Spitfire 944
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.
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Edward-
excellent find!
Ditto on the excellent find – well worth the time!
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.
Very cool video, and even cooler the gentleman had a piece of the prop. I did not know Spitfire props were wooden.
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”.
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)
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.
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)