Vic Diehl Posted March 21, 2011 Posted March 21, 2011 Quadaffi, has all of his personal presentation pieces on display in the Red Palace in Tripoli. As you would expect they are over the top in decoration. I hate to see another war, but If we have to go in there there are some important items to be brought home. 1. Bodies of 4 US sailors killed in battle at Tripoli in 1804, the mast from the USS Philidelphia, The wreckage of the "Lady Be Good" in Tobruk, of course all of our troops !
Vic Diehl Posted March 21, 2011 Author Posted March 21, 2011 I asked the same question. Our military Rrepresentative in Tripoli at the time did not have an answer. It is interesting that the Country of Italy cleaned out all of the military grave yards in Tripoli and took every Italian back to Italy and we leave 4 early American Patriots in Tripoli. The grave yard is not in good shape as it is very close to the Med. A US expat did take the responsibility to patch and paint the graves. Here is the grave yard. I have pictures of the graves if I can find them. Their graves are not named that I could find. The Mast of the USS Philadelphia is sitting on top of the Red Palace as a war souvenir. We must bring these boys home !!
Hauptmann Posted March 21, 2011 Posted March 21, 2011 The Lady Be Good: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lady_Be_Good_Wreckage_Discovery.jpg Dan
Paul R Posted March 21, 2011 Posted March 21, 2011 I hope that they can find a way to bring the sailors home as well. What year was the photo of the bomber taken? The wreck site looks well preserved.
Vic Diehl Posted March 21, 2011 Author Posted March 21, 2011 http://www.panoramio.com/user/924521 Paul, here is my Google Earth site, you can see that the bomber has been moved to Tobruk and in terrible shape. Vic
Guest IMHF Posted March 22, 2011 Posted March 22, 2011 That is a very beautiful Sword, I agree with bringing the Sailors home to give their families rest. North Korea let us go in and get our fallen soldiers from the Korean War a few years ago. Lorenzo
Vic Diehl Posted March 23, 2011 Author Posted March 23, 2011 Mubarak, also had some real dazzlers in his treasure chamber along with some nice early pieces.
Vic Diehl Posted March 23, 2011 Author Posted March 23, 2011 Besides weapons Mubarak had gifts from every US president, gold, silver, crystal you name it. I liked this book of drawings.
Vic Diehl Posted March 23, 2011 Author Posted March 23, 2011 Of course there is always the gold plated AK
JimZ Posted March 23, 2011 Posted March 23, 2011 I found this thread interesting particularly the "Lady be Good" story which I was not aware of. Particularly as I came across this soon after the aircraft crash in Libya (and the safe recovery of the crew). Thanks for posting this thread. Pity that the aircraft which was relatively intact has been just about scrapped in what was undoubtedly a primitive attempt at recovery!!! Shame :shame:
Guest IMHF Posted March 24, 2011 Posted March 24, 2011 Mubarak, also had some real dazzlers in his treasure chamber along with some nice early pieces. He had some Very Beautiful Swords!! Lorenzo
JimZ Posted March 24, 2011 Posted March 24, 2011 Remind me ... how many AK47s should you buy to get a complementary gold plated one?? :cheeky:
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