Bubba's Bar 'n' Grill

A TAD huh? Maybe two or three tads based on my expert techowinkle gizmatic whiz band GPS unit, aka Dipsh*t.

Ya know NWo.....I was lookin at a map of England today, and it didnt even occur to me to ask if you have ever been over to RAF Mindenhall or RAF Lakenheath? I was stationed TAD to RAF Lakenheath and I didnt even think to ask. I spent a whole day over at Mindenhall watching those big lumbering B-52s take off and land. The two weeks I was at LAkenheath I almost went deaf from all those F-111's and F-15s taking off. At one point I swear about 10 of them took off at the same time!

(05-11-2011 08:40 PM)boomer Wrote: [ -> ]A TAD huh? Maybe two or three tads based on my expert techowinkle gizmatic whiz band GPS unit, aka Dipsh*t.

Ya know NWo.....I was lookin at a map of England today, and it didnt even occur to me to ask if you have ever been over to RAF Mindenhall or RAF Lakenheath? I was stationed TAD to RAF Lakenheath and I didnt even think to ask. I spent a whole day over at Mindenhall watching those big lumbering B-52s take off and land. The two weeks I was at LAkenheath I almost went deaf from all those F-111's and F-15s taking off. At one point I swear about 10 of them took off at the same time!

If you didn't go deaf, that would be quite a sight! My Dad was stationed in Chelveston, England. Don't know where that is, though. He was a highly decorated B-17 pilot in WWll. About a year before he died, I took my youngest son (about 15 at the time) out of school, sprang my Dad from the Alzheimer's home, and the 3 of us went up for an hour flight in a restored B-17. Dad couldn't remember what he had for breakfast, but he knew everything about that plane! It was the most awesome thing EVER!

Oooo B-17 pilots are about the best guys on the planet! You wanna talk about guys who have seen it and done it all - and they have this sense of humor you just dont turn your back on! Last summer I did a funeral escort on my Harley for a young 32 year old helicopter pilot being retunred home for burial, and there just happened to be one of those restored B-17s at the airport at the time, and the crew came over and stood the flag line WITH us! I have read literally dozens of accounts from those guys about bombing missions over about every part of Europe you can think of. I kinda did the same thing with my daughters on a submarine that is piered in Portland at OMSI. Its the boat they used for part of the filming of "The Hunt for Red October". The tour guide didnt know what half the stuff was but I recognized about every valve and every switch.


Those F-111's are loud in just single formation - so I dont know how they can come in "undetected"!

Lakenheath is about 150 miles North East (but mostly East) from us.

There are some amazing films of B17 over in the East of England on YT - One particular one there is a tiny Church in the background, and yellow fields of wheat, very English, all peaceful and quiet, and a load of B17` warming their engines up.

The Church where we were married there is a memorial and grave to a US pilot killed in a B17 - never made it home - but he has a lovely quiet memorial over here!

Thanks for that, NWo. Great pics, Boomer! My Dad flew 44 missions. I have his old mission card, among other cool things.
Just remembering this is the "gardening" thread----cleared the space for my new greenhouse today. Cleared a new flower bed, watered the orchard, asparagus, strawberries, and blueberries, and murdered some weeds. SO nice to be able to wear a T-shirt out and not looking like Nanook the Eskimo!

(05-12-2011 03:16 PM)Gungawoman Wrote: [ -> ]Thanks for that, NWo. Great pics, Boomer! My Dad flew 44 missions. I have his old mission card, among other cool things.
Just remembering this is the "gardening" thread----cleared the space for my new greenhouse today. Cleared a new flower bed, watered the orchard, asparagus, strawberries, and blueberries, and murdered some weeds. SO nice to be able to wear a T-shirt out and not looking like Nanook the Eskimo!

We stray occassionally in the threads, but I am taken aback by the courage of people like your father, who managed to keep it together and do 44 missions...I had a distant relative killed in a Lancaster Bomber over Germany....I love the WW2 planes.......even those of the then enemy(ies) they look so sleek, fast, and in a way beautiful, (when I think Spitfire), and yet it all could end so quickly....

I must go and look up the B17 pilot at our local Church and see if I can find any history......

I am awfully off thread here, but while it is one my mind........My wife, Tan, Grand Mother had a brother who, because of their French history faught in WW2 with the Canadian army - the family were French Huguenots who were exciled to the UK in the Catholic persecution of the Protestants ages ago - he actually received the Military Medal at Dunkirk rescuing a comrade while wounded himself.

He returned to Germany in the DDay invasion and he and all his rifle platoon were killed by a German Panzer attack, (his platoon were a rifle platoon) - Tan`s Grand Mother always knew he had died, but didn`t know the circumstances of his death or resting place. In the last few days of her life the war graves commission finally posted the grave and circumstances of his death, and she passed on knowing how he died and where he was laid to rest.......

That was strange synchronisity.......

Well, blame the off thread on the admin right here.

In keeping with the theme of this thread - does ANYONE know how to rid society and my front yard of those dang blasted dandylions? I put three doses of that Weed B Gone Max stuff, and it looks to me like they are multiplying with every application! I am about ready to call in a back hoe and replant the whole lawn!

Well, I clicked on this thread expecting to read about gardening, and what can I say, these stories are pretty good, more exciting than gardening anyway.

Dandylions? I put that weed thing on that attaches to the hose and spray it around. It works, but it takes a while. Not like my cousin who bought the wrong one (the one for sidewalk cracks) and had all the brown spots all over his lawn.

(05-12-2011 05:15 PM)NWoBHM Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-12-2011 03:16 PM)Gungawoman Wrote: [ -> ]Thanks for that, NWo. Great pics, Boomer! My Dad flew 44 missions. I have his old mission card, among other cool things.
Just remembering this is the "gardening" thread----cleared the space for my new greenhouse today. Cleared a new flower bed, watered the orchard, asparagus, strawberries, and blueberries, and murdered some weeds. SO nice to be able to wear a T-shirt out and not looking like Nanook the Eskimo!

We stray occassionally in the threads, but I am taken aback by the courage of people like your father, who managed to keep it together and do 44 missions...I had a distant relative killed in a Lancaster Bomber over Germany....I love the WW2 planes.......even those of the then enemy(ies) they look so sleek, fast, and in a way beautiful, (when I think Spitfire), and yet it all could end so quickly....

I must go and look up the B17 pilot at our local Church and see if I can find any history......

I am awfully off thread here, but while it is one my mind........My wife, Tan, Grand Mother had a brother who, because of their French history faught in WW2 with the Canadian army - the family were French Huguenots who were exciled to the UK in the Catholic persecution of the Protestants ages ago - he actually received the Military Medal at Dunkirk rescuing a comrade while wounded himself.

He returned to Germany in the DDay invasion and he and all his rifle platoon were killed by a German Panzer attack, (his platoon were a rifle platoon) - Tan`s Grand Mother always knew he had died, but didn`t know the circumstances of his death or resting place. In the last few days of her life the war graves commission finally posted the grave and circumstances of his death, and she passed on knowing how he died and where he was laid to rest.......

That was strange synchronisity.......

Well....I am about ready to call in an airstrike. These darn things just wont go away.....kinda like another pest who just HAS to stop and give me grief, but thats another story.

(05-12-2011 07:19 PM)boomer Wrote: [ -> ]Well....I am about ready to call in an airstrike. These darn things just wont go away.....kinda like another pest who just HAS to stop and give me grief, but thats another story.

Well, the only way I know to get rid of them is to pull them...which I had to do in my younger days in my family's yard. Then you spray the root, and they are gone.