RE: Fairey Battles and Boulton Paul Defiants
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 4:54 pm
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RE: Fairey Battles and Boulton Paul Defiants
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:28 pm
yum banana pudding with vanilla wafers. [:)]ORIGINAL: Nikademus
Edit: but I do own the book too. [:)]
RE: Fairey Battles and Boulton Paul Defiants
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:54 pm
ORIGINAL: niceguy2005
yum banana pudding with vanilla wafers. [:)]ORIGINAL: Nikademus
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)..
RE: Fairey Battles and Boulton Paul Defiants
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 6:02 pm
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.
RE: Fairey Battles and Boulton Paul Defiants
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 6:15 pm
Oh no, I would never do that. [;)]ORIGINAL: m10bob
ORIGINAL: niceguy2005
yum banana pudding with vanilla wafers. [:)]ORIGINAL: Nikademus
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)..
RE: Fairey Battles and Boulton Paul Defiants
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 6:31 pm
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.
RE: Fairey Battles and Boulton Paul Defiants
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 7:59 pm
ORIGINAL: niceguy2005
yum banana pudding with vanilla wafers. [:)]
But they have to be Nabisco Nilla Vanilla Wafers - not some cheap store brand...[:-]
Yummers....[:)][:)][:)]
RE: Fairey Battles and Boulton Paul Defiants
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 7:46 am
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!
RE: Fairey Battles and Boulton Paul Defiants
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:36 pm
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.
RE: Fairey Battles and Boulton Paul Defiants
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 6:12 pm
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
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