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Juice Box wrote:My great grandpa was a commander of some sort (not sure of his official title) for a group of B-17 bombers. He didn't say much either but when he did talk about it, he had every bit of my attention.

3legged_lab wrote:

Juice Box wrote:My great grandpa was a commander of some sort (not sure of his official title) for a group of B-17 bombers. He didn't say much either but when he did talk about it, he had every bit of my attention.

But you didn't pay enough attention to know his classification.

3legged_lab wrote:

Juice Box wrote:My great grandpa was a commander of some sort (not sure of his official title) for a group of B-17 bombers. He didn't say much either but when he did talk about it, he had every bit of my attention.

But you didn't pay enough attention to know his classification.

Juice Box wrote:

3legged_lab wrote:

Juice Box wrote:My great grandpa was a commander of some sort (not sure of his official title) for a group of B-17 bombers. He didn't say much either but when he did talk about it, he had every bit of my attention.

But you didn't pay enough attention to know his classification.

I just don't remember. He passed bout six years ago so it's been way over six years since I've head him talk about it

Juice Box wrote:

3legged_lab wrote:

Juice Box wrote:My great grandpa was a commander of some sort (not sure of his official title) for a group of B-17 bombers. He didn't say much either but when he did talk about it, he had every bit of my attention.

But you didn't pay enough attention to know his classification.

I just don't remember. He passed bout six years ago so it's been way over six years since I've head him talk about it

GadwallGetter530 wrote:

Juice Box wrote:

3legged_lab wrote:

Juice Box wrote:My great grandpa was a commander of some sort (not sure of his official title) for a group of B-17 bombers. He didn't say much either but when he did talk about it, he had every bit of my attention.

But you didn't pay enough attention to know his classification.

I just don't remember. He passed bout six years ago so it's been way over six years since I've head him talk about it

Yeah, I have family in the old country that lived threw the German and Italian air raids. Crazy shit. My oldest uncle talked about it a couple of times. He passed away in 95. We had some coast gunners in the family that didn't make it threw the 3 years of bombing they had and we lost alot of relatives. Those old timer like your great grandpa has seen some shit for sure.

Juice Box wrote:

GadwallGetter530 wrote:

Juice Box wrote:

3legged_lab wrote:

Juice Box wrote:My great grandpa was a commander of some sort (not sure of his official title) for a group of B-17 bombers. He didn't say much either but when he did talk about it, he had every bit of my attention.

But you didn't pay enough attention to know his classification.

I just don't remember. He passed bout six years ago so it's been way over six years since I've head him talk about it

Yeah, I have family in the old country that lived threw the German and Italian air raids. Crazy shit. My oldest uncle talked about it a couple of times. He passed away in 95. We had some coast gunners in the family that didn't make it threw the 3 years of bombing they had and we lost alot of relatives. Those old timer like your great grandpa has seen some shit for sure.

Hell yeah they did. My great grandpa didn't like talking about the war.

Bootlipkiller wrote:[

Mine didn't either from what I've been told. I don't think he was to fond of Japanese people either.

AKPirate wrote:My Grandfather was in WWII as a Sergeant. He was leading a squad in the hedgerows of Normandy. They received fire from a machinegun and maneuvered to get around it on both sides and take it down. Before they finally took it down, they lost 2 men. In the German machinegun pit was a wounded teenager and an elderly man (chained to the gun). As they were taking them prisoner, the teenager hit my grandfather in the teeth with a shovel and knocked most of those out. That was the only story he would tell me and he wouldn't tell me what happened after that. I was 9 at the time and was just before he passed away. He was a true cowboy from Malta Montana before the war.

Feelin' Fowl wrote:Probably should say the Japanese code, but a Japanese code. Which one? No idea...

AKPirate wrote:

Feelin' Fowl wrote:Probably should say the Japanese code, but a Japanese code. Which one? No idea...

We broke the Jap code and German code. I don't think it was done on board a ship though. The Jap code was broke by the team in Pearl Harbor I believe. Many, many ships and cryptologists were involved though to get the whole picture. Pretty amazing stuff. Imagine having 12 of the 26 letters of the alphabet and guessing on the other 14 letters to decipher. Plus there were additive code books on top of that. The Jap Army and Jap Navy had different codes as well. When they got close, I think they put out a message that an American desalination plant was down and then the Japs radioed a message to their base with the same effect and that helped fill in a big part of the puzzle. Lots of stuff on-line that is interesting to read.

Feelin' Fowl wrote:

AKPirate wrote:

Feelin' Fowl wrote:Probably should say the Japanese code, but a Japanese code. Which one? No idea...

We broke the Jap code and German code. I don't think it was done on board a ship though. The Jap code was broke by the team in Pearl Harbor I believe. Many, many ships and cryptologists were involved though to get the whole picture. Pretty amazing stuff. Imagine having 12 of the 26 letters of the alphabet and guessing on the other 14 letters to decipher. Plus there were additive code books on top of that. The Jap Army and Jap Navy had different codes as well. When they got close, I think they put out a message that an American desalination plant was down and then the Japs radioed a message to their base with the same effect and that helped fill in a big part of the puzzle. Lots of stuff on-line that is interesting to read.

I need to grab the boxes of stuff, and try to piece things together. For all I know he was stationed at the great lakes He could have been at Pearl Harbor, or up in Alaska...not sure.

The one thing he did tell me was how hard it was to clean the colored sand off of the whites. That Lake Michigan sand can be a bear!

GadwallGetter530 wrote:At Family get togethers I've heard some good/fucked up stories about what went down over there. One that comes to mind was that the Italians where a bunch of pussies. They drop there bombs so high up in the air that half the time they miss the island. The Germans on the other hand would would fly in slow low on their bombing runs they barely miss the roof tops. The Germans didn't miss much.

Tiler_J wrote:

GadwallGetter530 wrote:At Family get togethers I've heard some good/fucked up stories about what went down over there. One that comes to mind was that the Italians where a bunch of pussies. They drop there bombs so high up in the air that half the time they miss the island. The Germans on the other hand would would fly in slow low on their bombing runs they barely miss the roof tops. The Germans didn't miss much.

I never knew that the Germans and Italians bombed Mexico. Learn something new every day.

GadwallGetter530 wrote:I'm happy your happy....cock

jehler wrote:Gadwall are you a beaner?

GadwallGetter530 wrote:

jehler wrote:Gadwall are you a beaner?

No, I prefer Mesican. You want I'll stack brick Boss?