pipedreams Posted July 4, 2020 Share Posted July 4, 2020 49 minutes ago, railfancwb said: THE Star Spangled Banner? Right! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted July 4, 2020 Share Posted July 4, 2020 Seeing this photo in color makes you realize just how young these men were 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autogeddon Posted July 4, 2020 Share Posted July 4, 2020 18 minutes ago, pipedreams said: Seeing this photo in color makes you realize just how young these men were These MEN would crush Antifa and BLM. It would be like a steam roller on hot tar. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deputy tom Posted July 4, 2020 Share Posted July 4, 2020 45 minutes ago, pipedreams said: Seeing this photo in color makes you realize just how young these men were Yes, those youngsters kept the world free. Look at the ones their age rioting in the streets of America today, tearing down everything we stand for. tom. SMH. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autogeddon Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 On 7/4/2020 at 12:46 PM, deputy tom said: Yes, those youngsters kept the world free. Look at the ones their age rioting in the streets of America today, tearing down everything we stand for. tom. SMH. Those were men that would have killed and crushed everything in front of them! 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 (edited) Budapest After World War II Today Edited July 6, 2020 by pipedreams 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 1930's they were segregated, packed in overcrowded classrooms, they had to share books & school supplies. But they all knew who their Fathers were & by the 6th grade they all knew how to read, write & do math.. That gave use Bar None The Best Bomber escorts in WW II, the Tuskegee Airman.. Please explain the benefits of the NAACP, JFK's NEA Unions & LBJ's Civil Rights Act & his Great Society again, I'm a bit confused.. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 2 hours ago, pipedreams said: 1930's they were segregated, packed in overcrowded classrooms, they had to share books & school supplies. But they all knew who their Fathers were & by the 6th grade they all knew how to read, write & do math.. That gave use Bar None The Best Bomber escorts in WW II, the Tuskegee Airman.. Please explain the benefits of the NAACP, JFK's NEA Unions & LBJ's Civil Rights Act & his Great Society again, I'm a bit confused.. Education is every person's salvation. Not the theory of telling you what to think, but actually teaching you how to think! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 56 minutes ago, janice6 said: Education is every person's salvation. Not the theory of telling you what to think, but actually teaching you how to think! Unfortunately most government schools - at all levels - are indoctrinating rather than educating. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Administrators Eric Posted July 8, 2020 Author Administrators Share Posted July 8, 2020 Boats are a lot taller when they aren't swimming. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Brothers Selling Frozen Fish From Their Dad's Goat Cart-ca 1915 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 1 hour ago, pipedreams said: Brothers Selling Frozen Fish From Their Dad's Goat Cart-ca 1915 Work used to be an acceptable four letter word! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Administrators Eric Posted July 11, 2020 Author Administrators Share Posted July 11, 2020 Myrna Loy. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Historian Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 (edited) On 7/10/2020 at 2:02 PM, pipedreams said: That man was a stud. Nothing beats smashing the Japanese empire and the Nazi Reich....standing there in a USA shirt with a salute. 'Merica, bitchachos! You'll be loosing to us in 1945! Yeah, i said that. Edited July 11, 2020 by Historian 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 Gettysburg. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 On 7/4/2020 at 11:58 AM, pipedreams said: Seeing this photo in color makes you realize just how young these men were Allied commander-in-chief Dwight Eisenhower called him "the man who won the war for us". Andrew Jackson Higgins and the Boats That Won World War II is the first biography of perhaps the most forgotten hero of the Allied victory. It was Higgins who designed the LCVP (Landing Craft Vehicle, Personnel) that played such a vital role in the invasion of Normandy, the landings in Guadalcanal, North Africa, and Leyte, and thousands of amphibious assaults throughout the Pacific. It was also Higgins who, after twenty years of failure by the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Ships, designed and constructed an effective tank landing craft in sixty-one hours - a feat that caused the bureau to despise him. In 1938, Higgins owned a single small boatyard in New Orleans employing fewer than seventy-five people. Through exceptional drive, vision, and genius, his holdings expanded until by late 1943 he owned seven plants and employed more than twenty thousand workers. Because of his reputation for designing and producing assault craft in record-breaking time, Higgins was awarded the largest shipbuilding,and aircraft contracts in history. During the war, Higgins Industries produced 20,094 boats, ranging from the 36-foot LCVP to the lightning-fast PT boats; the rocket-firing landing craft support boats; the 56-foot tank landing craft; the 170-foot FS ships; and the 27-foot airborne lifeboat that was dropped from the belly of a B-17 bomber. Higgins dedicated himself to providing Allied soldiers with the finest landing craft in the world, and he fought the Bureau of Ships, the Washington bureaucracy, and the powerful eastern shipyards in order to succeed. ***** And Mr Higgins is the reason New Orleans has a National World War II Museum - something well worth a visit if you can. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 (edited) Still think someone should pull that soldier three rows back center...he looks about 12. God bless him. These men leave me at a loss for words. Edited July 11, 2020 by Historian 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 Lemuel Cook At 105, Cook was the oldest surviving veteran of the war. He joined the Continental Army in 1781, only convincing the recruiter because he volunteered to serve for the duration of the war. Cook was in the Army at Brandywine and at Yorktown, under the command of Washington, Lafayette, and Rochambeau. He remembered Washington ordered his men not to laugh at the British after the surrender, because surrender was bad enough. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 1 hour ago, Historian said: Lemuel Cook At 105, Cook was the oldest surviving veteran of the war. He joined the Continental Army in 1781, only convincing the recruiter because he volunteered to serve for the duration of the war. Cook was in the Army at Brandywine and at Yorktown, under the command of Washington, Lafayette, and Rochambeau. He remembered Washington ordered his men not to laugh at the British after the surrender, because surrender was bad enough. Respect given, respect taken. today respect is a lost concept. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 Albert Henry Woolson (February 11, 1850 – August 2, 1956) was the last known surviving[1] member of the Union Army who served in the American Civil War; he was also the last surviving Civil War veteran on either side whose status is undisputed. At least three men who followed him in death claimed to be Confederate veterans, but one has been debunked and the other two are unverified. The last surviving Union soldier to see combat was James Hard (1841–1953).[2] 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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