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[thatsrightice]

The Tannoy Incident ™️

I was taking a shower in my quarters. It was about seven o'clock, 1900 hours, too early for the field order.

The Bennett voice. "Captain Crosby will report to Group Ops."

What's going on? I had a phone in my room. Why didn't the son-of-a-bitch use it? Why the hell blast my name all over the base? He was calling to me on the Tannoy, the public address system with the British name, which had a huge loudspeaker in every section on the base.

Quickly, because I tried to be a good officer, I turned off the water, toweled myself, and started dressing.

The damned Tannoy again. The voice. Texas and Princeton. "I repeat. Captain Crosby is wanted immediately at Group Ops." Hair still wet, no tie, jacket in hand, I tore out to my jeep and fired it up. Just as I screeched my wheels at the end of the WAAF site, I heard it again.

"Captain Crosby will run, not walk, to Group Ops."

I was furious. I covered the distance to Ops in nothing flat. I jumped over the sideboard of the jeep and into Ops. Two squadron commanders, Group Ops, some other officers, and Bennett were huddled in some kind of talk

"Colonel Bennett," I said, boiling, "I got here as soon as any man could."

I had more to say and I wanted to say it, but he held up his hand, like a traffic cop, stopping me.

"Captain, come into my office."

Into his office we went, he all prim and straight, me steaming, the other officers and the enlisted men white and silent, hurting for me.

They watched us go into the office and they watched through the huge front glass, Lieutenant Colonel John Bennett, sitting at his desk, talking, stern. Captain Harry Crosby, angry, standing at attention, braced, before the desk.

"Captain," he said, his face fixed, firm. "How's your wife?"

Surprise on my face. "What?"

"Your wife, Captain, your wife? I hear you have a nice wife back in the States who gets letters through to you every day." What in the devil was this guy up to?

"I wonder if the good work you do here on the base and in the air is helped by the support you get from home?"

I started to relax a little. I looked around for a chair.

The ice and the steel came back. "Captain," he grated, "you will remain at a-ten-HUT!" Snap. Back in the brace.

And so, for the next ten minutes, the onlookers sweated for me. Old Croz was really getting it.

I finally did get it. This SOB was making an example out of me.

And who better? If he demanded this much of Straight Arrow Crosby, the rest had better shape up. That guy Bennett even chewed out one of the originals. We better pop to.

His expression never changed. What I suspect was on my face was pure wonderment and awe. We talked about Jean, the University of lowa, and, finally, just a little, about his dreams for the 100th. He told me what I had been feeling.

"The leaders of the 100th think they are making a movie, not fighting a war. We have to get serious." He finished the conversation. We went back to the other men.

"Captain Crosby," Bennett said, "has been ordered not to divulge the contents of our conversation.”

The other officers looked at each other and shivered in their seats.

— Harry Crosby in his memoir, A Wing and a Prayer

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Tannoy

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system, london

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[dougielombax]

*train station PA system voice*

“The Dark Age has been found.”

[wally-b-feed]

Anthony Fineran (B 1981), DN Tannoy, 2023

[sounddetritus]

On my way back from visiting my eldest son in Oxford I was forced to wait for a delayed train at Westbury station in an absolute deluge. I used the bare phone audio via the Zoom Handy Recorder app to get a mono recording - attempting to shield the phone from the fierce winds that ALWAYS seem to be blowing at that station.

[scarletstatic]

15 Days of FatT Day 9- Sick as Shit

The Divine Riot's debut album- The World Without End

Here's another one I want to finish later!! I've never drawn the crew all together and I've wanted to give them a fun lil album cover since foreeeever! This is somehow also my first time drawing Waltz Tango (Cache) and Tannoy Kajj which is frankly a crime, but we got there eventually!

[senzasord]

Can’t sleep again, but that’s okay because the newest midnight burger episode has started with a jail break

[thatsrightice]

My Harry Crosby wishlist for upcoming Masters of the Air episodes:

The Tannoy Incident ™️

Croz kicking a door “to splinters” like the bamf he secretly is to retrieve a parachute for one of his baby ‘gators

Croz standing up for one of his baby ‘gators while dramatically showing off and effectively shutting up two high-ranking officers

Croz working 75 hours straight without eating or sleeping in preparation for D-Day but then sleeping through the whole thing

Croz getting into a full-blown yelling match with a Colonel over the intercom during a mission

More Croz & Rosie

Croz being promoted to Major as he’s coming in for a landing on his 28th (and supposed to be last) mission, therefore making it mandatory that he extends his tour

Bubbles to be okay :(

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[audiogold]

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[deeisace]

Today's "what the fuck is English" - Shrewsbury is pronounced shrow-sbry ???

[destage-arch]

good afternoon.   ( / whatever time of day it is for you ! )    i hope we are all doing well, remembering to breathe deep and unclench those jaws, and if you haven’t in a while please remember to have a sip of water because hydration is important.    ( / have something else if you don’t like water, all efforts are good efforts! )