The Missing-In-Action Thread

[DUI]

Hi guys,

Not sure if it is just a strange thought resulting from the late hour (here in Germany): while flying online today I realized that even in my short CloD life on ATAG there is already some pilots that I haven't heard of for quite some while but that I would like to fly with again against the enemy.

Missing-In-Action:
- robtek, whom I regard as my first mentor after introducing me to most of the German planes and some valuable tactics.

- Atreides, a Dutch guy, with whom I flew quite some missions against England in the first weeks of my online career.


As I am probably not the only one who is searching for disappeared pilots: with whom would you like to engage the enemy again?

Just to bring some emotion into this opening post ;):
EDIT: Video removed - preferred the version of "I had a comrade" posted below by Farber much more.

[He111]

Are you saying they've passed away? if So, very sad. but if your saying they've been hog-tied by their wives, don't worry, they might return for BOM! :grin:

BTW, very moving song .. :( .. if men would just stop responding to the drum-call.

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[DUI]

Don't worry, I am very sure they are still very much alive and are just "hog-tied by their wives", study, work or just took a break from CloD (at least on ATAG where I fly) for other reasons. ;)

[5./JG27.Farber]

Just alittle 5./JG27 tribute! - Where are you guys!?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB9OR_poSYc&feature=plcp

With English subs! :-P

[Continu0]

robtek does the translations for desastersoft, so maybe he is short of time due to that... You would have heard it, if something serious had happened to him...

[He111]

Just alittle 5./JG27 tribute! - Where are you guys!?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB9OR_poSYc&feature=plcp

With English subs! :-P

Sad only 225 people have seen that excellent video, just watched a news item on the survivors of El Alamein, back at their old stomping grounds meeting old friends. Very sad!

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[lonewulf]

Thanks Farber. I love that little song.

[klem]

Hi guys,

Not sure if it is just a strange thought resulting from the late hour (here in Germany): while flying online today I realized that even in my short CloD life on ATAG there is already some pilots that I haven't heard of for quite some while but that I would like to fly with again against the enemy.

Missing-In-Action:
- robtek, whom I regard as my first mentor after introducing me to most of the German planes and some valuable tactics.

- Atreides, a Dutch guy, with whom I flew quite some missions against England in the first weeks of my online career.


As I am probably not the only one who is searching for disappeared pilots: with whom would you like to engage the enemy again?

Just to bring some emotion into this opening post ;):
EDIT: Video removed - preferred the version of "I had a comrade" posted below by Farber much more.

Atreides is a member of our Squadron.

His video card blew up and its not clear if he has got a replacement yet.

I hope we will see him again soon.

[DUI]

Thanks for the information, Continu0 and klem! :-D

[Hans]

Farber, the video you posted was excellent.
Makes us remember those guys who really did the fighting.

[CaptainDoggles]

"hog-tied by their wives"

Kinky.

[Blennydude]

Hmm many since people seem to be interested in "Ich hatt einen Kameraden": Official title: "Der gute Kamerad" (The good comrade/buddy); official Grieving(word?) or funeral Song of the German Military; the only music piece besides the National Anthem where soldiers have to salute - also often played on Ceremonies on "Volkstrauertag" (German Rememberance Day).

Lyics tell of a soldier who laments his "good comrade", just being mortally wounded by a stray bullet/shrapnel. He's just struggling to reach out to the narrator for one last handshake; the narrator is re-loading, however, so the hand-shake remains unanswered, with the narrator promising that he stays his "good comrade" in eternal life.
Quite nationalist militaristic overtones, but pretty normal, I guess, for the time of creation (1825).


P.S.: German/Prussian military music wins out anything anyways. Imo, it's light-years away of anything else, including the USA's Sousa creations... You surely have to cut out the Nazi period and its abuses, of course...