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« Reply #2982 on: November 06, 2021, 01:21:21 PM »
Gotcha.

I definitely wished I'd gotten to take more "college" courses and fewer "engineering" courses.  I think my only requirements outside of math/engineering/hard science, were:

1 semester of civics/government
1 semester of Literature
1 semester of soft science (I took modern Philosophy)
1 semester of history.

Literally, 12 hours, out of over 140 it took to earn the degree.

And those were the only classes where I ever encountered any cute girls.  That modern philosophy class was VERY fruitful. It was super-easy and enjoyable for me, but several different attractive young ladies struggled with it, and I was more than happy to help tutor them.

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« Reply #2983 on: November 06, 2021, 01:38:17 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on November 06, 2021, 01:21:21 PM
Gotcha.

I definitely wished I'd gotten to take more "college" courses and fewer "engineering" courses.  I think my only requirements outside of math/engineering/hard science, were:

1 semester of civics/government
1 semester of Literature
1 semester of soft science (I took modern Philosophy)
1 semester of history.

Literally, 12 hours, out of over 140 it took to earn the degree.

And those were the only classes where I ever encountered any cute girls.  That modern philosophy class was VERY fruitful. It was super-easy and enjoyable for me, but several different attractive young ladies struggled with it, and I was more than happy to help tutor them.


the cute girl class for me was Geology 

poor things just couldnt seem to find any fossils on our field trips so I was more then happy to help them search
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« Reply #2984 on: November 07, 2021, 06:37:21 AM »
I had to go an extra quarter because I was short one course in "liberal arts".  I took German IV, which was technical translation of German to English.  I went to summer school four years in a row so it was hard to fit everything in.  Summers were for the pastry courses mostly.
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« Reply #2985 on: November 07, 2021, 09:09:16 AM »
I seem to remember taking way more than 12-14 hours of non-technical classes. I did go to community college for a few years though. I’m going to look up what the requirements are now. 
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« Reply #2986 on: November 07, 2021, 09:50:22 AM »
We are headed to Savannah for three days, I've never stayed there more than one, hope to see more of the place and get some good food.
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« Reply #2987 on: November 07, 2021, 10:27:25 AM »
I've never been to Savannah, I hear it's a cool place.  

I dated a girl who was from there, she was hot and from old money.  Totally crazy but a lot of fun for a guy not interested in marriage at the time...
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« Reply #2988 on: November 07, 2021, 10:31:18 AM »
It's the oldest city in Georgia, founded in 1733 as a buffer with the Spanish in Florida by James Ogelthorpe, with some debtors.  The colony outlawed slavery for a while.

The old area is pretty neat, laid out in squares with a park in the middle.  The old houses had fallen into serious neglect 1970ish but most have been restored.  The river front is pretty neat, touristy neat.

I'm looking at restaurants now.
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« Reply #2989 on: November 07, 2021, 06:54:45 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on November 07, 2021, 09:50:22 AM
We are headed to Savannah for three days, I've never stayed there more than one, hope to see more of the place and get some good food.
I knew a guy there who had been an armorer with the American Volunteer Group ("Flying Tigers") in China during WWII.  Later in the war, he served as a B-25 flight engineer/aerial gunner in the 1st Air Commando Group under Col. Philip Cochran (the model for "Flip Corkin" in Milton Caniff's "Terry and the Pirates" comic strip), also in the China-Burma-India Theater.
Chuck Baisden was his name.  I imagine that he and his wife have passed on to greener pastures and bluer skies by now.
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« Reply #2990 on: November 08, 2021, 07:40:59 AM »
My Dad was in a B-25 a few times, he said the plane was like a fighter as compared with the B-24.  He also flew in some B-18s on antisub duty off Langley before they deployed.
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« Reply #2991 on: November 08, 2021, 08:04:12 AM »
The B-24 was really a lumbering beast--I can understand your dad's comment about the B-24 in comparison.

The B-18 was based on the design of the DC-2, the slightly smaller predecessor of the DC-3.  It was declared the winner of the competition that the Boeing 299 (the future B-17) dominated after said Boeing crashed due to pilot error.  It was obsolescent the day the first one rolled off the assembly line.
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« Reply #2992 on: November 08, 2021, 09:08:34 AM »
He said they routinely took off over loaded in the B-24s.  The pilot would pull the gear up as soon as they cleared the runway, which often was just barely over the ocean.

That may have caused his crash.
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« Reply #2993 on: November 08, 2021, 12:23:54 PM »
The "analytics" of WWII said that the B-24 was better than the B-17.  It was certainly a newer design, and it could carry a heavier bomb load over a longer distance.  Far more B-24s were built than B-17s.

But it was a hard airplane to fly.  For that reason, in the ETO, it could not maintain the tight formations with mutually overlapping fields of fire the way the B-17 could.  It was easier to shoot down than the B-17, both because of its looser formations and because it could not tolerate battle damage as well.

The crews preferred the B-17.
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« Reply #2994 on: November 12, 2021, 09:23:33 AM »
It was preferred in the Pacific, it seems, over the 17, obviously much lower chance of being shot down there.  But mechanical problems caused a lot of losses.

My Dad doesn't know why his went down.  The official report is they went in not long after takeoff, but Dad said he had the radar dome down, which he only did at altitude.  He finally received a Purple Heart decades later...

Savannah was nice.
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« Reply #2995 on: November 12, 2021, 10:17:44 AM »
WWII talk kills threads.
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