Twitch Sez

[dhermann1]

Airpower and Wings are no longer published on paper, I believe, tho there is still a website. I'll dosome more checking.

 

[scotrace]

We would need a real name to go on.

 

[Diamondback]

Step 1: search his posting history and see if any of his articles he reposted here were ever on Dead Tree Media.

Step 2: If so, begin searching magazine back-issues for those articles.

 

[dhermann1]

Airpower and Wings have a website, which I have found. I may just contact them. We also have his DOB, from his profile.
Says something about him, how many people want to track him down.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

I was hoping that someone who new him personally might surface with recent info. Not sure about attempting direct contact.....
HD

 

[HungaryTom]

Seeing his initial post in this very thread - also check the thread that Foofoogal inserted here on prostate exams and see his inputs.

Prayers and thoughts are with him wherever he is - these are the most adequate words to say.

We remember him and he is among us - even after 2 years and that way he is not lost.

 

[fluteplayer07]

Can't the bartenders access his real email address, used when he signed up? Maybe his email will include his name, or initials, or at least something that can be used to tell us about him? Would it hurt to try an email...?

This thread is without a doubt one of the most depressing things I've ever read.

To Twitch. If you're out there.




-dhermann1, what are the sites' addresses?

 

[scotrace]

Sometimes I am completely brainless. I've sent off an email.

Thanks for pointing out the obvious, which went right over my thick head.

(the email address offers no clues. Neither does his signup info. Neither does Googling the email address)


Adding: Not an immediate bounce

 

[LaMedicine]

(the email address offers no clues. Neither does his signup info. Neither does Googling the email address)

There is a way to check the location at least. I believe the profile page for each user accessed from the mods' control panel lists the IP address. You can check the location from that through IP address search sites.

I noticed that his last login was early in January last year. I have always enjoyed his posts, and wherever he is now, I hope he is free from pain and suffering.

 

[Diamondback]

Even an IP address check doesn't necessarily mean much--users who get online via WiFi hotspots frequently go through IP addresses faster than 1970s rockers did groupies and drugs.

 

[scotrace]

LA Area (simple profile info)

 

[Honey Bee]

Because my mind is old fashioned and the printed page still means something to me....since you have a geographic area now...what about a short post in the personal classifieds of an LA newspaper?

 

[Diamondback]

IIRC, Twitch's disdain for "conventional" media exceeded even my own, though.

Still think the best way is to find out which magazine he submitted his unpublished article reposted here on HMS Glowworm to, and ask them to check their archives and see if they can attach a name to it.

Article title: "The Destroyer That Could". Google search only turns up the thread here: http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?p=315500&highlight=glowworm#post315500

 

[Mocheman]

He also posted in this forum ( at least I think it's him). Still not much to go on though. http://www.ww2incolor.com/forum/member.php?2076-Twitch1

 

[fluteplayer07]

Jackpot! We have a name!

Mocheman, I used the link you posted and looked through his past posts. On the last page he had a link to an article he wrote. Jim 'Twitch' Tittle.

 

[fluteplayer07]

Not entirely unexpected...

Well, a search on his actual name produced something. It turns out that Jim passed on August 30, 2009.



A post here, and here.


Good night and God Bless. :cry:

Sincerely,

 

[Diamondback]

In pace requiescat.

 

[TM]

And a picture of Twitch from the last link above:

I never met Twitch, but I certainly liked and appreciated his posts.

Twitch, RIP

No doubt he's still posting somewhere.

Tony

 

[HepKitty]

reading his article, very interesting. and how sad that he had to leave, but at least we have some of his thoughts here. considering he's thought of highly here, I can't help but wonder what I missed by not knowing him. RIP Twitch

 

[Diamondback]

HK, a lot of us who did know him (well, as much as that's possible over the Net anyway) feel the same way--speaking for myself, I wonder how much that could've shed new light on old questions about WWII was lost with him.