Author Topic: WWII (Read 21507 times)

Meyer · « **Reply #40 on:** August 11, 2007, 05:06:00 PM »

Yep. SS was the elite among the german army. What is the elite in USA army.?

sarcronis · « **Reply #41 on:** August 11, 2007, 05:12:10 PM »

Rangers, maybe, special forces, stuff like that.

Meyer · « **Reply #42 on:** August 11, 2007, 05:15:10 PM »

well Thorne was of a US special force. Then their chopper crashed and he and his team died.

sarcronis · « **Reply #43 on:** August 11, 2007, 05:17:11 PM »

In Korea, Vietnam where?? Was he part of the green berets??

Meyer · « **Reply #44 on:** August 11, 2007, 05:22:10 PM »

"He ended up as an instructor in the Special Forces and taught skiing, survival, mountaineering and guerrilla tactics. In turn he learned parachuting. From 1958 to 1962 he served in the 10th Special Forces unit in West Germany. In November 1963 he joined the Special Forces unit A-734 in Vietnam and fought in the Mekong Delta. He was decorated twice.

In 1965 he had been transferred to MACVSOG training unit in Vietnam as a military advisor. On October 18, 1965, he left for a clandestine mission and his helicopter crashed 25 miles (40 km) from Da Nang, in a mountainous area of Laos. When the rescue squad arrived, they did not find his body. It is assumed that he either died in the crash or in battle on October 18.

Shortly after his disappearance in Laos, Thorne was granted the rank of a major in the U.S. Army.

Larry Thorne's remains were found in 1999 and formally identified in 2003. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery on June 26, 2003."

Straight from wikipedia.

sarcronis · « **Reply #45 on:** August 11, 2007, 05:23:13 PM »

Does it say how they finally found his remains??

Meyer · « **Reply #46 on:** August 11, 2007, 05:26:33 PM »

As far as I know they were under search for years. And that they were found somewhere in the vicinity of the crashed chopper.

Hell Thorne was even a model for a movie character played by John Wayne. Green Berets rock!

sarcronis · « **Reply #47 on:** August 11, 2007, 05:28:03 PM »

Cool, I like that movie.

Meyer · « **Reply #48 on:** August 11, 2007, 05:29:52 PM »

hae you seen it?

sarcronis · « **Reply #49 on:** August 11, 2007, 05:32:04 PM »

twice. Apparently it is also historically accurate in the sense that it shows what life in Vietnam was like for soldiers.

Meyer · « **Reply #50 on:** August 11, 2007, 05:33:23 PM »

haven't seen it. all I know about it is the info I have gotten from wikipedia

sarcronis · « **Reply #51 on:** August 11, 2007, 05:35:13 PM »

It's a good movie, but this has absolutely nothing to do with ww2 now.

Meyer · « **Reply #52 on:** August 11, 2007, 05:36:21 PM »

true. back on the topic boys.

Raptor · « **Reply #53 on:** August 11, 2007, 05:42:32 PM »

Boys?

Meyer · « **Reply #54 on:** August 11, 2007, 05:47:57 PM »

are you a girl then?

too bad Arbiter prevented our conversation on the Who would win in a war? topic.

sarcronis · « **Reply #55 on:** August 11, 2007, 05:50:43 PM »

That would have been a fun discussion.

Raptor · « **Reply #56 on:** August 11, 2007, 05:53:41 PM »

Quote from: Meyer on August 11, 2007, 05:47:57 PM

are you a girl then?

too bad Arbiter prevented our conversation on the Who would win in a war? topic.

It sounded gay.

Meyer · « **Reply #57 on:** August 11, 2007, 06:02:52 PM »

right. so in the army you must be gay. Now I realise why Arbiter and whoever didn't want to go.

Raptor · « **Reply #58 on:** August 11, 2007, 06:04:23 PM »

Meyer · « **Reply #59 on:** August 11, 2007, 06:07:03 PM »

stop smiling it drives me angry.