BG_Currahee

New generation of #WWII researcher/writer looking to honor the #GreatestGeneration. Airborne History and other assorted things from the #SWW

[BG_Currahee @HistoryBryan]

On August 16th, 1940, Lt. William T. Ryder became “the 1st American paratrooper” as he was the first man in the US Army’s Parachute Test Platoon to exit his aircraft on the first mass test drop 1/5

Brief 🧵

#NationalAirborneDay #History

[BG_Currahee @HistoryBryan]

@HouseGOP Prayers won’t do a damn thing

[rgpoulussen.bsky.social @rgpoulussen]

(Thread.) #OTD in 1944, operation Market Garden was launched. It failed, alas. ☹ #WW2 #HISTORY

[BG_Currahee @HistoryBryan]

@comradewatson @saintjavelin Bot

[BG_Currahee @HistoryBryan]

@RozeRage @taylor4arizona Claims “freedom above all else”

Also hates veterans and POWs

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[BG_Currahee @HistoryBryan]

@RepMTG @HagemanforWY 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

[Vintage Aviation News @WarbirdsNews]

Time to grieve, reflect and remember our friends. We will take some time off from our news and storytelling. I hope you understand.

[BG_Currahee @HistoryBryan]

@NickAdamsinUSA Dude you take up the entire frame but your head is so little

[BG_Currahee @HistoryBryan]

@NickAdamsinUSA You reek of insecurity. Like a 12 year old trying to convince their friends on something they know is wrong

[BG_Currahee @HistoryBryan]

@JustGladys2 @RepMTG Her face looks so foot like

[BG_Currahee @HistoryBryan]

@KariLake @Liz_Cheney Enjoy your loss @KariLake ! This tweet aged perfectly

[BG_Currahee @HistoryBryan]

@WW2TV @GHarward @SofiGaming This wasn’t even mechanical failure though. Obviously air shows bring aircraft together in a tight space, and the older craft are harder to safely maneuver.

Jon Orloff recently said he’d never fly in a B17 these days and I agree. But this was formation error first

[BG_Currahee @HistoryBryan]

#B17 #B17TexasRaiders #texasraiders

[BG_Currahee @HistoryBryan]

Thinking about all involved with the Texas Raiders B-17 crew. I spoke with them just a month and half ago, and sat inside the cockpit, walked the bomb bay. Took a photo thru the astrodome.

This is heart wrenching and an immeasurable loss of historians and aviation heritage

[BG_Currahee @HistoryBryan]

Again more than anything I simply cannot stop thinking of the Texas Raiders family right now. Difficult to process.

[BG_Currahee @HistoryBryan]

Awesome photos

[☕️Double Expresso Please☕️ @Coffee4Andy]

@SpitfireSteve @Lordy__Steve @Alan_Allport @militaryhistori My drone shots of a crashed B17 off East Coast of Kent

[We Happy Few 506 @WeHappyFew506]

It’s December 1944 and it’s cold. Actually it’s freezing. You’re hungry and cold because you don’t have winter clothing and you are watching the line. Waiting. Watching. And you don’t have enough ammo for a sustained attack from the Germans. Waiting. Watching the line.