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1942 - 90mm AAA In Action


Subdeacon Joe

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

 

GG

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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.

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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?

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