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- Fri Sep 25, 2009 5:18 pm
- Forum: Veterans Remember
- Topic: remembering "Market Garden"
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2736
Re: remembering "Market Garden"
Market Garden was like Fall Herbstnebel/Die Wacht and Rhein aka the Ardennes Offensive-the Battle of the Bulge. The objective was too far away, the axis of advance too narrow and limited-one account I read recently about the Bulge pointed out that the weather and the terrain limited the Germans"...
- Mon Aug 24, 2009 6:35 pm
- Forum: Other things we collect
- Topic: English Bicycles
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2019
English Bicycles
For whatever reasons I ended up growing Anglophile in the 1950s and 60s, one of the things I acquired a taste for was the English 3 Speed Bicycle-an "English Race" as it was often (incorrectly) called in the 1950s. I own only 1 at present, a 1969 Robin Hood-lower end Raleigh-that I purchas...
- Mon Aug 24, 2009 6:14 pm
- Forum: Veterans Remember
- Topic: One of the last that remain
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2591
Re: One of the last that remain
I read "Currahee" shortly after I joined the Army in 1967. Excellent.
- Mon Aug 24, 2009 6:13 pm
- Forum: Swiss, French, Belgian & Dutch Weapons
- Topic: Current Swiss Military Issue
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3875
Current Swiss Military Issue
What are the currently issued small arms of the Swiss Armed Forces?
- Tue Aug 18, 2009 6:34 pm
- Forum: Veterans Remember
- Topic: Hey Geezers
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9468
Re: Hey Geezers
I was home on leave (I was in the Army) between assignments, I remember hearing about it on the radio and thinking those kids are absolutely crazy. The one person I knew who was there said the place stunk to high heaven, hippie and counterculture types weren't too keen on personal hygiene. I never e...
- Wed Aug 05, 2009 4:13 pm
- Forum: Accoutrements
- Topic: West German water bottle
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5664
Re: West German water bottle
Shows Uncle Sam's influence-we adopted the canteen (as we say) with cup fitting on the bottom) in 1910 or so. I went through BCT in 1967, my canteen was marked 1918. I like the wide mouth, probably easy to insert ice cubes on a hot summer's day. Since this is West German, probably designed to hold K...
- Sun Jul 19, 2009 4:53 pm
- Forum: Swiss, French, Belgian & Dutch Weapons
- Topic: Bastille Day 2009
- Replies: 13
- Views: 10814
Re: Bastille Day 2009
What about the gas mask? In my day-US Army 1967-1971 as an EM, the official explanation was that more than 3 days growth of bear would break the face seal on the then issue M-17 gas mask. Beards and mustaches were going of fashion in the USA by the start of WWI, Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893) was the...
- Mon Jul 13, 2009 11:00 pm
- Forum: US Military Rifles
- Topic: Survival Rifle.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4800
Re: Survival Rifle.
I have always been puzzled by these "survival rifles", the US made ones always seemed to be crudely made ones-the one pictured looks like one assembled from one of these "make your own firearms" books, 22 Hornet might be a perfectly respectable cartridge but I suspect there wasn'...
- Mon Jul 13, 2009 10:46 pm
- Forum: Veterans Remember
- Topic: A memorial
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3609
Re: A memorial
IIRC Christopher Wren is buried in St. Paul's Cathedral, the plaque marking the spot says in Latin: "Si Monumedtum
Requiris Circumspice"-"If you seek his monument, look around you". The world we have lived in was built by men Like Shifty Powers.
Requiris Circumspice"-"If you seek his monument, look around you". The world we have lived in was built by men Like Shifty Powers.
- Mon Jul 13, 2009 10:42 pm
- Forum: Veterans Remember
- Topic: Robert S. McNamara dead at 93
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1978
Re: Robert S. McNamara dead at 93
I will yield my spot in line for his grave to the holder of a Purple Heart.