The Flying Fortress was built by Boeing, as Sgt. Schultz obviously didn't know.

but only Boeing made the B-17 flying fortress.
So why is the German being despicable? He could have been sincerely mistaken. That Lance, being a P@!%k again.

So Mother was sending the poor Germans food? That's a nice thing to do.

Let him starve! The despicable Kraut! On the other hand, what is Lance's war record? Oh, I suppose he was on "essential" duty back home tripping up spurious memento dealers and the like.

Anyway, this site, which seems to know, says Boeing designed the B-17G and made the FIRST ones, but they were ultimately made by Boeing, Douglas and Lockheed (hey, there was a war on). So looks like Lance is not only heartless but WRONG!

http://www.airliners.net/aircraft-data/stats.main?id=391

I did not know that about Lockheed and Douglas also building the B-17. Always thought it was strictly a Boeing product. learn something new everyday at buzz.mn!

Besides bad mouthing a poor mistaken German kid (jeez Lance, you'd think it was the guy who shot Jim down), Lance is once again goose stepping all over someone's innocent fantasy.

What do you suggest Lance, stop being charitable? Better yet, put rat poison in the next CARE package, that will teach them lying weinerschnitzels.

Turns out Johann McKraut (Irish father) did find that scrap in the wreckage of the B-17. Jim had a buddy from flight school who flew a C-47 transport that cracked up on landing. Jim carried it as a memento of the friendship and a reminder of the fragility and transience of life.

hpoulter is correct. During The War (TM), many companies subcontracted out manufacturing to other companies, some of which were their business rivals. Some aircraft types (and subassemblies for those aircraft) were made by an astonishing variety of different companies. Also companies that you wouldn't think would be in the war material business cranked out all sorts of military stuff. A friend of mine owns an M-1 Garand rifle made by Underwood typewriter. It was all part of the war effort and everyone cooperated to produce the tools of war. Uncle Sam was throwing money left and right so everyone could profit.

that Douglas did not build the Flying Fortress. Dang, all that time spent watching the History Channel and I can't remember this. Obviously I need to spend more time in front of the tv.

because Boeing merged with McDonnell Douglas in the 1990s.

he could (gasp!) be among us now!

search everybody for a wallet full of Silver Certificates! and don't let them duck into any doorways.

just for jollies, though, Ford made bomber airframes during Big Dust-Up II. can't remember which ones, might have been B-27s. "Fly Or Report Defeciencies."

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if this is a new economy, how come everybody wants my old-fashioned money?

It was the practice then to use whatever company was available to make parts. If Boeing was all busy stamping out wing panels, they might subcontract to almost anybody to make routine parts. The B-24 was designed by Consolidated, but most were built by Ford.

Also notable-- it's unlikely any structural part would have a name stamped into it-- that weakens the part-- a rubber stamped name and part number maybe.

As an extreme example, the 1950's legendary R-390A radio, originally designed by Collins, was eventually built by Motorola, Stuart-Warner, Teledyne, and even a few rebadged by Helena Rubenstein.

It doesn't matter that Lance was mistaken. The old lady ended the food shipments. The German correspondent committed suicide. His wife was reduced to streetwalking. Their only child, a daughter, died of tetanus contracted while digging in garbage dumps for food.

In a final irony, only a week after her death, the city was saved by American planes in the Berlin Airlift.

the R-390 series got its facelift from Helena Rubenstein. pretty radio.

the Collins heritage, plus its military nature, made it heavier than a Rubenstein family reunion.

basically, during the war, whoever had space and workers and machinery got contracts. that's why civilian goods were put on hiatus unless absolutely necessary.

one necessity was radio tubes. but also needed at the front. so anything released for domestic use was stamped on the tube and box as MR, maintenance replacement. prevent, shall we say, 'diversions" of vital military goods.

some of the relabelling was clumsy, making existing stocks "legal." all the new stuff was JAN, USA, or USN unless there was a dire shortage, and then some MRs were printed so Roosevelt could keep morale up at home.
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if this is a new economy, how come everybody wants my old-fashioned money?

Jim's mom (I assume that's his mom and not his wife) seems quite calm tossing out the rather gruesome words "...in which Jim plunged to his death..."

I would have expected her to say something more like "It was part of Jim's flying fortress. He was killed when his plane was shot down, God rest his soul." But perhaps mid-century Minneapolitans were hardy, no-nonsense types.

Next week:

Lance: "What's this knife?"

Wasp-waisted blonde: "That's the knife that Doris plunged into my husband's heart, severing his aorta and practically ripping his heart from his chest. He razzed her one too many times about that Panamanian real estate she got swindled on. More tea, inspector?"

Further evidence of Lance's perfidy. Maybe he didn't shine his spit curl this morning?

http://www.457thbombgroup.org/1000aircraftfolder/coverpage.html

As it turned out, Jim was actually crushed by a piano dropped from an exploding zeppelin.

The pianos were built by Douglas Aircraft on contract to Steinway. The placard is from the fragment of piano that Jim was crushed by, recovered by the German and sent to Mother.

The piano that killed Jim was $300, and dropped down to $135!

And once we lifted it off Jim's lifeless body and gave it a good tuning, it played quite nicely! It's here in my parlor, Inspector--allow me to play you a tune. Perhaps the "Razzing Doris Rag"?

Those "Flying Fortresses" were built in Seattle and Wichita by the Boeing Co. I believe Rosie was a Boeing worker.

Wait another sec, how could the German correspondent have gotten Ma's address? Maybe Jim was writing a letter to her on the flight: "Ma, I hope I get a chance to mail this letter to you at 123 Easy Street, Lanceville, MN. I may not survive the mission in this crate, I just noticed some of the cantilevered spars were made by DOUGLAS AIRCRAFT. By the way, is Doris still teed off about the razzin?"

You know that scene in Godfather II where Vito Corleone goes back to Sicily and kills the old crippled up Don?

I imagine someday Lance will be in a wheelchair at a nursing home and will receive such a visit. Only question is, who will be wielding the knife?

Answer:
-Tiny (obvious)
-Doris
-Lori
-The "I sure pulled a boner" guy
etc.

It'll be like that scene in Airplane! where everyone lines up to smack the screaming woman.

Don't forget the old football player, the baseball player, the phony veteran, and all the other assorted scam artists who were just trying to make beer money, until Lance came along and ruined everything.

doris... dressed in an über-cxe nurse's uniform. she injects a paralyzing serum into his i.v. tube and he is forced to watch as she snaps on a pair of surgical gloves and lays out the instruments she'd 'borrowed' from tiny's collection of discarded crime scene murder weapons.

as she draws the knife across his abdomen she purrs...

"you probably think this is the part where i say i'm sick and tired of being razzed about... but really... i just feel like killing somebody today and you just have the dumb luck to be the only one in this joint nobody else likes..."

You're scaring me. Is this a frequent fantasy you are indulging, here?

Just btw, I am not now, nor ever will be, anything like LL at all. Nope. Uh-uh. Not at all.

You paint a vivid picture.

I know a good therapist, if you ever feel like talking about this....

the plot of this italian horror movie i'm looking for...

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