Ordnance Mitchell B-25, the Ultimate Strafer

Pacific Paratrooper

Running a gantlet of flak and enemy fighters on September 2, 1943, North American B-25Ds of the 405th Bomb Squadron employ tactics devised by Major Paul “Pappy” Gunn in an attack on Japanese transports in New Guinea’s Wewak Harbor. “Tokyo Sleeper” by: Jack Fellows

Pappy Gunn didn’t develop the skip-bombing technique. It was first used in battle by B-17s on October 23, 1942 (tail end of Chapter 4 in Ken’s Men, Vol. I). The B-25 was certainly better suited for the job and Pappy Gunn and Jack Fox were the ones to modify the B-25 to make it work. Major Edward Larner deserves a lot of credit for convincing his squadron’s crews that they could pull off the technique in battle after they watched his crew successfully use it on a ship during the Battle of the Bismarck Sea.

Searching on the internet, one can locate more stories containing the…

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Soul Dancing: A Big Pile of Smart-Ass Predictions for 2021 That Probably Won’t Come True but I Can Still Dream About Them in My Fortress of Solitude

Bonnywood Manor

Note: This list is actually from two years ago, but the song remains the same, for the most part…

1. Car manufacturers will finally develop a special button for your dashboard which, when pushed, will cause the car in front of you at the drive-thru ATM, wherein the occupant is taking forever to make a simple transaction, to be hurled into the blazing hell of the sun.

2. Said manufacturers will also develop a secondary button, one that can be pushed if you happen to be the twit who can’t grasp modern technology or science, sending a message to Fox News that they should defend your idiocy no matter how much you lie and thus preventing your otherwise-deserved immolation. These dual buttons will basically exemplify current American politics. (Future Historian: “And in the year 2019, 2020, 2021it all came down to button-pushing and scare tactics and threats of…

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It’s All Relative: A Powerful Perspective on Life

Shayan's Sphere

How far do you agree with the term ‘relativity’? Is everything in the world relative, or there is something called absolutism? Just a century ago, Albert Einstein, often regarded as one of the most influential physicist of written history gave his famous theory on relativity. But relativity indeed is not something which is limited only upto physics. The concept of relativity is even applicable to our day to day life. What is right for you might be wrong for me. What is a success for me might be a failure to you. There’s nothing like goodness or badness in this world. If there’s something, it’s our own perspective which we choose to look at things. Once you change the focus of your lenses you’ll discover that everything in the way is taking a different shape or form.

For example, let us take the case of joy and sorrow in life…

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« Une fois que les orpailleurs sont arrivés chez nous… Je les ai vues ravager les sources de la rivière avec l’avidité de chiens affamées. » — Barbara Crane Navarro

Originally posted on Barbara Crane Navarro: Chaman Yanomami, Amazonas, Venezuela – photo: Barbara Crane Navarro “C’est ce que disent nos aînés qui sont de grands chamans. Ce sont les mots des xapiri, qu’ils nous transmettent. Ce sont ceux que je veux que les blancs entendent. … Une fois que les orpailleurs sont arrivés chez nous……

« Une fois que les orpailleurs sont arrivés chez nous… Je les ai vues ravager les sources de la rivière avec l’avidité de chiens affamées. » — Barbara Crane Navarro

Ils font danser leurs puissants esprits pour la protéger 🦉 — JEREMIKARUS — Barbara Crane Navarro

« A única razão pela qual a floresta ainda não está se transformando no caos é que alguns grandes xamãs ainda estão fazendo seus espíritos poderosos dançarem para protegê-la » — Barbara Crane Navarro — Tiny Life «La seule raison pour laquelle la forêt ne se transforme pas encore en chaos, c’est que certains grands chamanes font encore […] […]

Ils font danser leurs puissants esprits pour la protéger 🦉 — JEREMIKARUS — Barbara Crane Navarro

« A única razão pela qual a floresta ainda não está se transformando no caos é que alguns grandes xamãs ainda estão fazendo seus espíritos poderosos dançarem para protegê-la » — Barbara Crane Navarro — Tiny Life — Mágica Mistura✨ — Barbara Crane Navarro

Xamã Yanomami convocando espíritos para evitar que invasores destruam a floresta – desenho no papel: Wacayowë Yanomami Xamã Yanomami convocando espíritos para evitar que invasores destruam a floresta – desenho no papel: Wacayowë Yanomami « Os espíritos xapiri do xamã esmagam com raiva os aviões dos garimpeiros na floresta. 48 more words « A única razão pela qual […]

« A única razão pela qual a floresta ainda não está se transformando no caos é que alguns grandes xamãs ainda estão fazendo seus espíritos poderosos dançarem para protegê-la » — Barbara Crane Navarro — Tiny Life — Mágica Mistura✨ — Barbara Crane Navarro

Alphabet soup for the soul – “U”

Wonderful thoughts/ideas…

Words from Walden

U is for Universe

” Ordinary men hate solitude. But the master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe”

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Universe, God, Source, The Tao. These are all different names for the same thing.

These are all ways of saying creator or creation.

The Tao describes the Universe as;

everything and nothing

good and bad

up and down

right and wrong

light and dark.

If this is so then although, God has given us all the gifts of creation, the truth is that She is not pre occupied with what any one of us do. The whole thing is one big connected cosmic joke and each part (good and bad) is necessary for God to experience God.

In this context God (or the universe) is everything. As that old Santa looking guy who had conversations with God has…

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The Bright side of PTSD: understanding Firuze, Amelia, and Harry?

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

Smells, noises or lights can suddenly awaken some of us, and refuse to let us sleep until identified. Long-lasting childhood traumas can leave your Inner Child reluctant to come out from under the coffee table. Some ideas, illustrated by examples from historical and fictional sages, may help your Inner Parent to teach safety and trust to that Frightened Inner Child so that your Inner Adult, your competent and ambitious self who’d rather ignore both Child and Parent, can get on with succeeding in life.

First, one possible intrepretation of Hillel’s famous pair of questions:
A. אם אין אני לי, מי לי (Im ein ani li, mi li: “If I am not for myself, who will be for me,”) is that each of us must parent and protect his or her own inner child, and

B. ? וכשאני לעצמי, מה אני ; (Vekesh’ani le’atzmi, mah ani ? “And if I…

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Florida water treatment plant was involved in second security incident before poisoning attempt: report | ZDNet

Cybersecurity company Dragos released a report this week showing a browser from the city of Oldsmar visited a website with malicious code the same day as another attack.
— Read on www.zdnet.com/article/florida-water-treatment-plant-was-involved-in-second-security-incident-before-poisoning-attempt-report/

(Me: have to wonder how much of this is designed to grow cyber-security business and how much is real threat)