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So basically the black servicemen were LESS represented in Vietnam on a percentage basis than their US population. Isn't it amazing how FACTS and NUMBERS seem to discredit many fervently-held beliefs?
As a matter of fact, I did. Why?
Mr Wayne's deferment was discussed and it had nothing to do with lungs. As noted above he was deferred first to make movies then he volunteered for OSS but the studio pulled its weight to have him deferred permanently.
I must have missed that post. Apologies.
Scotty
At the beginning of the Second World War, Doohan joined the Royal Canadian Artillery and was a member of the 14th midland field battery 2nd Canadian infantry division from Cobourg Ontario.[9] He was commissioned a lieutenant in the 14th Field Artillery Regiment of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division. He was sent to England in 1940 for training. His first combat was the invasion of Normandy at Juno Beach on D-Day. Shooting two snipers, Doohan led his men to higher ground through a field of anti-tank mines, where they took defensive positions for the night. Crossing between command posts at 11:30 that night, Doohan was hit by six rounds fired from a Bren gun by a nervous Canadian sentry:[10] four in his leg, one in the chest, and one through his right middle finger. The bullet to his chest was stopped by a silver cigarette case given to him by his brother.[citation needed]His right middle finger had to be amputated, something he would conceal during his career as an actor.[11]
Doohan graduated from Air Observation Pilot Course 40 with 11 other Canadian artillery officers[12] and flew Taylorcraft Auster Mark V aircraft for 666 (AOP) Squadron, RCAF as a Royal Canadian Artillery officer in support of 1st Army Group Royal Canadian Artillery. All three Canadian (AOP) RCAF squadrons were manned by artillery officer-pilots and accompanied by non-commissioned RCA and RCAF personnel serving as observers.[13][14]
Although he was never actually a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Doohan was once labeled the "craziest pilot in the Canadian Air Force". In the late spring of 1945, on Salisbury Plain north of RAF Andover, he slalomed a plane between telegraph poles "to prove it could be done"—earning himself a serious reprimand. (Various accounts cite the plane as a Hurricane or a jet trainer; however, it was a Mark IV Auster.[15][16])
At the beginning of the Second World War, Doohan joined the Royal Canadian Artillery and was a member of the 14th midland field battery 2nd Canadian infantry division from Cobourg Ontario.[9] He was commissioned a lieutenant in the 14th Field Artillery Regiment of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division. He was sent to England in 1940 for training. His first combat was the invasion of Normandy at Juno Beach on D-Day. Shooting two snipers, Doohan led his men to higher ground through a field of anti-tank mines, where they took defensive positions for the night. Crossing between command posts at 11:30 that night, Doohan was hit by six rounds fired from a Bren gun by a nervous Canadian sentry:[10] four in his leg, one in the chest, and one through his right middle finger. The bullet to his chest was stopped by a silver cigarette case given to him by his brother.[citation needed]His right middle finger had to be amputated, something he would conceal during his career as an actor.[11]
Doohan graduated from Air Observation Pilot Course 40 with 11 other Canadian artillery officers[12] and flew Taylorcraft Auster Mark V aircraft for 666 (AOP) Squadron, RCAF as a Royal Canadian Artillery officer in support of 1st Army Group Royal Canadian Artillery. All three Canadian (AOP) RCAF squadrons were manned by artillery officer-pilots and accompanied by non-commissioned RCA and RCAF personnel serving as observers.[13][14]
Although he was never actually a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Doohan was once labeled the "craziest pilot in the Canadian Air Force". In the late spring of 1945, on Salisbury Plain north of RAF Andover, he slalomed a plane between telegraph poles "to prove it could be done"—earning himself a serious reprimand. (Various accounts cite the plane as a Hurricane or a jet trainer; however, it was a Mark IV Auster.[15][16])
Thanks for the clarification. Like many, I was under the impression that blacks were a disproportional representation in the Viet Nam conflict - i.e. more per capita than whites.
How did this incorrect presumption come to be?
I knew a white draft dodger. He worked for two years in Australia as a lab tech and then came to Canada. His mother's health took a turn and I drove him across the DMZ to see her. While he was there, he checked with a US draft dodger organization and was able to get an amnesty from prosecution.
How did this incorrect presumption come to be?
I knew a white draft dodger. He worked for two years in Australia as a lab tech and then came to Canada. His mother's health took a turn and I drove him across the DMZ to see her. While he was there, he checked with a US draft dodger organization and was able to get an amnesty from prosecution.
This pic gives a better idea of the scale of the thing. Yes, those are 6 ICBM launchers mounted on the back of it.
Those are not ICBM launchers.They are P-270 Moskit anti-ship missile launchers.I think they were developed as an Aircraft Carrier killer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-270_Moskit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lun-class_ekranoplan -way more information is on Russian language page-use translator to view it.
Well a lot of us listened to a draft dodger...CBC's Andy Barrie. I am not judging because i wasn't threatened by draft but a lot of guys I knew from Michigan State had to live under threat of draft and at least two guys I had met went to Viet Nam and did not come back. Several years after I got down to Walter Reid hospital periodically....and the number of physical injuries they were dealing with post Viet Nam was astounding ....it wasn't just the high number of KIA that was the legacy of that war. A great shame!
it's very nice although I didn't know they used cast hilts....and thought they might have sharkskin on the grip. What do they properly call that little tab on the outside of the guard that is used to capture a blade?
Weinar marked sabres are very rare as imperial stocks were sufficient minus tge imperial marking if course.
Thanks for that clarification.
Either way, the Ekranoplan was one heckuva big aircraft, or more precisely, a boat that could skip along 20ft above the water.
I'm really not surprised the project never reached production levels. On the whole, it seems about as practical as the Spruce Goose was.
