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Title: WW2 veteran talks about the power of music
Post by: Nemesis6 on October 13, 2010, 09:24:05 pm

http://vimeo.com/9761188

I'm having trouble finding words to describe this, other than brilliant and astounding.  It's funny how sometimes, music is more powerful than bullets and bombs.

Title: Re: WW2 veteran talks about the power of music
Post by: StarSlayer on October 13, 2010, 11:30:03 pm

I'm having difficulty wrapping my head around how what presumably is a Jug pilot was doing boots on the ground in Normandy.  I suppose he was acting as a FAC?

Title: Re: WW2 veteran talks about the power of music
Post by: NGTM-1R on October 14, 2010, 12:06:50 am

9th Air Force, the CAS guys, set up on something like D+5 and was never terribly far from the front.

Title: Re: WW2 veteran talks about the power of music
Post by: headdie on October 14, 2010, 04:08:34 am

That is one of those things that just stops you in your tracks for a few minutes.  thanks for posting it Nemesis6 i just shared it on my FB

Title: Re: WW2 veteran talks about the power of music
Post by: Dilmah G on October 14, 2010, 04:26:34 am

Wow, this is amazing.

Bloody GJ, Nemesis. :)

Title: Re: WW2 veteran talks about the power of music
Post by: StarSlayer on October 14, 2010, 07:16:39 am

Quote from: NGTM-1R on October 14, 2010, 12:06:50 am

9th Air Force, the CAS guys, set up on something like D+5 and was never terribly far from the front.

Yeah looks like D-Day plus 10 they started moving P-47s onto a beach-head landing strip.  I didn't realize they deployed them forward that soon.