cannabineer
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@GreatwhiteNorth did you know a Chuck Norris, USCG?
Veterans...Get the hell in here now!
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raratt
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21 years, 3 months, 3 days, but who counted. I have no regrets.
They should have just started punching holes in it with a .50.
NFW would I have done that - slip off the side & immediately you're in the prop.
I've seen what that does & don't want to be there!
Grandpapy
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lol "With brass balls that big how do they stay afloat?"
Hydrotech364
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HS-4 Black Knight 87-93 CAG-15 7th fleet. We used to take fun trips to distant lands. Combat SAR.
wascaptain
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words to live by!
My late Father survived Korea and 2 tours in Vietnam one of which was a year of nightly rocket/sapper attacks in Danang. He had super 8 movies of the ammo dump going up - quite the sight. Tons & tons of munitions cooking off.
RIP as well.
too larry
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Daddy came over from the states on a big troop transport. Straight to France. He came ashore in mid August {on walkways built over grounded ships}. He spent his 21st birthday in mid November under fire. Got shot on back to back days in December, the 2nd time actually by the Germans. He spent the rest of the war in a POW camp.
Singlemalt
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Mine flew bombers with the 5th Air Force in the Pacific
B-17, B-24 or B-29?
Singlemalt
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B-17s, then B-24. He lucked out, they started sending the 17s to the 8thAF in England
He sure did. My mom rigged B-17s!
cannabineer
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I saw a documentary on Prime (?) about the US bombers of WW2. They had a cool segment showing how one of the great assembly-line innovations was the presentation of the craft's miles of wiring into preassembled plug&play wiring harnesses. I had no idea the invention was so recent.
BarnBuster
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My Mom worked in the Bendix plant assembling instrument panel gauges for B-29's. I've heard them (the women) referred to as another of America's secret weapons when the automotive, refrigerator and typewriter factories retooled for war production. My Uncle was a B-24 nose gunner. He made a letter opener for my Mom out of Perspex(?) after a AA round blew a section out right next to him. 
doublejj
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WWII US Bomber Command aircrews suffered a high casualty rate: of a total of 125,000 aircrew, 57,205 were killed (a 46 percent death rate), a further 8,403 were wounded in action and 9,838 became prisoners of war. Therefore, a total of 75,446 airmen (60 percent of operational airmen) were killed, wounded or taken prisoner.
Singlemalt
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Yep, that's why he lucked out by not having to transfer to the 8th with the B-17s, some of his cohort did
doublejj
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at first i thought is was boat noise but I'm pretty sure i can hear this guys brass balls clanging when he jumps onto that sub....bad ass!
Coast Guard crewman leaps aboard narco sub, bangs on hatch during high-seas chase
https://taskandpurpose.com/coast-guard-narco-sub-video
pabloesqobar
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Wow. What beach, and when? What ship did he come in on? What was his unit/position?