1942 - 90mm AAA In Action

[Subdeacon Joe]

Kinda faded.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhIb4uvsuuU

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhIb4uvsuuU

[Gunner Gatlin, SASS 10274L]

Amazing to watch the human element in things that had to get done....that computers and automation do today.... Just amazing.

 

GG

[Loco Louie]

Thanks for sharing, it has a personal connection.

 

My aunt built 90mm cannons during WW2, a "Rosie the a Riveter".

 

My dad, my uncle, and her boyfriend were at war. She left the farm at 18 and with her girl friends, went to the big city to work at Dixon Gun Works building 90mm cannons.

 

She was responsible for heat treating the barrels, she knew what happened if the steel wasn't strong enough, she always thought of her two brothers and boyfriend while doing her job.

 

Her boyfriend didn't come back, he was on a B24 that went down.

Edited October 3, 2014 by Loco Louie

[Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172]

There were a lot of boys that didn't come back, Louie.

 

So many gold starts in the windows in my small town.

 

Thanks for so many like your aunt that stepped up to fill

the gap in the line.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Not one of the members of those gun crews ever hears anything again.

 

Huh?

 

I said, not one....oh, never mind. You can't hear me anyway.

 

What?

[Birdgun Quail, SASS #63663]

"First to Fire!"

Edited October 4, 2014 by Birdgun Quail, SASS #63663

[Subdeacon Joe]

[Birdgun Quail, SASS #63663]

[Subdeacon Joe]

 

My wife's dad earned his at Ft. Sill in the '50s. Then was at Nike Site SF 88. His unit insignia was

 

 

Oh, and: http://nikemissile.org/

Edited October 4, 2014 by Subdeacon Joe