Check you out!!!

Right on, Brian!!

 

Steve, IB should put you on the payroll.

 

yeah steve maybe you should go into sales or recruitment!

 

I'm already a recruiter -

Sales and me don't mix - all someone has to do is give me a reason why they shouldn't and I'll usually agree with them.

 

Col. Klink (Werner Klemperer) was the son of a famous German composer and conductor (Otto Klemperer).

Here was another Hollywood example of an ex-patriate German Jew playing a ****, which occured before, during and after WWII.

Klemperer fled Germany in 1933 when Hitler came to power.

btw: The correct Germanic spelling is weisenheimer, pronounced: visonhimer

 

just doubled my moneys worth with that post...

 

 

Schultz (John Banner) was 4-F.

During WWII, he posed for US Army recruiting posters (nein scheiss!).

Obviously, he had gained a few pounds when he played in that awful TV series.

btw: All the Stalag Lufts were run by the Luftwaffe, and not ONE GI ever escaped from ANY German POW camp, regardless whether run by the Kreigsmarine, SS, Luftwaffe or Wehrmacht.

 

Not according to this:
Real Great Escape - Conditions

Do you have a source?

Incidental info - my employer was an airman in WWII flying B17. He went down after a few missions and spent most of the war in a Luftwaffe camp. He was not shot down, they ran out of gas. Apparently the maintenance crew ignored info that the plane did not have normal power. IIRC he thinks there was a problem with the spark plugs. Anyway, in an effort to keep up with the squadron they burned too much fuel and ran out. He managed to bail out after great difficulty opening the cockpit hatch - you could not get out of the cockpit to the rear with your chute, it was too large for the bulkhead door. You had to enter and exit through the floor hatch. Only problem was, the slipstream made the hatch almost impossible to open while in flight, not to mention a dive.

He will only rarely talk about it, so I might have some of the details wrong. It's been a while since he told the story.

Another tidbit is, that to this day he hates cheese. All cheese. While a POW, the one thing they had to eat was German cheese rations. The experience did not make him like cheese any better.

 

I had a coach in high school who told us he had escaped from a POW camp, but it was japanese, the stories he told, true or not I do not know, made him one BAMF I would never talk back to or question, he also played pro ball for the Buffalo Bills back in the leather helmet days. His name was George Habberfield, maybe you remember him Bill, no offense

 

Bill, I've read all about that escape, and all POW's that escaped were Brits and Canadians, all of which were serving in the RAF.
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Did you notice all the references to British Wellington, Blenheim and Stirling bombers?

We flew B-17's and B-24's.

Of course I have the ref, but...which one it is of the 5,000 or so books I have around here on WWII history, escapes me.

 

I'm with you Bill. GI's versus other Allied. You did specify GI's.

That link is an interesting read. It's rather long, but there is a lot of info.

 

While I don't recall the leather helmut days, before their were helmuts, my dad was a high school football player, later played college ball, was an All-American Football player in 1939, and is in the Harvard Athletic Hall of Fame.

He was drafted by several teams, but decided on a career in the USN within days after graduating from Harvard.

The only George Haberfield I know of, was a Ford dealer in Bakersfield for decades.

 

Mickey Rooney's real name: Joe Yule, Jr.

That was first changed to Mickey McGuire, then to Rooney.

 

This is so much fun... let's have another word today!

undulant

\UN-juh-lunt\
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adjective


Meaning
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1 : rising and falling in waves
*2 : having a wavy form, outline, or surface


Example Sentence
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Did you know?
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"Unda," Latin for "wave," ripples through the history of words such as "abound," "inundate," "redound," "surround," and, of course, "undulant," which first showed up in print in English around 1822. (The adjective "undulate," a synonym of "undulant," is almost 200 years older but rarely used today. The far more common verb "undulate" has several meanings including "to form or move in waves.") The meaning of "undulant" is broad enough to describe both a dancer’s hips and a disease marked by a fever that continually waxes and wanes.