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Post by Jim Scanlon (deceased) on Feb 27, 2010 4:36:24 GMT 9
During WW2, we would get aircraft identification cards at one of the gas stations. Don't know why, but they gave them away.
Maybe the company thought it would help if the kids of San Francisco could tell what a Japanese or German plane looked like.
The local library had a copy of Jane's Fighting Ships and one of Jane's Fighting Airplanes. Spent lots of time looking through them.
The block wardens had books like the ones the military had to identify airplanes. Again, don't know why. Just one of the quirky things the Civil Defense people did.
I'm sure during much of the War the government was expecting the Japanese to attack the West Coast. For much of the War they were in the Aleutian Islands and they had a sub that carried a plane in a special compartment on top of the boat.
Was interesting growing up in San Francisco during WW2.
Jim Too
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Post by Bullhunter on Feb 27, 2010 5:08:05 GMT 9
This thread is about Pilot Talk.
Lots of talk in here about movies and people acting & playing pilots.
Maybe this stuff should be moved over into the thread AJ started awhile back on movies.
Friends,,,,we need to try and keep the website forum in some kind of order.
I'm not complaining - just think for our guests, visitors, and ourselves that we keep and maintain an orginized site.
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Post by dude on Feb 27, 2010 5:37:47 GMT 9
 I think one of the problems is there doesn't seem to be any Six jocks kickin in. I remember when I first found this forum that this was one of the first threads I went to hoping to find some good Six pilot stories. If they're hear, I never found em.
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Post by bear (Deceased) on Feb 27, 2010 7:40:16 GMT 9
94th at Osan K nite time scramble young Capt come out onto taxiway but make the corner alittle short and clips the guard shack, knocking it over with the guard inside. Same pilot acouple weeks later is returning from Kadena. Someone forgot to inform him that there no more high speed runs with burner lites at middle of the runway. When he and his wingman landed they were met by the Base Cmd plus a few other brass and recievered a breifing what was not allowed when flying across Osan AB. He later became Cmd of 87FIS.
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Post by Gene on Feb 27, 2010 15:34:34 GMT 9
don't worry to much about it duy... everybody and i mean everybody runs outside the box once in a while...i have hard time that way too...  |
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Post by oswald on Feb 28, 2010 8:38:36 GMT 9
It was pilots like him that made our day even if they were a little insubordinate.
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Post by oswald on Feb 28, 2010 8:44:52 GMT 9
prior post was about the 94th pilot at Osan K. sorry it was on the page before this one.
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Post by Gene on Feb 28, 2010 10:11:30 GMT 9
don't worry to much about it duy... everybody and i mean everybody runs outside the box once in a while...i have hard time that way too... My identification photos belong in here. They are genuine pilot tools and this thread says "Talk about Pilots" It doesn't say: Reserved for Pilots or exclusive thread for pilots only. your right...thats info for pilots....and this is a good place to put it... :us_flag |
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Post by Bullhunter on Mar 13, 2010 4:09:20 GMT 9
My Dad went into WWII and was learning to fly a B-17. During his flight training it was discovered he had a night depth perception problem. He could not always see the ground at night for landing. Because he was out of college the U.S. Army Air Corp made him an instructor.
Attached is one of the pamphlets I found in his keepsakes.
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Post by Bullhunter on Mar 13, 2010 4:13:48 GMT 9
Photo of an aircraft I can't ID.
Picture taken by my Dad while he was at Thunderbird Field, AZ or Lancaster Field, CA
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Post by cc790 on Mar 13, 2010 4:16:41 GMT 9
It almost looks like an Avenger. The back of the cockpit looks like the ball turret.
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Post by Bullhunter on Mar 13, 2010 4:19:08 GMT 9
Two letter envelopes my Dad mailed home near the end of the war.
Free postage and cool looking envelopes with war jokes on them. I guess a way they hoped to increase marole with the military and families back home..
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Post by Bullhunter on Mar 13, 2010 4:29:05 GMT 9
Back then they had some cool stamps. Now-a-days the post office has crap for stamps. Only stamps I buy are the Purple Hearts. If they are out I get Flag stamps.
The letter was mailed by my Grandpa to my Dad just before he went into the U.S. Army Air Corp.
At the start of WWII my Dad had complete college and was working communications with the Erie Railroad.
Date stamp is Dec. 15th, 1941 just a week after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Post by Jim on Mar 13, 2010 6:15:01 GMT 9
It almost looks like an Avenger. The back of the cockpit looks like the ball turret. The radial engine looks like a Wright R 2600 and the a/c more liklely is of the Avenger family but known as aTBM-3R can see a photo at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TBF_Avenger Scroll a long ways down, photo on right shows a sheet metal dome like what you can see in bulls' photo. Thunderbird Field Thunderbird Field was a military airfield in Glendale, Arizona, used for contract primary flight training of Allied pilots during World War II. Created in part by actor James Stewart,[1] the field became part of the United States Army Air Forces training establishment just prior to American entry into the war and was re-designated Thunderbird Field #1 after establishment of Thunderbird Field #2 at nearby Scottsdale, on June 22, 1942. Thunderbird # 1 is located southeast of the intersection of West Greenway Road & North 59th Avenue in Glendale, Arizona. After the conclusion on World War II, the property was sold as surplus for educational purposes, eventually becoming the Thunderbird School of Global Management, a well-respected post-graduate business school |
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Post by bear (Deceased) on Jul 22, 2010 9:34:27 GMT 9
Cuban Missile Crisis Selfridge AFB Scramble all alert birds ,fully loaded ,they land at Terra Haute IN. Drag chute failure off the end of the runway,collapse the nose gear and bend the nose of the aircraft up. A couple of brave souls swing the doors after they get nose up in the air. All5 items are still in thier proper place. A call is made to Selfridge to go to savage yard and cut the nose off one of the wrecks,Acouple weeeks later 767 Returned to Selfridge
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Post by oswald on Jul 22, 2010 21:54:34 GMT 9
Bear, That was the aircraft that I later on (67-68) was crew chief. I just yesterday read about that. Thanks.
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Post by bear (Deceased) on Dec 26, 2010 10:14:01 GMT 9
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Post by Jim on Oct 29, 2011 3:21:56 GMT 9
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Post by Gene on Oct 29, 2011 4:25:56 GMT 9
right there... sierra hotel...
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Post by Mark O on Oct 29, 2011 11:09:16 GMT 9
Awesome! The other videos are pretty good too! Going to have to send these to my son! Mark |
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I think one of the problems is there doesn't seem to be any Six jocks kickin in. I remember when I first found this forum that this was one of the first threads I went to hoping to find some good Six pilot stories. If they're hear, I never found em. 
