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06-03-2005, 07:32 AM
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Gainesville, Florida
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 | The 91st Bomb Group suffered more losses than any other group in the 8th Air Force, and was second in the number of cases of venereal disease. These sad facts can not be denied, and there may be some who would draw a conclusion from this, but as a veteran of 35 missions with the 91st, I wish to declare, along with some of my buddies, that with a little more effort, we could easily have been the leader in both categories.
__________________ Sam Halpert B17 B24 Pictures Information Missions Reports 35 missions as B-17 navigator from 9Sep44 (Ludwigshafen) to 3Feb45 (Berlin) |
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07-03-2005, 02:33 AM
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| Senior Member   Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: NW Kent, England
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| Sam Work hard and play hard, eh? Our English girls are a hospitable as well as a desirable lot. My mother-in-law tells me [frequently and loudly] that she used to "wash up for American troops" before D-day. I once told her that an entire US Armoured Division ground to a halt with food poisoning on D-Day+1, but she didn't think that was very funny. I haven't asked her if she did anything else for them.... Adrian
__________________ for heathen heart that puts its trust in reeking tube and iron shard all valiant dust that builds on dust and guarding, calls not thee to guard thy mercy on thy people, Lord (Kipling) |
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07-03-2005, 11:42 AM
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__________________ Angie "History is lived forward but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was like to know the beginning only." C V Wedgewood | |
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09-03-2005, 12:37 AM
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| Angie I've had a better idea - I'll get my wife to ask her! :P Adrian
__________________ for heathen heart that puts its trust in reeking tube and iron shard all valiant dust that builds on dust and guarding, calls not thee to guard thy mercy on thy people, Lord (Kipling) |
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09-03-2005, 04:20 PM
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| Very Senior Member   Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Newark, NJ, and Christchurch, NZ
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|  Well, that's an interesting stat, and it proves Maj. Gen. Maxwell Taylor's warning to his men of the 101st Airborne as they flew to Normandy: "Men, flies spread diseases, so remember to keep yours closed!" 
__________________ "My intensity is intense." -- Roger Clemens "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." -- Winston Churchill. "I am not a hero. The heroes are all dead. I am a survivor." -- Sgt. William Guarnere, Easy Company, 506th Parachute Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. Check out my little contributions to World War II history at my web pages: World War II Plus 55 or http://davidhlippman.wildbillguarnere.com |
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