BJ (UNCLASSIFIED)

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Tue Dec 4 01:04:39 UTC 2012


On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> P-84

I was way off. I clearly remember the P-80, but my mental picture as I
was posting was of the P-84/F-84, a pipe with wings attached.

Why, I haven't been so surprised since I discovered that the
"blockbuster" bomb was not only *much larger* than I remembered -
those things were HUGE! - but also that it was manufactured in Saint
Louis.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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