This picture is definitely taken out of context and misused on purpose.  It's also like the famous picture of the Frenchman crying as the Nazis parade down Paris.....the Frenchman is not crying because the Nazis have overrun his nation; he's crying because he is greeting the Nazis as liberators and is joyful at the prospects of the Third Reich as a new beginning.  Vichy France didn't just happen overnight....many collaborated with Germany because they agreed with what they thought Hitler was trying to do.

I know which pic you are referring to Donnie...are you kidding? If not , I wish I had a scanner, because the pics you are talking about is in my "Posters of WWII" book, with the Frenchman crying because the Nazis DEFEATED France, not "Liberated" it from the 3rd Republic (IIRC the # of French Republics).Vichy France...don't hear much about that anymore...I saw in one of my catalogs all the newsreels/propaganda films produced by Vichy France from 1940-1944..bet that's an interesting watch 😉

Yes.My Dad graduated from Scranton Central HS in 1935. There just were not any jobs available. He was able to get work at a gas station in suburban Philly through a relative. Later, around 1940, he moved back to Scranton, and got a job with Coca-Cola, where he ended up staying (minus 3 years in the Service of Uncle Sam) until retirement.Dad said they were lucky in the fact his father was a lineman/troubleshooter for Scranton Electric (later absorbed into PA Power & Light), so his dad never lost his job, no matter how bad times got people still needed lights. They were one of the few families in their neighborhood that had a car. So they were relatively unscathed by the Depression.My Mom graduated from Scranton Tech in 1941, and the difference in jobs were amazing as by 1942 jobs were plentiful. Mom worked for the Murray Corp, which made wing components for the B-29.But the Depression was harder on her family. Her dad was a coal miner, and the work ebbed and flowed with demand, so they had flush and lean times. Mom remembers walking the railroad tracks with her sisters picking up coal that fell off the passing trains. While they had food on the table and a warm house, there never was much extra money, yet Mom said they were happy. "I guess we were too stupid to know we were poor" is what she said.Funny thing, children of the Depression are different...they save EVERYTHING (I think my dad had saved every electric motor out of every washing machine my Mom ever had), yet as a kid myself and my siblings had everyting we could ask for, without being spoiled. Yet we had to all work, hard, no excuses (try working for your Dad as a HS kid ;))  and I think that work ethic was a result of not being able to find a job, and once a job was found, the fear of losing it. Kids these days need a healthy dose of my Dad's work ethic.    I'll ask my wife about her Mom's experiences on the farm in the '30's and 40's and post them at a later time

I was not offended  but it is no more than I expect out of the MSM.  I just find the cover to be in extremely bad taste.  It seems to me that it is mocking the sacrifices made on Iwo Jima. 

+1 I can see some of the Iwo Marines wanting to kick some Time butt over this, and some of today's Marines gladly willing to do that for them.MSM libs...well, at least maggots serve a purpose. I haven't figured one out for the MSM besides pushing an insane agenda   

Although I am far from being an atheist or even agnostic.  I don't think you need God in politics and the public sector to have a moral society.  I think what has contributed more to moral decline is the new moral relativism and narcissistic tendencies in American society.  People just do not seem to be as friendly now as when I was little.  For example, when I was a kid we knew everyone on our block.  Today, I know one neighbor and the guy down the street whose son mine plays with.  This despite attempts to be friendly, and I have lived here for 3 years.  But, I do agree with you that if we put God back in the public square and people were not almost afraid to admit they are religious it would go a long way towards promoting a more moral society.  One of the essential missing ingredients is public censure for bad actions.

Good point about neighborhoods. In the small town I grew up in, everyone knew everyone else, warts and all. And as a kid, if you were doing someting bad or really wrong, and an adult saw you, good chance your Mom got a phone call or a visit about your actions. "Self-policing" might not be a bad term here. There was a moral authority, with fear of punishment.I am not a religious man, as Donnie knows, but I believe in the 10 Commandments, and I myself feel if they were posted in public places, mabye people might actually READ them, and live by them, we'd do a lot better. 

What you fail to mention guys is that MiG's were far cheaper to build so that more of them could be built.  10:1 kill ratio is no good when you have a 30:1 advantage in numbers.  Besides, we never actually engaged Russian pilots who were arguably as well trained as our pilots were.

I don't have links but I remember seeing on the Military channel of the History channel, and reading years ago that Soviet pilots DID fly combat in the Mig-15...they could not use their radios, however, as that would be a give-a-way

Dr Richard Attenbourough (sp), the bullet headed guy with no neck who is always on the Military Channel playing with cool old weapons. He's got the dream job IMHO, plus his hair always looks great 😉

Mail call?  I was half thinking you were talking about Future Weapons but that guy has no hair.

I was making a joke Phid...Dr Attenbourough is a bald as a bullet. 😀 He usually will pop up on "Top 10 Rifles", "Tales of the Gun", etc...I don't know the name of the guy on "FutureWeapons", but that would be cool too 😉 

besides the Autobahn and the Volkswagen, there can be little good said about Nazi Germany and it's socio-economic policies.That said, their weapons reseach and development was awsome. If they did not embrace anti-Semitism as an official govermental policy,  I think Germany would have developed an atomic bomb before the US.And in airplanes, armor, and small arms, Germany would field designs whose influence would be felt well into the 70's.And, like it or not, Nazi Germany helped put a man on the moon.Sounds silly, but just think if all that talent was put to peaceful purposes....     

While the Mig-15 had a better rate of climb and had heavier weapons, the M3 .50 cal MG's on the F-86 had a very high rate of fire (1000-1200 rpm), and the “E” model had a radar-ranging gunsite, not to menton the F-86 was a more stable gun platform than the Mig. That , coupled with the superior skills of USAF pilots, helped gain that 10-1 ratio. I question that statement that 1500 rds of .50 might be needed to shoot down a Mig…they were not that heavily armored.Not to mention, the F-86 looks like a fighter...the Mig looks like a barrel with wings.