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1. Indicator that he was a liar. His reaction confirmed it. 2. How do you get that he might have had a son, when I posited that his age was about that of Vietnam era? 3. SEALs certainly were in Vietnam. They're also the most likely to be the target of stolen valor. Read this...

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A US team is investigating if a plane carrying band leader Glenn Miller might have crashed off the Dorset coast. The UC-64A Norseman disappeared over the English Channel in 1944 in one of World War Two's most enduring mysteries. The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) is...

I'll suggest that the guilty parties often reveal themselves for what they really are. 8pm (or 20.00 hours, if you will) at the local supermarket. It's nearly empty, I'm minding my own business and I turn into an aisle to come face to face with an older (60-70, hard to tell) tall (6') gaunt...

1) JAG down here is getting more serious about dealing with these sort of shenanigans. https://taskandpurpose.com/military-crimes-ucmj-changes-2019 2) One of 'ours'. Enjoy the Stupid Factor, cranked up to 11. I'll bet $20 he wore all sorts of memorabilia in public, Keith R. Hudson, 71, was...

I ran into someone who had *great* stories and since they were just too good, did some background digging on him. He had one of those late Cold War flight jackets all patched up, and a photo of him wearing it while squatting on the wing of a fighter jet. He used this photo to enhance his dating...

I'm just going to float this to the top of the bowl again, cause y'all missed this... Exclusive: The Divine Lorraine lobby restored, in before-after photos https://philly.curbed.com/2017/9/14/16302348/divine-lorraine-lobby-makeover-photos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Lorraine_Hotel

Update: Paul Allen passed away on October 15, 2018. The Microsoft co-founder and son of a World War II veteran, Allen supported a research team that spent years searching for shipwrecks associated with the war. His discoveries also include the U.S.S. Indianapolisand the world’s largest sunken...

... or winding his pocket watch.

Texting for a Cornish beach, September 1943. https://www.foxnews.com/science/conspiracy-theorists-spot-time-traveler-using-mobile-phone-in-1940s-photo-during-world-war-ii

Eleven fewer MIAs. https://www.foxnews.com/us/remains-of-crew-from-downed-world-war-ii-era-plane-recovered-from-pacific-ocean Pilot 1st Lt Herbert G. Tennyson, O-745216 320th BS (MIA / KIA) Sedgwick County, KS Co-Pilot 2nd Lt Michael J. McFadden, Jr., O-806878 320th BS (MIA / KIA) Sarben...

Google Translate gave me more-or-less the same. D'fhéadfadh "Hey, gur mhaith leat do léarscáil a sheiceáil"?

Disorientated as they emerged from their wreck, they thought they were close to their Scottish base. Spotting a pub, they decided to celebrate their survival but when they entered the saloon bar they found it full of Germans in Nazi uniforms who shouted at them to “go to their own bar”. The...

Wolfe found himself heading not back to his airbase, RAF Eglinton, now City of Derry Airport, in Northern Ireland just 13 miles away, but to Curragh Camp, County Kildare, 175 miles to the south. Here, a huddle of corrugated iron huts housed 40 other RAF pilots and crewmen who had accidentally...

Citations and links are good things. As the war continued, K Lines expanded with the addition of 45 other German airmen and 47 more Allied airmen. Within each compound, the internees were allowed to have a bar in which the Army sold drink duty-free. In October 1943 the Allied internees were...