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Spitfire 944

6:01 pm

An evening pause: Somehow to me this film about an American pilot from World War II and a single moment during his tour seems fitting to me on Washington’s birthday. I can’t explain why, but it does.

Hat tip Edward Thelen.

Genesis cover

On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 
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8 comments

8 comments

  • wayne
    February 22, 2018 at 6:36 pm

    Edward-
    excellent find!

  • Chris
    February 23, 2018 at 5:58 am

    Ditto on the excellent find – well worth the time!

  • Dick Eagleson
    February 23, 2018 at 6:58 pm

    Splendid stuff! WW2 was my late father’s war. I’ve been an omnivorous glutton for info of any kind about it since I was a kid.

  • Blair Ivey
    February 23, 2018 at 11:51 pm

    Very cool video, and even cooler the gentleman had a piece of the prop. I did not know Spitfire props were wooden.

  • Mitch S
    February 24, 2018 at 4:17 pm

    Also didn’t think Spirie props would be wood that late in the war.
    Really enjoyed this. Glad they let us join them in the room with the pilot and didnt muck it up with music or other “enhancements”.

  • wayne
    February 24, 2018 at 8:15 pm

    Victor Davis Hanson –
    How a Border War in Europe Led to WWII
    Hillsdale College, September 12, 2017
    https://youtu.be/tQq-ORA4fHw
    (1:14:03)

  • Edward
    February 25, 2018 at 4:26 pm

    Wayne,
    Excellent video. I was especially intrigued by his mention that the socialist Axis powers did not cooperate with each other in the same way that the Allied powers did. The allies coordinated together, giving the socialist Soviets, on the Allied side, one job to do and plenty of equipment with which to do it, but the Germans, Japanese, and Italians squabbled over strategic actions such as invasions. The Allies willingly shared technologies and equipment but the Axis refused to share.

  • wayne
    February 25, 2018 at 6:17 pm

    Dick–
    -check this guy out. Not sure of his current activity, but he got off to a good start.

    ‘Rescued Film Project:’
    “31 rolls of film from a WW2 soldier are discovered and processed.”
    [https://youtu.be/VaurfqIW5-k]
    10:35

    Edward-
    that is, an interesting factoid. (and…they all ended up stabbing each other in the back)

    pivoting further back into history:

    “A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War”
    Victor Davis Hanson
    September 7, 2005
    https://youtu.be/8zAlSM-FLss
    (1:20:20)

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