Carlton

My mantra

In June of 1944 the US Navy did something it had not managed to do since the War of 1812. It captured an enemy warship on the open ocean and kept her. The ship was a German submarine, U-505, and the wildest part is what happened next. The Navy hid the entire thing from the world for over a year. This story ends in Chicago, and here is how it got there. It started with a captain named Daniel Gallery. Almost every commander out hunting U-boats had one simple job, sink them and go home. Gallery had a stranger idea rattling around in his head. He wanted to board one and take it alive. People told him it could not be done. A submarine that has been hit floods in a matter of minutes, and any crew still aboard could scuttle her or fight. He drilled his men on it anyway, over and over, until they could do it in their sleep. June 4, off the coast of West Africa. Gallery's group pins down U-505 and hammers her with depth charges until the German crew is sure she is finished. They blow to the surface, throw the hatches open, and start jumping into the sea. On their way out they crack the valves to send her to the bottom, so the Americans cannot have her. Now the clock is running. A small boat from the USS Pillsbury races over. A young officer named Albert David climbs down into a submarine that is actively flooding, that could explode at any second, not knowing if armed Germans are still waiting in the dark. He goes anyway. Two sailors follow him. Down inside, with water rising around their legs, they shut the valves by hand and stop her from going under. Then they start grabbing everything they can carry. Codebooks. Charts. And an intact Enigma machine, the exact cipher device the Allies had been bleeding men and ships to get their hands on. Here is the part most people never hear. The real prize was never the submarine. It was the secret. If Germany ever found out U-505 had been captured instead of sunk, they would change every code overnight, and everything the Allies were quietly reading would go dark in an instant. So the Navy made her vanish. They towed a 250 ton German submarine across the Atlantic without a word. They held the captured crew apart from all other prisoners and listed the boat as lost, so that Germany and even the sailors' own families would believe U-505 went down with all hands. An entire warship, hidden from an entire nation. Albert David, the man who went down first into that flooding hull, received the Medal of Honor. It was the only one given to a sailor in the Atlantic in the whole war. He never got to enjoy it. He died of a heart attack in 1945, before the world even knew what he had done. Then the war ends, the secret comes out, and the Navy decides U-505 has served her purpose. The new plan is grim and simple, tow her out and blow her apart for target practice. Gallery cannot stand the thought of it. He is a Chicago kid, born and raised on the Northwest Side, and he wants her to come home. So he fights for it. The Museum of Science and Industry raises the money, and in 1954 they tow this captured U-boat thousands of miles up through the Great Lakes to Lake Michigan. Then comes the last impossible move, hauling a submarine across Lake Shore Drive to the museum grounds. And they pull it off. She was dedicated that year as a memorial to the thousands of American sailors who never came back from the Atlantic. U-505 is still in Chicago today, sitting indoors, where anyone can walk right up and put a hand on her hull. So the next time somebody tells you an idea is impossible, remember the captain who decided he was going to board a sinking submarine, keep the biggest secret of the war, and then park his war prize in his own hometown. He was right on all three counts. Go see her. She is really there.

One of the ways that the unelected federal bureaucrat class defies the Constitutional will of the American electorate is to "leak" slanted and inaccurate information to pliant "journalists." These so-called "journalists" then report the lie told by the "sources close to the matter" as fact. Then other "journalists" seize upon the genuine fact that the bogus story exists, without ever bothering to verify the accuracy of the original leaked lie. Thus, a lie rockets around the global media in mere minutes and becomes treated as fact, all to achieve the nefarious ends of a traitorous bureaucrat. Few things in America are more problematic than unelected senior bureaucrats who do not understand that they work for the American people, and that the American people express their will via the leaders they elect to supervise the bureaucrat.

I want MASS deportations. I voted for MASS deportations. I don’t give a single solitary fuck how bad it looks ripping them from their “homes” (THE ONES I PAY FOR), car, job sites…etc. I don’t care even a fraction of a little bit if they are hurt of killed during the process. I give even fewer fucks if retarded white liberals are hurt or killed during the process. They all have to go. All 50+ million of them. Zero exceptions. Zero slowing down. Zero quarters given. ZERO. GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY COUNTRY 🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻

@nmlinguaphile Those lips scream for a bag of dicks. What a disgrace

No one has fallen further than this 🤡 Former GOP Champion Bill Kristol: 'Abolish ICE Now' breitbart.com/economy/2026/0…

@InfantryPilot @High_Flyer_17 I wish I could say that. Mrs ATC is retired from AAL (originally AWE). Sigh. Of course I was always fond of NWA prior to Delta

@High_Flyer_17 Haven’t flown on AA in over 20yrs.

The kid scored a trading card from a Dial Up Delta pilot 😉

“Communism is materialistic and anti-Christian, and the leaders of the communists show themselves to be in reality enemies of God and of the Church of Christ.” - Pope Pius XII in 1949 He banned Catholics from joining or favoring communist parties, forbade spreading its doctrine, and declared that those who professed and promoted its godless creed automatically excommunicated themselves as apostates from the faith. The enemy of humanity and civilization that is communism remains. Sauron keeps rebuilding his army, and we must remain vigilant and fight back.

Dry lightning and the resulting wildfires: Minnesota and Ontario, Canada.

Given today’s news, it seems appropriate to bring out this old gem:

An illegal kills 3 innocent Americans in California. The white liberal woman Judge gives him less than 5 years. Shannon Faherty. The illegal is dangerous but the white liberal woman judge is more dangerous to America. The Judiciary is a disaster.

Redeye pilots, crossing three time zones on transcontinental flights there & back every week watching Twitter react to news about Daylight Saving Time today:

Exactly this.

Barrett upheld birthright citizenship for Haitian illegals to appease the violent left because she feared the violent left would shoot one of her adopted Haitian kids. Think about that for a minute.

@PolitiBunny The lovely Mrs. ATC does a fantastic job in her role, and most days I try to keep up with her energy. She also respects what I do, and the demands that come with it. She’s very appreciative of what I bring to our marriage. I couldn’t be more blessed

I’ve been married a long time and it’s because I love the guy (he still makes me laugh and has the BEST backside) AND we are a team. He takes the lead on some things, I take the lead on others. And it works great. A mutual love, respect, and appreciation goes a long way. JMHO

The same happened in Rhodesia Because it was a British colony, it maintained records of gun ownership, everything from self-defense weaponry like submachine guns to hunting rifles used for pest control When Mugabe took over, he soon used those lists to confiscate every firearm held by whites or his political enemies. Even former Prime Minister Ian Smith, who had bravely stayed on in the country after its defeat in an attempt to help guide it, had a little plinking rifle he used for pest control on his ranch confiscated With all the weaponry confiscated, Mugabe's reign of terror began. He began systematically abusing, expropriating, and otherwise tyrannizing the now un-armed whites, sending his thugs to rough them up, take their things, drag dissidents off to prison, and so on. Full expropriation of white-owned property soon followed. Meanwhile, he also carried out the Gukurahundi, during which time his thugs tried to wipe out the Ndebele, killing tens upon tens of thousands

@flightradar24 Just let the Trauma Chicken die already. Poor thing

Post-maintenance test flights can be boring. Sometimes you find ways to let everyone know.

@Sassafrass_84 I give you the Indian Reservation system as Exhibit A

Welfare was supposed to be a hand up. Instead it created laziness and dependency. This was never meant to be a career lifestyle with free loaders for generations. We have been robbed and overtaxed for so long. Infuriating.

Patriots, it’s time to lock-in. You were trained and created for this exact moment in history. You were given the knowledge for a reason. Do not waste it. The world needs you. Focus. It’s time to put on The Armor of God.

The illegal who tried to run down an ICE agent (and got shot and killed) had a Social Security card. We were told they don’t get SSNs, can’t access benefits, and they don’t get driver’s licenses. Yet here we are. And we’re supposed to believe they’re not voting in our elections too? Give me a break.

@nmlinguaphile My wife approves of this meme. Now if I can just get her to wear traditional while carrying my AR for a photo op 🤔

Found on FB today.