Back In The Good Old Days <Thread #2>

The Amiot 143



The Amiot 143 was not only ugly but a distinctively mediocre performer on the battlefield. The Amiot 143 was a French bomber and reconnaissance craft first developed in 1928 that was heavily involved in the early stages of World War Two. Perhaps the most hideous aircraft ever made by a nation known for its fine forms!

"There are recurring cycles, ups and downs, but the course of events is essentially the same, with small variations. It has been said that history repeats itself. This is perhaps not quite correct; it merely rhymes." – Theodor Reik, 1965

Ben Stiller in New York with his father Jerry Stiller. NY 1978

During WW11, Irena Sendler, a Polish worker, got permission to work in the War ghetto, as a plumbing/sewer specialist. However, she had an ulterior motive.

Irena smuggled Jewish infants out in the bottom of the toolbox she carried. She also carried a burlap sack in the back of her truck, for larger children.

Irena kept a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers, of course, wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the noise the children would make.

She managed to smuggle out 2500 children. She was eventually caught, and beaten severely, the Nazis broke both of her legs and arms.

Irena kept a record of the names of all the children she had smuggled out in a glass jar that she buried under a tree in her backyard.

After the war, she tried to locate any parents who may have survived and tried to reunite the family. Most had been gassed.

The children whose parents didn't survive were adopted or placed into foster homes.

100,000 Iranian Women March Against The Hijab Law, Tehran, 1979

1JVC Pyramid Television - 1970s

Merry Christmas, from 1972

Don't threaten me with a good time

Able Seaman George Parker joined up as a boy of 15-years-old in 1916 and served for 43 years, becoming the Navy's oldest serving British Able Seaman. It's said that George had drunk 600 gallons of issue rum in his career.