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Cool video of B17 flying out of Renton, Wa over the Cascades
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<blockquote data-quote="garyahouse" data-source="post: 1401425" data-attributes="member: 20946"><p>Just remembered another one of Dad's war stories. He said that most of the time, they did their bombing runs at night. During his off-duty time, he was busy learning Italian and would some times spend his "off" days riding around in taxis. On one occasion, they took a taxi into an area they'd just bombed, and he got to see a ground level view of what they'd just done the night before. He said that he felt bad knowing that those bombs were killing people and not just destroying factories. They tried to drop them accurately because each one was precious; precious because they cost American lives to deliver. Many B-17s never came back from those night raids. And of course they didn't want to cause unnecessary civilian deaths when bombs missed their targets. And so it was that when dad viewed the incredible damage that these bombs caused, he noticed also the collateral damage: the civilian injuries and deaths that they caused. He said that he didn't do this very often, it was just too hard to take.</p><p></p><p>Little did he know that when the war was over, he'd meet an Italian girl from Boston whose parents had come over from Italy just a decade or two before the war. Turns out that the time dad spent learning Italian was a big hit with mom's father, who spoke very little english. After dating her for a few weeks, the old man asked dad, "So when you marry my daughter?" Dad replied that he had no home and no money. But to his surprise the old Italian said in broken english: "No worry, I feex, I feex." He did indeed help out with the wedding and the rest as they say is history.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="garyahouse, post: 1401425, member: 20946"] Just remembered another one of Dad's war stories. He said that most of the time, they did their bombing runs at night. During his off-duty time, he was busy learning Italian and would some times spend his "off" days riding around in taxis. On one occasion, they took a taxi into an area they'd just bombed, and he got to see a ground level view of what they'd just done the night before. He said that he felt bad knowing that those bombs were killing people and not just destroying factories. They tried to drop them accurately because each one was precious; precious because they cost American lives to deliver. Many B-17s never came back from those night raids. And of course they didn't want to cause unnecessary civilian deaths when bombs missed their targets. And so it was that when dad viewed the incredible damage that these bombs caused, he noticed also the collateral damage: the civilian injuries and deaths that they caused. He said that he didn't do this very often, it was just too hard to take. Little did he know that when the war was over, he'd meet an Italian girl from Boston whose parents had come over from Italy just a decade or two before the war. Turns out that the time dad spent learning Italian was a big hit with mom's father, who spoke very little english. After dating her for a few weeks, the old man asked dad, "So when you marry my daughter?" Dad replied that he had no home and no money. But to his surprise the old Italian said in broken english: "No worry, I feex, I feex." He did indeed help out with the wedding and the rest as they say is history. [/QUOTE]
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