We’re Going To Slooters, You Guys Coming?

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Gene Tierney as Poppy

I'm happy (and very excited) to present you our new “Let's create a playlist together” Robert "Rosie" Rosenthal (MOTA) version 🥳

You can also listen to the playlist on Deezer and other platforms.

Many of you answered this question and I was able to compile all your recommendations into one big playlist.

Let’s create a “Rosie Rosenthal” playlist together.  🎶🎷 When you get this, share 5 songs you like listening to that remind you of Rosie Rosenthal from MOTA. Then send this ask to 10 people you like (positivity is cool) (don’t forget to tag @lcapt-playlist so your answers can be add to the playlist) 🎷🎶 You can include as many or as few songs as you like (whatever you prefer). I’ll collect all the responses and put them together in a playlist that I’ll share in a few days (I’ll update it as I receive responses, so no rush and no pressure). Don’t forget to add a 👍 if you want to be tagged when the playlist is published.

(The playlist is still OPEN, for those who want to add a few songs, go ahead, I'll continue to update it as I receive more replies.)

I'd like to thank you all for your participation. It was a delight to read all your recommendations, your little comments and to chat with you. I hope you will (like me) rediscover some songs in a new light thanks to this playlist.

The previous playlists made are listed in the pinned post. If you'd like to participate or if you'd like to be tagged when we do the next playlist, let me know. And if you'd like to see a particular theme, please feel free to tell me so we can do it later.

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First of all, it is not enough merely to thank the two pilots with whom I flew when I was on a crew. Were it not for John Brady and Ev Blakely I would not be here, and there would be no story.

Secondly, I must thank the men and women of the 100th—not only the flyers, but those who kept us flying. They all made this narrative the grand story to which I hope I have done adequate service.

I must thank, especially, the three great leaders of the 100th, Jack Kidd, John Bennett, and Tom Jeffrey, who did so much to make us proud to be members of the group whom history now knows as "The Bloody 100th."

Jim Mack, a replacement waist gunner recalls, "Rosie would talk to us before every mission. He would brief us on what to expect. Where the flak was going to be. How many fighters to anticipate." But the crew pre-flight briefings were not always without incident. Rosenthal recalls, "I remember that Mike Boccuzzi, our radio operator and a wonderful warm human being, would get very nervous before each mission and throw up. I would end up putting my arm around him and we would chat. He was a wonderful, intelligent person.”

Gale’s navigator: we don’t have even close to enough fuel to get us to Africa

Easy Company and piss. 😔

In the morning, the same old routine. The orderly comes into our quarters. I am not asleep. I sit up.

"Not you, Lieutenant. Just Brady and Cruikshank." The door opens again. It is Bucky Egan. He goes to John Brady's bed.

"John, I am flying with you. There are no lead crews left. We are going out to get the bastards that got Buck."

He goes out again. Brady goes over to Ham and Hoerr and Davy Solomon.

He shakes his head. "This is not right. We have never been lead crew before. Ev's crew have worked at it and they know what to do. They are good at it. We are not prepared."

No fear, or uncertainty. Brady is sound, levelheaded. It is just that he knows trouble when he sees it.

“Those small huts could get crowded; yet by mid-October 1943, there was plenty of room in one. Thirteen of the sixteen cots were empty. Three of four B-17s had been lost in a short span of time. The other plane was damaged beyond repair. Each bed had a tale to tell. And the tale told by the empty beds was especially nerve-wracking.”

And though there were many huts at Thorpe Abbotts like it, with empty beds aplenty and similar stories to tell, this one was just a little bit more special because Blakely, Crosby, and Douglass were the last three members of the “Original” 100th flight officers left on base.

The article goes on to share the stories of the men who once slept in the empty bunks of his father’s Nissen hut, and I highly recommend reading it for the amazing insight into the lives of these men.