Windstrong..


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November 1962 in my Air Force Days..had a visit from a lady..one who never plays..typhoon Karen came vector was crosshair..Guam was hit..nature had the helm was nothing for it..storm blew left nothing there..had share of disasters..seems most every day..some real as a hellish storm..some to laugh and say..

once when Alaska quake shake shelves up to earth dry..we scrambled planes went insane..for a wave six inches high..could not calibrate how high..did not know the need..all they knew about this tidal wave was same as sound in speed..

Quiet of the eye..then the storm was gone..million pictures taken airborn show of ‘hell and gone’..two weeks no running water..three before the lights..came to show us damage even in the night..typhoons have no feeling..typhoon has no heart..feeling tells you what you need right from the very start..documented well..Japs came out of caves..fighting forty year old wars..with nothing left to save..

something line of duty..nothing for a war..flew home for leave..flew Olive X4.  Olive, after Karen and other tracked known scares..had an eye so tight we could not turn in there..cannot ever pass to you the force and power felt..when a typhoon comes to town..dive in a cave or melt..death in true power felt..

In the summer of 1963 I went home to Poway California for leave.  I caught a hop in a WB-50.  This was a B-29 bomber..no armament.  Where the 50 cal. guns were on the side of the war version..there were plexiglass observation bubbles with ‘dropson’ equiptment..sonar sensors on a cable..put into the storm for data..behind that was communications..where I, as radio op sat.  The primary r/o was part of the crew.  We, on the way home, penetrated Olive.  The standard procedure was to take this aircraft, which also had body armor, larger engines and turbos to handle penetrations..to penetrate at 110..(11000 ft)..until we hit the center of the eye..do a u turn and go out the same way..(approx. :-) )  when the pilot attempted to turn we had barely begun and a shiver ran through the plane..we had to fly all the way through..then back again..an experience that knew no fear for I truly was in the hands of something beyond any control. 

Being who I am I will take this moment to express, yet again and forever, we can prevent war.  We can stop war.  We should erase the creation war.

 .AC.27.3.12.arr././