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Post by herosrest on Apr 11, 2023 17:27:21 GMT
There went an interesting couple of hours once I decided to look a little harder into Reno's orderley on 25676. Ahem...... It's raining and sunny in some sort of proportion which winds are sufficient to slam shut open windows on the second floor. Somehow, I have shunted idly through Claremen with Custer Limericks to ACW Light Arty units with a battery E, to Lieutenant Harold Stanley Johnson of 151st Field Artillery (1st Minnesota) at Camp Mills, Long Island, October 12, 1917 and his Rainbow Division roster for MG. Wm A. Mann (commanding) prior to embarkation for the 'Big One', and transport to St. Nazaire. Here's the roster and with pictures of Mann, and Col. MacArthur. At this point, things got a little weird and I started bumping into lots and lots and lots of stuff about current Ukraine. You know me and a pretty face, so that had a li'l to with it.... Kira Hmmmm.... what's this link It went nuts. Kira wants you to stand for her. At that stage I was lost and enough.... One little misguided weary click later and I was staring at 369th Sustainment Brigade's Wiki page. Fascinating. 1890 census, veteran's section, Washington State: Edward Davern, sergeant, U.S. Light Arty, Co. E (enlisted May 1861), discharged Mar 1864.
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Post by herosrest on Apr 11, 2023 21:56:17 GMT
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Post by mac on Apr 14, 2023 4:37:53 GMT
Always good to see others have days as weird as mine HR. And yes she is your type . Cheers
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Post by Elwood on Jun 6, 2023 13:51:00 GMT
A few months back, watched a movie on TCM, Destination Tokyo, with Cary Grant, John Garfield and others. US sub on clandestine mission to shores of Japan to provide intel for Doolittle raid. 3 man landing party set ashore just outside Tokyo. Anyhow, found it interesting that the landing party were armed with 1894 Winchesters as their long arms. Just a silly hollywood miscue or during the early days of the war were submariners and other personnel armed with these weapons? And, I enjoyed the movie.
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Post by miker on Jun 6, 2023 14:13:26 GMT
I really wish people would stay on topic and not inject non-related items into the conversation. Just sayin...
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Post by Elwood on Jun 6, 2023 14:56:04 GMT
Yeah sorry, guess I shoulda stuck it in the movie section.
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Post by miker on Jun 6, 2023 15:06:54 GMT
I think a movie about WWII is okay. But Kira and so forth is not remotely relevant.
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Post by miker on Jun 14, 2023 16:22:55 GMT
I think "F Troop" is an accurate documentary of the state of professionalism of the 7th Cavalry in 1876. www.youtube.com › watch?v=ihcd1XInF24
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Post by Elwood on Sept 4, 2023 16:50:24 GMT
www.honorstates.org/index.php?id=538217This was my great uncle, my Dad's grandmother's son. Served with the 339th and 347th fighter squadrons in the Pacific. Flew P-38s. He was killed returning from (or going to, we aren't sure, conflicting stories) leave in Australia when his C-47 transport went down in bad weather. Was stationed in New Guinea at the time. The 339th was the outfit that shot down Yamamoto although I do not believe he was involved in that operation. While going thru my parents letters, pictures after they had passed, I came across a couple of letters he had written my Dad. They were close, my Dad really looked up to him. I found it interesting that he, Maj. Willis, was lamenting the fact that Japanese targets were becoming increasingly hard to come by, especially Zeros. Those P-38's were some top notch fighters, more range than the navy planes.
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Post by quincannon on Sept 4, 2023 17:54:40 GMT
Don't know if you have ever seen the movie "A Guy Named Joe" with Tracy, Van Johnson, Ward Bond, and Irene Dunne. In the last half of the movie there is some terrific footage of the P38. If you have not seen the movie, be sure to try and find it.
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Post by Elwood on Sept 4, 2023 18:32:15 GMT
No, but if Ward Bond’s in it, I’m sure its a good movie. I’ll look for it.
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Post by Elwood on Oct 10, 2023 22:51:25 GMT
Neat vid I saw. Japanese pilot bombs West Virginia at Pearl then runs into a rebuilt WV at Okinawa. He is wrong about deaths tho. Quite a few on the WV. 60 plus I believe. youtu.be/Ss9vYcleojw?si=ot7aJBMkzUkhSeru
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Post by Elwood on Dec 7, 2023 16:42:57 GMT
December 7, 1941. Maybe a few survivors left, not many tho.
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Post by quincannon on Dec 7, 2023 17:55:59 GMT
Another day of sacrifice to be forgotten by the likes of Tommy Tuberville. Another not to be forgotten day, that Tuberville must know was caused by isolationists who roadblocked nearly every effort to get our country ready for a war that a blind man could see coming. If this country ever goes down to defeat and is placed upon the ash heap of history as so many have been before, it will not be because of the external enemies that democratic and free societies have, and there are many, but rather it will be from within as a result of the poison spread by the likes of Tuberville and his ilk.
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Post by Elwood on Dec 13, 2023 20:10:51 GMT
Reading a bit about the sinking of the Yamato, the huge Japanese battleship. I had known that it was swarmed over by US navy planes, with no air cover of it's own, it was only a matter of time. What I didn't know was Admiral Spruance, being informed on the movements of the Yamato by his submarines, ordered 8 of his battleships to intercept it and sink it. The battleships were off Okinawa at the time. Several newer, fast battleships but a couple of older ones, survivors from Pearl Harbor. Admiral Mitscher however ordered his carrier-based airplanes to attack. After the planes were in the air, he radioed Spruance and asked if he should go ahead or if Spruance's battleships would handle it. Spruance replied, "You take it". Anyway, found this fascinating. The US ships would have surrounded the Yamato and gotten the job done I'm sure, the last great battleship to battleship action but the right decision was made. Very interesting. www.historyhit.com/what-was-operation-ten-go-the-last-japanese-naval-action-of-world-war-two/
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