Warbird Information Exchange

A side note for warbird enthusiasts - not everything in war time is reported or wildly known it seems? - see this link for some interesting stories ... http://www.network54.com/Forum/149674/m ... s+reported

Being former Army myself, I'm reminded of something Dr Atwater at the Ordnance Museum in Aberdeen told me once:

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Owner, 1944 Willys MB #366014
Former REMF (US Army, O3)

Without speculating on the veracity of any of the stories mentioned one of the fascinating things about studying history is how stories come to light years later. While millions of individual experiences are undoubtedly lost to history everyday there are many yet to be discovered in archives, letters and memoirs all over the world from every conflict in history.

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"I can't understand it, I cut it twice and it's still too short!" Robert F. Dupre' 1923-2010 Go With God.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897), ch. 15.

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Lest Hero-worship raise it's head and cloud our vision, remember that World War II was fought and won by the same sort of twenty-something punks we wouldn't let our daughters date.