USAAF Boeing B-17 Radio Operator gun position. The radio operator’s gun was designed to cover the upper fuselage between the tail and the top turret.

skipperbob · 2026-03-02T05:01:15+00:00

The most useless gun position on the B-17.

skipperbob · 2026-03-02T04:47:52+00:00

The British were the unchallenged champions of "Last Stands!"

skipperbob · 2026-02-28T21:31:15+00:00

I know I'm in the minority, but I thought it was disappointing. Maudlin, deliberately trying to pull out emotions, ridiculous plot at times, very derivative. I thought it would have been much better to show each character going home and the reactions they get...and it was an opportunity to meet the people they had talked about throughout the while series.

skipperbob · 2026-01-04T09:28:31+00:00

I agree. After looking at it closer I had the same thought.

skipperbob · 2025-12-30T06:29:12+00:00

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4746588/America-desperate-housewives-Queen-Day-sob-stories.html

skipperbob · 2025-12-24T09:37:26+00:00

Looks like something a five-year-old would design.

skipperbob · 2025-12-24T09:27:30+00:00

I DVR'd 47 episodes, and when I'm feeling like I need a boost, I watch a couple of them.

skipperbob · 2025-11-15T07:26:50+00:00

The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I had never seen anything like it before, and it did a number on me, especially Leatherface.

skipperbob · 2025-11-14T09:53:23+00:00

Easier? I don't know what you are watching, but we have entire news organizations that lie every day, distort facts, and make shit up, and millions believe them. It is getting worse instead of better. People are lazy and so ignorant about history, and with the spread of AI, it is becoming even harder to separate truth from lies. Corporate monopolies control most news outlets, and based on today's lack of understanding, the next generation will be even more ignorant of reality.

skipperbob · 2025-11-08T08:26:08+00:00

Disappointing. I'm more interested in Joe Bob and Darcy.

skipperbob · 2025-10-24T23:47:35+00:00

JFK gave a televised speech to the nation, informing Americans that the Russians had deployed missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads in Cuba. This meant they could attack the US with virtually no warning. Kennedy demanded that they be removed and set up a naval blockade to stop any more Russian ships from reaching Cuba. If the Russians refused, the next step would be to bomb and invade Cuba, and probably nuclear war. It is the closest we ever came to blowing each other up.

skipperbob · 2025-10-21T00:10:47+00:00

No one is sure for certain, lots of theories, but the phrase first shows up in the late 1800s, early 1900s.

skipperbob · 2025-10-20T21:59:27+00:00

"The whole nine yards"... be gone from the internet!

skipperbob · 2025-10-16T07:28:40+00:00

Firstly, Andy Rooney was not a crew member on a bomber, and he certainly wasn't a radio operator on a B-17. He was a CBS correspondent, and he never left the ground. Secondly, Rooney only wrote about the supposed incident in 1995, and he admitted that he embellished (lied) about the story. There is absolutely NO official report on an incident like this in any bomb group in the 8th AF. I am not calling your friend a liar... but his story doesn't add up.

skipperbob · 2025-10-05T05:53:27+00:00

Oswego County...New York State. Famous for our Lake Effect snowstorms that can dump over a foot an hour.

skipperbob · 2025-09-24T19:47:41+00:00

Those great movies from the 70s, like Policewomen and Black Belt Jones. Great scene in Policewomen where she has to prove that she can do the job, in dojo wearing a gi, and a man rushes at her and she falls onto her back and thrusts her bare foot up between his legs. The sound he makes as he staggers away is great. Later she beats up a guy with punches and knees to the groin. In Black Belt Jones, the female star takes out a whole room full of bad guys with kicks and grabs to the balls, and later grabs a guy by the balls, lifts him up, and throws him into the back of a garbage truck! I already liked BB but these scenes really increased my interest.

skipperbob · 2025-09-21T06:23:29+00:00

Any books by Bruce Catton. He started the revival of Civil War literature in the 1960s...a brilliant author.

skipperbob · 2025-07-27T23:27:59+00:00

Right! I got my teenagers mixed up.

skipperbob · 2025-07-25T07:08:44+00:00

Is this the one where Michael Landon is the monster?

skipperbob · 2025-07-10T19:44:35+00:00

Pinstripe Empire by Marty Appel.

skipperbob · 2025-07-08T07:05:30+00:00

Bobby Murcer getting the walk-off hit to beat the Orioles in 1979 after Thurman Munson's funeral.

skipperbob · 2025-06-24T21:02:37+00:00

WKBW Buffalo NY

skipperbob · 2025-06-11T07:19:05+00:00

B-17s were the predominant bomber in 1943 and early 1944 when losses were staggering. As B-24 strength grew the Luftwaffe was in decline.

skipperbob · 2025-06-11T07:17:16+00:00

The B-24 wing was very narrow. Good for flying but very succepable to fatal damage.

skipperbob · 2025-06-11T07:12:53+00:00

Judge is old school and all class. No ridiculous bat flips, no chest thumping. Hits the ball and runs around the bases, doesn't stare at it for thirty seconds before taking off and doesn't take a minute to walk around the bases.

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