[W126 Coupe] The Media & Landiss, Lambda and O2, my 2 cents!

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Interesting you would mention the media, my cousin in Guam just sent this to 
me today. If anyone is offended I apologize.
John




If D-Day Had Been Reported Today

by William A. Mayer

Tragic French Offensive Stalled on Beaches (Normandy, France - June 6, 
1944) - Pandemonium, shock and sheer terror predominate today's events in 
Europe.

In an as yet unfolding apparent fiasco, Supreme Allied Commander, Gen. 
Dwight David Eisenhower's troops got a rude awakening this morning at Omaha 
Beach here in Normandy.

Due to insufficient planning and lack of a workable entrance strategy, 
soldiers of the 1st and 29th Infantry as well as Army Rangers are now bogged 
down and sustaining heavy casualties inflicted on them by dug-in insurgent 
positions located 170 feet above them on cliffs overlooking the beaches 
which now resemble blood soaked killing fields at the time of this 
mid-morning filing.

Bodies, parts of bodies, and blood are the order of the day here, the 
screams of the dying and the stillness of the dead mingle in testament to 
this terrible event.

Morale can only be described as extremely poor--in some companies all the 
officers have been either killed or incapacitated,leaving only poorly 
trained privates to fend for themselves.

Things appear to be going so poorly that Lt. General Omar Bradley has been 
rumored to be considering breaking off the attack entirely. As we go to 
press embattled U.S. president Franklin Delano Roosevelt's spokesman has not 
made himself available for comment at all, fueling fires that something has 
gone disastrously awry.

The government at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is in a distinct lock-down mode 
and the Vice President's location is presently and officially undisclosed.

Whether the second in command should have gone into hiding during such a 
crisis will have to be answered at some future time, but many agree it does 
not send a good signal.

Miles behind the beaches and adding to the chaos, U.S. Naval gunships have 
inflicted many friendly fire casualties, as huge high explosive projectiles 
rain death and destruction on unsuspecting Allied positions. The lack of 
training of Naval gunners has been called into question numerous times 
before and today's demonstration seems to underlie those concerns.

At Utah Beach the situation is also grim, elements of the 82nd and 101st 
Airborne seemed to be in disarray as they missed their primary drop zones 
behind the area believed to comprise the militant's front lines. Errant 
paratroopers have been hung up in trees, breaking arms and legs, rendering 
themselves easy targets for those defending this territory.

On the beach front itself the landing area was missed,catapulting U.S. 
forces nearly 2,000 yards South of the intended coordinates, thus placing 
them that much farther away from the German insurgents and unable to direct 
covering fire or materially add to the operation.

Casualties at day's end are nothing short of horrific; at least 8,000 and 
possibly as many as 9,000 were wounded in the haphazardly coordinated 
attack, which seems to have no unifying purpose or intent. Of this number at 
least 3,000 have been estimated as having been killed, making June 6th by 
far, the worst single day of the war which has dragged on now--with no exit 
strategy in sight--as the American economy still struggles to recover from 
Herbert Hoover's depression and its 25% unemployment.

Military spending has skyrocketed the national debt into uncharted regions, 
lending another cause for concern. When and if the current hostilities 
finally end it may take generations for the huge debt to be repaid.

On the planning end of things, experts wonder privately if enough troops 
were committed to the initial offensive and whether at least another 100,000 
troops should have been added to the force structure before such an 
audacious undertaking. Communication problems also have made their presence 
felt making that an area for further investigation by the appropriate 
governmental committees.

On the home front, questions and concern have been voiced. A telephone poll 
has shown dwindling support for the wheel-chair bound Commander In Chief, 
which might indicate a further erosion of support for his now three year-old 
global war.

Of course, the President's precarious health has always been a question. He 
has just recently recovered from pneumonia and speculation persists whether 
or not he has sufficient stamina to properly sustain the war effort. This 
remains a topic of furious discussion among those questioning his 
competency.

Today's costly and chaotic landing compounds the President's already large 
credibility problem.

More darkly, this phase of the war, commencing less than six months before 
the next general election, gives some the impression that Roosevelt may be 
using this offensive simply as a means to securere-election in the fall.

Underlining the less than effective Allied attack, German casualties--most 
of them innocent and hapless conscripts--seem not to be as severe as would 
be imagined. A German minister who requested anonymity stated categorically 
that "the aggressors were being driven back into the sea amidst heavy 
casualties, the German people seek no wider war."

"The news couldn't be better," Adolph Hitler said when he was first informed 
of the D-Day assault earlier this afternoon.

"As long as they were in Britain we couldn't get at them. Now we have them 
where we can destroy them."

German minister Goebbels had been told of the Allied airborne landings at 
0400 hours.

"Thank God, at last," he said. "This is the final round."

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <jralex at ix.netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: [W126 Coupe] Landiss, Lambda and O2, my 2 cents!


> Dick, Thanks for the tech info.That sort of thing has really made this 
> list so valuble over the years. Thanks to Mike and Dan as well. The Dyno 
> info always recurves my enthusiasm. The best news is about your Son. I 
> think Nathan has two boys(men) over there. I say shut down the media for a 
> while and do it right. Jim Alexander
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: Dick Spellman <spell.yy at verizon.net>
>>Sent: Feb 2, 2006 8:50 PM
>>To: "mbcoupes at mbcoupes.com" <mbcoupes at mbcoupes.com>
>>Subject: [W126 Coupe] Landiss, Lambda and O2, my 2 cents!
>>
>>Hi Dan Landiss:
>>
>>Just wanted to say thanks for the fantastic write up on the lambda
>>adjustments etc.  That web page has come in handy several times now over
>>the past few years.  I will suggest to anyone looking to get an actual
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>>while driving, that Sears has a great meter for only $25-30.  This will
>>save you the guesstimating with an analog meter providing a voltage
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>>
>>Also just learned of an MB fix to the O2 sensor from the mercedeslist
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>>something o2.
>>
>>Hey, everyone have a nice evening.  I am up where I heard form my oldest
>>son, Sean who volunteered yet again to take the place of a Dad in Iraq.
>>This was a very tough past several days and I was glad to hear from him
>>givin his duties while there and events that occurred of late.  Can't
>>say more than that.
>>
>>Take care,
>>
>>Dick
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