Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Bravo Zulu Captain Beach

[Coalbunny <coalbunny@vcn.com>]

Hey, anyone have anything on the Consolidated PBY Catalina, Vouth F4U
Corsair or the Grumman J2F-6 Duck?  My three favorites!  Ok, ok.  I have
a few more, but these I'm more interested in, as well as the Perch class
and Tang class subs.
Carl


Michael B Holt wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 15:33:11 -0600 "Mark Steed" writes:
> >Michael: "Bravo Zulu" is a U.S. Navy signal meaning "WELL DONE". I
> >think you deserve one. See the history of "Bravo Zulu" at:
> >http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq101-2.htm
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> >I am 48 years old now and still remember all of my childhood heroes
> >and nothing has changed my mind over the years. My old man was a U.S.
> >Naval Aviator in World War 2 (never call them pilots, pilots "drive"
> >ships).
> 
> I made an enemy for life when I was about 10.  I asked innocently
> why the Air Force had "pilots" when the Navy's term "aviator"
> obviously encompassed a greater range of skills.   One of the
> adults nearby was an Air Force pilot.
> 
> Oh, well.
> 
> > Growing up, my bedtime stories were about Halsey, Nimitz,
> >Hellcats, Wildcats, the Yorktown and the submarines Tang and Wahoo.
> 
> I'd have loved that.
> 
> >Don't even get me going on airplanes. They are and always will be my
> >first love after the wife and kids. My love of submarines is on an
> >even keel with the planes. I alternate between them all.
> 
> Hey, do you know how I might get the builder's prints of the F2A?
> 
> > I never met
> >Captain Beach but what an honor it would have been. It is also so sad
> >that our World War Two vets are leaving us at over 1000 a day.
> 
> We need to collect all the history we can.   Historians know that
> much is lost every day, and when there is no longer anyone who
> was really present at a given event, much of what happened is
> lost forever.
> 
> Mike H.
> 
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