Month: December 2020

Sea of change
Creates an opening 
For a new beginning

In response to Patrick Jennings Pic and a Word Challenge #252: Opening

P-38 in the Pacific

Perhaps Colonel Ben Kelsey, a P-38 test pilot, summed up the war bird’s legacy best of all. “(That) comfortable old cluck,” he said, “would fly like hell, fight like a wasp upstairs, and land like a butterfly.”

The P-38 was the most successful USAAF fighter in the Pacific War. It served with four separate air forces, spread out from Australia to Alaska. The most successful American Ace of the Second World War, Major Richard Bong, scored all 40 of his victories flying the P-38 Lightning over the Pacific.

P-38

The 11th Air Force was allocated the task of defending the Aleutian Islands, in the far north of the Pacific. There the extra reliability provided by the twin engines of the P-38 was essential, with missions being flown over long distances and in poor weather. The first P-38 victories of the war fell to pilots of the…

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…

Australia’s highest scoring fighter pilot of WWII, Clive ‘Killer’ Caldwell, helps push his Spitfire CR-C JL394 out of camouflage, Aug. 1943

The Royal Australian Air Force, the Royal Indian Air Force and the RAF also used Spitfires against Japanese forces in the Pacific theater. The first Spitfires in the Far East were two photo-reconnaissance (PR IV) aircraft which operated from airfields in India from October 1942.

Clive Caldwell

Japanese raids on Northern Australia hastened the formation in late 1942 of No. 1 Wing RAAF comprising No. 54 RAF Squadron No. 452 Squadron RAAF, and No. 457 Squadron RAAF under the command of  Clive Caldwell. The wing arrived at Darwin in February 1943, and saw constant action until September. The Mk Vc versions received by the RAAF proved unreliable and, initially at least, had a relatively high loss rate. This was due to several factors, including pilot inexperience, engine over-speed due…

Heaven Calling by Matt Shaw
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

“Sometimes it’s nice to step away from the horrors of my mind and explore the side of me that isn’t talked about quite so much; the side which shows, despite the darkness dwelling within, I actually have a heart too.” ~ Matt Shaw

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Synopsis-
Josh and Holly could face anything thrown at them all the time they had each other. Their love would conquer anything and the world was their oyster. But when a tragic accident tears Josh away from Holly she realises that, without her husband, she cannot cope and her world begins to crumble; her loss being more than she can handle. Until, that is, she receives a phone call.
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Her late husband.
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The same time every day; he doesn’t appear to know what has happened to him and Holly can’t bring herself to…

CONSUMED
The “TASTY” new horror novel from Matt Shaw

Since I am a huge fan, and I follow both of Matt’s Facebook pages, I got to watch as he began writing & posted updates for this one. His teaser posts made me crazy! ‘Warnings’ by him included things like ‘I may have crossed the line on this bit’ or ‘I might get some complaints on that bit’, “WARNING: NOT FOR THE EASILY SHOCKED. SOME SCENES MAY BE DISTRESSING!” Warnings, to me, are a wonderful selling point. (I like to say that warning labels on books are like warning labels on prescription bottles, the worse the warning…the better the content. Alcohol may intensify the effect? Thanks for the suggestion! Don’t read this on a full stomach? Don’t mind if I do!)
I do love what the Amazon page says…” A tasty new horror from the author who brought you “The Cabin”…

Trapped by Jack Kilborn
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I’m not a big camper. Whenever I had to go camping with my ex, I always pondered the term ‘Happy Camper’. Have you ever seen one? I’ve never smelled one, either.
Throw a troubled & unlawful childhood into my file – and I could have been in this story. Pissed off, city dwelling, and detained kids – forced on a camping trip by their sponsors, soon find out that forced camping* isn’t the worst thing that could happen to them.
*I use the term FORCED CAMPING in the literal sense, as opposed to homelessness.

My favorite thing is that it’s a Michigan backdrop, but that could be a least favorite thing, too. Just because the story surrounded troubled kids doesn’t mean they had to be from Detroit :p Just teasing! REALLY!
It is a story, with good characters, and, a…

This blog is not the typical Sweet of The Month blog but I just had to do this.
It’s been about 4 months into my sweet on the month. I have been buying these biscuits first at retail and now at wholesale. I can’t stop. They go with every drink you can imagine. From Bissap juice to orange and carbonated drinks. This is my go-to the biscuit.

Perk Biscuit!

If you not in West Africa, I’m not sure you have had the opportunity to taste this milky goodness. It’s not your average cookie biscuit.
I know I go through these phases but this has been the longest. Perk Biscuit has been the only one to last more than 3 months. Even as I type this, I just finished one pack of it.

Why We Love It

I’m a girl with a sweet tooth. I dont know about you but im…

How many friends do you have? How many of them can you count on to have your back? How many are also inspiring you to become a better version of your self?

It’s said that friends are the sisters or brothers you choose. They know all about you and still like you. I know for a fact that the friends I have are people I can count on, people who would push me to be a better version of myself. Both male and female friends. These are people I trust.

How do you meet such friends? By sifting through your acquaintances. Get to know them, get to know about them, their family, their friends, their hangouts, things they like to do and if it resonates with you, then you know you can now be friends.

I have also had people I called friends who betrayed me, we’re not there for…

We don’t have all the answers, but we do have purpose.

Andy

It’s movie that depicts love, immortality, grief, loss and learning to accept what is and only hope for what may be.

Andromache of Scythia, also know as Andy is the leader of a group of immortal mercenaries with the ability to heal. Her team go on revenge mission after being caught in a trap.

As they head back to plan their revenge and get payback, another immortal is ‘born’ and Andy has to go get her before she is shipped off to some research facility.

If you are looking for something a bit supernatural , action and heart warming, this is the right movie to watch. From grat scenes and lines, its worth the watch.