane as part of the 12th AF in the MTO. The show was based on the discovery of the B24 "Lady Be Good" which crashed into the Sahara desert under mysterious circumstances.
You mean the actor? He was born in 1930, it can't be him.Gian, catch up Dude. :D
So you'd say that it performed its operational duty in...Insert music here.......yes.
:noid
[rod serling] ...The Twilight Zone...[/rod serling]
:cool:
:aok
Gian, catch up Dude. :D
Well that particular B25 was a B-25C-10NA Serial # 42-32354 which was only used for that show and never saw action being as it was built in the 1960's. The storyline for the show had the plane as part of the 12th AF in the MTO. The show was based on the discovery of the B24 "Lady Be Good" which crashed into the Sahara desert under mysterious circumstances.
Erwin Rommel in the back seat of a Stuka.You're right. That is Rommel. :aok
Erwin Rommel in the back seat of a Stuka.
That 25 still exists in pieces. Better known as "King Nine"You sure it's in pieces? The only thing I found was that it retained the paint scheme and is owned by Aero Trader in Chino. I saw where it was owned by a Jim Hardwick and was stored dismantled in his yard in the 1960's, but Aero Trader bought it in 1988, I can't find anything on their site about it either.
Come on Cthulhu, hit me with another one.
You sure it's in pieces? The only thing I found was that it retained the paint scheme and is owned by Aero Trader in Chino. I saw where it was owned by a Jim Hardwick and was stored dismantled in his yard in the 1960's, but Aero Trader bought it in 1988, I can't find anything on their site about it either.
Medal of Honor Citation:
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty as Leader of a Section of Six Fighter Planes in VMF-112, during aerial operations against enemy Japanese forces off Kolombangara Island in the Solomons Group, 31 January 1943.
Taking off with section as escort for a strike force of dive bombers and torpedo planes ordered to attack Japanese surface vessels, First Lieutenant DeBlanc led his flight directly to the target area where, at 14.000 feet. our strike force encountered a large number of Japanese Zeros protecting the enemy's surface craft. In company with the other fighters, First Lieutenant DeBlanc instantly engaged the hostile planes and aggressively countered their repeated attempts to drive off our bombers, persevering in his efforts to protect the diving planes and waging fierce combat until, picking up a call for assistance from the dive bombers under attack by enemy float planes at 1,000 feet, he broke off his engagement with the Zeros, plunged into the formation of float planes and disrupted the savage attack, enabling our dive bombers and torpedo planes to complete their runs on the Japanese surface disposition and to withdraw without further incident. Although his escort mission was fulfilled upon the safe retirement of the bombers, First Lieutenant DeBlanc courageously remained on the scene despite a rapidly diminishing fuel supply and , boldly challenging the enemy's superior number of float planes, fought a valiant battle against terrific odds, seizing the tactical advantage and striking repeatedly to destroy three of the hostile aircraft and to disperse the remainder. Prepared to maneuver his damaged plane back to base, he had climbed aloft and set his course when he discovered two Zeros closing in behind. Undaunted, he opened fire and blasted both Zeros from the sky in short, bitterly fought action which resulted in such hopeless damage to his plane that he was forced to bail out at a perilously low altitude atop the trees on enemy-held Kolombangara. A gallant officer, a superb airman and an indomitable fighter, First Lieutenant DeBlanc had rendered decisive assistance during a critical stage of operations, and his unwavering fortitude in the face of overwhelming opposition reflects the highest credit upon himself and adds new luster to the traditions of the United States Naval Service.
WTG Gian! :aok
Hmmmm a new secret weapon, let me dig a good one up. Better yet, Cthulhu's been missing, maybe he can stump you. Is this secret only related to WWII?
Alright Mr. Smarty PantsDenholm Elliot
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I was seeing if Gianlupo's little trick program is as good as he says.
Michael Rennie-of The day the earth stood still fameAh Boner, my old nemesis (Somehow that doesn't sound quite right :uhoh) We meet again. :D
Just curious as to how much graphic modification is necessary to lead the algorithm off into a wild goose chase, if that is possible.
Pretty much takes the fun out of this kind of thing doesn't it? It's bad enough that people can utilize their uber search engine skills to identify people they've never even heard of.Hey hey hey, the uber search engine skills help us youngsters learn who these people are. By going and looking for these folks I've learned a whole lot about people I had never heard of.
Michael Rennie enlisted in the RAF Volunteer Reserve on 27 May 1941 (#1391153). He was discharged for commission on 4 August 1942 and, the following day, was commissioned "for the emergency" as Pilot Officer (#127347) on probation in the General Duties Branch of the RAFVR. On 5 February 1943, he was promoted to Flying Officer on probation. He resigned his commission on 1 May 1944 (not invalided out, as studio publicity stated).
Rennie carried out his basic training near Torquay, in Devon, after which he was posted to the United States, where he served in Macon, Georgia, purportedly as a flying instructor—although no record of his holding such rank could be confirmed in the RAF's archives.
A story Rennie told to an interviewer, which was subsequently recounted in a number of his film-magazine biographies, concerned his period with the U.S. military. While stationed in Macon, he was asked by some of the American flyers what he did for a living. Upon hearing his response that in civilian life he was an actor and had appeared in a few films, they laughed disbelievingly. That evening, with free time on their hands, the group decided to go into town to see a movie. The film they picked, Ships with Wings (released in the UK in January and in the U.S. in May 1942), featured the tenth-billed Rennie in a few brief but prominent scenes as an RAF Flight Lieutenant. The Americans were astonished to discover that their British flying instructor was really as he described himself.
Apparently Klaatu didn't only fly spacecraft.Yeah, like many others, I skipped Rennie because his photo was so obviously him.
Alright Mr. Smarty Pants
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Denholm ElliotCthulhu got it right a while ago....someone else find one, my brain hurts from still trying to find Jason Robards in uniform.
Cthulhu is a mean mean man :furious :mad:I should send you the Halloween pics of me as a really ugly nurse. That should jack with your mind. :huh
I thought this was quite an interesting thread...until the internet search engines overruled human intelligence.Thank you Patches :salute
<S> Ctuhulhu for your efforts.
I thought this was quite an interesting thread...until the internet search engines overruled human intelligence.Like I've said before, what if internet search engines leads to more human intelligence. What is the difference in looking something up via a search engine or looking it up in a book? Yes looking it up in a book takes a little longer and makes you work a little harder to get the info, but the end result is the same. It has truly helped me to learn about some people that I may have never known anything about. The guys like Cthulhu, 1Boner, Oldsport, and others do know quite a bit about these people and I applaud them for starting this and teaching some of us youngsters about history and people that we were definitely not taught in school or anywhere else.
<S> Ctuhulhu for your efforts.
This is slowing down a little bit soooo---
Who was this cutie?
Should be kinda easy.
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Correctamundo!
Lydia Vladimirovna Litvyak , "The White Lily of Stalingrad"
1 of only 2 female fighter aces of WW2.
Supposedly took 8 109s to take her down.
She died at 21 years old.
LILLY! She was a babe. Too bad the legend developed such departure from reality. Лидия Владимировна Литвяк if you want to be technical.
I'll raise you a (living) Hero of the Soviet Union:
You know, I think I recognize that mole on his chin. :aok He's doing Juliet's balcony scene in an effort to raise troop morale. (and get his bellybutton kicked) :D
Possible answer to a previous query. :D
I knew he'd get fired up.Been waiting for ImageShack to clean up their act (Again :mad:)
Ties that burn
By Richard Horn, SUN Staff
The Guinea Pigs are bound together by the pain of horrible injuries and the inspiration of a medical pioneer.
It's an exclusive club with an immense admission price.
You can spot its members by their facial scars, or their missing eyes, fingers or limbs, and maybe their red ties adorned with little flying guinea pigs. Or, most likely, by their laughter, kidding and passion for life.
They are the Guinea Pigs, and three of them - Bill Foxley, Sam Gallop and George Holloway, all of England - are in Kitsap County this week following a reunion of about 100 other surviving members in Victoria, British Columbia.
Their host, author Pauline Furey of Port Orchard, has a cousin who is a Guinea Pig. Now she is writing a book about the inspiring group.
Once they numbered 649 worldwide, members of Allied air crews who crashed and burned in World War II, then underwent experimental plastic surgery under the leadership of England's Sir Dr. Archie McIndoe. They count the ordeal one of the greatest experiences of their lives, and they still treasure the friendships.
"We were all young men, 19, 20, 21, and it was quite a difficult thing to come to terms with," said Foxley, a navigator in a bomber that crashed in 1944. "But by and large, because you had the others around you, it made it easy."
Foxley, now 75 [when the article was written], lost an eye, his fingers and suffered severe facial burns. He has undergone some 40 surgeries. He doesn't mention it, but his friends point out that he wasn't burned in the crash itself - he returned to the flaming craft to save a comrade.
Together, they shared in their English hospital and throughout their lives a kind of group therapy, but an extremely natural one, said Gallop, 76.
Counseling and psychotherapy weren't known or needed back then, Gallop said, and he doesn't think much of the culture that's grown up around those words today.
"If anyone was sorry for himself, that was just hard luck," Gallop said.
"We were blessed with wonderful leadership, wonderful surgery and a very straightforward philosophy, that you either get on with it or you go under," he said. "At the end of the day it's down to you, it's your personal responsibility."
That doesn't mean Gallop, who was a Spitfire pilot, isn't grateful for the many people who've helped him along the way, not the least of whom were the men, including American GIs, who pulled him out of his burning plane.
"I had brain damage, I broke my upper and lower jaw, knocked out all my front teeth, lost the ring finger of my left hand, both my arms were broken, my hands were burned, I've got a fracture of the spine and my feet were burned away so both my legs were amputated," he says, then looks to his chums: "Have I remembered everything?"
He recalls waking up in the hospital, not knowing where he was, and looking over to see someone whose face and body were wrapped entirely in bandages. It was Foxley.
"I thought, Christ, I'm in a room with the Invisible Man," he said. "And this sort of vision turns to me and he says through the bandages, 'You get eggs here.' That was my introduction to the Guinea Pig Club."
Foxley's right eye, the one that doesn't blink, is the one he lost. It's part of the reconstruction which was done in those 40 different surgical operations. And I must say that it appears the surgeon did an amazing job in reconstructing his face. But it does not look normal; plastic surgery is even now nowhere near that good.
So does anyone know what character he was playing in the photo?
Dr. Zachary Smith from the old Lost in space series?:lol
Quagmire?;)
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Correct Gian, Tom Evans, 'cept it was Christopher Plummer who played Sd Ldr Harvey, burned husband of Susannah York, Maggie Harvey.
In June, 1942, Scholl, was called up as a medic during Operation Barbarossa. Scholl was accompanied by three fellow students from the University of Munich, Alexander Schmorell, Willi Graf and Jugen Wittenstein. While on duty Scholl and his friends witnessed Jews being murdered by the Schutz Staffeinel (SS) in Poland and the Soviet Union.
When Scholl returned to Germany in October, 1943, he and the White Rose began publishing leaflets about what he had seen while in duty. The leaflets were at first sent anonymously to people all over Germany. Taking the addresses from telephone directories, they tended to concentrate on mailing university lecturers and the owners of bars.
In Passive Resistance to National Socialism, published in 1943 the group explained the reasons why they had formed the White Rose group: "We want to try and show that everyone is in a position to contribute to the overthrow of the system. It can be done only by the cooperation of many convinced, energetic people - people who are agreed as to the means they must use. We have no great number of choices as to the means. The meaning and goal of passive resistance is to topple National Socialism, and in this struggle we must not recoil from our course, any action, whatever its nature. A victory of fascist Germany in this war would have immeasurable, frightful consequences."
Why do you think that Gian? The stylish helmet gave him away? :lol
Maybe a hint to get some guesses from people?
Hint:P-38
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Adolf Galland in HE112?
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Hanna Reitsch (29 March 1912 – 24 August 1979) was a German aviatrix who was once Adolf Hitler's personal pilot, and was the only woman awarded the Iron Cross First Class and the Luftwaffe Combined Pilots-Observation Badge in Gold with Diamonds during World War II. She is perhaps best remembered for her desperate flight to reach Hitler in his bunker during the Battle of Berlin at the end of World War II. Reitsch was the first female to fly a helicopter, fly a rocket plane, fly a jet fighter and fly a glider across the Alps. She set over forty aviation altitude and endurance records during her career, both before and after WWII, and several of her international gliding records are still standing to this day.
When asked about being ordered to leave the Fuhrerbunker on 28 April 1945 Reitsch and von Greim reportedly repeated the same answer, "It was the blackest day when we could not die at our Führer's side."
Come on Old Sport that one WAS easy.
Claus von Stauffenberg, which is one I was thinking of putting up since I went to see the movie last Friday.
Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (15 November 1907 – 21 July 1944) was a German army officer and Roman Catholic aristocrat who was one of the leading officers of the failed 20 July plot of 1944 to kill German dictator Adolf Hitler and remove the Nazi Party from power in World War II Germany. He was one of the central figures of the German Resistance movement.
Edward "Butch" O'Hare?
Lieutenant Commander Edward Henry "Butch" O'Hare (March 13, 1914 – November 26, 1943) was a naval aviator of the United States Navy who on February 20, 1942 became the U.S. Navy's first flying ace and Medal of Honor recipient in World War II. Butch O'Hare's final action took place on the night of November 26, 1943, while he was leading the U.S. Navy's first-ever nighttime fighter attack launched from an aircraft carrier. During this encounter with a group of Japanese torpedo bombers, O'Hare's F6F Hellcat was shot down; his aircraft was never found. In 1945, the U.S. Navy destroyer USS O'Hare (DD-889) was named in his honor.
A few years later, O'Hare was honored when Colonel Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune, suggested a name change of Chicago's Orchard Depot Airport as tribute to Butch O'Hare. On September 19, 1949, the Chicago, Illinois airport was renamed O'Hare International Airport. The airport displays a Grumman F4F-3 museum aircraft replicating the one flown by Butch O'Hare during his Medal of Honor flight.
Also involved in F.36/34.
It's Sidney Camm, chief engineer at Hawker and father of the Hurricane.
Sir Sydney Camm, CBE, FRAeS (5 August 1893 – 12 March 1966) was an English aeronautical engineer who contributed to many aircraft designs, from the biplanes of the 1920s to jet fighters. One particularly notable aircraft he designed is the Hawker Hurricane fighter.
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Camm was born in 1893 in Windsor. He developed an early interest in aeronautics and, when old enough, joined the Windsor Model Aeroplane Club. In 1912, he and others in the club, made a glider that could carry a man. Just a few years later, planes were used in World War One – still crude machines but ones that were improving all the time.
In 1925, Camm joined the Hawker Company as a designer. Based in Kingston-on-Thames in Surrey, the firm was to produce some of the most famous planes in World War Two – the Hurricane, Typhoon and Tempest being the most celebrated. In the early 1930’s, many still put their faith in biplanes but Camm became convinced that monoplanes were the future and he worked on this idea regardless of what others thought.
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[after WWII] Camm worked on many aircraft made by Hawker before the Harrier, including what is probably his most significant aircraft after the Second World War, the Hawker Hunter.
Before he died in 1966, he was planning the design of an aircraft to travel at Mach 4, or four times the speed of sound. It is humbling to imagine that his spectacular career in aircraft design started at a Windsor Model Aeroplane Club in 1912, where he built a glider capable of carrying a man just nine years after the first powered flight. Sydney Camm not only was witness to many developments in aviation, he also influenced the world of aviation significantly throughout his illustrious career.
Are you asking about the FIAT G91, or Giuseppe Gabrielli??? :D
Del..... LOL! :)
You have to admit, it is a spitting image!
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