Group, This is an unusual shot of 16-J-6 BuNo 46522 now in the Tallimook Air Museum as N2172N. This photo was taken by Bill Topel who was a photographer...
While we were based at Barber's Point, HI, in 1944, we made a trip to Apemama. The natives there had things to trade of course, but the only one I remember...
TWMcCarthy@...
Jun 1, 2002 7:40 pm
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Carl, You're giving the ERS guys a bad name...going around the islands putting bras *on* girls! My Dad has a couple of 7.7mm Arisaka rifles which he claims he...
Larry's got it right. Pogie bait is candy and anything that passes for candy, and it's a bit of slang with roots in the Asiatic Fleet and the Navy/Marine ...
Hi Gang I haven't seen anything come through for a couple of days. Is everyone on vacation? I would like to say that I am glad we got through the "bait"...
blankens@...
Jun 4, 2002 3:29 pm
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Hello members. I called the Fantasy of Flight Museum, Polk City, Florida. I was told that their PBY is now being worked on at that location and is fully...
Bill: I gotta tell ya that after seeing some of the pictures the 2nd ERS brought home of those island women (the Fuzzy Wuzzies), I'd have to be out there a...
Heijo - I don't remember a PBY at the Fantasy of Flight Museum when I was there a few years ago but it was a wonderful "experience" and I'm sure you will enjoy...
TWMcCarthy@...
Jun 4, 2002 5:49 pm
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In a message dated 6/4/2002 10:34:04 AM Pacific Daylight Time, ... Speaking about the value of "bras" for bartering reminded me that none of the girls I saw...
TWMcCarthy@...
Jun 4, 2002 5:55 pm
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Hello Heijo (and group), Greetings from Anchorage, Alaska. I was enroute from Spokane to Seattle on Memorial Day, and stopped by Moses Lake. My way to honor...
Carl you should have seen them with that red oil or whatever they used to smear over their bodies.They looked like they could have slid from 3rd base to home...
Bob: Surprised no one has mentioned the battle of Midway? Crider...
Desoto1950@...
Jun 5, 2002 12:57 am
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I wish someone would do that Crider. I am not knowledgeable enough to do it. My tour there was well after things had quieted down and the only conflicts were...
blankens@...
Jun 5, 2002 1:20 am
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Yes, the Battle of Midway began on this date. For the first time in over 300 years, Japanese Naval forces sustained a naval defeat and lost 4 carriers! It was...
Yes nothing was said in the Portland,Or paper about Midway or Dutch Harbor. I am looking over my dad's logbook and he put in many hours just before and after...
Taken about 7 years ago on the flight deck in Penscola with all PBYers from the PBYCIA. Will do it again this November for the cutaway...........I believe this...
for some of you newcomers, here is the P.Boat hanging at the Penscola Naval Museum. Our cutaway will be somewhere under the hanging PBY. If you have seen this...
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Richard Neiswonger
wa6agl@...
Jun 5, 2002 6:13 am
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I got to tell you that some of those Thursday Island women are beautiful.Now you go to New Guinea and they still have the bone in the nose and no shoes.A spear...
It's funny the JAPS are now saying they have the right to hunt whales in the South Pacific.Didn't you guys just sort that out.I thought they lost the South...
Maybe that was the juice from beetlenuts which made "Bloody Mary" bloody in the musical "South Pacific"... BD ... used to ... 3rd base ... to ... without ... ...
Notice, I recd a email from Ricky Carthen a relative in texas and my son has reported that it contains a virus in the part that can be down loaded... The words...
royangie@...
Jun 5, 2002 2:07 pm
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A difference of 15-30 minutes might have resulted in an opposite result. In addition to having skilled flyers and good intel on the Japs, we had an element of...
As usual Richard ... another hoax regardless of what anyone claims. Went to: Urban Legends and Folklore to check the latest "hoaxes," and found it there. ...
Walter L. Bourgeois
w5vb@...
Jun 5, 2002 2:36 pm
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Allan: Timing was, indeed, critical in the Battle of Midway. The most luck, I believe, was finding the Jap carriers the second time by our TBDs and Dive...
Carl: Educated guessing from an educated sailor. Spruance wasn't an aviator - he was an old cruiser man - but his CofS was - Miles Browning. Browning was a ...
According to Charles Pfannes and Victor Salamone in their book, "The Great Admirals of World War II, Volume 1: The Americans," Admiral Spruance had planned a...
