Whose your mama ...

geetrue · 11-28-06, 07:25 PM

Okay, so all I want to know is who remembers fighting the Japs in WW II ... Isn't that part of the simulation process

Whose your mama?
or was it your grandmama?
or was it your great grandmama?

I'm so old it was my mama ...

cmdrk · 11-30-06, 03:45 PM

My mama helped build PBYs, my grandmama helped build rescue boats (40 ft 30+ knots boats), my papa was a boatswain in the USN, and my step papa fought in the Ardennes Dec '44.

Now, quess my age.

Nightmare · 11-30-06, 06:31 PM

I don’t know what either of my grandmothers did during the war. However I do know what both my grandfathers did.

My grandfather on my dad’s side was a bombardier/navigator on B-25s and B-26s stationed on Guadalcanal at Henderson field and flew up “the slot” to bomb Japanese positions. His claim to fame was on the way back to Henderson field after a bombing mission in which his plane didn’t take part in the bombing run, jettisoned his bomb load. Since you couldn’t land with armed bombs onboard (due to weight and obvious reasons) they just dropped them over the jungle. After leaving the target area and on the way home he just dropped them and the patch of jungle they hit happened to be a Japanese ammo bunker. Anyway, I guess there was some big story in the paper that was written about it here in Oregon. He even received a medal for it. When he passed away several years ago it was amazing seeing him buried with full military honors.

My grandfather on my mom’s side was an engineer for US Army Corps of Engineers at Oak Ridge working on the method used to extract uranium-235 from uranium-238. At the time they didn’t know why they were doing this, but many of them suspected it was for a bomb of some kind. This grandfather was the one who gave General Groves his first tour of the Oak Ridge facilities. After the war he went to work at Hanford working with plutonium. He eventually grew tired, of what he calls “the bomb making business” and went to work for Oregon Freeze Dry, Inc as one of the head engineers. He is my only surviving grandparent which is a miracle considering all the radioactive isotopes he used to work with during and for a while after the war.

geetrue · 12-02-06, 09:44 PM

This is how we use to pass the time waiting for Silent Hunter II ... I should have put OT, but it's close enough.

My mother washed down the PBY's after they landed and came up the seaplane ramp in Corpus Christi, Texas ... My father was a personal man for the Commador in Alaska ...

We had a WWII veteran on our boat (USS Salmon SS-573) It was 1964 and he was a gunners mate (the last one on boats) He was Chief of the Boat and all gold on his arm.

11-28-06, 07:25 PM	#1
geetrue Cold War Boomer Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Walla Walla Posts: 2,837 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Whose your mama ... Okay, so all I want to know is who remembers fighting the Japs in WW II ... Isn't that part of the simulation process Whose your mama? or was it your grandmama? or was it your great grandmama? I'm so old it was my mama ... __________________

12-02-06, 09:44 PM	#4
geetrue Cold War Boomer Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Walla Walla Posts: 2,837 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	This is how we use to pass the time waiting for Silent Hunter II ... I should have put OT, but it's close enough. My mother washed down the PBY's after they landed and came up the seaplane ramp in Corpus Christi, Texas ... My father was a personal man for the Commador in Alaska ... We had a WWII veteran on our boat (USS Salmon SS-573) It was 1964 and he was a gunners mate (the last one on boats) He was Chief of the Boat and all gold on his arm. __________________

11-30-06, 03:45 PM	#2
cmdrk Planesman Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 184 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	My mama helped build PBYs, my grandmama helped build rescue boats (40 ft 30+ knots boats), my papa was a boatswain in the USN, and my step papa fought in the Ardennes Dec '44. Now, quess my age.

11-30-06, 06:31 PM	#3
Nightmare Engineer Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 210 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	I don’t know what either of my grandmothers did during the war. However I do know what both my grandfathers did. My grandfather on my dad’s side was a bombardier/navigator on B-25s and B-26s stationed on Guadalcanal at Henderson field and flew up “the slot” to bomb Japanese positions. His claim to fame was on the way back to Henderson field after a bombing mission in which his plane didn’t take part in the bombing run, jettisoned his bomb load. Since you couldn’t land with armed bombs onboard (due to weight and obvious reasons) they just dropped them over the jungle. After leaving the target area and on the way home he just dropped them and the patch of jungle they hit happened to be a Japanese ammo bunker. Anyway, I guess there was some big story in the paper that was written about it here in Oregon. He even received a medal for it. When he passed away several years ago it was amazing seeing him buried with full military honors. My grandfather on my mom’s side was an engineer for US Army Corps of Engineers at Oak Ridge working on the method used to extract uranium-235 from uranium-238. At the time they didn’t know why they were doing this, but many of them suspected it was for a bomb of some kind. This grandfather was the one who gave General Groves his first tour of the Oak Ridge facilities. After the war he went to work at Hanford working with plutonium. He eventually grew tired, of what he calls “the bomb making business” and went to work for Oregon Freeze Dry, Inc as one of the head engineers. He is my only surviving grandparent which is a miracle considering all the radioactive isotopes he used to work with during and for a while after the war.