Anyone interested in subs should read about Lucky Fluckey. I met him before he died. Amazing guy. I still need to read his book.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_B._Fluckey On Oct 15, 2016 10:50 AM, "Curley McLain via Mercedes" < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > You are welcome. You might check out Martin Caiden's books. One is > called Black Thursday. It is about this raid. I think he also wrote The > Thousand Plane Raid about the first allied raid with 1000 planes. I read > all that stuff 45-50 years ago. Anything the school libary had or whatever > I could get form scholastic or the local bookstore about WWII air and naval > actions. Run SIlent, Run Deep is a terrific book also. If you like subs, > you should know about Mush Morton and the Wahoo. > > Max Dillon via Mercedes <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> October 15, 2016 at 11:04 AM >> Thanks for posting! I think there is a museum for The Mighty Eighth off >> of I-95 down in Florida. I've often been tempted to stop there, that >> temptation is now greater. >> Curley McLain <mailto:126die...@gmail.com> >> October 14, 2016 at 4:49 AM >> Was an bombing mission which incurred record losses, and Oct 14 became >> know as Black Thursday. >> >> http://www.historynet.com/world-war-ii-eighth-air-force-raid >> -on-schweinfurt.htm >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Raid_on_Schweinfurt >> >> 60 of 291 planes were lost, and another 17 were so badly damaged that >> they were scrapped ofter the mission. 22% of the men on the raid were >> lost. >> >> Remember today, the men of the USAAF who flow those missions and >> especially those who were lost. >> >> >> > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
