#4410915 - 03/16/18 12:24 PM
Re: A WW2 veteran talks about the power of music.
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Jack Tueller, World War II pilot and trumpeter, dies in Utah at age 95Jack L. Tueller, the trumpeter pilot who flew fighter planes in World War II, died Monday. (August 19, 2016)
He was 95.
His daughter, Roseanne Nielsen, said Thursday that her father fell about three weeks earlier as he was getting ready to get into the shower. He hit his head on a tile floor and never recovered, Nielsen said.
Tueller's military combat record was impressive, flying more than 100 missions in a P-47 Thunderbolt, its propeller whirling him across the English Channel to attack German targets in occupied France. But he flew with an unusual piece of equipment that gained him recognition in his golden years.
Tueller carried his trumpet in a canvas bag strapped to his parachute.
"I figured if I ever got shot down, it would go with me, and if I survived and got put into a prisoner-of-war camp, I could get an extra bar of soap from the guard [by playing the instrument]," Tueller said in 2009 on CNN, one of many news outlets across the country who broadcast or published features about Tueller in his last decade of life. <S>
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#4411071 - 03/16/18 09:34 PM
Re: A WW2 veteran talks about the power of music.
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From the same link F4U posted. One mission haunted the pilot.
About a week after D-Day, his squadron was sent to attack a German Panzer tank division. The fighters got close and could see Frenchwomen and children strapped to the tanks as human shields. The attack was aborted. The squadron returned to base, but the commander sent them back to strike the German tanks anyway, saying the civilians were expendable.
At a ceremony in 2014 at Fort Douglas to commemorate the anniversary of D-Day, Tueller said he went to sleep every night with images of what his .50-caliber machine guns did to the civilians. He credited his evening trumpet playing with providing the stress relief other pilots found in a bottle. Definitely a different time... Wheels
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#4411100 - 03/16/18 11:13 PM
Re: A WW2 veteran talks about the power of music.
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About a week after D-Day, his squadron was sent to attack a German Panzer tank division. The fighters got close and could see Frenchwomen and children strapped to the tanks as human shields. The attack was aborted. The squadron returned to base, but the commander sent them back to strike the German tanks anyway, saying the civilians were expendable. As I once considered myself a serious student of US WWII history, I recoiled mentally when I read this. This sounds like...well if it was real, it would have been a major Nuremberg Trial...I hope. Did I miss this serious war crime?
Last edited by Nixer; 03/16/18 11:45 PM. Reason: Spell? No way! I might get burned at the stake!
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#4411133 - 03/17/18 01:58 AM
Re: A WW2 veteran talks about the power of music.
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Depending on how exactly the law was written out in The Hague Convention, a war crime may have been committed by both sides in this specific incident. But then again we do have the unwritten rule about the winner calling the shots after the war is over.
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