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Skriven 2006-04-15 22:11:00 av FRANK SCHEIDT (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av ROY WITT
Ärende: Canadian "Skills"
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-=> Quoting Roy Witt to Robert Couture <=-

 >>> Some would say that you were a mechanic in a uniform, not a *real*
 >>> soldier. *Real* soldiers are combat soldiers.
 
 JD|>> As a former Aircraft mechanic for 28 plus years in the RCAF and the
 JD|>> CAF, I can attest to that.  Working on aircraft in the relative
 JD|>> safety of US soil is not the same as doing the same thing in say,
 JD|>> England during that time period, while being suceptable to bombing
 JD|>> raids. During that time frame, there was no aircraft that could fly
 JD|>> from Stateside to Europe, engage in battle and fly home again.  The
 JD|>> technology did not exist.
 
 RC> Which certainly makes one question Frank's statements I am afraid to
 RC> say.

 RW> I'd be afraid too, no embarrassed, if I were you and/or Joe.

 RW> Those B17s had to get to urope somehow. They certainly didn't get
 RW> there by ship or truck and I'm certain there were no US carriers in the
 RW> Atlantic. So, they must have flown on their very own. I'm sure, being a
 RW> northern neighbor of the US, you have heard of the B17 that crashed in
 RW> Greenland? Guess where they were headed.

 RW> They flew to urope over Canada's Labrador, over Greenland and Iceland
 RW> before landing in GB...just like they did when they went to the
 RW> Pacific, but in that case, they island hopped across the ocean to their
 RW> destinations that were further out than Hawaii.

 RW> And don't forget that the range was long enough where they could fly
 RW> from San Francisco to Honolulu with no stops for gas. There were five
 RW> of them in the air fresh in from Frisco over Hawaii when the Japanese
 RW> were making December 7th history.

 RW> BTW, keep in mind that the Atlantic Ocean from New York to Paris was
 RW> conquered in 1927 by Charles A Lindburg in less of an airplane than
 RW> the B17...

These people think perhaps we shipped B-17 *kits* to Europe where 
the French "Resistance" assembled them perhaps ... heh heh heh 
... Nope, now it can be told.  The bombers flew from our airbase 
(Hunter Field) to the Azores where they were refueled and 
continued on to their European base.  Fighters flew from bases 
farther up the East Coast to Greenland then to England ...

... Birthdays are significant.  Without them you're dead.

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