Recent content by Thorlifter

Taken from The Marine Corp Times..... On Nov. 20, 1943, 18,000 Marines were met with withering fire, poured out by elite troops of the Imperial Navy's Special Naval Landing Force. The attack on Betio, the largest and southernmost island in the Tarawa atoll, required a direct assault on the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAVZuSoP8dk&ab_channel=EllaFitzgeraldVEVO The super smooth vibes of Ms. Ella Fitzgerald!

Can you build this kit without the skin on the wings as shown in the pic? I think it would be a much more interesting display!

Sometimes certain family members just need a punch in the ****ing mouth!

Been listening to JMJ since 1983. Just incredible music!

The Jack Benny program on Old Time Radio

It is true! This is from his long time girl friend. RIP Dan!

I've seen on several FB site that Dan may have passed away last night. Please tell me this is false and the admins can delete this thread!

I purchased this book a couple days ago from a used book store for the price of $1 and just can't put it down. This is the story of Tova Friedman born in Poland in 1938. She has spent much of her life touring and talking about her experiences. I include this partial quote from her prolog as...

I come back to the forum after a long time away and this is the first post I see. Uhg! He was a wealth of knowledge! Rest easy sir!

I've been gone from this forum for quite a while and this is the first post I see. Well, DAMN!

Thanks for the input. True that a lot of the industries required have closed down and the laborers just don't exist in numbers. Time to get up to speed would be years.

In WW2 the U.S. was able to produce ships at astonishing speed. Liberty ships were built on average every 42 days. One was built in a record 4 1/2 days. I think destroyers were built in about 10 months (I may be wrong on that). So how fast do you think the U.S. could build navy ships today...

I'm saddened that THIS event is what is bringing me back to the site after being away for a long long time. Joe was a warehouse of knowledge, a foundation of this website, and a great guy to pick his brain about aviation. I wasn't as close to him as Adler or Wurger and others but we still had...