Warbird Information Exchange

Just saw this posting. We lost the rudder on the B-29, the B-24 got spun around 90 degrees and off it's concrete pads, and the C-47 ailerons, both of em, got what we figured was microburst downward and bent. The Eighth Air Force Museum Association (8afmuassoc@bellsouth.net) is now trying to raise money to assist in the repair of the B-29 and C-47. The B-24 is ok, but we're needing to replace (fabricate) the engine fairings. Please contact us at the above email address if you can lend financial assistance. MIKE (Vice President, 8AF Museum Assoc.)

Well I guess they arn't that bad off and don't need anything then. !!!!

Ya know, my dad doesn't get mad when he talks ( finally) about the korean war.
He doesn't get mad when he talks about government scandals.

He only gets mad when he talks about the red cross.

In the hospital in Pusan, the red cross was there.
They were selling packs of cigarettes. The packs were marked 'not for resale' and had been donated by companys in the states to support the troops. An old WW2 sergeant was tellin dad about how they did the same thing in the big war.
It wasn't just cigarettes, everything the red cross had for the troops donated by folks back home and marked not to be sold had a price on it once it was in theater.

I really think he would rather eat dirt instead of helping them out ever again.
I notice that they seem to always have the people in place to take money, but never have the people to distribute donations.

I'll get back off the soapbox now.

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One day I looked up and he's pushing 80...
He's got brown tobacco stains all down his chin.
To me he's one of the hero's of this country, so why is he all dressed up like them ole men....

2 of my friends from the 101st tell of passing through the pay line in England and being forced to donate to the Red Cross person who was at the end of the line. The had a lieutenant from their outfit standing next to him and if you didn't donate, guess who wound up with the s#it details for the next month.

One of them tells a story about how a buddies family was killed in the Coconut Grove fire in Boston. The Red Cross paid for a ticket home for him too bury his parents and then when he got back, the ARMY deducted the money from his pay.

They also were giving out cigaretts as they boarded the transport for England. They would only allow one per man.

No wonder the money they collected for 9-11 was being sat on.