Is it just me

[mspart]

We watched Baa Baa Black Sheep.   My dad was a F4U Corsair pilot and loved that show.   Pappy was his hero in pilot training.  I guess that guy was legendary. 

mspart

[Caveira]

Just now, mspart said:

We watched Baa Baa Black Sheep.   My dad was a F4U Corsair pilot and loved that show.   Pappy was his hero in pilot training.  I guess that guy was legendary. 

mspart

That’s pretty cool.   Thanks for his service.  
 

I have books on Boyington… fascinating  

My father was a door gunner in the first air cav in Huey gunships in Vietnam for one tour.   A grunt on the ground with the infantry for a second.  One of the tour’s during tet….  He loved the m60 and 50cal and the m14…..

The m16s not so much ha.  

[Paul158]

2 hours ago, JimmySpeaks said:

Hogans Hero’s is a classic 

The writers had a lot to work with. They had a good group of actors.  They had lots of material. Now that i look back at it they made one of the worst times in history into a successful tv show. How they did it I have no idea. They made the Germans out to be a bunch of buffoons which they were not.

[mspart]

Fortunately my dad never saw real action.   Came close but was not to be.  We were very blessed to have him for so long.  He died at 88 years old.  

mspart

[Gene Mills Fan]

2 minutes ago, mspart said:

We watched .   My dad was a F4U Corsair pilot and loved that show.   Pappy was his hero in pilot training.  I guess that guy was legendary. 

mspart

never saw Baa Baa Black Sheep.  my Dad was tail gunner in a Grummon Corsair.  on a carrier sunk by kamikaze in battle of Okinawa. spent hours in ocean til picked up.

 

[mspart]

Yikes!!   Wow, that's a story.   

The biggest story I have is that my dad got seasick on an aircraft carrier docked in SF Bay.  

Just kidding, he had some near death experiences just in pilot training.   We were very fortunate to have him.  

mspart

[Caveira]

9 minutes ago, Gene Mills Fan said:

never saw Baa Baa Black Sheep.  my Dad was tail gunner in a Grummon Corsair.  on a carrier sunk by kamikaze in battle of Okinawa. spent hours in ocean til picked up.

 

Wow.  I’ve family that was on the uss Indianapolis.   After they dropped off the atomic bomb (tinian I think? don’t wanna google it).    Bad things happened to the men aboard the uss Indianapolis after they left Tinian.  

[Gene Mills Fan]

carrier went down slow; but my dad said bad things happened with sharks 

[mspart]

Quint had a bad experience for sure.   

mspart

[Caveira]

There is a documentary about the uss Indy on the history Channel that’s pretty graphic.  I have a few books on it too.  Books are pretty graphic as well.    Sharks and long stays in the ocean are no bueno 

Edited November 20, 2025 by Caveira

[mspart]

For sure!  

Kid on Kauai was boogy boarding and lost his leg to the shark.   He got the shark to let guy by pulling out the shark's eye.   That and the Indianpolis would have just been unnerving.   Tough to imagine. 

mspart