Was RAF Bomber Command Too Afraid To Fly Daylight Missions?

[buffnut453]

So now we're equating the RAF with Chuck Norris?

You didn't need the "?" at the end of that sentence. As a statement of fact, it was perfectly correct.

(Guess which Service I was in for 20 years )

 

[BlackSheep]

You didn't need the "?" at the end of that sentence. As a statement of fact, it was perfectly correct.

(Guess which Service I was in for 20 years )

I admire your loyalty, but remember, fear the beard..

 

[buffnut453]

I admire your loyalty, but remember, fear the beard..

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17fafupOKOE

 

[Frog]

So now we're equating the RAF with Chuck Norris?

The RAF is afraid of Chuck Norris.

 

[WARSPITER]

Used to be when Chuck Norris went for a walk, the footpath got out of the way;
and when Charles Bronson went for a walk, Chuck Norris got out of the way.

 

[buffnut453]

The RAF is afraid of Chuck Norris.

Which, by extrapolation, means the Armee de l'Air is afraid of Britney Spears.

Sorry, Frog, but you hoisted a pretty big target there....it was just asking for someone to take a shot at it.

 

[Frog]

Which, by extrapolation, means the Armee de l'Air is afraid of Britney Spears.

Sorry, Frog, but you hoisted a pretty big target there....it was just asking for someone to take a shot at it.

Afraid not, horrified, certainly.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Put Chuck Norris or Charles Bronson into a Hurri summer of 1940, or a Stirling in summer of 1942.

 

[JDCAVE]

Put Chuck Norris or Charles Bronson into a Hurri summer of 1940, or a Stirling in summer of 1942.

Or you could put Jimmy Stewart in a B-24…Wait! He was in a B-24!

 

[Greg Boeser]

Clark Gable rode a B-17 once or twice.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Or you could put Jimmy Stewart in a B-24…Wait! He was in a B-24!

Gen Stewart could fly a brick, dammit!

 

[GrauGeist]

Gene Roddenberry flew a B-17 - that's *almost* having Captain Kirk at the helm, isn't it?

 

[BlackSheep]

Gene Roddenberry flew a B-17 - that's *almost* having Captain Kirk at the helm, isn't it?

That is some great trivia! I did not know that!
Here is one for you: Jack Palance! City Slickers and a hella lot more!
For the longest time, it was said that his face was the result of being burned in a B-24 training flight and the subsequent surgeries, but the truth came out late in life and on his obituary that his agents made that part up. He did serve honorably in the USAAF as a Flight Officer until 9/1945. I don't know the real story of his service but with that discharge date, I suspect he was trained but then not needed to deploy so as part of the cutbacks he was let go, especially if he did train on B-24s, since the experienced pilots were training on B-29s around that time in preparation to join the war in the Pacific.

 

[GrauGeist]

We had a thread several years ago that covered actors and famous people who served in WWII, it was actually quite a few and some came as a surprise.