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re: It's 1943, you're 18 years old, which would terrify you more?
Posted on 6/14/19 at 9:51 pm to prplhze2000
Posted on 6/14/19 at 9:51 pm to prplhze2000
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I have bad flat feet. I wouldn't be going anywhere. All those single women.....
I'd identify as a woman so I could get a nice job working at the factory
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Posted on 6/14/19 at 9:52 pm to White Roach
True but it beats being stuck in a foxhole in the Ardennes forest over Christmas.
Posted on 6/14/19 at 9:52 pm to Tangineck
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Am I the only one who would be the most hesitant to be put in a tank? Let's get in a hot metal box on tracks and fire heavy guns at each other. Yeah, hard pass here.
Interestingly enough, the M1A2 these days is air conditioned, but only to get rid of the heat its electronics put out when it's buttoned up.
The Shermans, though, not so much.
Posted on 6/14/19 at 9:52 pm to FightinTigersDammit
Growing up watching Memphis Belle and such I always expected a B-17 to be pretty big, when I got to tour one was shocked and how cramped it was. a B-25 is really small.
Posted on 6/14/19 at 9:55 pm to TrueTiger
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B. because the South Pacific has always seemed romantic.
The South Pacific becomes way less romantic when a fanatical screaming solder is trying to kill you even after you set him on fire.
Posted on 6/14/19 at 9:57 pm to TigerstuckinMS
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Interestingly enough, the M1A2 these days is air conditioned, but only to get rid of the heat its electronics put out when it's buttoned up.
How does the driver get in that little cramped spot?
Posted on 6/14/19 at 9:59 pm to BookahBear
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I always expected a B-17 to be pretty big, when I got to tour one was shocked and how cramped it was. a B-25 is really small.
I'm a six-footer and had to stoop when we toured a B-17. Later models had the waist gun positions staggered so the gunners wouldn't be bumping asses.
Posted on 6/14/19 at 10:00 pm to Korin
making the Murmansk Run seems like it would have been unpleasant too.
Posted on 6/14/19 at 10:02 pm to Darth_Vader
Bone spurs for me
Posted on 6/14/19 at 10:17 pm to Korin
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How does the driver get in that little cramped spot?
He has his own hatch that he can use, but I think he can also get out through the turret if the gun's pointed just right.
Posted on 6/14/19 at 10:47 pm to Spaceman Spiff
Amazing what those guys did and sacrificed for our country. My grandfather was a bombardier on a B17. Flew 30+ missions over Germany.
Posted on 6/14/19 at 11:21 pm to Korin
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How does the driver get in that little cramped spot?
To get into the driver’s compartment if the driver’s hatch is closed (it cannot be opened from the outside), the turret as to be turned around with the gun over the back deck at a slight angle. When the turret is in this position, the opening of the turret basket is lined up with the drivers compartment so the driver can get in from the turret.
If the driver’s hatch is open, you can climb in from the open hatch. But it’s a bit cramped to enter this way unless you’re tiny and rather flexible.
Posted on 6/14/19 at 11:28 pm to Darth_Vader
Gotta volunteer for C right?
Posted on 6/14/19 at 11:49 pm to Darth_Vader
frick A...though if it was 1943 I'm not sure I'd know how horrible of a situation that was. If you got shot the best you could hope for is hoping the Germans didn't track down you and your parashoot for a few hours after your team threw through you out of the plane thinking the Krauts would help.
My grandpa was in the 101st. Thankfully he had a hernia and mustered out before his unit dropped into Bastogne and were wiped out. Meanwhile he went home and robbed the cradle with my grandma who he married after one of his buddies came back shortly after V-E Day. He lived one hell of a life... both of my grandpas were the high point of my bloodline.
My grandpa was in the 101st. Thankfully he had a hernia and mustered out before his unit dropped into Bastogne and were wiped out. Meanwhile he went home and robbed the cradle with my grandma who he married after one of his buddies came back shortly after V-E Day. He lived one hell of a life... both of my grandpas were the high point of my bloodline.
This post was edited on 6/15/19 at 12:35 am
Posted on 6/15/19 at 12:02 am to Tiger1242
I knew nice old guy that was ball turret gunner on B24 bomber in the Pacific.He said they asked for volunteers for the ball turret,he said he was ignorant farm boy- had no idea what a ball turret was but sounded ok.After he found out what it was, he tried to un-volunteer but no dice.He said he never expected to survive the war.One mission his group went on,his plane was the only one that made it back.Another time the mechanism that raised him back up in the plane jammed,the pilot circled the airfield as long as he could while the others tried to get him back up.Finally the plane was running on fumes, pilot had no choice but to land,and like at the last minute they got him back in,said they weren’t, but about hundred feet over the runway.
Unbelievable what that generation went through,the depression and then the war.
Unbelievable what that generation went through,the depression and then the war.
Posted on 6/15/19 at 12:23 am to Darth_Vader
I will say C for both. I was in Normandy about 6 weeks ago and took an extensive tour of the D-Day beaches. We went to Ste. Mere Eglise which was the 1st village liberated by the American paratroopers on D-Day morning before the landings. We went to the Airborne Museum there and had lunch at a sidewalk cafe while looking up at the replica of John Steele and his parachute hanging from the steeple of the church (although I don't think he was from the 101st). We also went to the site of the Battle of La Fiore. It must have been a terrifying thought that you were going to be dropped behind enemy lines hours before any help was scheduled to arrive with the task of capturing strategic positions. But they did it.
Posted on 6/15/19 at 12:47 am to geauxpurple
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We went to the Airborne Museum there and had lunch at a sidewalk cafe while looking up at the replica of John Steele and his parachute hanging from the steeple of the church (although I don't think he was from the 101st).
82nd (All American) Division (Airborne)
Three airborne divisions dropped that morning, the United States 82nd and 101st, as well as the British 6th (sort of the forgotten Allied airborne division of the war).
Posted on 6/15/19 at 1:08 am to Darth_Vader
Avoid A
Pick C
Pick C
Posted on 6/15/19 at 2:05 am to Darth_Vader
A....and it's not even in the same realm of being close
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