Speaker 1: It is The Jesse Kelly Show.
Speaker 2: Final hour of The Jesse Kelly Show on a Memorial Day,
Speaker 2: reminding you. If you miss any part of the show,
Speaker 2: you can download at iHeart, Spotify iTunes. We'll continue with
Speaker 2: the little Korean War talk, probably do some air war talk.
Speaker 2: I want to read a medal of honor citation who
Speaker 2: are just doing whatever we can do to honor the
Speaker 2: falling and remember what today it's about. It is a
Speaker 2: day to remember them. Before I continue with the Korean War,
Speaker 2: remember them. Maybe you wonder, well, what can I do?
Speaker 2: You know, what can I Is there anything I can
Speaker 2: do on today or maybe do with your family. Maybe
Speaker 2: you're thinking, hey, I'd like I'd like I'd like my
Speaker 2: kids to acknowledge the day first, the most basic thing
Speaker 2: that everybody can do. Gather around and talk about it
Speaker 2: doesn't have to be long, five minutes, talk about it.
Speaker 2: Remind everybody what today is about, why we have it.
Speaker 1: You can do that.
Speaker 2: Most people listening to the sound of my voice right now,
Speaker 2: I would venture to gainst you. I bet you have
Speaker 2: something close to you drivable distance away that has to
Speaker 2: do with the troops or maybe look, maybe it's a
Speaker 2: simple memorial plaque.
Speaker 1: Maybe you have.
Speaker 2: A grave site. Maybe maybe there's a big cemetery where
Speaker 2: you are. Maybe if you did a little Internet search,
Speaker 2: maybe you'll find your town. As warriors who have fallen
Speaker 2: and they are they're they're laid to rest, show up
Speaker 2: and lay down flowers, the really cool powerful things show up,
Speaker 2: lay down flowers. Maybe it's maybe you got a museum.
Speaker 2: Maybe you got a museum talks about these things. Pop
Speaker 2: in the museum. There are things you can physically do
Speaker 2: today to show your respect.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: Back to the Korean War.
Speaker 1: North Korea invade South Korea.
Speaker 2: We don't like it. We go over there, we decide
Speaker 2: to stop it. We start beating up on the North
Speaker 2: Koreans and sending them back north. It's a very very
Speaker 2: good thing. We don't have to get into all the
Speaker 2: controversy right now. I've talked about it before. But as
Speaker 2: we're sending the North Koreans back north, there is a discussion,
Speaker 2: there are high level discussions that hey, how far do
Speaker 2: we want to take This is just sending them back
Speaker 2: home enough? Should we pursue them. It's one thing to
Speaker 2: get someone out when someone is invaded in an area
Speaker 2: where they shouldn't be it's another thing entirely to take
Speaker 2: that fight into their territory where they are. We're beating
Speaker 2: up on them pretty good, don't get wrong on their
Speaker 2: spirits fighting, but we're beaten up on him pretty good.
Speaker 2: We're thinking, well, why don't we just keep going, Why
Speaker 2: don't we just run these dirty comedies as far north
Speaker 2: as we possibly can? And we decided we were going
Speaker 2: to do that. Unbeknownst to us at this time, a
Speaker 2: man maybe you've heard of him, by the name of
Speaker 2: Mao ze Dung, the communist dictator of China. He has
Speaker 2: decided this is a perfect opportunity to teach these Americans
Speaker 2: a lesson. Remember, Mao at this point hates us for
Speaker 2: a variety of reasons. The list is too long to
Speaker 2: even go into at this point. But Mao does not
Speaker 2: like us, does not like the United States of America,
Speaker 2: and he thinks, okay, we have an opportunity here. And remember,
Speaker 2: when it comes to communism, life is cheap. It's not
Speaker 2: worth anything, certainly for the Chinese how they practice it.
Speaker 2: So Mao just starts sending whorors in hordes of Chinese
Speaker 2: troops south. Some of these guys didn't even have weapons Mao, though,
Speaker 2: remember big of an evil piece of trash as he was.
Speaker 2: Mao was a seasoned warrior by this point in time,
Speaker 2: had been involved in conflict and war for a long time.
Speaker 2: He knew some things. Mao knew that the Americans had
Speaker 2: air power, the North Koreans didn't. The Chinese didn't the
Speaker 2: Americans did. Mao knew our planes were constantly overhead observing
Speaker 2: what was happening on the ground, bringing that information back down.
Speaker 2: So how if you want to send in let's call it,
Speaker 2: five hundred thousand Chinese troops down into North Korea, how
Speaker 2: in the world can you get them down there without
Speaker 2: the Americans finding out you get them down there? Well,
Speaker 2: they did things like traveled at night. During the day,
Speaker 2: they would hide into trees to the point they would
Speaker 2: stre themselves to the trees to sleep standing up during
Speaker 2: the days, so the plains flying overhead couldn't see it.
Speaker 2: When it was time to sleep, you find a tunnel
Speaker 2: of some kind a forest. They did all kinds of
Speaker 2: different things. So we are cruising north after these North Koreans,
Speaker 2: and we do not realize that the Chinese legions of
Speaker 2: them are coming south to meet us, and the Chinese
Speaker 2: have a plan because there was a place known as
Speaker 2: Chosen Reservoir. It was a gigantic, frozen over reservoir, of course,
Speaker 2: surrounded by mountains. We are talking a freezing cold, mountainous area.
Speaker 2: But part of the appeal for Mao and the Chinese
Speaker 2: was this. There was really one road into it and
Speaker 2: one road out of it, and that was the same road. Sorry,
Speaker 2: there's one road, all right, one way in, one way out.
Speaker 2: If you outnumber the Americans, if your intention is to
Speaker 2: wipe out the Americans, well you couldn't possibly pick a
Speaker 2: better place. You have the numbers, find a way to
Speaker 2: cut off that road that's the Americans lifeline, and you
Speaker 2: might just have a victory that the world would fear.
Speaker 2: We got all the way up there, marines and army
Speaker 2: Chosen Reservoir, and then the Chinese began to attack, and
Speaker 2: we figured out pretty quickly that we had eight Chinese
Speaker 2: divisions around us. Now the men are dying. How fierce
Speaker 2: is the fighting? Well, I've throwed you before the fighting
Speaker 2: in Korea, not all of it, but for the most
Speaker 2: part it's hill top fighting. You want to claim high
Speaker 2: ground always, so we would fight to get high ground.
Speaker 2: If the Chinese had it, we would have to fight
Speaker 2: our way up the hill to take it. Then once
Speaker 2: we took it, they would gather up their troops and
Speaker 2: counterattack and take it back. Then we would take it back.
Speaker 2: It's an endless fight for hilltops. That's really one of
Speaker 2: the central themes you'll see if you ever do any
Speaker 2: reading in the Korean War. How much artillery did we drop?
Speaker 1: Did you know?
Speaker 2: In some cases the height of these hills was reduced
Speaker 2: by twenty feet or more. That's how much artillery was
Speaker 2: dropped on top of the hill. Horrible fighting in the
Speaker 2: freezing cold, in the rocks. You are there now, Remember
Speaker 2: you have a line. You always have a line your unit,
Speaker 2: whatever size it is, you have a line. If you're marching,
Speaker 2: you're marching in a line. If you're on patrol, you're
Speaker 2: in a line. You don't want anyone too far ahead,
Speaker 2: too far behind. You want a line. When you dig
Speaker 2: in and the defense, it's surprise, surprise, circular. There's a line, right.
Speaker 2: No one's allowed through the line. You keep people out
Speaker 2: of the lines. That's the idea. If someone gets in
Speaker 2: between your lines, behind your lines, it creates a nightmare.
Speaker 2: You want everyone out in front of all your fighting holes,
Speaker 2: you have fields of fire. Then you can stop him here,
Speaker 2: and he's gonna stop him there, and you understand the
Speaker 2: basic battle lines. One thing you read about over and
Speaker 2: over and over and over and over again was the Chinese.
Speaker 2: They would have bells and whistles to signal time to charge,
Speaker 2: so they would have a mass. You know, let's say
Speaker 2: we have the top of a hill. They would a mass,
Speaker 2: and as they gathered up when it was time to go,
Speaker 2: they would communicate that it was time to charge us
Speaker 2: with bells and whistles. So you're an American, it's fifteen
Speaker 2: below on top of the mountain. You can't feel your feet.
Speaker 2: You are dug in as much as you can be
Speaker 2: in a line around the mountain. It's pitch black. You
Speaker 2: can't see anything. You certainly can't see down the hill.
Speaker 2: And then the whistles and bells start going off, and
Speaker 2: you know the Chinese are coming, and they're coming in
Speaker 2: such numbers that even though you're killing them as fast
Speaker 2: as you can possibly kill them, quantity as equality all
Speaker 2: its oone. There are so many of them that they
Speaker 2: are now behind your lines. In your lines. You're not
Speaker 2: only trying to machine gun and grenade the people in
Speaker 2: front of you. You are having to fight off bayonet
Speaker 2: attacks by people who've gotten in behind you. It sounds
Speaker 2: like the most terrifying thing in the world when you
Speaker 2: hear a Korean War veteran describe it, and men died
Speaker 2: our men died in droves in Korea. And if you
Speaker 2: have a Korean War veteran in your family today, it's
Speaker 2: a great day to maybe ask him about it. Maybe
Speaker 2: he's ready to talk about it a little bit. Those
Speaker 2: guys are getting old, all right, You want to hear
Speaker 2: those stories. Maybe he has friends he want honored today
Speaker 2: that didn't come home. All right, we'll move on. Still
Speaker 2: a Medal of honor citation.
Speaker 1: It is the Jesse.
Speaker 2: Kelly Show on a Memorial Day, as we attempt as
Speaker 2: best we can to honor the fallen, to talk about
Speaker 2: the troops, to talk about the things they did. Here's
Speaker 2: one for you. You ever heard of John Harlan Willis. John
Speaker 2: Harlan Willis was a Navy corman. Remember a Navy corman.
Speaker 2: He is essentially a medic for marines. Marines don't have
Speaker 2: their own medics, so Navy provides corman who live with
Speaker 2: fight with. They really are Marines, we had our own.
Speaker 2: We call him. This was in World War Two. Let
Speaker 2: me read his citation for you for conspicuous gallantry and
Speaker 2: intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond
Speaker 2: the call of duty as Platoon Corman serving in third Battalion,
Speaker 2: twenty seventh Marines, fifth Marine Division during operations against enemy
Speaker 2: Japanese forces on Iwo Jima Volcano Islands twenty eight to
Speaker 2: February nineteen forty five. Constantly imperiled by artillery fire and
Speaker 2: mortar fire from strong and mutually supporting pillboxes and caves
Speaker 2: Studding Hill three six' two in the Enemy's Cross island,
Speaker 2: Defenses willis resolutely administered first aid to Many marines wounded
Speaker 2: during the furious close in, fighting until he himself was
Speaker 2: struck by strapnel and ordered back to the battle aid.
Speaker 2: Station without waiting for medical, release he quickly returned to his, company,
Speaker 2: and during a savage hand to hand enemy counter, attack
Speaker 2: daringly advanced to the extreme front lines under mortar and
Speaker 2: sniper fire to aid a marine lying wounded in a shell,
Speaker 2: hole completely unmindful of his own. Danger as The japanese
Speaker 2: intensified their, Attack willis calmly continued to administer blood plasma
Speaker 2: to his, patient promptly returning to the, first returning the
Speaker 2: first hostile, grenade which landed in the shell hole while
Speaker 2: he was, working and hurling back seven more in quick
Speaker 2: succession before the ninth exploded in his hand and instantly killed.
Speaker 2: Him by his great personal valor in saving others at
Speaker 2: the sacrifice of his own, life he inspired his, companions
Speaker 2: although terrifically, outnumbered to launch a fiercely determined attack and
Speaker 2: repulse the. Enemy his exceptional fortitude and courage in the
Speaker 2: performance of duty reflect the highest credit Upon willis and
Speaker 2: THE Us Naval, service and he gallantly gave his life
Speaker 2: for his. Country you know what it would be like
Speaker 2: to be fighting The japanese in fierce combat like, that
Speaker 2: find yourself with some terrible wound and a shell, crater
Speaker 2: and to see that guy coming over the top to save,
Speaker 2: you to help. You can you imagine how rigging amazing
Speaker 2: that would. Be and a, guy as he's saving your,
Speaker 2: life chucks back eight grenades The japanese are throwing into the.
Speaker 2: Hole he's saving your life while chucking back enemy. Grenades
Speaker 2: i'm gonna do another. One who's one for? You have
Speaker 2: you ever heard Of WILLIAM. H Pittsen. BARGER Us Air.
Speaker 2: Force by the, way this one took place In. Vietnam
Speaker 2: here is The medal Of honor. Citation airman First Class
Speaker 2: William pitsenbarger distinguished himself by extreme battor On april, eleventh
Speaker 2: nineteen sixty, six Near Kam, Maie republic Of, vietnam while
Speaker 2: assigned as a para rescue crew Member detachment six thirty
Speaker 2: Eighth Aerospace rescue And Recovery. Squadron on that, Date Airman
Speaker 2: pitsenbarger was a board of rescue helicopter responding to a
Speaker 2: call for evacuation of casualties incurred in an ongoing firefight
Speaker 2: between elements of The United States army's First Infantry division
Speaker 2: and a sizeable enemy enemy force approximately thirty five miles
Speaker 2: east Of. Saigon with complete disregard for personal, Safety Airman
Speaker 2: William pitsenbarger volunteered to ride a hoist more than one
Speaker 2: hundred feet through the jungle to the. Ground on the,
Speaker 2: ground he organized and coordinated rescue, efforts cared for the,
Speaker 2: wounded prepared for prepared casualties for, evacuation and ensured that
Speaker 2: the recovery operation continued in a smooth and orderly. Fashion
Speaker 2: through his personal, efforts the evacuation of the wounded was greatly,
Speaker 2: expedited as each of the nine casualties evacuated that day were.
Speaker 2: Recovered William pitsenbarger refused evacuation in order to get one
Speaker 2: more soldier one more wounded soldier to. Safety after several,
Speaker 2: pickups one of the two rescue helicopters involved in the
Speaker 2: evacuation was struck by heavy enemy ground fire and was
Speaker 2: forced to leave the scene for an emergency. Landing Air
Speaker 2: William pitsenbarger stayed behind on the ground to perform medical.
Speaker 2: Duties shortly, thereafter the area came under sniper and mortar.
Speaker 2: Fire during subsequent attempt to evacuate the, Site american forces
Speaker 2: came under heavy assault by a large Viet cong. Force
Speaker 2: when the enemy launched the, assault the evacuation was called
Speaker 2: off And Airman William pittsenberger took up arms with the besieged.
Speaker 2: Infantrymen he courageously resisted the, enemy braving intense gunfire to
Speaker 2: gather and distribute vital ammunition To american. Defenders as the
Speaker 2: battle raged, on he repeatedly exposed himself to enemy, fire
Speaker 2: to care for the, wounded pull them out of the
Speaker 2: line of, fire and returned fire whenever he, could during
Speaker 2: which time he was wounded three.
Speaker 1: Times despite his.
Speaker 2: Wounds he valiantly fought, on simultaneously treating as many wounded as.
Speaker 2: Possible and the vicious fighting which, followed The american forces
Speaker 2: suffered eighty percent casualties and their perimeter was breached And
Speaker 2: Airman William pitsenbarger was fatally. Wounded Airman William pitsenbarger exposed
Speaker 2: himself to almost certain death by staying on the ground
Speaker 2: and perished while saving the lives of wounded. Infantrymen his
Speaker 2: bravery and determination exemplify the highest professional standards and traditions
Speaker 2: of military, service and reflect great credit upon himself his
Speaker 2: unit in The United States Air. Force not too, shabby right'
Speaker 2: do one? More let's do one, More, hey.
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Speaker 2: before we get to the middle of honor citation the next,
Speaker 2: one let's just recap really quickly what battle we're talking about.
Speaker 2: Here The battle Of. Saipan saipan was part of The
Speaker 2: World War two in The, pacific and it was terrible
Speaker 2: for a variety of. Reasons they were all terrible in
Speaker 2: their own. Way but this is one of those battles
Speaker 2: where we finally started encountering. Civilians you, know if you
Speaker 2: go to a battle Like guadalcanal or something like, that
Speaker 2: every person you see who was in An american is an.
Speaker 2: Enemy you just kill them. All let's kill them. All
Speaker 2: but as we started getting closer and closer to The
Speaker 2: japanese home, islands we started to encounter a large population of,
Speaker 2: civilians and the population of civilians On. Saipan they were
Speaker 2: brainwashed repeatedly by The japanese to think that if they
Speaker 2: fell Into american, hands That americans would treat them the
Speaker 2: way The japanese treated everybody they. Captured you, know The
Speaker 2: japanese when they took control of a civilian population In
Speaker 2: World war, two did a lot of rape and murder and, torture, rape, murder, torture, rape,
Speaker 2: murder torture. Constantly you see this over and over. Again
Speaker 2: it didn't matter who it. Was it'd Be, Chinese, Australians,
Speaker 2: americans printed. Whoever The China japanese came into contact with
Speaker 2: In World War. Two there was a lot of, rape,
Speaker 2: murder and. Torture it was just, horrible absolutely.
Speaker 3: Horrible.
Speaker 2: FILIPINOS a good, analyst well The, japanese the gull all
Speaker 2: this took managed to convince so many people In saipan
Speaker 2: and everywhere else that that's how we operated. Too that
Speaker 2: if you if you gave, up if you're you're sitting,
Speaker 2: there you're huddled in a. Cave if you give up
Speaker 2: to The, americans they're gonna do terrible things to. You
Speaker 2: you're better off killing your children than surrendering To. Americans
Speaker 2: it's uniquely terrible because as you, know we don't do
Speaker 2: that sort of. Thing everyone who surrendered to, us we
Speaker 2: treated them, wonderfully, food, water. Shelter certainly children Were. Americans
Speaker 2: we have a heart for. Children the children were always cared,
Speaker 2: for guys or dumping chocolates on. Them the. Works saipan
Speaker 2: is the. One if you're familiar with, it you already.
Speaker 2: Know saipan is the one that's famous for two main.
Speaker 2: Reasons the first is we got to a place in
Speaker 2: the island where there was a, cliff and the civilians
Speaker 2: were gathered in the cliff and they started jumping off
Speaker 2: the cliff to their, death and parents were throwing their
Speaker 2: children off the cliff to their. Death stories Of american
Speaker 2: troops begging them not to sobbing as they watched. It
Speaker 2: these are hardened, troops just can't handle the sight of,
Speaker 2: it all. Right that's one Thing saipan's famous. For the
Speaker 2: other thing is just, again it's one of those things
Speaker 2: out of a horror. Movie it's famous for the largest
Speaker 2: and Last bonzei charge of The. Japanese The japanese had
Speaker 2: tried to use these quote bonzei charges many times during the.
Speaker 2: War they never ever. Worked, ever there was just some
Speaker 2: kind of ancient warrior fascination with fixing, bayonets drawing your
Speaker 2: sword and charging at the. Enemy, well that may have
Speaker 2: worked out in the year eighteen oh. Five in the
Speaker 2: year nineteen forty, five you're just going to get mowed.
Speaker 2: Down it's just not going to. Work so The japanese
Speaker 2: had tried this a few, times and to be, fair
Speaker 2: oftentimes they knew it was. Suicidal they always knew it was,
Speaker 2: Suicidal i'll put it that. Way it's not like they
Speaker 2: thought they were going to win the. Battle but if
Speaker 2: they thought they were at a place where they couldn't,
Speaker 2: win and they were going to die. Anyway why not
Speaker 2: go out in a blaze of. Glory maybe you get
Speaker 2: through and take An american with. You so On, sipan
Speaker 2: The japanese get to a point where they know they cannot.
Speaker 2: Win we are rooting them out of. Caves we are.
Speaker 2: Winning it's been a costly. Battle we are winning In,
Speaker 2: saipan and The japanese know they are. Lost they are
Speaker 2: running out of, food, water, ammunition the. Works we are
Speaker 2: close enough to them where we can hear. Them we
Speaker 2: can hear their, lines and we're hearing this is at.
Speaker 2: Nighttime we're hearing something that is a little bit. Unsettling
Speaker 2: The japanese sound like they are getting, drunk and they
Speaker 2: are singing. Songs generally not a great sign because noise
Speaker 2: discipline is a really important. Thing if you get a
Speaker 2: group of Drunken japanese soldiers singing melancholy, songs that probably
Speaker 2: means something bad is, happening and something bad did. Happen
Speaker 2: they fixed, bayonets drew their. Swords there weren't just soldiers.
Speaker 2: Here keep in mind they also armed the civilians as
Speaker 2: best they, could and thouans Of, japanese thousands of them
Speaker 2: charge The american lines and the largest Deadliest bondzi, charge
Speaker 2: and there were so many of. Them scores Of americans.
Speaker 2: Died let's talk about this, Gentleman Captain BEN. L. Solomon
Speaker 2: he was a surgeon at the, time but please remember
Speaker 2: that he was also a former machine. Guninstructor he may
Speaker 2: have been a surgeon, now but this dude was already a.
Speaker 2: Stud what, happened, well here he. Was Captain BEN. L
Speaker 2: salomon was serving At saipan and The Marianna's islands On july,
Speaker 2: seventh nineteen forty, four as the surgeon for the Second,
Speaker 2: battalion one hundred and Fifth Infantry, regiment twenty Seventh Infantry.
Speaker 2: Division the regiments first and second battalions were attacked by
Speaker 2: an overwhelming force estimated between three thousand and five Thousand japanese.
Speaker 2: Soldiers it was one of the largest attacks attempted in
Speaker 2: The pacific theater During World WAR. Ii although both units fought,
Speaker 2: furiously the enemy soon penetrated the battalion's combined perimeter to
Speaker 2: talk about lines and inflicted overwhelming. Casualties in the first
Speaker 2: minutes of the. Attack approximately thirty wounded soldiers, walked, crawled
Speaker 2: or were carried Into Captain solomon's aid, station and the
Speaker 2: small tent soon filled with wounded. Men as the perimeter
Speaker 2: began to be, overrun it became increasingly difficult For Captain
Speaker 2: solomon to work on the. Wounded he then saw A
Speaker 2: japanese soldier bayoneting one of the wounded soldiers lying near the,
Speaker 2: tent firing from the squatting. Position Captain solomon quickly killed
Speaker 2: the enemy. Soldier, then as he turned his attention back
Speaker 2: to the, wounded two More japanese soldiers appeared in the
Speaker 2: front entrance of the. Tent as these enemy soldiers were,
Speaker 2: killed four more crawled under the tent, walls rushing Then
Speaker 2: captain rushing, Them Captain solomon kicked the knife out of
Speaker 2: the hand of, one shot, another and bayoneted a. Third
Speaker 2: Captain solomon butted the fourth enemy soldier in the, stomach
Speaker 2: and a wounded comrade then shot and killed the enemy.
Speaker 2: Soldier realizing the gravity of the, Situation Captain solomon ordered
Speaker 2: the wounded to make their way as best they could
Speaker 2: back to the regimental aid station while he attempted to
Speaker 2: hold off the enemy until they were. Clear Captain solomon
Speaker 2: then grabbed a rifle from one of the wounded and
Speaker 2: rushed out of the tent after four men were killed
Speaker 2: while manning a machine. Gun Captain solomon took control of.
Speaker 2: It when his body was later, found ninety eight dead
Speaker 2: enemy soldiers were piled in front of his. Position Captain
Speaker 2: solomon's extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty are in keeping
Speaker 2: with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great
Speaker 2: credit upon himself his unit in The United States. Army
Speaker 2: what a Stud and that's the kind of thing today is.
Speaker 2: About not just to honor, him all of our guys
Speaker 2: men and women who have died throughout all of our.
Speaker 2: Battles that's What Memorial day is. For and to remember
Speaker 2: keep their families in your prayers because today is a
Speaker 2: very very, heavy heavy heavy day for children and widows
Speaker 2: in this. Country All, right one more quick segment The
Speaker 2: Jesse Kelly.
Speaker 1: Show final segment Of The Jesse Kelly show on A.
Speaker 1: Monday we'll be back to our.
Speaker 2: Regularly scheduled programming tomorrow with politics and goofing off and everything.
Speaker 2: Else but, today you, know freedom is not. Free today
Speaker 2: we honor the fallen in this. Country that is What
Speaker 2: Memorial day is. About talk about the air. Guys the
Speaker 2: air guys haven't gotten a lot of love during this,
Speaker 2: show but for, Instance World war two air. Guys but
Speaker 2: it's not just. Them even, today it's a hazardous thing
Speaker 2: to go up in a military. Aircraft how many times
Speaker 2: have we had to come on this show and talk
Speaker 2: about a training, accident, combat whatever the case may, be
Speaker 2: a lot of, explosions a lot of jet, fuel a
Speaker 2: lot of things can go wrong when you're up there
Speaker 2: in a plane flying on behalf of this. Country if
Speaker 2: we want to make it About World War, two we
Speaker 2: can talk about our brave air crews who died in
Speaker 2: droves during that. War and a lot of them didn't die,
Speaker 2: fast is WHAT i. Mean so, often if you're, in for,
Speaker 2: instance a bomber, plane back then the bomber has more
Speaker 2: range than a fighter, plane so it has more, fuel bigger,
Speaker 2: engines more. Fuel the bomber can go. Further your fighter
Speaker 2: planes will escort you if you're the bomber, plane as
Speaker 2: far as they, can but at some point they're out of.
Speaker 2: Gas they got to turn around and go back. Home, well,
Speaker 2: you if you are a bomber, plane you really are
Speaker 2: a sitting duck for fighter. Planes you, know many of you,
Speaker 2: know my favorite plane ever is THE b Seventeen Flying.
Speaker 2: Fortress it's way smaller and wasn't near the plane as
Speaker 2: the Super fortress that came. LATER i understand there are better,
Speaker 2: planes But i've just always been SINCE i was a
Speaker 2: kid A b seventeen quote Flying fortress. Fan if you
Speaker 2: look up A b Seventeen Flying, fortress it's hard not
Speaker 2: to admire all the. Guns, right you got guns coming
Speaker 2: out the, side you got a gun out the, top
Speaker 2: you got a ball turret gunner in the, bottom you
Speaker 2: got a tail, gunner you got the engineer's got.
Speaker 1: Gun there's freaking guns. Everywhere it is A, fortress, Right.
Speaker 2: No, no it's. Not it's a tin box that's, heavy,
Speaker 2: slow and a fighter plane is going to eat it.
Speaker 2: Alive and the fighter, planes you, know The germans weren't.
Speaker 2: Stupid the fighter planes are gonna target what whatever brings
Speaker 2: the plane, down so they're gonna shoot out your engines
Speaker 2: and things like. That, well if your plane starts to go,
Speaker 2: Down Lord, willing you have a parachute, on but then
Speaker 2: you have to make your way to the door in
Speaker 2: a plane that is going. DOWN i have thankfully never
Speaker 2: had to experience that. Before but those who have and
Speaker 2: people who've studied the physics of, it talk about how
Speaker 2: difficult that. Is you, know when the movies they make
Speaker 2: it look really. Easy Indiana, jones the plane's going, down
Speaker 2: you just get to the door and jump out, Right,
Speaker 2: no because all kinds of different. Reasons it's difficult to
Speaker 2: even get to the. Door have you ever seen a
Speaker 2: be seventeen in? PERSON i? Have have you seen the?
Speaker 2: Door you can see this in movies if you want
Speaker 2: a good idea of. It it's not very. Big even
Speaker 2: if you get to the, door your parachute being on
Speaker 2: your back may prevent you from getting out the. Door
Speaker 2: and remember there is very much a time limit on
Speaker 2: this because gravity being what it, is.
Speaker 1: The ground is coming up.
Speaker 2: Quickly men died in these things simply waiting to crunch
Speaker 2: off the. Ground certain. Death what's that two? Minutes? Like
Speaker 2: what is that not the longest two minutes in the
Speaker 2: history of? Mankind your plan's going. Down you can't get
Speaker 2: to the, door and you're just waiting to splatter on the.
Speaker 2: Ground and, remember The germans knew exactly what they were
Speaker 2: doing with their. Defenses they shot down our guys all the,
Speaker 2: time and we were not like The. British The british
Speaker 2: wanted to do their bombing at night for a couple different,
Speaker 2: reasons but they wanted to do their bombing at. Night
Speaker 2: we didn't like. That we didn't like how that. Looked
Speaker 2: what if we, miss civilians might. Die so we went
Speaker 2: during the day against a first, rate near peer, army
Speaker 2: and our guys died in. Droves many people have died
Speaker 2: in the service of this country and many people. Will
Speaker 2: that's what it is to be a. Country no matter
Speaker 2: what size your country, is your country demands demands that
Speaker 2: you have brave young. People we're always young. People brave
Speaker 2: young people who step, up put on the uniform and
Speaker 2: leave your shores to go defend. It and we talked
Speaker 2: about it in the. Beginning they gave up the rest
Speaker 2: of their. Lives it's not just that they died in that.
Speaker 2: Moment they didn't get to do the things you got
Speaker 2: to do. Today it's not to make you feel guilty at.
Speaker 2: All you should not feel. GUILTY i hope you enjoyed
Speaker 2: hot dogs and world Famous Jesse Kelly. BERGERS i hope
Speaker 2: you went to the. Pool hope you gathered with friends and.
Speaker 2: Family maybe you had a beer or a water at the.
Speaker 2: Bar but let's remember these people gave up so much for,
Speaker 2: us all, Right that is what today is. About we
Speaker 2: will come back tomorrow and do a regular. Show in
Speaker 2: case you're wondering WHY i haven't played taps, yet my
Speaker 2: intention was to play it at the, end so in
Speaker 2: honor of everybody who was given their life for this.
Speaker 2: Country able.
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Speaker 2: B. B that's. All