[ARC5] OT: B-36 Nuke Article

[Lee]

I think there were 76 episodes of the 12 O Clock TV series.  The first 
couple years were in B/W and then the series transitioned over to 
color.  I loved the series too.  The actual original movie was used by 
one of my MBA professors in a leadership course I took.  There are mot 
too many movies I can stand to watch more then once, but that is not 
true for me watching 12 O Clock High. The barren empty airfield shown at 
the beginning and end of the movie version reminds me of the time I 
visited my old Army barracks at Camp Funston at Ft Riley, Kansas many 
years after I was out of the military.  (1st Division, 4th Cavalry).  
The empty barracks and weeds around it gave me a very "spooky" feeling.  
I was stationed there in 1957.  Went back there around 20 years later.  
The barracks were from WW2 or earlier.  I was a Signal Corps guy.  My 
callsign was FOGHORN  We used mainly WW2 radios such as BC-610 but did 
have R-390 receivers.       Great movie and TV series.   You want to 
hear some noise?  Listen to B-52s going overhead a few hundred feet up 
such as at Bossier City, Louisiana.

Lee, w0vt


On 11/27/2016 3:49 PM, David Stinson wrote:
> I remember, as a little boy running-around in the woods
> in northern Louisiana in the 60s, B-17 bombers
> flying at tree-top level, dropping fire-ant bait in a futile
> attempt to stop their invasion.  The sound of four Wright
> Cyclones passing overhead at about 300 feet is
> unforgetable, especailly after watching episodes of
> "12 O'Clock High" on our black-and-white Zenith.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B9W_uGDaUc&list=PL5jNBUpLxj3juUsoi50HsEgl86Eu8peJt&index=3 
>
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