railfancwb Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 Western Electric is long gone, and true rotary phones (not touch tone with a dial) are little more than memories and set dressing for movies and TV shows, but Old Ironsides is still afloat. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 4 minutes ago, railfancwb said: Western Electric is long gone, and true rotary phones (not touch tone with a dial) are little more than memories and set dressing for movies and TV shows, but Old Ironsides is still afloat. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk I have a rotary with an additional audio amplification for hard of hearing users. It's Ma Bell. I got it years ago for my Mother In Law when she had trouble hearing on the phone. To the dump, to the dump, ta da. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 Picture would have been taken sometime during the Great Depression. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 July, 1941, German troops attacking in Russia 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pipedreams Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 (edited) After Japan's conquest of Burma in 1942, American General “Vinegar Joe” Stilwell trained two Chinese Nationalist divisions to reopen the Burma Road. http://warfarehistorynetwork.com/daily/wwii/vinegar-joe-and-the-burma-road/ Edited May 31, 2019 by pipedreams 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 Installing a Browning M2 .50 caliber machine gun into the right wing of an F4U Corsair fighter - an ordnance maintenance at Jacksonville, Florida, United States, 12 July 1944. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pipedreams Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 (edited) .... And it was child's play compared to what Obama, Clinton and the deep state have done to the United States. Edited May 31, 2019 by pipedreams 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 Ramblin’ Root Beer - 1982 Never heard of it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 The Origins of Memorial Day (Decoration Day) General Orders, No. 11, Headquarters, Grand Army of the Republic, Washington, D.C. 5 May 1868, proclaims ... "The 30th day of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers, or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country...." Arlington, Virginia, 30 May. Congressman James A. Garfield (later to become President) is first speaker at ceremony at National Cemetery at Arlington, Virginia. First official observance of Memorial Day. https://history.army.mil/html/reference/holidays/m... 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 British Crusader tanks advance past pyramids in Egypt, 1943. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 Pilots of the 4th Fighter Group pose beside one of their P-51Bs, England, 1944. Note the Chinese-American pilot among them. All ethnicities and races were integrated into our fighting forces except for blacks and, partially, Japanese-Americans. Aside from the well-known segregated J-A 442nd Regimental Combat Team, Japanese-Americans served unsegregated in the Military Intelligence Service, the WACs, as commandos with Merrill's Marauders, and in the AAF. Among the latter were Seijin Ginoza, who became a POW after his B-17 was shot down over Vienna, and Ben Kuroki, who flew 35 missions over Europe as a flight engineer and top turret gunner in a B-17, then went on to fly 28 missions as ditto on a B-29 over Japan. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 Deauville, France, 1959.Photo by Georges Dambier 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 (edited) Edited May 31, 2019 by pipedreams 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 1 hour ago, pipedreams said: Deauville, France, 1959.Photo by Georges Dambier 1 hour ago, pipedreams said: Deauville, France, 1959.Photo by Georges Dambier Pretty risqué for the 50's. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C_Hallbert Posted June 2, 2019 Share Posted June 2, 2019 Looks like a shell crater. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C_Hallbert Posted June 2, 2019 Share Posted June 2, 2019 Pretty risqué for the 50's. Speaking for myself at the time as a 12 y.o. moralist, aficionado of beautiful women and a counter critic, I hereby declare that this woman is not only beautiful, but should be considered an icon of haute fashion and good personal taste! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted June 2, 2019 Share Posted June 2, 2019 4 minutes ago, C_Hallbert said: Speaking for myself at the time as a 12 y.o. moralist, aficionado of beautiful women and a counter critic, I hereby declare that this woman is not only beautiful, but she be considered an icon of haute fashion and good personal taste! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Yeah! I would like her to be my "good friend" also!! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C_Hallbert Posted June 2, 2019 Share Posted June 2, 2019 Yeah! I would like her to be my "good friend" also!!I was thinking of her more as my teacher.....Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 1896 Guglielmo Marconi applies to patent the radio 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 In 1968 Valerie Solanas, the American feminist, author of SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol in 1968 by shooting him three times. She was later diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and pleaded guilty to "reckless assault with intent to harm" and served just a 3 year sentence. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 RMS Queen Mary arriving in New York harbor, June 20, 1945, loaded with returning GIs. 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 Coast Guard Martin PBM and what I think is a Crosley car, maybe a 1948 model...? 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 (edited) Capt. George Malcolm Ashmun - US. Marine Corps - VFW-214 Black Sheep Squadron. (Posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for heroism. He was shot down over Rabaul on 3 Jan 1944.) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45287197/george-malcolm-ashmun Edited June 3, 2019 by pipedreams 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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