VLVL2 (15): "Death From Slightly Above"

[Dave Monroe]

"Death from Slightly Above"

MORS AB ALTO
(Death From Above)

In April 1994, Air Force Chief of Staff General
Merrill McPeak directed that all combat wings not
using their original unit emblems revert back to those
emblems. Thus the 7th wing's emblem was that of the
7th Bombardment Group which was approved in 1933. 

The emblem's description and signficance are that the
shield of blue with yellow border reflect the colors
of the Air Force. The bend (a diagonal yellow slash
across the shield) was taken from the arms of the
Province of Lorraine, France, where the unit flew
combat missions during World War I. The three black
crosses symbolize the three battle honors of the
organization during that war. 

The Wing's motto "Mors ab Alto" is Latin for "Death
>From Above" and was originally approved in 1933.
 
http://www.dyess.af.mil/history/7wghstry.htm#motto

http://www.dyess.af.mil/pa/history/7bwhistory.htm

http://www.dyess.af.mil/history/7wghstry.htm

http://www.7thbg.org/

http://www.341stbombgroup.org/intel/hq_grp_7.htm

http://www.7bwb-36assn.org/b36genhistpg3.html#1952

http://afhra.maxwell.af.mil/wwwroot/rso/wings_groups_pages/0007wg.php

http://www.zianet.com/jpage/airforce/other/mottos.html

http://www.zianet.com/tedmorris/dg/shield7bwdyess2.jpg

And see as well, e.g., ...

http://www.airpowermuseum.org/tranamor.html

http://www.strategic-air-command.com/posters/B-29/poster-B29-patch_notes.htm


"dead-black Huey slicks"

Definitely see ...

http://weber.ucsd.edu/~dmckiern/blakchop.htm

Then, e.g., ...

http://www.ufoseek.com/Black_Helicopters/

http://www.totse.com/en/conspiracy/black_helicopters/


"screaming down the road"

Cf. ...

"A screaming comes across the sky ..." (GR, p. 3)


Also like that "redwoods" to "evergreen" to "autumn
yellow."  'Zat code?  Let me know ...

--- dedalus204 at comcast.net wrote:
>
> 375.13:  But [Prairie] was already on her way, on
> into the trees till she reached a piece of the woods
> that she'd never seen, a small clearing inside a
> grove of Sitka spruce and alder, where she spread
> her bag and, enjoying the solitude, must've drifted
> off to sleep.  The beat of helicoper blades directly
> overhead woke her.  As she stared, down out of it,
> hooked by harness and cable to the mothership above,
> came Brock Vond, who looked just like he had on
> film.  For about a week Brock, whom his colleagues
> were calling 'Death From Slightly Above,' had been
> out travelling in a tight formation of three
> dead-black Huey slicks, up and down the terrain of
> Vineland nap-of-the-earth style, liable to pop up
> suddenly over a peaceful ridgeland or come screaming
> down the road after an innocent motorist, inside one
> meter of the exhaust pipe, Brock, in flak jacket and
> Vietnam boots, posing in the gun door with a
> flamethrower on his hip, as steep hillsides, thick
> with redwoods, the somber evergreen punctuated with
> bright flares of autumn yellow, went wheeling by
> just below, as the rotor blades tore ragged the tall
> columns of fog that rose from the valleys."


	
		
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