The Day the 344th Stopped Patton Patton treasured the German autobahns. To him they were high speed highways where he could charge forward at full tilt, covering miles of territory, sweeping enemy forces in his path. But Patton never took A.A. Robinson into account. A.A. Robinson, Lt. Robinson...

Truth or terrorist bluff? Dave SYDNEY, Australia (March 21) - Osama bin Laden's terror network claims to have bought ready-made nuclear weapons on the black market in central Asia, the biographer of al-Qaida's No. 2 leader was quoted as telling an Australian television station. In an interview...

From Rec.Humor.Funny, talk about topical Edward Teller, the ultra-hawkish father of the hydrogen bomb, died earlier this week. Defending his work in an interview with Scientific American a few years back, Teller averred that if the U.S. had not developed the H-bomb, we'd all be speaking...

Bush did that. Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

Lets suppose you get to give a single new airplane design and a single prototype to a participant of World War One. You can offer the Austro-Hungarians the design for a B-52 if you wish. However, that might prove a manufacturing challenge to them (and one can only wonder about their supply of jet...

The US postwar history: Korea: stalemate Cuban Missile Crisis: stalemate Vietnam: LOST Operation Eagle Claw (Iranian Hostage Rescue): Failure Lebanon: Marines blown up- failure Reagan-Bush years: a string of success shooting down a few Libyan MiGs and attacking small puny nations with no AF-...

Since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs were about 10 kilotons and a B-17 had a normal bomb load of about 3 tons and I have heard of a formation of 1300 B-17's on a bomb run that would equal around 4 kilotons (3 x 1300 = 3900) would the devastation be the same as a small A-bomb? or is there...

Saw this mentioned several times. Sounds somewhat implausible. A whole lot implausible actually. Was this a common practice, an isolated incident blown out of proportions or a myth? Is there an approximate tally of German heavy armor (Pz IV and up) destroyed by the western allies attack planes?

The leader of Hamas has been killed in an Israeli airstrike. See: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=1&u=/ap/20040322/ap_on_re_mi_ea/gaza_explosions

The Pentagon is protected by a computerized system. When a plane enters the pentagon protected space the computer automatically sends a message to the plane demanding the pilot punch in a code allowing it to enter the space. If that is not done within seconds, the plane is automatically shot...

Over the past couple days I've watched TV stories about a couple of programs to celebrate the Wright Centennial (Dec 17th) with reenactments of the famous flight. The key ingredient to both efforts (are there more?) is a reproduction Wright Flyer in 1903 trim. This is trickier than it might...

Last I heard the names being considered for the F-35 we - Defender - Bumblebee - Gryphon (aka Griffin)... the top choice in 2002/3 - Pegasus - Hailstorm - Harbinger - Valiant

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Nuff said. Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

Let's get this out fix this problem so hopefully it won't happen when our soldiers return from Iraq.

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Has the configuration and mission been publicized for the FB-22 as contrasted to the F/A-22? The press has written of the two, but I don't recall the descriptions and differences of the bomber aspect. Thx in advance, VL

Go to Original www.truthout.org www.rememberjohn.com Bush's Missing Year By Eric Boehlert Salon.com Thursday 05 February 2004 In 1972, George W. Bush dropped out of his National Guard service and later lied about it. With the media finally paying attention, will he

A question for any Warthog jocks (or fans) out the Why is the front of the right gear fairing on all A-10s painted gloss black? Is is a radome of some sort? If so, what for? Unless, of course, you would have to kill me if you told me, etc... Just curious, Kirk

Somewhat smarmy, but welcome nevertheless: ******************************** After extensive additional interviews, I no longer have the confidence in these documents that would allow us to continue vouching for them journalistically," he said. "I find we have been misled on the key question of how...