i made some other posts on Braden on the suspects pages

but here's an interesting braden story from 1944

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 05, 2007
Second Battalion 501st PIR at Bizory, Belgium
December 1944 through January 1945

Preface

The following is this author’s description of the flow of events and action as experienced by the men of Second Battalion, 501 Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division beginning on the 18 December 1944 and ending on 15 January 1945. It is based on veteran’s accounts shared with the author in personal discussions, written accounts by veterans, and documents on file in the National Archives in Washington DC. It is in no way meant to be an accurate or final account, but the most probable based on the author’s interpretation of the material presented.


Peter Broome, first squad, second platoon, Easy Co., recalls that the German listening post in front of his foxhole on the farm track in Bizory was very close. Being a baseball player, Broome always judged distances in terms of baseball. The German listening post was close enough to him that a good little league pitcher could knock the helmet off the man sitting in it from his foxhole.\

Harry Mole recalls sitting in the listening post one night as being no fun at all. “You start to see things. It gets a bit hairy all out there by yourself.”

A fellow Easy trooper, Ted Braden, would crawl out to the listening post alone just after sundown. He knew that by the time he was settled into the listening post two German soldiers would be making their way as quietly as possible from tree to tree along the farm track to their listening post only a few dozen feet away.

The Germans always sent two men to such an outpost for they knew one soldier might be tempted to make his way to the American lines and give himself up. Men on listening outpost duty frequently heard snoring from their German counterparts.

The other thing people should be asking, is if Braden was so obvious, how come he wasn't mentioned until I introduced him?

And how, out of the Billions of possibles, did he pop out?

> Braden is one of a tiny handful of named suspects who I think still warrant further investigation. It's shocking he has never been featured in one of these TV documentaries. Although, that's really the impact of the wiki page. Most people are lazy and will just go to the wiki page (which gets as many as 500k hits a month). Braden didn't have a wikipedia entry until I made one for him.



The interesting thing about Braden, is that even though Pat his wife and his ex-MACV-SOG friends suspected him, apparently no one ever called the FBI and said "investigate Braden"

at least, not according to any records currently released.

Really need to do an FOIA on Braden.
If the fbi did investigate him with respect to a $250k insurance scam in the early '70s, per his wife Pat, that would be interesting info

I mean. divorce and a $250k scam in the right time frame.

Seems like a  "must-investigate-more"

I think Braden got a bunch of free passes because of Vietnam activities that were still secret.

The details don't work out.
But to feed the "what if"

But Braden supposedly worked in the past at a tool and die company.
machinist?

Don't have his full work history. not sure when he started trucking.

Turns out an AOA indicator provides very useful info for general aviation pilots. My son owns and flies a two seat carbon fiber Aero Shark with two very up to date glass panels. He not only has an a AOA indicator on each LCD panel but also a voice annunciator that will give a loud verbal warning if AOA increases beyond safe limits given other factors such as airspeed. He bought the plane used from an Air National Guard F-16 pilot. The seller gave him a lot of useful tips about AOA, info that was omitted from my son’s basic flight training. My son told me if you stay on top of AOA you will never have an unintended stall.

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