posted on April 12, 2004 06:13:59 PM new
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2236947587&category=4727&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBWA%3AIT&rd=1
posted on April 12, 2004 07:33:15 PM new
Thanks! sends "chills" through me...those were some Brave,,,,Brave, Brave men. God bless them ALL. And Thank you young men VERY much for what you did. Salute!
Some observations, I can't recall all,,why, just took down the numbers,,38,24,34,,,hahahaha,,,,5, 33,,,34!!!! booby trap!! the censors MISSED this one!!!!! Good for those Guys! ,,,5,,,,I see this now,,,that is an Armour ,,,,,plate,,,I NOW, see it on Many of the photos,,,,I first thought it was a quick repair job.....Not,,,Hey,,,try those numbers,,,,I have read where there was a German,,,,,,,during the war,,,,who would cut the nose art off the side of planes and has a museum,in Germany Somewhere,,,,Thank you for posting this, it was most moving....
posted on April 12, 2004 07:57:58 PM new
Curses!! For some reason this browser will not let me view this auction - I get that damned- you are the evil inhabitant of a foreign nation and even viewing this auction is a threat to our security message.
Luckily my other browser has different cookies attached obviously and it let me view it. Thank you for posting this. It was fun to look thru them.
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
posted on April 12, 2004 08:37:59 PM new
Jack: Off the subject, but I tried your chicken with salsa crockpot fajita recipe tonight and it's very good! Thanks.
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posted on April 12, 2004 08:50:48 PM new
Road, I just discovered the "electric" pressure cooker! more Goodies!!!!! I LOVE ta COOK! and Sell,,,,on e bay.....
posted on April 12, 2004 08:56:16 PM new
Parklane...Thanks for posting that. Jack..Talk about chills, I looked at that auction and those pic's and about 5 minutes ago I went outside to see 6 FA-18 Super Hornets directly over my house en route back to Lemoore Naval Air Station. They were returning from training in Nevada. Quite possibly the great grandchildren of the heroes who flew those planes more than 60 years ago. Still doing the same great job today.
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
posted on April 12, 2004 09:15:06 PM new
It's really sad to see that when a son or daughter gets rid of history like that. I know some people need the money but imagine how happy that museum would have been if they could have had that. That album is priceless and I think the selling price was way to low. But then again it is an auction and we have to take what we get. His loss is the bidders gain.
Those were some neat pictures. I wonder how they thought of that and did everyone have a hand in painting them. Any WWII vets know the answer?
posted on April 13, 2004 03:10:24 PM new
Well the owner (not the seller/friend) gets what he deserves....... $725
Had ne not wanted quick cash and basically pawned his dead fathers cherished treasure he could have gotten any book publisher to sign him for a book deal.
How many of you have a grandpa or parent or even yourself that would absolutely LOVE a coffee table style pictoral history book of these planes? A paragraph below each one about the pilot or painter and maybe the number of missions flown and where.......
The new owner can't since he isn't family and wasn't there and will never know the father who took the pics.
An interesting piece of real and valuable WWII history cheaply pawned on Ebay.
posted on April 13, 2004 03:55:19 PM new
Glad I took the time to check out this auction. Very moving. It brings a personal memory back to me. During WWII when I was in the first grade I played Raggedy Ann in a school play. My mother sent a letter to my Uncle who was a navigator on a bomber. His group took turns naming the planes and picking the art that would be painted on them. When it was his turn he had the plane named Raggedy Ann and sent me a picture. I wish I knew what happened to the picture but did not find it in my mother's photographs. Every time I see a collection of nose art I always look for Raggedy Ann. Maybe I will find it someday. -----o----o----o----o----o----o----o----o
The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as of the pen.
Maholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947
posted on April 13, 2004 04:24:29 PM new
photo,,,,,I did a search, no raggedy ann bomber ,BUT up pops a banner ad for those mahogany airplanes,,,,if you can find it,, anyway I e mailed the guy as he says he can paint or whatever want to be be done , he must have photos,,,maybe,,maybe not, I tried.
posted on April 13, 2004 04:30:15 PM new
Thanks for looking Jack. The only picture of nose art I found with my mother's photographs shows my uncle standing by a plane painted with a pin up girl with his hand resting on her outstretched leg. I don't know why that one survived and the Raggedy Ann did not!
I looked through the box of family photos (I will get them organized some day.) and found the picture. It brings back such memories. I had a serious case of hero worship for my uncle during the war.
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The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as of the pen.
Maholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947
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posted on April 13, 2004 06:48:03 PM new
My brothers father in-law was stationed on GUAM in WWII where he was part of a unit that painted the nose art on B-29's, P-38's & P-51's. He has photo's of all the nose art they painted & I know there are more that 400 in that album. All in excellent like new condition. I'll have to send him the link for that auction.
'We have dispatched Dr. David Kay...to search for the bio-warfare agents we believe hidden in Senator Kerry's forehead. If Senator Kerry has used botox as part of a wrinkle enrichment program, he is in violation of UN Resolution 752. Upon receiving Dr. Kay's report, the weapons of mass destruction that Senator Kerry so adamantly insists do not exist...may well be above his very nose.'" --Dick Cheney when asked whether John Kerry has had Botox treaments
posted on April 13, 2004 07:00:18 PM new
hahahahaha, and then again she MIGHT not.....
Well from the auction an established price has been foreseen,,,,,Not worth it in my book to let that picture go,, NO way,,,,A Museum,American Legion Hall, VFW, Purple Hearts Assoc. D.A.V.,,,,, Heck, even in the Halls of the local V.A. hosp. Sell it to astranger,,,,on e bay? No way....Priceless and THOSE guys PAID the price.
posted on April 13, 2004 07:02:00 PM new
lucy,,,,,I mean on his server,,,,He WILL delete....Print out that auction NOW if you have a desire to keep those photos......
posted on April 13, 2004 07:11:09 PM new
My Grade school 1960's Janitor was in WW11,,,,He talk to children perhaps more graphically than would be thought,,,I remember him telling a few of us kids how he water hosed the remains and blood out of the gun crew positions,,,A new guy took the last guys place......Those guys were in their 30's in the fifties...it was like yesterday for them....
Guts!!!!!! Nerves of STEEL!
They are dying in Huge numbers today.
posted on April 13, 2004 07:37:17 PM new
I remember seeing C-119 flying boxcars flying high up, in the Korean War era,,,me an another kid, I remember looking up and saying,,,How HIGH can they go? We all found out in the 1960's friendship7,,all the way, and just last week,,,,,As far as mankind can push it,,,Mars......incedently and this what makes me remember that,,,,the C-119's,,,I am Retired From U.S.M.C. So I've spent many hours flying on various aircraft as a space avialable PAX, passenger. I once flew on a C-119 back to Eltoro from Hawaii,,,,once it landed,,,it was headed for the scrap pile. last Voyage......Taps.
OH,,,,,,,I also flew on a C-47,,,,,,the Marines have another name, RD4,,er' something like that heck I really don't remember but for what most people know it was a C-47......famous in the D Day invasion...Went from Cal. to Arizona...
For 6 months I was Stationed at El Toro and for a young 18 year old kid Marine, what a eyeopener! Wow! I was a refueler on F-4 Phantoms....AWWWWSOME!!! Shut up Jack! hahahaha.....and the beat went on......
posted on April 13, 2004 07:47:52 PM new
When I FIRST got on e bay,,,not knowing ANY rules,,,We found 40 WW11 actual photos of Seaplanes,,,,in an unpaid storage unit in L.A......I did'nt mess around listing each one,,,I l@@ked for BUYERS of these photos and BINGO,,I found him, I saw they were going for around $12-15...I e mailed the guy and gave $10.00 per pic. price.....HE!!!! was ONE Happy Guy! ME,, tooooo......
