WWII Bomber Boys Flight Jacket Art – A Hidden History | TWH135

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@stevenstone1027 より:

2025年1月13日 11:55 PM

Very interesting 👌 good job😊

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@ablewindsor1459 より:

2025年1月13日 11:55 PM

Rosie the Riveter….
Well my Grandmother and her sister worked in 1944 at the Roanoke VA Singer Sewing Machine Factory. 🏭

That Year the plant made a limited run of M-1 Tanker model rifles, the only run. Singer made huge numbers of M1911 45-caliber handguns in many plants across America.
During 1944, the Arsenal of Democracy built just over 8,000,000 rifles to supply the 49 allied Nations .
The last four years the FBI has cleared over 25,000,000 FBI NICs background checks each year.

You could say that my Family were Rosie the Gunmakers ! ! !

She had been a cook for the Norfolk & Western Railways. That job she went back to till 1968.

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@ablewindsor1459 より:

2025年1月13日 11:55 PM

Wish I had my Dad’s WW2 Jacket 🧥😞

But it does not exist Today….

But I do have The Story to go with IT:

Dad in World War Two:
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Dec 15, 2021
US Navy Yard.. Washington DC tour.

Able Windsor
Since many of us here had parents who served in WW2, i will tell a little story…… My dad served on B-17s out of England early in WW2, before the 25 mission limit was imposed. He flew 52 missions. After return to the States, he spent his time training new crews. One day, he drew the worst Hanger Queen on the Base, He was the only one of the twelve aboard that day with combat experience. Everything went wrong, down to two engines plus bad control problems, he lead a mutiny… Six jumped with him, they all lived, Dad broke his ankle on landing. The Capitan, the command pilot, survived with bad burns ending his flight career…..the six who stayed all burned to death: he pushed hard to Court Martial dad. Thirty days later after dad led a breakout of the stockade with the other mutineers, the MP’s arrested him in Baltimore, MD, at his uncle’s house. He still had the cast on his left foot. When we tried to get Dad’s service cover in the Eighties, DoD refused, period, total end of discussion, don’t apply again . We had pictures of him in Army Air Force uniform in a Brit (London) South Seas club. Also insignias and other trinkets. His discharge Papers from Fort Meade Maryland. And another set of papers in a different name. We also had pictures of him in front of his 4th armored division tank with his ankle still in a cast. After the Battle of the Bulge. I was active in the GoP In Virginia, so on one election night, I asked my Congressman, M. Caldwell Butler, who was at the time on the Armed Services Committee to retrieve a copy of the Service Record. Several months later my representative who you may have seen on the Judicial Committee during the Nixon Administration Impeachment, — Caldwell said he had been refused Access to the file, Quote” he did not have a high enough Security Clearance” to see the file, no doubt that tucked him off, rightly! About six months later, I got a phone call at work from Washington DC. A recently discharged veteran, a lawyer who had started on the Armed Services Committee Staff, said that he had copies of Two service records, his Clearance was high enough to see the file BUT he could not copy any of the files or send them to me; but he would talk and answer any questions about my dad’s service. Two hours later, for the first time I had the full picture! When Pearl Harbor attack happened, my dad had gone to enlist but when he presented himself at the Courthouse, he was refused because they said that at sixteen he could not sign up and to go back and take care of the Farm for his widowed mother and three older sisters. After the new year dad and a friend created fake paperwork, Hitch-Hiked to Raleigh North Carolina, and signed up… very few at that point we’re volunteering…easy get. He was picked out of Basic and sent to train as a Bomber Navigator, at this point the US Army did not think they would get enough College men to fill the crews so they were going to do the Brits way and raise up Warrent Officers, enlisted. Just before he was ready to graduate, they came through and gathered up crews to full fill the extra bombers going to Europe since they were not going to be sent to MacArthur. The files when combined made one complete record. After dad was picked up in Maryland he was sent to a tank course for Officers being transferred into armor from infrantry. He picked up a tank driver cert to add to his heavy equipment Papers picked up on return to the States. Next he was sent to France where he was a replacement tank driver in the 4th armored division, went on to the rescue of the 101st Airborne at Bastogne. Later he would be in one of the units that first over ran the westernmost Concentration Camp. That was the one that when Eisenhower first Saw it just two days after it was freed, he ordered all Allied Officers (field grade and above) to tour the camps; and afterwards the Germans in the surrounding areas were by his orders forced to march Through and see the Truth, in each camp freed. After the war, dad managed to be Posted to Paris for occupation duty but soon received new orders to return to the USA for the Planned of invasion of Japan. Oops. A week before he was to shipout to Norfolk the Emperor Surrendered. He stayed in France for Another year, as his service jacket under his real name did not have enough points to muster out. The Committee Lawyer said in his twenty plus year Army career he had never seen two files for the same person that joined so perfectly. How many and how high did this have to go to get him out of a Court-martial …. took many many stars on collars for that too happen, lol. Later that year at a campaign dinner, the Congressman came and set down, he wanted to know what was in the file, you see as a condition of getting the file open HE could not see any of it or ask the staff lawyer for a verbal briefing, I was very glad to tell him the WHOLE REST of the Story. In the late ninties after President Clinton declassified whole Plantations worth of World War Two records; I again tried the get a copy of both service files and was again refused; I still wonder under what Names and classification levels they are being held. My father past in 1963, he was very closed mouthed about his whole WW2…..? Adventures ? Thank s to ALL who have Served ………..
EXCEPT for One Capitan!
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Grandfather Albert
Revolutionary War

My so many Great Grandfather walked from Giles County to Williamsburg, VA and joined the Virginia Regiment …think the Colonial Williamsburg movie The Story of a Patriot. (Jack Lord).
He crossed the Delaware River in one of the boats.
He stayed with General Washington into Valley Forge, where both his feet were frozen and amputated, sent back to Virginia on a mule.
He went back to farming (cattle), he lived to age 93, he was looking after his cattle on leased land that is now Mountain Lake where the movie Dirty Dancing was filmed. During that day the lake was drained, (from 1670 to today the lake has been dry about 10% of the time), he was found dead lying against a tree with his mule standing guard over him.
Centuries later I went to W&M.

His name was Albert….
His Grandfather landed in Virginia in 1709 direct from Germany, following the other cousins that traveled to Virginia Colony beginning in 1625.

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@calvingifford9442 より:

2025年1月13日 11:55 PM

What an amazing presentation! My Dad was a belly gunner in the SWP theater, so I don’t know if he ever got issued one. Can hardly wait to get my hands on a copy of this!

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