Bullhunter
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Post by Bullhunter on Sept 23, 2018 7:35:56 GMT 9
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Post by pat perry on Sept 23, 2018 10:18:02 GMT 9
What a great story! I remember seeing this in the civilian flotilla of ships that rescued the troops from Dunkirk on the History Channel. How great it is to see that she still lives on to sail the seas after so many years. Pat P. |
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Post by Jim on Nov 11, 2018 4:43:13 GMT 9
Subject: World War Eleven
YOUNG PEOPLE CANNOT LEARN FROM HISTORY ANY MORE BECAUSE HISTORY IS NO LONGER TAUGHT AS A REQUIRED SUBJECT IN MANY PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS.
This really happened. Theodore "Dutch" J. Van Kirk was the navigator on the "Enola Gay" when it dropped the bomb at Hiroshima , Japan, and is the last surviving member of the crew. .
Dutch was asked to speak at a grammar school .The young teacher introduced him by saying the speaker was a veteran of World War Eleven (as in WWII). Dutch stood up and walked out of the school without saying a word. End of story..
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Post by pat perry on Dec 5, 2018 0:16:50 GMT 9
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Bullhunter
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Post by Bullhunter on Dec 5, 2018 10:16:52 GMT 9
That was a great find Pat.
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Post by Jim on Jun 6, 2019 0:30:20 GMT 9
One of 12 Surviving Tuskegee Airmen Recounts His 43 WWII Combat Missions
God was Harry Stewart’s co-pilot. He swears by that. He survived 43 combat missions during World War II and is one of only a dozen remaining Tuskegee Airmen from the famed “Red Tails” fighter group still alive. Boston Herald
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Post by Jim on Sept 3, 2019 13:05:35 GMT 9
Today, 2 September 2019, Americans celebrate Victory Over Japan, 2 September 1945, VJ DAY 1945
Japanese Surrender - 2 September 1945 This is a 'must see' for all Americans.
WWII, as well as, American history is no longer taught in government schools.
It is interesting to see other signers to the document, from New Zealand/Australia to Europe/Russia.
This is an actual film made of the surrender ceremony of the Japanese to General McArthur in Tokyo Bay in September 1945. It is the actual voice of General McArthur
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Post by Jim on Feb 28, 2020 2:29:28 GMT 9
From AJ Kelley an old SIX driver.....FYI,
It’s always been a puzzle why the German Luftwaffe kept on using 87 Octane Aviation Gasoline while the Americans and British used 100 Octane Gasoline in their Spitfire Fighters and Americans used 130 Octane in our P-51 and other fighters. This morning I discovered the reason!
This is a declassified article by the British Society of Chemists
(Declassified in 2014)
It seems that the German and British aircraft both used 87 Octane Gasoline in the first two years of the war. While that was fairly satisfactory in the German Daimler-Benz V-12 engine, It was marginal in the British Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engine in British aircraft. It fouled the spark-plugs, caused valves to stick, And made frequent engine repair problems.
Then came lend- lease and American aircraft began to enter British service in great numbers. If British engines hated 87 Octane gasoline,
American, General Motors Built, Allison 1710 engines loathed and despised it. Something had to be done!
Along came an American named Tim Palucka, a chemist for Sun Oil in their South East Texas Refinery. He took a French formula for enhancing the octane of Gasoline, and invented the "Cracking Tower" and produced 100 octane aviation Gasoline. This discovery led to great joy among our English Cousins and great distress among the Germans.
A Spitfire fueled with 100 Octane gasoline was 34 miles per hour faster at 10,000 feet. The need to replace engines went from every 500 hours of operation to every 1,000 hours. Which reduced the cost of British aircraft by 300 Pounds Sterling. Even more, when used in 4 engine bombers. The Germans couldn't believe it when Spitfires that couldn't catch them a year ago started shooting their ME-109 E and G models right out of the sky.
Of course, the matter had to be kept secret. If the Germans found out that it was a French Invention, They'd simply copy the original French
patents. If any of you have ever wondered what they were doing in that 3 story white brick building in front of the Sun Oil Refinery on Old Highway 90, that was it. They were re-inventing gasoline.
The American Allison engines improved remarkably with 100 Octane gasoline, but did much better when 130 octane gasoline came along in 1944. The 130 Octane also improved the Radial Engine Bombers we produced.
The Germans and Japanese never snapped to the fact that we had re-invented gasoline. Neither did our "Friends" the Russians. 100,000 Americans died in the skies over Europe. Lord only knows what that number would have been without "Super-Gasoline". And it all was invented just a few miles west of Beaumont, and we never knew a thing about it.
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Post by Gene on Feb 28, 2020 8:20:49 GMT 9
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Post by LBer1568 on Mar 30, 2021 22:38:58 GMT 9
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