Weekend Bulletin (May 13)

• Time to end military training in Taiwan and Thailand

  from Frankly Speaking

• More neocons in the ST Forum

  from Frankly Speaking

• Don’t Label Yourself

  from SingaporeSurf

• Why Mr Wang Upsets People

  from Mr Wang Says So

• Farewell Prime Minister Blair

  from Perspective Unlimited

• Does Singapore gain from America’s pain?

  from Singapore Kopi Tok

• Paying For Success

  from SingaporeSurf

• Gay city

  from Two steps from twilight

• World class? 15 dimensions to ponder on

  from theonlinecitizen

• Our Honorary Citizen

  from Mr Wang Says So

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An Amazing Flight Back In Time! – (A Historical Travelogue)

Somewhere over Nazi Germany in 1944 in a B-17 flying fortress…..a true story brought to you exclusively by the brotherhood press.

“We crossed into the enemy territory at 0435 hours on April 13, 1944. I was the rear gunner on board “The Ace of Spades.”

It was supposed to be a special mission – a 30 bomber raid on the heavily defended target, Adolf Hitler’s bunker in Berlin. The Luftwaffe had been alerted that there was a bomber formation heading across France towards Germany. We knew they would scramble their fighter planes once we crossed over to France.

Just before day break when the sun was peeking out, they “the bats” as we all called them, came out like “they’re all on fire from hell” forming up for the kill.

The captain broke through the intercom frantically,

“Get ready boys! There are coming in thick and fast at 9’o clock!”

Some of us looked at each other. Others crossed themselves or hung on to their bunny feet for luck as we readied our guns. The same German squadron had taken out our best of squadrons just the week before. Most of us were scared stiff. Suddenly all hell broke loose as bullets peppered the fuselage. I looked across the deck, the aft gunner an 18 year old from Iowa was slumped.