Question for Bookwus

Hiya CW,

I've seen 30 Seconds Over Tokyo a number of times.  And, although the actual mission was "Hollywoodized" it was a pretty good flick which helped with wartime morale.  And I've read Doolittle's account of the raid in I Could Never Be So Lucky Again.  Yeah, and I do think that the B-25 is a gorgeous airplane. 

My late father-in-law also got his Ruptured Duck for service seen in WWII.

So, I am familiar with the history of the name.  And that well may have been rattling around the back of my brain (with heaven knows what else) when I did name the Bus The Ruptured Duck.  If so, I wasn't really conscious of it at the moment.  But the Duck, like the B-25 in 30 Seconds Over Tokyo, was named for what it did.  Or didn't do.  In the case of my Bus, it was named after a few trips down the freeway.  Even on a good day we got passed by everything on the road.  They went by us just like we were a .....................   And that's where the name comes from.  It waddles down the road like a Ruptured Duck.

Somebody on one of these forums once said that naming a Bus was just something that would come to you.  You'll know when you have the right name.  That was certainly the case for me. 

Hiya Anthony,

Thanks!  I appreciate the comment.

It has been something of a labor of love getting the Duck back into this shape.  The goal when I started was to make it look as if it were less than a year old.

Now most of the work on the Bus is maintaining that look.

Hiya CW,

I spent my time in the military during a different war but I have always thought that Battleground was the single best picture I have seen about the soldiers who fight in the front lines.  Even though my army experiences happened a good 20 years after this film was made I found it really spoke to my memories of army life.  And to my father-in-law's memories and he was a vet of WWII.  As a matter of fact, he and I went to see Saving Private Ryan.  A good picture, no doubt about it.  But both he and I could identify a lot more with the characters and the action in Battleground.

...and Thank You, Yancey!

C.

Thank you! Plans were captured that indicated that if they could secure Montana they were going to head STRAIGHT down to Colorado on ONE front, and up to Canada on the other.....SOMEONE had to stop them, and Im PROUD to have been able to be part of the small Defensive force to stop it from happening....My three years in Montana was filled with MANY eight hours days and SOME "on-call" weekends to keep Great Falls from falling into the hands of those commie bastards....I THINK my unit was awarded a ribbon for this but I dont remember....

                                                            Yancey