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    I remember this in the blog.
    rides with chuck gets videos one a year.
    they still need funding.



    I understood Mr. Micci is 95 years old in this interview.
    Attillo G. "Ted" Micci served during World War II, and the last rank he held was T/Sgt. with the Army Air Force 305th bomb group, 364th Squadron.

    He served on 25 missions over Germany and Europe in 1943 and 1944. He was a radio operator/gunner.

    While home on leave in December 1944, he married Esther Bucciarelli, who at the time was working at the Joliet Army Ammunition Plant making primers for the bombs.
    My neighbor is 90, he also flew. He flew with Doolittle for some training missions, not sure if he was the trainer or what his position was.
    I'd give his name for you to search, local newspapers have him in interviews...dating back to the 1980s.
    He wants privacy, I can tell.

    How this plane does not have a million dollars raised by now...?
    Last edited by Barry Donovan; May 9, 2016, 10:01 PM.
    Previously boxer3main
    the death rate and fairy tales cannot kill the nature left behind.

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    That was pretty cool!
    Tom
    Overdrive is overrated


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    • #3
      neat
      Doing it all wrong since 1966

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        I remember a mitchell and a b17 coming in, was very busy working on a kc135.
        the cylinders got louder as the taxi way was in front of the plane..
        I knew to look again.
        without looking, the engines gain attention.

        just the sound altered history for some. The restored planes they have in shows today are tame, not war mode/enabled.
        I watched russia's v-day parade (they even gave a red white and blue salute with their fighters), and they have a bomber with counter rotating props.
        Noise drama.
        Run run run...you won't get away.

        the american stuff did a lot just by being stuck in the times of engineering.
        Previously boxer3main
        the death rate and fairy tales cannot kill the nature left behind.

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          I was there a few years ago. I'll probably be back again this year to see what's changed.

          Ryan's Cars in Barns Blog
          www.carsinbarns.blogspot.com

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          • #6
            I could not remember the word "cleco"
            seen many of them.. aircraft related.
            shame on me.

            great shots.
            why he is taking 20 years, a bit of weirdness there.
            easily setup a fund raiser that drops taxes for some rich people.
            Previously boxer3main
            the death rate and fairy tales cannot kill the nature left behind.

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