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Yep, there they spoke

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 08 May 2020 10:17:48 +0000

In reply to You won 't be surprised I ´m

Yep, there they spoke Schweizerdeutsch (fortunately for Norman), a much freer & more melodic variant.
Yo-de-lay-dee-who!

You won 't be surprised I ´m

Flavius — Fri, 08 May 2020 09:36:13 +0000

In reply to The Norman conquest looked

You won 't be surprised I ´m sure that Norman , whom I only knew from his sisterś occasional party was very low key. His story I mostly know from the family.

I agree wth your comment above . What grace under pressure !And not just on his part. The other members of the crew at some points in the descent , could see the german air strips and knew that whatever else the ultimate consequences for him , Norman could have just gone down there.

Whereas the swiss border might or might not be achievable, It would have enough for any one of them to have said "Ohne mich baby , my vote is for getting this thing down ¨.

1940 Anti semitism wasn t confined to the Vaterland as was evidenced at the America First ( sound familiar?) rallies almost till Pearl Harbour.

But not on that one way flight 100 yards into Switzerland.

The Norman conquest looked

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 08 May 2020 07:34:53 +0000

In reply to Sorry , instead of responding

The Norman conquest looked more impressive on big screen.

+Didn't even know Jean D'Arc played golf - turns out a terror on the back nine. "Playing thru!!!" Had the Axis on the run. Drinks on me in the clubhouse.

Sorry , instead of responding

Flavius — Fri, 08 May 2020 03:48:36 +0000

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Sorry , instead of responding to any of your several leads I ll return . To late 1944 in a field on the safe side of the Swiss border.

Where he didn´t remain long.

Perhaps incorrectly Norman (I corrected the name) instead of honoring the ¨ pledge ¨ to remain in Switzerland, didn ´t . Crossed into France and rejoined the Allied forces.

And then , years later, spent a certain amount of time playing golf with John.

Roger ´s friend. He had the

Flavius — Fri, 08 May 2020 03:19:10 +0000

In reply to Sorry, who's John?

~~Roger ´s~~ Normand ś friend. He had the sort of opposite experience Plane hit and wasn ´t going to make the border. He knew what he preferred but since he was the only Jew he went on the intercom and took a vote.. They all said¨go for it and he did..

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PeraclesPlease — Fri, 08 May 2020 02:35:01 +0000

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on more thought after my

artappraiser — Fri, 08 May 2020 02:31:09 +0000

In reply to I asked mine about The Right

on more thought after my above comment and yours.

I said many of the WWII guys were just doing what they were told maybe thought a bit on it much later. Well, doh, many of them didn't even know how to think, they were just out of high school and didn't go to college until AFTER, courtesy of the G.I. Bill. Many the first in their family to be taught to actually think about what they were doing in life, and to have a little bit of extra time to do so (until they produce so many more mouths to feed, without extended family to help, that is.)

We often presume too little change has happened.

Just with education level, there has been a incredibly recent revolution as far as "masses" are concerned. Is like all of a sudden, a college education is a birthright. This wasn't the case not so long ago.

I asked mine about The Right

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 08 May 2020 02:01:10 +0000

In reply to one way or another, that's

I asked mine about The Right Stuff (great book, crappy movie from what I remember), and his response was pretty much "yeah, you could have made the biggest cockup in the world, but you're just sitting there going 'you dummy, look what you've gone and done'" - surprisingly little drama. This was outside of combat, but I'm sure a lot of battle stuff was same - just doing a job, and looks a lot different from outside than what the soldiers actually feel and go through. One description was how slow his response was, pissed and frustrated it was all taking so long - while those observing said they've never seen someone scramble so fast.

one way or another, that's

artappraiser — Fri, 08 May 2020 01:36:58 +0000

In reply to My father flew in bombers out

one way or another, that's like exactly the same attitude I got from all the WWII vets in family. It's was always like:well we did this stuff but it was nothing to crow about. Being old myself now I think about us asking them about it. And then I think: they were mostly kids, twenty-somethings, when that happened to them; they just did what they were told, what they were expected to do at the time, and thought about it all much later. Or not in some cases, just blank it out.

Yeah, my Dad had some funny

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 08 May 2020 01:20:07 +0000

In reply to My father flew in bombers out

Yeah, my Dad had some funny/scary tasks in the Cold War as well - more the shared relief that it was all over. Imagine cllebrations will be muted today with the pandemic, but somehow satisfying to be in Europe for this day - a pretty decent turn-in the last 75 overall. Shame the Brits didn't stick around, but they might be back.