Thanks to AL for sending this in!
This beautiful airplane was built by Republic Aircraft in Farmingdale, Long Island, N.Y. (Watch for the ground chief riding on the wing while taxiing). The pilot couldn’t see over the elevated nose and there wasn’t enough room for the usual “S” turns. The pilot was watching for directions from the chief on the wing.
As we say GOOD-BYE and THANK YOU to our rapidly thinning ranks of World War II veterans, take a five minute break from whatever you’re doing and join some of them on a P-47 bombing mission over Germany.
I am struck by 2 things in the video: 1) the first few seconds looked at lot like a Hogan’s Heroes episode; and 2) imagine what those guys could do with today’s laser/gps guided bombs/missiles. They were awesome just by dropping it and letting gravity do the work. Studs is an understatement.
“2) imagine what those guys could do with today’s laser/gps guided bombs/missiles.”
We could have dusted the germans off, allow them swear their commitment to the american constitution, and made them a 51st state. Then, fortified with the german “can do” attitude, we could have polished off Russia, the Ottoman Empire, divide them up into another 20 states, and have the world settled down, and christianized just in time for the 1972 summer Olympics.
From Mish – 9th Circuit Court Legitimizes MERS:
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2011/09/arizona-circuit-court-ruling.html
Imagine what the WW II vets would do ‘straighten out’ those clowns, the stench-from-the-bench on the whacked-out 9th Jerk-it Court of Schlemiels.
THAT make a guy grin.
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You must be the reincarnation of Patton.
He wanted to continue on to moscow.
BTW, the Ottoman Empire was over in 1918.
finally invading is easy. Occupation is hard, ask the Bushies about how easy it was to occupy Iraq
Pat,
The Ottoman empire didn’t end when the brits cut it up. It’s still run by clans, and it’s still a mess, just like the good old days. Call it what you like. It’s still the same.
Finally, invading is easy. Occupation is easy. Just ask the germans how France worked out before the US decided to back Stalin. Looked like a pretty happenin’ party to me. Or ask Ike when he occupied Germany, for many, many years. We occupied them with over a million troupes.
Sending a few thousand troupes to a country the size of California isn’t an occupation, it’s a sight-seeing tour with machine guns.
PS When Patton was a young officer, he was sent to bring back the head of Poncho Villa. Didn’t get Poncho, but he brought back Poncho’s right-hand man, dead, strapped the hood of his Packard.
Have to admit, the man had style.
The Greatest Generation, to be sure.