David Beach
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David Beach
@funkadunk99
Army Viet Nam Combat Veteran . Live in Northern California far from the maddening crowds. Worked in aerospace on communications. Love dogs.
Northern California Beigetreten Kasım 2015
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"I was told by "Chesty" Puller years ago, there is only a hairline’s difference between a Navy Cross and a general court-martial." Gregory "Pappy" Boyington
During their first combat tour, while on the island of Vella Lavella, the Black Sheep’s Intelligence Officer Frank Walton wrote to the Commissioner of Baseball with a proposition:
"The Black Sheep are in dire need of sun-shading ball caps due to the humid weather, which quickly destroyed our military issue caps."
Walton promised that his Squadron’s pilots would shoot down a Japanese aircraft for each cap sent to them.
Only the St. Louis Cardinal organization of the National League responded, sending dozens of caps to the heroes in the Pacific. VMF-214 "Black Sheep Squadron" pose with an F4U Corsair after receiving baseball caps from the St. Louis Cardinals.
Gregory ‘Pappy’ Boyington.
Front row, third from right.

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@Tazatator Sometimes dogs find us. That is a lucky dog to find such a great home
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@Tea4gunsSC2 @SoldiersWhisper Near Tay Ninh the infantry would work with Hunter/Killer teams .
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@funkadunk99 @SoldiersWhisper And it was their misfortune when I flew in.
Looking for targets
Assessing the damage
They always knew I was coming
The buzzing sound of a scout chopper low over the tree tops
The Little Birds
We got in their faces

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They walked into the aftermath of a B-52 strike expecting destruction and found a fight waiting for them.
On March 28, 1970, in the dense jungle near Bu Gia Map, Skytroopers of A Company, 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry moved in to assess bomb damage along a known enemy infiltration route. Instead, they stepped directly into a Viet Cong base camp still very much alive.
The jungle erupted. Small arms. Automatic fire. An entire enemy force rising from the devastation and striking back.
Among those in the fight was Sergeant Kenneth J. Garski.
The Skytroopers pushed forward—closing with the enemy, trading fire at close range, fighting through a position that refused to fall quietly. What was supposed to be a follow-up mission became a brutal engagement against a determined force. By the end, 44 enemy lay dead.
Six Americans were killed. SGT Kenneth J. Garski was one of them…
#TheVietnamWar #RIP

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@saylordocs @Catiebristow_X At the time Nokia had a superior product with wi fi and was not sold by the wireless companies
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She was already in the sky when Pearl Harbor was attacked and most people have never heard her name.
Cornelia Fort was 22 years old on the morning of December 7, 1941. She was a civilian flight instructor in Hawaii, guiding a student through routine maneuvers in a small training plane. The sky was clear. The lesson was going well.
Then a military aircraft screamed past them, so close she could see the pilot's face. She looked directly at him. He looked back.
It was not a drill. It was a Japanese pilot. And below them, Pearl Harbor was under attack.
Fort immediately took control of the plane. The sky around her filled with smoke, gunfire, and chaos. She navigated through it all and landed safely at a nearby airfield while the world erupted into war beneath her wings.
"There's no way I'm staying on the sidelines," she told her parents.
In 1942, Fort joined the Women Airforce Service Pilots-the WASP. These women ferried military aircraft across the country, tested planes fresh off the assembly line, and towed targets for live ammunition training so male pilots could deploy to combat. They wore uniforms. They followed orders. They faced real danger every time they took off.
On March 21, 1943, Cornelia Fort was ferrying a BT-13 trainer aircraft over Texas when her plane collided mid air with another aircraft in formation. She died on impact. She was 24 years old.
She became the first woman pilot in American history to die while serving on active duty.
God bless this American hero. 🫡🇺🇸

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@44MagnumBlue1 @jamcar74 Remember Donald an Artillery Crew member and American hero
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@44MagnumBlue1 @Roxanne22Ramsey Another California son that didn’t make it home to Mom
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🤗 Fast moving developments for BOCELLI. She has a temp foster who will keep her safe until the next Wings of Rescue flight leaves SoCal fir points East 🎉 Details as available.
#A5756918
Maple 🐕 🎹 🎸 💙@mapleveewesem
😢🙄😢 Reposting BOCELLI at Baldwin Park #California ACC. We're back to square 1. 6 yo, 79 lb girl needs a forever or foster home ASAP. Outside of #SoCal she MUST be the only dog in the home. Ask about fostering here 🙏 more 🔽 #A5756918
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