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MrNubbz

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Re: OT: Obituaries Thread
« Reply #1078 on: October 22, 2024, 10:47:38 AM »
Quote from: medinabuckeye1 on October 22, 2024, 10:32:11 AM
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He isn't famous like most listed here but this is the last WWII Veteran that I really knew. Jim Plummer died at 100. I had many conversations with him at meetings.

Jim graduated HS early, in December, 1941 and joined the Navy in early 1942 because he was mad about Pearl Harbor. He flew blimps out of S. America looking for U-Boats during the war.
Blimps ,holy crap the deck guns on U-Boats could have brought them down no problem.Cut from a different cloth back then. Fair Winds and Following Seas to Mr. Plummer
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Re: OT: Obituaries Thread
« Reply #1079 on: October 22, 2024, 11:06:22 AM »
Quote from: MrNubbz on October 22, 2024, 10:47:38 AM
Blimps ,holy crap the deck guns on U-Boats could have brought them down no problem.Cut from a different cloth back then. Fair Winds and Following Seas to Mr. Plummer
I read once about a submarine that actually did shoot down a blimp.  You are right, a deck gun could take down a blimp but the purpose of the blimps was to spot the submarines underwater.  A submerged submarine is completely helpless against a blimp.  

After the war he flew P51's in the Guard.  

At our Kiwanis meetings on Veterans' Day we have a tradition of singing a medley of the Service Branch songs and the Veterans all stand during theirs.  Jim stood for almost the entire medley because he served in the Navy, then the Army (in the Army Air Force before the Air Force was formed), then the Air Force.  
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« Reply #1080 on: October 22, 2024, 11:39:32 PM »
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Re: OT: Obituaries Thread
« Reply #1081 on: October 22, 2024, 11:58:24 PM »
81 was a very good year
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« Reply #1082 on: October 23, 2024, 12:00:48 AM »
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« Reply #1083 on: October 23, 2024, 11:36:16 AM »
Quote from: FearlessF on October 22, 2024, 11:58:24 PM
81 was a very good year
Heck yeah!  Rush released Moving Pictures that year, which has my favorite Rush song of all time, Red Barchetta.

They also released the live double album Exit...Stage Left later that same year, which is the first CD I ever bought for myself, a few years later-- probably 1988 I'd guess.
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Re: OT: Obituaries Thread
« Reply #1084 on: October 23, 2024, 01:38:51 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on October 22, 2024, 11:58:24 PM
81 was a very good year
For Fernando and the Dodgers as a poster stated

He got everything a pitcher in MLB can accomplish
20 win season
Cy young
#WorldSeries champion twice
Rookie of the year
1 No hitter game
All star many times RIP him and LaSorda are having a lively conversation
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Re: OT: Obituaries Thread
« Reply #1085 on: October 23, 2024, 08:33:59 PM »
Quote from: MrNubbz on October 23, 2024, 01:38:51 PM
For Fernando and the Dodgers as a poster stated

He got everything a pitcher in MLB can accomplish
20 win season
Cy young
#WorldSeries champion twice
Rookie of the year
1 No hitter game
All star many times RIP him and LaSorda are having a lively conversation

I'm not sure if either is understanding the other very much, lol.  But who loves baseball more than those two?
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