| Author | Message | ||
     Dirt |
No, not the Book of Buell or 25 years of Buell. I found some other reading material to occupy a bit of my time at the beach. I picked up a copy of "Dauntless Helldivers" by Hal Buell, a highly decorated WWII era naval dive bomber pilot. The book details Hal's experiences as a young pilot during several major conflicts in the Pacific. He is the only carrier pilot known to have survived all five of the major carrier-to-carrier battles of the Pacific. The book contains many good stories of combat but also touches on what life was like in the states during this period. In one such tale he tells of being in Des Moines in 1943 for a speaking engagement to sell war bonds and finding the city completely crowded with WACs on liberty from the nearby Army training center. Women of all shapes and sizes roaming about as far as the eye could see. He received many whistles, cat-calls and some not-so-discrete propositions from love starved women. His convertible became inundated with woman at a traffic light. Someone opened the door and in an instant the car was filled to overflow. As he put it "the male macho sex role had been reversed". I guess this is what they mean by the good old days. Anyway, it's a good read and used paperbacks can be found for just a few dollars. Oh, by the way, there are no references to faulty bearings, isolators, belts and it will certainly take your mind off that new fad which has started to sweep the country, cubing. | ||
| Lemonchili_x1 |
Nice, I'll keep an eye out for it  |
