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April 2003
- From: Crestview, Florida
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Posted by MQM107
on Thursday, July 3, 2008 3:28 PM
jeeves Must admit that is one good looking model. Everytime I see one I want to break one out of the stash and start it. It also reminds me of something my Uncle told me Years ago before he past on. He was in the Pacific during WW II and was there at the end. I don't remember what island he was on, of the thousands in that big spot of blue that the pacific is. But he told me about them starting to fly in all types of aircraft, many being almost brand new. He said that they dug big holes in the ground with bulldozers and just pushed the planes in and covered them up. He said that they did it with Jeeps, trucks, cars, amminition, etc. He said that at the time as a 20 something year old, all he could do was think about coming home. He told me this as we were sitting in the back yard waiting for the sun to pass over the yard arm, so we could have a cold one. He said " you know Mike thinking back on that now I get a tear in my eye". I must admit I did too. We destroyed so many aircraft that were brought over here (many One offs) after the war it should have been be criminal. And on that note why don't we have a flying wing bomber to look at, the tax payers paid for them? Sorry guys I'm off the soapbox Mike
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