Fri, 11 Jul 2008
A final B-17 mission
84-year-old Marvin Skubick, a B-17 Flying Fortress pilot in World War II, took his final flight on a B-17 last month. According to wikipedia, "of the 1.5 million tonnes of bombs dropped on Germany by U.S. aircraft, 500,000 were dropped from B-17s."
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Mon, 05 May 2008
The 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment
Photos of WW2 paratroopers, many killed in action, all very young. Lileks and readers of this blog may know the young feller in the 3rd row, 3rd column as Commodore Matt Decker.
"Kirk riding the Constellation into the sparkly maw of Hell’s cornucopia, waiting for the beamout." Ah, Lileks.
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Wed, 17 Oct 2007
That explains Europe
Just between you and me, Europe seems a little off lately, doesn't it, the last hundred years or so? The elevator doesn't quite go to the top floor anymore, if you get my drift. Now I'm not a doctor, but maybe Europe's self-lobotomization has something to do with it.
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