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10-08-2008, 10:09 PM
#121
Registered User
Originally Posted by leprechaun_40
Good, so where's the body pics?
I had to dispose of them....
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10-11-2012, 01:51 PM
#122
Ultimate Member
Originally Posted by leprechaun_40
BD, were you on a tin can?
Yo bama!
Go Fighting eight!
During deep sleep IT came to me and the future of processing is clear.
Future processors will primarily be digital tuning radios acting as grid computing nodes.
Voila. See ya in hell. PROCESSING
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10-11-2012, 01:58 PM
#123
Ultimate Member
Originally Posted by herosrest
Did ya do the Torpedo Squadron 8 - Survivor at Miday link?
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq81-8c.htm
Ensign Gay was rear seat in a Devastator during the Torpedo attack against the Jap Carriers. The Jap CAP splashed the entire squadron and Gay was just floating there, grandstanding as the SBD's flamed Soryu, Kaga and Akagi. Quite a story.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PL4w7HAHSI][/URL] CLICK IMAGE
fourth day of June, 1942 on the deck of the carrier, Hornet (CV-8). This is the carrier made famous less than two months prior, when B-25s led by Jimmy Doolittle were launched from her deck in the daring, first surprise bombing raid on Japan. The atmosphere is tense, as the Douglas TBD Devastator torpedo bombers of Torpedo Squadron Eight are poised for takeoff. The pilots' orders are to attack the entire might of the Japanese fleet off Midway Island. Squadron leader, LCdr John C. Waldron and his aircrews are well aware that their chances of survival from this fateful mission are minimal at best. At the time of its introduction in 1937, the Devastator was in the technological forefront of aircraft design. However, five short years later, it was hopelessly obsolete against a powerful, formidable enemy. Flying low and slow against the Japanese armada, all fifteen torpedo bombers were shot out of the sky with only one survivor, Ensign George Gay. However, this action forced the defending Zero fighters down to wave-top level and exhausted much of their fuel, leaving their carriers virtually unprotected. Soon after, SBD Dauntless dive bombers hit and sank three carriers, the pride of the Japanese fleet (the Akagi, the Kaga, the Soryu, and the next day, the Hiryu.)
Possibly the greatest bunch of heroes ever - Fighting 8 - Midway,
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During deep sleep IT came to me and the future of processing is clear.
Future processors will primarily be digital tuning radios acting as grid computing nodes.
Voila. See ya in hell. PROCESSING
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10-11-2012, 07:15 PM
#124
Senior Member
Necromancer...
Thank God we're not getting all of the government we're paying for!
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