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Originally Posted by chazola (Post 2954815)

that's good to see. Here's a few photos I took today of a couple of the sites near me, first 2 is where a B17 crashed and another which is where a B24 crashed on the beach near my house.

It's so peaceful around here now I can't imagine what it would have felt like during the war.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y19...a/Stuff/m1.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y19...a/Stuff/m2.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y19...a/Stuff/m3.jpg

Chazola,

It was quite thoughtful of you to take the time to make and post these pictures. It's also quite nice of the British people to be taking good care of our fallen brothers.

I hope it's of some repayment that there is a museum at an airfield in Terrell, Texas that is a tribute to the British pilots that trained there at the beginning of WWII. That is, before the US was involved, but the UK already was deep in the middle of it.

At the museum they have a big celebration every year honoring the British pilots that trained there, many of them lost in the war.

WWII was definitely a joint operation.

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Originally Posted by strelnik (Post 2954756)

I spoke to my late father about this. He died in 2005 at the age of 91.
He was an MP and in military intelligence during the war.

He was also around when 9/11 happened and he said that it was NO comparison to the shock and anger that was felt following the attack on Pearl Harbor and even worse when the details of the Bataan Death March came to light.

There were people in this country that wanted to exterminate every living person in Japan, and senators who wanted to nuke the entire island. I really have the feeling that Truman was a reluctant user of the A-bomb, but if they wouldn't surrender unconditionally, then he would do what he had to do.

I asked my father about the Japanese internment camps, which were so controversial; and he countered that they probably saved a lot of lives. There were movements in some cities to lynch Japanese!

Fortunately, people were able to tell Japanese from Chinese and great sympathy for the Chinese existed, because they had been established in California, and the 1930s newspapers talked about the Japanese atrocities in China.

The fact that news was sparse and slow in coming made it worse. People chewed on things longer.

Maybe that's better than the flood of news we get, maybe not. Don't know.

people today seem to lack an attention span. always playing and talking and texting on their "smart phones", which actually seem to make them...? and the news - tv and internet - adds to this generalized "ADD" (attention deficit disorder). if it bleeds, it leads. but then, on to the next "tragedy du jour".

anyhow, starting to sound like a grumpy old fart here. :D