That Croz and Rosie protected Buck's locker for eighteen months is just hnnghghh.
You know they never opened it, barely looked at it. I have decided it wasn't stored away, it was just tucked under the bunk. When newbies rotated in, and tried to move it or god forbid open it, Hellfire would rain upon them. We do not touch Major Cleven's shit. That's Buck's Bunk, you're just renting it.. Show some goddamn respect.
Not only did they need to believe that he, and Bucky, and the rest of their friends and men were alive, and would return, they were absolutely totally terrified of what would be unleashed on them when Bucky got back only to learn they'd sent Buck's locker back to Marge.
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rosie and croz climbing into their forts
— requested by @piastrinho
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at the end of the day Crosby is babygirl and Rosie is Daddy
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@ecoustsaintmein Read your tags, and I totally have to agree that people had to get use to the Croz and Rosie being friends after Bubbles died.
Croz and Bubbles were friends for a long time, comparable to Buck and Bucky, but Bubbles died and I'm sure he would have been happy that Croz has found himself a friend he can count on.
Also, we know that Croz is a carer, he likes to care for others and let's be fair, aside from Croz, Rosie didn't had a lot of close friends (I'm just talking about close ones) but with Croz he has found someone he can talk to.
What a difference to the man who has been sent to that vacation home thing, who wanted to leave immediately, to he Rosie that we know now, who talks to Croz about everything.
Oh, and yes, both Croz and Rosie did climb up their ranks together, as you said, based on their merit. Them being for Thrope Abbots what Buck and Bucky are for the Stalag group. Both highly admired by their fellow camreds, especially the younger ones.
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how it started how it ends
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one shared brain cell struggling to be found in this interview and I love it
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blah blah blah croz refusing to sleep bad. him sleeping through d-day still funny
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i do think the doctor at the flak house was great. he read rosie inside out. he tried a straight forward approach at first, pointing out that he went through something unbelievably traumatic, only to be met with a brick wall. he lets it go, and waits until rosie comes to him - which comes when they meet during that night, when neither of them can sleep, and we get to see rosie finally make himself even a little bit vulnerable. he comes into the conversation, guns blazing, assured that he needs to get the hell out of the flak house before he looses that rhythm... only for the doctor to reframe it so that its not just about what rosie needs, but also what rosie's crew needs too. and it's this conversation that propells rosie to reach out to his crew and take care of them, listening to thier stories and accept that he must stay.
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With Rosie, life was fun.
Then he got shot down. On a mission to Nuremberg, he got hit over the target, limped as far as Belgium, and crash-landed in France. Jack Wallace took over as 418th Commanding Officer.
Three weeks passed. Rosie came back to Thorpe Abbotts. With the help of the Underground, he made it out in record time, his broken arm in a sling.
This time he became 350th Squadron Commander.
Later, he got shot down again and managed to land where some French Resistance picked him up and shipped him to the American troops.
The 100th had a heart and a spirit again.
Rosie made a difference.
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On February 3-it seemed so sudden because we didn't expect it-Rosie went down again. It was his fifty-second mission. He was leading the entire task force over Berlin. The report stated that he was hit just after the I.P, at 25,000 feet, at 1115 hours, with a ground rocket hitting the number one fuel tank. "Fire and dense white smoke were seen coming out of the fuselage and bomb bay." Heading northeast, "the plane flew level for a few moments, while the crew bailed out. It was last seen at 15,000 feet, "burning and beginning to spin."
Gloom on the base, like when the two Buckys went down. An enlisted man in Group Ops told me, "Sir, Major Rosenthal is a legend here. We all feel bad."
Rosie, the Indomitable, was gone.
The 100th hurt.
— Harry Crosby in his memoir, A Wing and a Prayer
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Big hit to the croz crusaders community out there how are we all doing
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A Favour Returned, pt 1 | Harry Crosby + Robert Rosenthal
based on this wonderful Discworld artwork
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I know you'll understand when I say I just wanna mess up Rosie's curls 🥴
oh you mean
these curls???
yES 😩
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