Jim "Pee Wee" Martin

[Jason]

Got any Brits who compare? No, you don't.

There were plenty of Brit, Canadian, Australian, etc. paratroopers.

[cronus]

Got any Brits who compare? No, you don't.

There were plenty of Brit, Canadian, Australian, etc. paratroopers.

Wifes dad was a paratrooper and he piloted those risky looking gliders too. How many Americans flew the gliders?

[laklak]

AH, come on, you all know that Tom Cruise single handedly destroyed the entire Luftwaffe ME-262 fleet using a captured Walther P-38 while strapped to the tail-wheel of a crashing B-17, thus paving the way for the Normandy Invasion.

[mistermack]

More about ''Winkle'' Brown from the top of his wiki page.
He holds two world records that will probably never be passed. The greatest number of aircraft carrier landings (in an era when each one was a life-threatening operation) and the greatest number of different aircraft test-flown. (again, from a time when test pilots were dying right left and centre).
He also performed the first ever landing on a carrier of a twin engined plane, and had to land it substantially slower than it's official stall speed.

Captain Eric Melrose "Winkle" Brown, RN, CBE, DSC, AFC, Hon FRAeS (born 21 January 1919) is a British former Royal Navy officer and test pilot who, in testing 487 different types of aircraft, has flown more types of aircraft than anyone else in history.[1][2] He also holds the world record for most aircraft carrier landings performed (2,407)[1] and is the Fleet Air Arm's most decorated living pilot.[3]

He also interrogated Herman Goring at the end of the war, and was among the first of the allies to enter the Belsen Concentration camp, and interrogated the notorious male and female commandants.

[Hermit]

More about ''Winkle'' Brown from the top of his wiki page.
He holds two world records that will probably never be passed. The greatest number of aircraft carrier landings (in an era when each one was a life-threatening operation) and the greatest number of different aircraft test-flown. (again, from a time when test pilots were dying right left and centre).
He also performed the first ever landing on a carrier of a twin engined plane, and had to land it substantially slower than it's official stall speed.

Captain Eric Melrose "Winkle" Brown, RN, CBE, DSC, AFC, Hon FRAeS (born 21 January 1919) is a British former Royal Navy officer and test pilot who, in testing 487 different types of aircraft, has flown more types of aircraft than anyone else in history.[1][2] He also holds the world record for most aircraft carrier landings performed (2,407)[1] and is the Fleet Air Arm's most decorated living pilot.[3]

He also interrogated Herman Goring at the end of the war, and was among the first of the allies to enter the Belsen Concentration camp, and interrogated the notorious male and female commandants.

All well and good, but unless he does a parachute jump when he's 93 he cannot possibly be a badass. Gallstones makes the rules about that, so shut your gob, mkay?

[tattuchu]

All well and good, but unless he does a parachute jump when he's 93 he cannot possibly be a badass. Gallstones makes the rules about that, so shut your gob, mkay?

By the way I've no idea what "winkle" means but, to answer someone's question, "pee wee" in American English refers to either someone who is very small or something that is very small (particularly a very small penis).

[mistermack]

All well and good, but unless he does a parachute jump when he's 93 he cannot possibly be a badass. Gallstones makes the rules about that, so shut your gob, mkay?

That's true. You have to be a real badass to let them strap you to a REAL parachutist, and just float down in tandem. That's so badass, Winkle Brown would probably be too embarrassed to do it.
I know even dogs can do it, but they must be badass dogs.

I suppose I should feel badass about the last time I flew in a plane. Someone else took off, and flew it and landed it, but I was badass enough to sit in my seat. Gimme some respect !!

[piscator]

Last time I flew in a plane, I took the sniveling route and flew it myself. I would have liked to man up and ride in the back, but my feet won't reach the pedals, but I'm so insecure I didn't want to be embarrassed flying my plane from the front, but it was the lesser of two evils as much as proof of my puissant pussyness. Maybe when that other nut drops, I'll harden the fuck up and make my girlfriend fly it a couple laps around Montague.

[mistermack]

I'm not surprised Peewee survived the drop during the war, if he was strapped tight to a great big paratrooper.

His jump assistant probably took all the bullets.

[Gallstones]

^^^^Irrelevant. Jim Martin is a badass.

Actually, the US has no monopoly on badasses. Douglas Bader, anybody? And there are plenty more, so shove your chauvinism up your arsehole.

Nah, I'm going to hang onto it. I'm enjoying it too much.

[Gallstones]

More about ''Winkle'' Brown from the top of his wiki page.
He holds two world records that will probably never be passed. The greatest number of aircraft carrier landings (in an era when each one was a life-threatening operation) and the greatest number of different aircraft test-flown. (again, from a time when test pilots were dying right left and centre).
He also performed the first ever landing on a carrier of a twin engined plane, and had to land it substantially slower than it's official stall speed.

Captain Eric Melrose "Winkle" Brown, RN, CBE, DSC, AFC, Hon FRAeS (born 21 January 1919) is a British former Royal Navy officer and test pilot who, in testing 487 different types of aircraft, has flown more types of aircraft than anyone else in history.[1][2] He also holds the world record for most aircraft carrier landings performed (2,407)[1] and is the Fleet Air Arm's most decorated living pilot.[3]

He also interrogated Herman Goring at the end of the war, and was among the first of the allies to enter the Belsen Concentration camp, and interrogated the notorious male and female commandants.

All well and good, but unless he does a parachute jump when he's 93 he cannot possibly be a badass. Gallstones makes the rules about that, so shut your gob, mkay?

Exactly. This thread is a celebration of US military exceptionalism.
Rah!

[mistermack]

What I find typically american about the ''jump'' is the lengths that they went to, to hide the fact that he didn't jump, didn't land, and was just strapped to an instructor.
They carefully draped a big flag all around the instructors body to try to hide his outline in the air, and then concocted the video of the old cunt carefully posed lying on his back, as if he had just landed, on his own.

They had to unstrap the instructor, get him out of shot, lie the old cunt down, and make him pretend that he had just landed on his own. Just to maintain the fiction that he could still do a solo parachute jump. That makes him as big a cunt as the rest of them, for going along with it.

Like I said, it's typically american media. Fuckin pathetic.

edit. It's a bit like that photo of the soldiers raising the flag on some Jap Island.
Totally bogus, it was done AFTER it actually happened, for the camera.
Bit like the Russians, where they re-staged the meeting of the two armies near Stalingrad, for the benefit of camera. But at least they weren't inventing something that never actually happened.

[DaveDodo007]

93 yo WWII D Day Paratrooper Jumps Again into Normandy

Martin was part of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division that parachuted down over Utah Beach in their bid to retake France and, eventually, the rest of Europe from Nazi Germany. They actually touched down in enemy-controlled territory a night before what's referred to as D-Day.
Viewing WWII through a soldier's lens
Vet recalls 'Saving Private Ryan' battle

His jump Thursday in the same area was different and -- despite his being 93 years old now -- a whole lot easier.

"It didn't (compare)," Martin said, "because there wasn't anybody shooting at me today."

Got any Brits who compare? No, you don't.

Rah, Rah USA!

I hope he kicked some EU ass whilst he was there.

[mistermack]

I think Americans have the impression that D Day was all done by the Americans.
In fact it was anything but.

This is from another CNN article, about the actual makeup of the campaign:

The plan for Operation Overlord -- as D-Day was codenamed -- was largely that of Gen. Bernard Montgomery, the land force commander. The Royal Navy had overall responsibility for Operation Neptune, the naval plan. Of the 1,213 warships involved, 200 were American and 892 were British; of the 4,126 landing craft involved, 805 were American and 3,261 were British.
Indeed, 31% of all U.S. supplies used during D-Day came directly from Britain, while two-thirds of the 12,000 aircraft involved were also British, as were two-thirds of those that landed in occupied France. Despite the initial slaughter at Omaha, casualties across the American and British beaches were much the same. This is not to belittle the U.S. effort but rather to add context and a wider, 360-degree view. History needs to teach as well as entertain.

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/05/opini ... le_sidebar

[Gallstones]

What I find typically american about the ''jump'' is the lengths that they went to, to hide the fact that he didn't jump, didn't land, and was just strapped to an instructor.
They carefully draped a big flag all around the instructors body to try to hide his outline in the air, and then concocted the video of the old cunt carefully posed lying on his back, as if he had just landed, on his own.

They had to unstrap the instructor, get him out of shot, lie the old cunt down, and make him pretend that he had just landed on his own. Just to maintain the fiction that he could still do a solo parachute jump. That makes him as big a cunt as the rest of them, for going along with it.

Like I said, it's typically american media. Fuckin pathetic.

Yeah, I see what you mean, you can barely tell there is a tandem because the US media and the American flag are doing their job so well.






If you make it to 93 you will probably need a tandem to take a shit.