JimD 3,345 #1 Posted April 21, 2011 If you have about fifteen minutes to spare, you will enjoy this video. http://www.sleepingdogtv.com/reel/Uncle-Jack.aspx Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Redbirdman 7 #2 Posted April 22, 2011 If you have about fifteen minutes to spare, you will enjoy this video Are you kidding ???? You just planned the rest of my evening........ ed :D Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
massey 111 #3 Posted April 22, 2011 Man, what a great story........thanks for posting that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dclarke 4,011 #4 Posted April 22, 2011 Thanks Jim....... great video!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Trouty56 565 #5 Posted April 22, 2011 Wow!!....that is great. Wish I could do that for my dad. He was a bombardier on a B-24 Liberator out of Italy. He was 20-21 at the time and was the oldest of the crew. The pilot was the youngest. Makes me embarrassed about my teenage years!! :thumbs: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Duff 206 #6 Posted April 24, 2011 Wow!!....that is great. Wish I could do that for my dad. He was a bombardier on a B-24 Liberator out of Italy. He was 20-21 at the time and was the oldest of the crew. The pilot was the youngest. Makes me embarrassed about my teenage years!! Dang, Bob, my Dad was also a tail gunner on one of those out of Italy. Was your Dad in the 371st? I think the unit called themselves "Los Liberandos". Duff :wh: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Trouty56 565 #7 Posted April 24, 2011 Duff, Dad was part of the 460th Bomb Group. I don't know what their group name was. I never asked him that and he only recently, like in the last 5 years, has begun talking about it. I do have a listing of all the missions the 460th flew (207 total). Many of them were called off for various reasons. They flew out of Spinnazzola, Italy from '44 - '45. I took him on a bus trip to the WWII Memorial in DC and that is when he started telling stories about the missions and his crew. My son likes to hear about it and sits and listens as Dad tells memories, often the same ones a couple times. http://www.wwiimemorial.com/registry/searc...nt=20&tcount=45 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JC 1965 1,528 #8 Posted April 24, 2011 Wow!! Thanks for posting that Jim, You just made my day!! :thumbs: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sgtsampay 117 #9 Posted April 24, 2011 That was very touching. My step-grand father was present on D-day +3 and he was a drive for a M-5 Stuart light tank. Wow, very nice story.. Very, very nice. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MikesRJ 552 #10 Posted April 24, 2011 Awesome stuff Jim, awesome stuff. :thumbs: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
