Southern_Snowshoe
Southern_Snowshoe t1_j9uliq3 wrote
Reply to comment by TampaSaint in My Dad, somewhere on an aircraft carrier in World War II; he was a fighter pilot in the navy during WWII. He earned the Navy Cross Medal for extraordinary heroism in combat (second to the medal of honor) and came home to live a quiet life and raise a family. by TampaSaint
That’s a great story! Funny, my father also said he felt fortunate to not be a Marine or soldier slogging it out in the jungle. I remember him saying more than once, “Barring being forced down, I always knew I had a warm dry bed waiting for me and that I wouldn’t be sleeping in a muddy ditch.”
I missed the link you mentioned. I’ll check that out. I happened across a photo of my father last year in the Wikipedia article on his ship, the USS Bismarck Sea. Buried in the article is a photo of an accident unfolding on the deck and a crumpled individual in the middle of the mess. It seemed very similar to a story Dad told me about an accident he was involved in, so I dug a bit deeper. Sure enough, it was Dad. He was mentioned in the photos source material. (He was virtually uninjured but his plane captain and another pilot were lost).
Southern_Snowshoe t1_j9ufthl wrote
Reply to comment by TampaSaint in My Dad, somewhere on an aircraft carrier in World War II; he was a fighter pilot in the navy during WWII. He earned the Navy Cross Medal for extraordinary heroism in combat (second to the medal of honor) and came home to live a quiet life and raise a family. by TampaSaint
Do you know which carrier(s) your father was assigned to? Mine was assigned to the escort carriers Bismarck Sea and Barnes. The former was lost to suicide attack off Iwo Jima, although Dad wasn’t aboard at the time. He lamented the fact that all his belongings, including a bunch of aircraft parts he’d swiped and squirreled away, were lost. He had some harebrained scheme to use all these “found” parts and instruments to build his own plane after the war. Probably just as well that it didn’t play out that way since Uncle Sam would take a dim view of it if Dad were found out.
Southern_Snowshoe t1_j9rhfw7 wrote
Reply to My Dad, somewhere on an aircraft carrier in World War II; he was a fighter pilot in the navy during WWII. He earned the Navy Cross Medal for extraordinary heroism in combat (second to the medal of honor) and came home to live a quiet life and raise a family. by TampaSaint
Impressive and a great photo. My father was a Wildcat and later a Hellcat pilot during the war. I wish I had a good quality color photo of him like this. All I have are a few black & whites. Thanks for posting!
Southern_Snowshoe t1_j2ftbqv wrote
Reply to Tits or Ass, why? by [deleted]
First one, then the other. Why? Why not?
Southern_Snowshoe t1_isqz1hs wrote
Reply to comment by Various_Cricket4695 in My Grandpa and his horse Rusty in 1968 by uhhpaige
Rusty!
Southern_Snowshoe t1_jegy0jh wrote
Reply to Who is the best president of all time? by No-Salamander-8711
My sister’s pal, Shirley McLeod. Shirley was the president of our local chapter of the Shaun Cassidy fan club in 1977.