I caught the picture of Dorie Miller in the background of panel three. Don’t know if you folks are are aware of it or not but the next nuclear aircraft carrier being built will be named for him. According to Wikipedia:
“USS Doris Miller (CVN-81) is a future Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy.[5][6] Doris Miller is scheduled to be laid down January 2026, launched October 2029 and commissioned in 2030. The ship will be built at Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries (formerly Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding) in Newport News, Virginia.[1]
The ship will honor Messman Second Class Doris Miller, who received the Navy Cross for his actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor.[7] It will be the second ship named in his honor, the first being the destroyer escort USS Miller (FF-1091).”
It gets me that blacks go all weak-kneed and gushy over thugs rightfully put down by the police and follow Burn Loot Murder when they have genuine, bonafide heroes like Dorie Miller, the Tuskeegee Airmen, Chappie James and Clarence Thomas to look up to.
Many people don’t realize that the end to segregation and bigotry actually began in the military during WWII.
When the white GIs learned that the negro soldiers were just as able and courageous an any soldier. They returned to civilian life
with a new, educated view of their brothers in arms.
I wish I could find the reference, but I remember reading about a group of negro quartermaster Marines in the Pacific. Their job was
to haul ammunition to the front lines, but when they saw that too many of the fighting marines had been wounded or killed, they
refused to return to the relative safety of the rear. Instead, they picked up weapons dropped by fallen Marines, stayed and fought.
When a high-ranking officer saw this and offered to send white Marines up to replace the negros, the Lieutenant in charge replied,
“No thank you, Sir. I’ll keep the Marines I’ve got.”
That was the beginning of the end of segregation in the military, and later in civilian life.
Because the negros didn’t demand it, they PROVED that they were just as good as anyone else.
If any of my readers can find a link to that story, please post it here or email it to me. It needs to be spread. Thanks.
battle on Peleliu. the Marines 11th Depot unit. original orders were, carry in ammo and supplies, carry out the dead.. first trip out, said dead is dead, carry out the wounded.! with night fall a bunch of the 11th was stuck at forward position, so grabbed whatever, an relived marines so they could rest. (now comes the BS.) come morning, a white reinforcing unit, was sent in. the CO ordered the 11th out,, much to protest of the Lt. (Lt. was relived an sent to aid station due to “head wound” cuz no sane officer would take black over white.),, an Yes the Lt. (was saved at least 3 times by blacks.) was the spearhead of the anti-segregation.
it wasn’t till after Vietnam,, that any of this came to light in any normal paper..
also: little is mentioned that a black “quartermaster” gave the Marines the “flagpole” at Mount Suribachi
Or Robert Smalls. Speaking as a Southerner, there’s a man I would be proud to claim as an ancestor if I could. And I just ran across his story recently.
Eh, I knew about the Fast Frigate, but didn’t realise that they were going to name a Carrier after Dori Miller… I’m happy to.hear it… He deserves this honor.
And – as a retired Army Aviator (among the other MOS’s I carried) The Tuskeegee Airmen honestly said – They never lost a bomber.
I know of no other fighter group that said that.
And they got to fly my dream airplane (P-51A-D) . And came home to . . . stuff.
I used to pretend my L-19D/O-1D was a P-51 when I was on VR patrol,
and when masquerading as a fighter plane-type (with 14 rockets on board) when the USAF finked out and Squadron Leader Ramsey was my FAC.
One of my guys on the ground dubbed 839 as a FBG-19.
😀
The P-51 (once they got around to putting a bubble canopy on it) was one of the most beautiful airchines ever built. It was as gorgeous as it was deadly. Lockheed certainly knew how to build beautiful machines. Look at the Constellation or Lightning or the SR-71.
My uncle flew the P-51. He got shot down twice. The second time, his Commander told him that if he returned to base without his airplane again, to just keep walking.
New aphorism. Saw this in a book I was reading t’other day. I think the writer meant it to apply to war but it comes to me that it is a truism pretty much everywhere. I couldn’t find it anywhere on.line so I don’t know it’s originator.
Any how, here goes:
Chaos is god, and Murphy is its prophet.
That wall is for history that is being created NOW. To make people aware that history isn’t a dead thing in the past, it is constantly growing NOW. I like it.
I caught the picture of Dorie Miller in the background of panel three. Don’t know if you folks are are aware of it or not but the next nuclear aircraft carrier being built will be named for him. According to Wikipedia:
“USS Doris Miller (CVN-81) is a future Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy.[5][6] Doris Miller is scheduled to be laid down January 2026, launched October 2029 and commissioned in 2030. The ship will be built at Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries (formerly Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding) in Newport News, Virginia.[1]
The ship will honor Messman Second Class Doris Miller, who received the Navy Cross for his actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor.[7] It will be the second ship named in his honor, the first being the destroyer escort USS Miller (FF-1091).”
It gets me that blacks go all weak-kneed and gushy over thugs rightfully put down by the police and follow Burn Loot Murder when they have genuine, bonafide heroes like Dorie Miller, the Tuskeegee Airmen, Chappie James and Clarence Thomas to look up to.
Many people don’t realize that the end to segregation and bigotry actually began in the military during WWII.
When the white GIs learned that the negro soldiers were just as able and courageous an any soldier. They returned to civilian life
with a new, educated view of their brothers in arms.
I wish I could find the reference, but I remember reading about a group of negro quartermaster Marines in the Pacific. Their job was
to haul ammunition to the front lines, but when they saw that too many of the fighting marines had been wounded or killed, they
refused to return to the relative safety of the rear. Instead, they picked up weapons dropped by fallen Marines, stayed and fought.
When a high-ranking officer saw this and offered to send white Marines up to replace the negros, the Lieutenant in charge replied,
“No thank you, Sir. I’ll keep the Marines I’ve got.”
That was the beginning of the end of segregation in the military, and later in civilian life.
Because the negros didn’t demand it, they PROVED that they were just as good as anyone else.
If any of my readers can find a link to that story, please post it here or email it to me. It needs to be spread. Thanks.
battle on Peleliu. the Marines 11th Depot unit. original orders were, carry in ammo and supplies, carry out the dead.. first trip out, said dead is dead, carry out the wounded.! with night fall a bunch of the 11th was stuck at forward position, so grabbed whatever, an relived marines so they could rest. (now comes the BS.) come morning, a white reinforcing unit, was sent in. the CO ordered the 11th out,, much to protest of the Lt. (Lt. was relived an sent to aid station due to “head wound” cuz no sane officer would take black over white.),, an Yes the Lt. (was saved at least 3 times by blacks.) was the spearhead of the anti-segregation.
it wasn’t till after Vietnam,, that any of this came to light in any normal paper..
also: little is mentioned that a black “quartermaster” gave the Marines the “flagpole” at Mount Suribachi
I knew about the quartermaster, do you have a link to the rest?
https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/npswapa/extcontent/usmc/pcn-190-003132-00/sec10.htm
and no.. i can’t find the page. i know the one you are talking about,, but it is gone. (???)
https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/npswapa/extcontent/usmc/pcn-190-003132-00/sec1.htm
Or Robert Smalls. Speaking as a Southerner, there’s a man I would be proud to claim as an ancestor if I could. And I just ran across his story recently.
Eh, I knew about the Fast Frigate, but didn’t realise that they were going to name a Carrier after Dori Miller… I’m happy to.hear it… He deserves this honor.
And – as a retired Army Aviator (among the other MOS’s I carried) The Tuskeegee Airmen honestly said – They never lost a bomber.
I know of no other fighter group that said that.
And they got to fly my dream airplane (P-51A-D) . And came home to . . . stuff.
I used to pretend my L-19D/O-1D was a P-51 when I was on VR patrol,
and when masquerading as a fighter plane-type (with 14 rockets on board) when the USAF finked out and Squadron Leader Ramsey was my FAC.
One of my guys on the ground dubbed 839 as a FBG-19.
😀
The P-51 (once they got around to putting a bubble canopy on it) was one of the most beautiful airchines ever built. It was as gorgeous as it was deadly. Lockheed certainly knew how to build beautiful machines. Look at the Constellation or Lightning or the SR-71.
My uncle flew the P-51. He got shot down twice. The second time, his Commander told him that if he returned to base without his airplane again, to just keep walking.
New aphorism. Saw this in a book I was reading t’other day. I think the writer meant it to apply to war but it comes to me that it is a truism pretty much everywhere. I couldn’t find it anywhere on.line so I don’t know it’s originator.
Any how, here goes:
Chaos is god, and Murphy is its prophet.
Whatcha think? Works for.me.
that.. would explain so much..
That wall is for history that is being created NOW. To make people aware that history isn’t a dead thing in the past, it is constantly growing NOW. I like it.