There's a video on YT called Flying the Horsa Glider, and an old GPR lad describes the Waco as well. Worth a look. 👍

broncoremy, you are correct, and Taffy 3 saved the day. And you are spot on, the Surigao American group had many of the Pearl Harbor battleships in it. Someone knows their pacific war conflict. My GF served on Guadalcanal as a coxswain, then they had him shuttle supplies at night during the Guad'l struggle, and one night, they exchanged drivers, another borrowed coxswain swapped positions, and drove the boat back, they handed gramps a springfield rifle, so he just stayed with the marines as a foot soldier in a foxhole. He said a japanese soldier crawled into his foxhole at night and killed his partner, and he killed the Japanese soldier. Then later on, he was driving a higgins boat during New Georgia + Bouganville on assaults. Earlier, during New Georgia, he had already dropped the door under orders and cut someone's arm off. He was becoming PTSD. Then during his last assault before injury, he was driving the higgins on assault, and the japanese had straddled his higgins boat with shells. He said to the Lieutenant in charge of the boat, we are zeroed, if we stay on course, we''ll be hit. And wanted to change direction. The Lt pulled out his 45 and told him to stand course or he would shoot him on the spot. Then a shell obliterated everyone in the boat- except my grandfather, because the coxswain cockpit was the only armored part of the ship. He was evacuated somehow back to San francisco, and had verdicial voluntary blindness. It's blindness for no apparent physical reason. And now it's diagnosed as PTSD where the brain somehow shuts down the brain's vision, in order to not see anything more for safety. They also had to put him in a straight jacket, because he tried to kill anyone who came near him, literally with his bare hands. This lasted until they brought my grandma out to call his name, and he snapped out of it and began to see. They both stayed for a few months with a wealthy san francisco family who offered him a job, he declined, thanked them, and moved back home to Ohio. There are pictures of him in 1945/46 with just glassy eyes and 1000 yards stare. It took him a few years to snap out of that. Grandma said he was a gentle man on the 30's. But after the war, he became a mean person, unitl the 70s when he had a heart attack on apparently saw Jesus. Then he became a soft grateful for everything kind of person. and died of a 2nd heart attack two days after his 50th wedding anniversary party at 70. He was a happy and spiritual man by that time. He taught me so much.

Well, thats a propaganda film for you

@@ghillieboi613 I dont like the voice of that guy!

It's war time newsreel footage. They didn't have bookshelves full of material to identify vehicles then like we do now.

Ah yes, America in WW2 100% knows every name for every vehicle their enemy uses, especially when said vehicle is intentionally disguised.

Lookup the Maus and Ratte tanks and try to explain their name 🤨

And then it gets stuck on a rock

@@mr.astronuts3825 or flips on a slight incline, and then you hear angry German noises from the treeline in the distance

Luckily these things did not have enough armor so you could simply shoot it.

@@jakobc.2558 Then you reveal your position to the concealed Germans Also im pretty sure it was small arms proof