B17 Flight Log

[rgmwa]

Six months active service in a B17. Fascinating reading.

 

http://downloads.hyperscale.com/guides/B17log.pdf

 

rgmwa

 

 

[dazza 38]

That was very interesting.Thank you

 

 

[Old Koreelah]

The problems my generation suffered aged 19 or 21... pimples, saving up to buy any old motorcycle, shortage of cash for fuel, getting to meet girls... These blokes had a slightly different experience of late adolescence!

 

Thanks rgmwa for a fascinating and understated reminder. Amid the doom and gloom and media fixations on the obscenely unimportant, how lucky we are.

 

Lyle

 

 

[sfGnome]

I couldn't stop reading. Staggering just how matter-of-fact he was; what the weather was, what show he watched, which city he bombed, which of his mates didn't make it... If I could just get my youngest son to pull his head out of his killing games on the computer for a moment and read it, I wonder if it would register anything with him?

 

 

[dazza 38]

He was so close to completeing all 25 missions. He would have been pretty pissed off I reckon. On the flip side, getting that much back pay would have been a bonus.

 

 

[fly_tornado]

gnome: the xbox is the cheapest baby sitter by far. The minute your kid gets a hobby hobby its going to eat into your time and money.

 

on a more interesting note the courier mail is publishing the front cover from the 1942 editions.

 

Makes great reading, I can't imagine the sense of panic that must gripped Asia after seeing the Nazi's overrun most of Europe and the inevitability of a Japanese victory.

 

http://media01.couriermail.com.au/multimedia/Pacific-War/optimised/feb14.jpg

 

 

[Old Koreelah]

He was so close to completeing all 25 missions. He would have been pretty pissed off I reckon. On the flip side, getting that much back pay would have been a bonus.

Dazza a bloke from my home town (just over the mts. from Boonah) spent much of WWII as a POW of the Nazis. He somehow survived serious wounds, European winters and slaving in Silesian coal mines, then escaped and joined Czech partisans. One thing that kept him going was the prospect of receiving his backpay after release, so that he could come home, buy a property and become a beef grower.

 

After the war the Army would not pay him and the RSL was no help either, so he was one returned man who never supported the RSL after that. Through sheer hard work he went on to become a well-respected and very successful cattleman- I doubt he ever played a pokie or got any sort of handout in his life.

 

 

[dazza 38]

Dazza a bloke from my home town (just over the mts. from Boonah) spent much of WWII as a POW of the Nazis. He somehow survived serious wounds, European winters and slaving in Silesian coal mines, then escaped and joined Czech partisans. One thing that kept him going was the prospect of receiving his backpay after release, so that he could come home, buy a property and become a beef grower.After the war the Army would not pay him and the RSL was no help either, so he was one returned man who never supported the RSL after that. Through sheer hard work he went on to become a well-respected and very successful cattleman- I doubt he ever played a pokie or got any sort of handout in his life.

That is a sad story.I wonder how or why they did not pay him.Doesn't sound fair.

 

 

[planedriver]

That is a sad story.I wonder how or why they did not pay him.Doesn't sound fair.

Sadly, there's too many stories around like this, and yet guys like him are the salt of the earth.