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Posted on 7/27/23 at 6:47 pm to dr
New Orleans, 1910
Posted on 7/27/23 at 6:56 pm to TexasTiger33
Kolb's Restaurant was my father's favorite. They specialized in German food
Posted on 7/27/23 at 7:03 pm to dr
Men of the US 89th Infantry Division crossing the Rhine River under intense machine gun and mortar fire March 1945
Posted on 7/27/23 at 7:09 pm to Purplehaze
Grenadiers and Pz.kpfw VI Tiger I of 2nd SS Panzer Div. “Das Reich” during the Battle of Kursk, July 1943.
Posted on 7/27/23 at 7:11 pm to Darth_Vader
Troops of the US 45th Infantry Division aboard troop transport bound for Sicily, June 1943.
Posted on 7/27/23 at 7:17 pm to Darth_Vader
Imperial German soldiers using the Mauser Tankgewehr M1918, the world’s first purpose made anti-tank weapon.
Posted on 7/27/23 at 7:17 pm to Darth_Vader
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Troops of the US 45th Infantry Division aboard troop transport bound for Sicily, June 1943.
They have a really nice museum in OK City
Posted on 7/27/23 at 7:20 pm to tigerinexile
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They have a really nice museum in OK City
The 45th is a National Guard division from Oklahoma and the Southwest. During WWII they wore the Thunderbird patch shown above. However, before WWII, they wore this patch…
It has nothing to do with Nazism. It was from the fact a large portion of the division was Native American.
Posted on 7/27/23 at 7:24 pm to Darth_Vader
Crew of a 40mm Bofors aboard the Essex Class carrier USS Hornet, 1945.
Posted on 7/27/23 at 7:26 pm to Darth_Vader
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That picture hits home. My Dad fought against Rommel in North Africa. When that ended it was on to Sicily.
Dad was also in on the liberation of Palermo and Rome. That scene in the movie Patton where they liberate Palermo always gets to me.
Posted on 7/27/23 at 7:28 pm to Darth_Vader
Austro-Hungarian POWs in Russia, 1915.
Posted on 7/27/23 at 7:33 pm to Shoeshine
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That picture hits home. My Dad fought against Rommel in North Africa. When that ended it was on to Sicily. Dad was also in on the liberation of Palermo and Rome. That scene in the movie Patton where they liberate Palermo always gets to m
I’m guessing since he fought in North Africa he wasn’t in the 45th. Sicily was their baptism of fire.
Posted on 7/27/23 at 7:44 pm to Darth_Vader
Boeing B-17 Ball gunner’s position WWII
Posted on 7/27/23 at 7:51 pm to Darth_Vader
Eugene Sledge, USMC, South Pacific, WWII. Given the nickname “Sledgehammer” by his fellow Marines, he is best known for his iconic WWII book “With the Old Breed” that recounts his wartime experiences fighting with the 1st Marine Division in the PTO during WWII. He first fought at Peleilu and also fought through the Battle of Okinawa. His story was also later told in the HBO series “The Pacific.” On a side note, his son is a very good friend of mine.
Posted on 7/27/23 at 8:08 pm to Darth_Vader
quote:2010 was the HBO series first air date.
His story was also later told in the HBO series “The Pacific.”
I just coincidentally finished reading (last week) the companion book “The Pacific” by Hugh Ambrose to that series.
It’s a good read.
Posted on 7/27/23 at 8:19 pm to soccerfüt
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2010 was the HBO series first air date. I just coincidentally finished reading (last week) the companion book “The Pacific” by Hugh Ambrose to that series. It’s a good read.
Do you remember in the series how it showed E.B. Sledge writing notes in his little pocket Bible? Those notes were what he used to write his book after the war. His son still has that Bible to this day.
Posted on 7/27/23 at 8:26 pm to Darth_Vader
French Infantry advancing though barbed wire obstacles in “no-man’s-land”, Western Front 1915.
Posted on 7/27/23 at 8:28 pm to mauser
Even in the '30's high end luxury cars had shite resale.
Note that is a V16 Cadillac.
Posted on 7/27/23 at 8:36 pm to Darth_Vader
quote:No, he went over in late 1942.
I’m guessing since he fought in North Africa he wasn’t in the 45th. Sicily was their baptism of fire.
He was on the front page of the evening paper December 8, 1941. He and three others were waiting to join the morning after Pearl Harbor. I often wonder if the other three survived the war.
He spent the duration of the war in the European Theater. When the war ended and the whole German Army surrendered. They went fron fighting men to POW camp guards.
He received a shock from the POWs. A lot of them spoke English. For the entire war the propaganda had been what horrible monsters the German soldiers were. He and his buddies found out that most of the German Army were just regular guys like they were. Farm boys and factory workers and such. Like the American soldiers, they didn't ask for that war. They were just the ones that had to go fight it.
He volunteered for duty in the Pacific Theater, but the war ended before he got shipped over there.
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