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Quickly and dangerously. There's an entire cemetery dedicated to RAF pilot cadets in Montgomery, Alabama killed during training at US airfields. * https://www
by wffurr 2y ago
Quickly and dangerously. There's an entire cemetery dedicated to RAF pilot cadets in Montgomery, Alabama killed during training at US airfields.
* https://www.findagrave.com/virtual-cemetery/622200 https://www.findagrave.com/virtual-cemetery/622200
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakwood_Cemetery_(Montgomery,_Alabama) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakwood_Cemetery_(Montgomery,_...
- skullone 2y agoThat's sombering, words can't express the gravity of that war
- idontpost 2y ago[dead]
- janniehater 2y ago[dead]
- abadpoli 2y agoSeems like an overstatement to say “an entire cemetery”. Per the Wikipedia page, the cemetery is 120 acres with 200,000 grave sites, but only 78 of the graves are RAF students (which still is a terrible amount of people to lose in training, of all things).
- RecycledEle 2y agoMany military personnel die in training. If you are not losing a few people in training, you are not pushing things hard enough.
- OJFord 2y agoI think it's fair enough if it was enough they thought to make that a specific section. You probably wouldn't be commenting about it if it so happened that the entire site was .1 acre and only the student pilots.