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afsp90_02 Chairman Joint Chiefs User is Offline Joined: 26 Oct 2006 Posts: 11253 Karma: 14 applaud / smite Location: North Carolina 28875 points 0 warnings 0 tempbans	Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 5:34 am    Post subject: Memphis Belle · Quote This is a great documentary film clip I found that maybe you WWII USAAF historians may like; http://www.broadcaster.com/play.cgi?s=http://windowsmedia.netbroadcaster.com/netbroadcaster/pdfilms/ memphis_belle_1944_500k.wmv ...it's long but great! _________________ Administrator Forum Chairman Joint Chiefs [Staff CO] Commanding Officer[CO] Forum awards comity Moderator Staff Company staff officer M.S.T. Bravo CO.
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Ghost2518 Adjutant User is Offline Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 25119 Karma: 6 applaud / smite 2718 points 0 warnings 0 tempbans	Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 3:37 pm    Post subject: · Quote I couldn't get the Video to play. I sat here staring at the monitor waiting in anticipation but the vid never started <sigh> _________________ XO "Special Teams" The Ghost with the most “IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW YOU DIE RATHER, HOW YOU LIVED.”
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PATCHES SR. Chaplain User is Offline Joined: 24 Oct 2006 Posts: 12997 Karma: 16 applaud / smite Location: Randolph, County N.C. 9216 points 0 warnings 0 tempbans	Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 4:37 pm    Post subject: · Quote It played for me, but keepet stopping and buffering then would take up where it left off. Try again Ghost, it's a good video, just took awhile to watch. _________________ Staff Moderator Company XO   M.S.T. Charlie CO. SR. Forum Chaplain I used to ask God if He would come and help me. Then I asked if I could come and help Him. Finally I ended by asking God to do His own work through me.
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WyoArmyMom First lieutenant User is Offline Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 9295 Karma: 6 applaud / smite Location: Cody, WY 9318 points 0 warnings 0 tempbans	Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 12:02 am    Post subject: · Quote While my son was at Ft. Bragg during one of his nickle tours he took me to old Ft. Bragg & showed me where they filmed that movie. It was always one of his favorite movies & I have it too. I'll have to watch the clip. Thanks for posting it!!!! _________________ Company Liaison M.S.T. Bravo Company Peace, Laura - WyoArmyMom Please visit my site Lap tops for the wounded by clicking  HERE and find out how YOU can help!! Please come visit and see our mission statement and what you can do to help our wounded If you do not stand behind our troops, please feel free to stand in FRONT of them!!! God Bless our great nation and our great troops who keep it that way.       -Author Unknown
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WyoArmyMom First lieutenant User is Offline Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 9295 Karma: 6 applaud / smite Location: Cody, WY 9318 points 0 warnings 0 tempbans	Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 12:51 am    Post subject: · Quote Wow!!! That was really cool!!!! All that real footage and just knowing how many of our Army Air Force crews never returned from missions. Those were amazingly brave men. One lives across the street from us - he's 84 & was in the Pacific. He's the greatest. Was a mechanic, not a in-flight crewman, but when the birds are on the ground they don't belong to the in-flight crews. He worked on the squadron or whatever the group would be called that included the Enola Gay on her way to Hirshima. Only the crew on board knew they had the bomb. Not even the mechanics doing the fine tuning for the longest leg of their journey. Thinking that was while he was on Timinen or Timien, or whatever that little islan was called. He STILL stops to look up at any plane passing over to ID it. He's a darlin'. Thanks for sharing that film - I really enjoyed it. Had no prob w/it stopping, but might be cause I have a fair amt of memory - 512; and it was coming in at 591 K bits/second so an older computer might not have brought it in. Was 41.5 minutes long, so don't expect the typical 3-4 minute 'clip'. This was a whole mission, including the strategy. Very very cool. _________________ Company Liaison M.S.T. Bravo Company Peace, Laura - WyoArmyMom Please visit my site Lap tops for the wounded by clicking  HERE and find out how YOU can help!! Please come visit and see our mission statement and what you can do to help our wounded If you do not stand behind our troops, please feel free to stand in FRONT of them!!! God Bless our great nation and our great troops who keep it that way.       -Author Unknown
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Doc McKelvie Chairman JCS [Gen. member] User is Offline Joined: 25 Oct 2006 Posts: 100586 Karma: 6 applaud / smite Location: Glasgow, Scotland 25352 points 0 warnings 0 tempbans	Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 11:23 am    Post subject: RE: Memphis Belle · Quote Excellent footage Clayton.  The Memphis Belle and her crew proved that completing the 25 missions requirement of WWII bombers was achievable and was a great morale booster for all those flying missions over France and particularly, Germany.  My dad went through this same process, albeit, as I've noted before, in the B-24 Liberator.  Thanks for going to the effort to find and post this documentary as filmed by the military itself for that specific mission. Take care and all my best to you and yours. Sincerely, Doc _________________ Commandant [Gen. Members] Moderator Staff member Company Liaison M.S.T. Alpha CO. ------------------------------------------------------ May your seas be calm, your skies be clear and the winds be ever at your back.
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afsp90_02 Chairman Joint Chiefs User is Offline Joined: 26 Oct 2006 Posts: 11253 Karma: 14 applaud / smite Location: North Carolina 28875 points 0 warnings 0 tempbans	Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 3:38 am    Post subject: · Quote Thanks "Doc" & "WyoArmyMom", speaking of local heroes while I was in HS AFJROTC, my Military Instructor was a gentleman by the name of Colonel Robert C. Newman Jr. This man was the most humble man you are likely to meet, he too was a B-17 Pilot and veteran of several bombing missions over Nazi Germany, then as if this were not enough during Korea he was an Air-Sea Rescue Pilot and during Vietnam he flew supplys in to hot drop zones for the Marines and Soldiers in need on the ground. He is now 83 years old and I am still in contact with him and his bride of over 60 years and the other day he told me he was proud of me for what I did in my career. This hero said that to me, talk about humble... He taught me what it meant to be a man of honor. _________________ Administrator Forum Chairman Joint Chiefs [Staff CO] Commanding Officer[CO] Forum awards comity Moderator Staff Company staff officer M.S.T. Bravo CO.
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jerseygirl38 Specialist User is Offline Joined: 10 Feb 2007 Posts: 120 Karma: 3 applaud / smite Location: USA 354 points 0 warnings 0 tempbans	Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 4:18 am    Post subject: · Quote afsp90_02 wrote: Thanks "Doc" & "WyoArmyMom", speaking of local heroes while I was in HS AFJROTC, my Military Instructor was a gentleman by the name of Colonel Robert C. Newman Jr. This man was the most humble man you are likely to meet, he too was a B-17 Pilot and veteran of several bombing missions over Nazi Germany, then as if this were not enough during Korea he was an Air-Sea Rescue Pilot and during Vietnam he flew supplys in to hot drop zones for the Marines and Soldiers in need on the ground. He is now 83 years old and I am still in contact with him and his bride of over 60 years and the other day he told me he was proud of me for what I did in my career. This hero said that to me, talk about humble... He taught me what it meant to be a man of honor. It amazes me what all these men have done and survived all of you Veterans have my upmost gratitude and respect _________________
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WyoArmyMom First lieutenant User is Offline Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 9295 Karma: 6 applaud / smite Location: Cody, WY 9318 points 0 warnings 0 tempbans	Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 6:40 pm    Post subject: · Quote Paul Purvis is another well decorated US Army Air Force pilot who has had books written about him who lives at the edge of Cody; has run a salvage yard for 40+ years. It is amazing to hear what some of these guys have done. I can't think of any of his specific fleets; I'm pretty positive he was also in the Pacific theater. _________________ Company Liaison M.S.T. Bravo Company Peace, Laura - WyoArmyMom Please visit my site Lap tops for the wounded by clicking  HERE and find out how YOU can help!! Please come visit and see our mission statement and what you can do to help our wounded If you do not stand behind our troops, please feel free to stand in FRONT of them!!! God Bless our great nation and our great troops who keep it that way.       -Author Unknown
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