The Ultimate fighter Pilot
Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:39 am
Major Marion Carl 1944
Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:21 am
A good friend of mine Colonel Joe Edmonds Ret. USMC 54-82 was a pilot, and mentored unde Gen Carl. Col Joe could tell some interesting stories about Marion Carl. Gen Carl would take any wing aircraft available and take off (they thought he went hunting or fishing--they did not ask) The airplanes would come back with weeds in the wheel wells. He would set them down anywhere he could.
He was killed a few years back by a home intruder. Col Joe says " Gen Carl was almost deaf, and the intruder probably slipped up on him". What a shame! He was, and is, a Marine Corp legand.
He was killed a few years back by a home intruder. Col Joe says " Gen Carl was almost deaf, and the intruder probably slipped up on him". What a shame! He was, and is, a Marine Corp legand.
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Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:55 am
He was killed a few years back by a home intruder. Col Joe says " Gen Carl was almost deaf, and the intruder probably slipped up on him".
Not correct.
A drug addict broke into his and edna's house and was going to shot her.
Has he pulled the trigger Marion ran into the kitchen and jumped in front of Edna to protect her and died instantly from a 12 guage shotgun blast to the face.
That my friends is a true hero!!!
Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:01 am
Didn't ever hear that part, Jack, Just remembering Col Joe's statement, and hearing on the news that he was killed by an intruder.
Wed Dec 12, 2007 12:29 pm
What happened to the ass#@le that killed him? Did he fry in the chair yet?
Wed Dec 12, 2007 12:51 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Eugene_Carl
He had the speed record in the Douglas Sky Streak until Yeager broke the sound barrier. He was also the first Marine to fly a helicopter......
Some Nice stuff about him here at Arlington's website:
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/mecarl.htm
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/mecarl ... t-2006.jpg
6/28/98, at age 82, he was killed defending Edna, his wife, from a home invader.
LtGen Carl's murderer, 19-year old Jesse Fanus, was apprehended one week after the killing. In April 1999, he was convicted on two counts of aggravated murder (and 11 additional felony charge) and sentenced to death. In 2003, his conviction and death sentence was upheld by the Oregon Supreme Court.
Mark H
(Looks like Jesse may be meeting up with me soon?? He's currently on Death Row)
http://www.oregon.gov/DOC/PUBAFF/cap_pu ... Executions
He had the speed record in the Douglas Sky Streak until Yeager broke the sound barrier. He was also the first Marine to fly a helicopter......
Some Nice stuff about him here at Arlington's website:
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/mecarl.htm
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/mecarl ... t-2006.jpg
6/28/98, at age 82, he was killed defending Edna, his wife, from a home invader.
LtGen Carl's murderer, 19-year old Jesse Fanus, was apprehended one week after the killing. In April 1999, he was convicted on two counts of aggravated murder (and 11 additional felony charge) and sentenced to death. In 2003, his conviction and death sentence was upheld by the Oregon Supreme Court.
Mark H
(Looks like Jesse may be meeting up with me soon?? He's currently on Death Row)
http://www.oregon.gov/DOC/PUBAFF/cap_pu ... Executions
Last edited by P51Mstg on Wed Dec 12, 2007 1:02 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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Wed Dec 12, 2007 12:56 pm
Looks like Jesse may be meeting up with me soon
Ha, Here in Oregon it'll be old age!! With a lifetime of the best care taxpayers can provide
Wed Dec 12, 2007 2:16 pm
He won't ride "Ol sparky",They will lethal inject him with strawberry shortcake. If that dude pulled that crap in Texas or Georgia, He'd be colder than a block of ice by now! Hell that happened in the summer of "98".