[lit-ideas] Re: Punitive Expeditions
- From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 22:22:10 +0100
Ah Bill. You've been missed here. Didn't know you'd lost a friend
from
that crew; sorry
Judy Evans, Cardiff
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From: "William Ball" <ballnw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 10:00 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Punitive Expeditions
Not sure how Robert Paul knows I've "seen combat."
I "saw" it from 28,000 feet over North Korea in 1952 when
some flak burst a bit of a ways down and off too starboard.
Other than that we bored holes in the midnight sky for a total
of 10 missions and then they called our war off.
Unfortunately, we lost our radar man, a good friend of mine from
Glen Cove, Long Island when he was breaking in our sister crew's
radar guy on their first mission. Shot down near Sinuiju (sp) on
the
Yalu.
Other than a few sea lane surveillance missions along the coast
of
Siberia, I can't say I saw much of any war, except a sick feeling
in
briefing
before the mission. "If you're shot down in the Sea of Japan in
January,
you've got two minutes to get your ass in a dingy before you
die." Some
guys wore their survival suits under the flying suit for good
measure.
That's all the war stories I' ve got. Had some good arguments in
the bar
at Yokota Base in the Officer's Club though. No medals for that
though.
Yeah, war is hell.
William Ball
Norma Ball
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert Paul
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 1:30 PM
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Punitive Expeditions
Eric wrote:
> Lawrence is probably the only person on this list who knows
what war
is
> like, how terrible and chaotic.
This is an astonishing statement, unless you mean that Lawrence
has some
special insight into the terror and chaos of war denied the rest
of us.
Lawrence was in the Marines, true. But others on the list have
also
served in the military, and at least two, John Wager (who posted
about
his reaction to hearing of the Kent State killings, while in
Vietnam,
just days ago) and Bill Ball, have actually been in combat.
Robert Paul
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