On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 6:05 PM, WILTON via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
wrote:
... (well, I thought it was large then)
... a shiny, new, un-painted B-17
Takes a special kind of person to think a B-17 isn't a large aircraft. A
well-earned version of special, in any case. :)
Thanks for
There was one at our little airport a coupla months back, and when it
took off and flew over along the beach just south of the estate, I could
hear it and see it and it had the same effect!
I have mentioned too having a B-52 fly over the house north of Boston
one day, not more than a few
I was in our backyard a few years back when a Lancaster flew over quite
low. That was really cool.
Imagine what it must have sounded like when hundreds of them took to the
air and formed up to head for Germany.
Randy
On 16/01/2015 9:52 AM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes wrote:
There was one at
Or if you were in Germany...
--R
On 1/16/15 4:07 PM, Randy Bennell wrote:
Imagine what it must have sounded like when hundreds of them took to
the air and formed up to head for Germany.
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I actually talked with a lady who lived through that.
She told me that her home was near embassy row and they hoped they would
be safe since they did not think the allies would not bomb the embassies.
These old homes had basement built of stone and they had removed stones
between the homes -
The high school band played Symphony No. 1 by Daniel Bukvich, which a
memorial to the bombing of Dresden one year when one of our daughters was
in it. they collected bass drums from all over the area, and surrounded the
auditorium with them starting the rolling from the back, and slowly
On Fri, 16 Jan 2015 22:32:42 -0600 OK Don via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
The high school band played Symphony No. 1 by Daniel Bukvich, which a
memorial to the bombing of Dresden one year when one of our daughters
was in it.
One of your daughters was in Dresden when it was bombed?!
Yep, another one:
TOM NELMS FARM, PART III
By Wilton Strickland
In 1941, '42 and '43, two women, Miss Cherry Rose and her sister, Mrs.
Kennedy, lived about a quarter of a mile up the dirt road from us. The
women kept ice, soft drinks and some candies for sale on their back porch.
Joyce
On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 18:05:45 -0500 WILTON via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
In about 2005, I visited Atlee one afternoon in his home in our little
town and asked him if he had witnessed my low passes in the B-52 in
1963 or '64 and wondered what he thought about it. Impressive, very
