The Missing-In-Action Thread
 

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.

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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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. ;)

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

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

With English subs! :-P

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...

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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Thanks Farber. I love that little song.

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.

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

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

Kinky.

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...