Thread: What are you drinking today?

Originally Posted by Bonecollector

Great bit of history, thanks Looper

They don't do 1st class transatlantic like that anymore


We are enjoying an Indian summer down under with balmy blue skies 28c so I took a last chance to be a wurzel cider drinker as the autumn evenings draw in

The Grumman JF2 Duck was used by the US for air-sea rescue and anti-submarine duties during WWII

It was the last aircraft to depart Bataan prior to the Japanese invasion in 1942

For more details see 'I Saw the Fall of the Philippines' by the Fils army colonel/ambassador to US/UN session president/Pullitzer Prize winner and Nobel peace prize nominee Carlos P. Romulo who was one of the 5 people on board the overloaded last ugly duckling as it lifted off the water