Forum: The Funnies
03-20-2017, 05:59 PM
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Forum: The Funnies
03-19-2017, 04:37 PM
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Found it! Elliott Buckmaster's callsign was...
Found it! Elliott Buckmaster's callsign was W6SNL.
Not only that, but:
General Curtis E LeMay was W6EZY.
Col. Paul W Tibbets (pilot of Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the A-Bomb on...
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Forum: The Funnies
08-23-2012, 10:34 PM
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Ah, to be only 56 again!
My conjecture is...
Ah, to be only 56 again!
My conjecture is that it was for a strain-relief. Most electrical cords in those days were cloth-covered, and it was common to bring the two wires (each individually...
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Forum: The Funnies
08-23-2012, 10:24 PM
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Answers, the ones that I know anyway. Five...
Answers, the ones that I know anyway. Five carriers were sunk at Midway. Four of them Kaga, Akagi, Soryu, and Hiryu, were Japanese. The fifth one, Yorktown, was American, and her commander was...
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Forum: The Funnies
08-23-2012, 10:13 PM
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It's interesting to see what companies, in WW2,...
It's interesting to see what companies, in WW2, made things outside their normal lines. Lionel made J-38 keys. Rock-Ola (a juke-box company) made the US Carbine, Cal. .30 M1 -- as did IBM, Saginaw...
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Forum: The Funnies
08-23-2012, 06:11 AM
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The J-38 was manufactured my many companies...
The J-38 was manufactured my many companies during WW2. The Berkshire 2-8-4 steam locomotive was modeled by several companies. If the engine shown is a model, both items pictured could have been,...
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Forum: The Funnies
08-23-2012, 12:15 AM
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Still more WW2 trivia --
The Battle of...
Still more WW2 trivia --
The Battle of Midway, June 1942, was the turning point of the Pacific war. Of the five aircraft carriers sunk at Midway, one's captain was a radio ham. Which ship did he...
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Forum: The Funnies
08-22-2012, 08:01 PM
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