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Veryfruity

Member
My grandfather was shooting pigeons off cabbage, swinging through he hit the no 38 bus on the main road.
Bus stops, and the driver checks for damage, all the while dad and grandad are ducked down behind the hedge.

That was with an 870. That’s stopping power.
 

McFarmer

Member
Mixed Farmer
Both my folks passed away a couple years ago. I’ve finally decided to sit down and sort the photos and related keepsakes that they accumulated. Tough job, lots of good memories and a few tight throat times.

My folks never discussed much about their early life, snippets here and there. Dad enlisted when he was 17 because he thought his older brother would whip’em before he could get there. He was wrong. Dad was pretty much abandoned when is parents divorced. His girl friend’s dad was on the draft board and signed the papers to get him in. The girl friend (mother) went to work in the bomber plant by Omaha right out of high school, 17 year old girl right off the farm wiring the most advanced machine in the world. It was a B-29 that dropped the atomic bombs, they were made in the Omaha plant.

Never saw any photos of mother during this time but I ran across two:






She was being trained to ferry B-29s to the Hawaiian islands when the war ended.


Found this book in the kit they gave dad before going overseas, this part about England may give some a chuckle:

 

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