Band Of Brothers

[daniel3507]

Saints and Soldiers was a cool movie. I watched it on Hulu for free and i think its still on there if anyone wants to watch

 

[mn_smokeater]

Saints and Soldiers was a cool movie. I watched it on Hulu for free and i think its still on there if anyone wants to watch

seconded on that i watched it on our netflix and it was pretty good.

 

[hoosier1104]

I had a so called "friend" say that I did not deserve a Hoosier Veterans plate for my truck. We were stationed together for a year and half. WTF!!!!! I would never say something like that regardless of deploying/deployment location or service in general. I think he hates life in general considering he is been working on his Harley since the day I met him. He is a DB!

 

[crbnunit]

Band of Brothers is awesome. I keep looking to buy the set.

Talked with a vet a while back. He was in the 10th Armored Division ans was kind of pissed the 1st got all the glory in the Battle of the Bulge. They had already been fighting that battle for two weeks before the 1st showed up.

Shifty Powers just passed away a few weeks ago.

 

[AllanD]

Another good movie is Saints and Soldiers, pretty good for a low budget movie .
I had the opportunity to meet a turret gunner on a torpedo bomber from the USS Enterprise he did not mention what years he served but he said during WW2. I was actually kinda speechless at first all I could say was "WOW you guys had guts Thank you". I finally got to meet someone who served on the Enterprise. Since many old retires come to where I work (grocery store) I wonder how many of them were in the military. It makes it easy to be patient with them since I know many of them were in the military. Yet I will never be able to repay the debt I owe them.

a turret on a carrier plane? Grumman Avenger (Torpedo bomber)

When? certainly Post Midway
Midway was the "last hurrah" for the Douglas TBD-1 Devastator
as they were essentially wiped out. they were replaced with Grumman Avengers which had a turret.

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[warrior24]

He said he was a gunner on a torpedo plane and I said oh a tail gunner and he said no a turret gunner. He said he wasn't there in jan 1945 don't know when he left the boat. So I am not sure which plane. If I see him Ill ask him I know I have seen him before he is only recognizable by his navy hat.

 

[AllanD]

No Need, I just told you.

I wasn't asking, I was applying deductive logic.

There were essentially only seven aircraft types that saw carrier
service with the US Navy in the war.
F4F "Wildcat" (Fighter)
F6F "Hellcat" (Fighter)
F4U "Corsair" (Fighter)
SBD "Dauntless" (Dive Bomber)
SB2C "Helldiver" (Dive bomber)
TBD Devastator (Torpedo Bomber)
TBM "Avenger" (Torpedo Bomber)

Only ONE of them had a turret, the Grumman Avenger.

Eliminate the impossible and whatever is left is your answer.

The Avenger replaced the TBD in service immediatly after the battle
of Midway because most of the Devastators ever built were by that point
laying (with their crews still inside them) at the bottom of the pacific.
the Avenger served through the end of the war.

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[warrior24]

Oh yeah duh

As bad a dropping in out of the clouds in a dive bomber sounds in a sometimes near vertical dive (75-80deg) , I think being a dive bomber was worse. They were just slow moving and I think that's as bad as being lower ball turret gunner on a B-17 espically in the early models of the b-17.

 

[crbnunit]

No Need, I just told you.

I wasn't asking, I was applying deductive logic.

There were essentially only seven aircraft types that saw carrier
service with the US Navy in the war.
F4F "Wildcat" (Fighter)
F6F "Hellcat" (Fighter)
F4U "Corsair" (Fighter)
SBD "Dauntless" (Dive Bomber)
SB2C "Helldiver" (Dive bomber)
TBD Devastator (Torpedo Bomber)
TBM "Avenger" (Torpedo Bomber)

Only ONE of them had a turret, the Grumman Avenger.

Eliminate the impossible and whatever is left is your answer.

The Avenger replaced the TBD in service immediatly after the battle
of Midway because most of the Devastators ever built were by that point
laying (with their crews still inside them) at the bottom of the pacific.
the Avenger served through the end of the war.

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You are forgetting one... April 18th, 1942. Granted, it was a one time deal but it still had a turret!

 

[AllanD]

Turret? Yes, but they had removed the guns to save weight.
and they still don't cound because they were ARMY aircraft not Navy

And I did say: "There were essentially only seven aircraft types that saw carrier service with the US Navy in the war."

Technically they were "transported and launched", they did not "operate"
which implies that the could return to the carrier.

Like various land planes that were transported on carriers to island bases in WW2, launched from a carrier and landed on their new base after delivering a load of (live and armed) ordinance to the former occupants of their new base

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