Hiding Somwere?

[Ghastly]

Pretty neat trick landing both the 38 and the JU88 that's covering it between those two trees

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[Bosco123]

Pretty neat trick landing both the 38 and the JU88 that's covering it between those two trees

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thought I might share, just kinda got lucky to be right there.
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[Ghastly]

Now the real trick is getting to be getting them both in the air again ...

[dentin]

Here lie these men on this sun scoured atoll,
The wind for their watcher, the wave for their shroud,
Where palm and pandanus shall whisper forever,
A requiem fitting for heroes so proud.

Origin of your "sig" please.   

TIA 

[Ack-Ack]

I was in my heavier P-38 tonight getting some time in it. I was low and slow and I see a nice tree coming towards me. I decide that the tree will move....BS! I hit the tree and spiral out of control, but not crashed. So I'm I look around and I see myself right in between two trees!.
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Lame.


ack-ack

[Bosco123]

Lame.


ack-ack

oh can you do it?

[Saurdaukar]

that looks like a ju88

 

All twin engine bombers look the same.

 

[angelsandair]

I was in my heavier P-38 tonight getting some time in it. I was low and slow and I see a nice tree coming towards me. I decide that the tree will move....BS! I hit the tree and spiral out of control, but not crashed. So I'm I look around and I see myself right in between two trees!.
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They're mocking you...

[Masherbrum]

oh can you do it?

You were in a Ju-88, not a 38.   

Fly through a bomber hangar within 2 tries, whilst in a B-26 and inverted.   SketchCAF (now AKSketch), OddCAF, GunrCAF, GrimmCAF were witness to this prior to a CAF Squad night.  Sketch and I both failed at trying not to laugh uncontrollably, it is something we still laugh at and this happened in 2005.   

[Masherbrum]

Origin of your "sig" please.   

TIA

It is from the book "Utmost Savagery" by Jospeh Alexander.    It is about Tarawa and was released in about 1996 IIRC.   Read it then, was a decent read.    "Given up for Dead" by Bill Sloan is the best book I have ever read dealing with the PTO.   

[angelsandair]

Origin of your "sig" please.   

TIA 

It was from a book called 'One Square Mile of Hell' Best book I've ever read. It always seems the most moving and best all around poems are for the American soldiers.

Here's another quote:

You say it's not on the map, my son?
O God, it's engraved on my heart!
That fringe of palm, our approach at dawn,
A challenge to death, and the hellish spawn
That tore loose our clay at Tarawa!

You want me to tell you about it, my son?
It's an epic of blood and tears!
These sightless eyes and mangled feet
Proclaim our victory and the Japs' defeat
On the charnel-like sands of Tarawa!

Lifeblood the price by which an atoll was won:
Look again.... it must be on the map, my son!

[Bosco123]

You were in a Ju-88, not a 38.     

and for that, you need a cookie.