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Dad was 8th recce, hat badge is my avatar. Many of them self medicated with alcohol and put many in an early grave. Only time I got any stories was when I would take him and one of his army buddies fishing. Alcohol was always involved. The stories were usually humerus in nature, once in a while there would be a pause and they would remember loosing a buddy. You would never get the details. Brother asked him once if there was another world war should he join up dad said run like hell the other way.
 
In Cornelius Ryans' book "The Longest Day" he wrote of a guy seeing some POWs being marched behind some dunes (by Canadian troops)on D Day.
He wanted to trade/grab some German souvenirs. When he got there the POWs were dead and he lost his apetite for a souvenir.
 
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7 year old Edda expresses her disapproval of the new management in a way that only a 7 year old can pull off:

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She would go to her grave defending her father's "legacy", and suing various museums and governments in an attempt to re-acquire her "inheritance."
 
Just a thought ...
I was reminded by a younger veteran recently that while it is good to be sympathetic and supportive of those veterans and their families who suffered from various forms of PTSD -- it is also important to remember that the vast majority of WW ll veterans came home to continue their jobs, find new ones, go to school, start businesses and raise families. They then built this country for us.

The unintended consequence of focusing on stories of those who continued to carry the horrific memories of war is that some employers will not hire them for fear of an incident in the work place provoked by PTSD. While sad -- I am aware of several employers in the US that do discriminate against service personnel for this reason.

Having lived in West Germany as a youth in the mid '50's (my father was a serving Cdn infantry officer) every German adult had been exposed to the horror of war ... but it certainly didnt stop them from rebuilding their country and getting on with life.
 
donor said:
I was wondering how are cars secured in cargo holds of an airplane-same way like on a flat bed tow truck?

Can you make a picture and post in "random picture of the day"?
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We took a Ferrari from the F1 team from JFK to Japan for an exhibition and it was tied down with cargo straps onto a flat aluminum pallet and the pallet was secured the same way as a cargo pallet with locks on the aircraft freight rails.

The first year we took the Indy cars to Japan for their Indy race, it took 2 aircraft because of the number of cars and they were also tied down on pallets. For the next years race our freight guys designed a double decker pallet system so 1 aircraft could take them all.
 
Not my pix but showes a bit. There is a bit of manual turning up in the plane to swing it out then the loader does the rest.

ht tps://jalopnik.com/just-a-couple-race-cars-riding-in-a-regular-airliner-1797482500
 
shredder said:
Apparently the dent that Japanese plane made in the side of USS Missouri is still there - it was never repaired.
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I spent 10 days hunting with a "Missouri vet" back in the early 90's. One of the best & most interesting hunting partner I ever had...he had a front row seat to that plane coming at them. he could be in that photo, he was an AA gunner from time of Missouri commissioning until 10 days before the end of the war. The armistice was signed on the deck just below his gun position and his comment on that was "good thing I was gone by then or I'd of shot that old Jap bastard before he ever signed anything". He was transferred to a destroyer (10 days before "cease of hostilities" order came through) that had lost a bunch of crew members/gunners from a kamikaze strike.

One of the points I remember him making was that he didn't have much fear during the war until the kamikaze attacks became prevalent. He said that evasive maneuvers could cause bomb misses and escort destroyers were very good at keeping jap subs from the big ships...but those Kamikaze planes were essentially guided bombs with a thought process to guide them...much more efficient than high altitude or dive bombs.
 
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German Wehrmacht General Anton Dostler is tied to a stake before his execution by a firing squad in a stockade in Aversa, Italy, on December 1, 1945. The General, Commander of the 75th Army Corps, was sentenced to death by an United States Military Commission in Rome for having ordered the shooting of 15 unarmed American prisoners of war, in La Spezia, Italy, on March 26, 1944.
 
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