Fairey Battles and Boulton Paul Defiants

[Nikademus]

[niceguy2005]

ORIGINAL: Nikademus

yum banana pudding with vanilla wafers. [:)]

Edit: but I do own the book too. [:)]

[m10bob]

ORIGINAL: niceguy2005

ORIGINAL: Nikademus

yum banana pudding with vanilla wafers. [:)]

Edit: but I do own the book too. [:)]

Whatever ya' do...don't dribble Hershey's syrup through the top, and mix in strawberries..(Not the book)..

[String]

A curious piece of trivia i found from the monster sealion thread on armcharigeneral forums. Apparently quite a few Defiant turrets were mounted on british small auxiliary vessels for AA work.

[niceguy2005]

ORIGINAL: m10bob

ORIGINAL: niceguy2005

ORIGINAL: Nikademus

yum banana pudding with vanilla wafers. [:)]

Edit: but I do own the book too. [:)]

Whatever ya' do...don't dribble Hershey's syrup through the top, and mix in strawberries..(Not the book)..

Oh no, I would never do that. [;)]

[mikemike]

ORIGINAL: m10bob

Not off topic...I strongly recommend the asquisition of Martin Caiden's old book, RAGGED, RUGGED WARRIORS....

I believe I can top you - I own a copy of the Book "The Mission" by Martin Caidin/Edward Hymoff, written in 1964. It describes a fact-finding visit by three officers from Washington, all politicians, one of them LCdr Lyndon B. Johnson, to the 22nd Bomb Group in 1942. They hitched a ride on a mission against Lae, where they ran into Saburo Sakai and the plane carrying one of them was shot down - he was killed. Plus: lots of information about what the conditions in the theatre were like at the time, also lots of praise for the Martin B-26, which I think is generally underrated in comparison to the B-25; Minus: the authors seem to have been LBJ fanboys - this mission seems to have constituted his entire combat experience and his heroism is loudly praised throughout the book. Well, if JFK got a movie, perhaps LBJ's war rates a book.

[MineSweeper]

ORIGINAL: niceguy2005
yum banana pudding with vanilla wafers. [:)]

But they have to be Nabisco Nilla Vanilla Wafers - not some cheap store brand...[:-]
Yummers....[:)][:)][:)]

[m10bob]

ORIGINAL: MineSweeper

ORIGINAL: niceguy2005
yum banana pudding with vanilla wafers. [:)]

But they have to be Nabisco Nilla Vanilla Wafers - not some cheap store brand...[:-]
Yummers....[:)][:)][:)]

but certainly NOT with the dribble of Hershey's chocolate syrup...the strawberries....and sure as hell not covered in crushed-up graham cracker crumbs!

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: mikemike

ORIGINAL: m10bob

Not off topic...I strongly recommend the asquisition of Martin Caiden's old book, RAGGED, RUGGED WARRIORS....

I believe I can top you - I own a copy of the Book "The Mission" by Martin Caidin/Edward Hymoff, written in 1964. It describes a fact-finding visit by three officers from Washington, all politicians, one of them LCdr Lyndon B. Johnson, to the 22nd Bomb Group in 1942. They hitched a ride on a mission against Lae, where they ran into Saburo Sakai and the plane carrying one of them was shot down - he was killed. Plus: lots of information about what the conditions in the theatre were like at the time, also lots of praise for the Martin B-26, which I think is generally underrated in comparison to the B-25; Minus: the authors seem to have been LBJ fanboys - this mission seems to have constituted his entire combat experience and his heroism is loudly praised throughout the book. Well, if JFK got a movie, perhaps LBJ's war rates a book.

Later info apparently showed LBJs plane aborted shortly after takeoff... apparently LBJ never actually saw the combat described.

[m10bob]

Yeah, I read the book when I was in high school, been a fan of the 22nd ever since.

You can Google search that mission, some folks are steamed LBJ was actually given a Silver Star for the mission, (IIRC), whether he made it or not.
He was a commissioned reserve officer, as were something like 90% of the guys at Midway.


http://www.b-26marauderarchive.org/ms/MS1709/MS1709.htm