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    I lost a friend today

    Sorry for your loss.
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    Nov. 1938 HOME & GARDENS: A Home With Hitler

    There were a lot of prominent Americans who got taken in by the Nazi sideshow too. Here's Charles Lindberg's German Eagle Cross he was given by Goring in 1938. The one he refused to give back until the shooting started. Henry Ford got one too -- but I bet he never gave his back. Ford, GM...
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    Nov. 1938 HOME & GARDENS: A Home With Hitler

    Yeah, I show the picture below of Mosley and his "Union of Fascists" sometimes in my European history classes and ask my students when and where they think it was taken. Nobody ever says England. Have you ever seen "It Happened Here"? It's a pretty good counter-factual history flick...
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    1930s/ 40s Workwear Sources?

    I'll go over to our University library to see if they have any old Sears/ Wards catalogs. I have a vague memory of a design source book that compiled a bunch of Mens fashion catalogs from these eras.
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    Nov. 1938 HOME & GARDENS: A Home With Hitler

    Oh yeah, I got the two different publications confused. That makes more sense -- the article talks about Anthony Eden and David Lloyd George, I doubt most Americans would have been familiar them . And now that I look it says "One Shilling" on the the cover.
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    Nov. 1938 HOME & GARDENS: A Home With Hitler

    Some blogger has found and scanned a copy of the November 1938 issue of Homes & Gardens (wasn't that a Hearst publication?) with a featured article on Hitler and his Bavarian mansion a-la Lifestyles of the Rich and Megalomaniacal Pretty disgusting, given that Ribbentrop and Goring are just...
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    sucker alert

    Are Avirex jackets known for being cruddy? Or is it that this seller's trying to pass it off as a WW2 jacket?
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    Mystery Uniform Pants

    You know, I saw that "M&S" and wondered that myself. The plot thickens. I'm only slowly learning about uniform nomenclature. I wish there were some good reference books.
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    1930s/ 40s Workwear Sources?

    I'm looking for catalog images of 1930s or 1940s workwear -- denim jackets and the like, esp. Dickies brand. Anyone know of a good reference source book or website?
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    "SUDDENLY" 1954 Sinatra/Hayden SPOILERS

    Yeah, Paul Frees has bit part in The Thing From Another World. (A great "commercial" for the fairly new US Air Force.) To me me he'll always be the voice of Disneyland's now defunct Adventures Through Innerspace ride -- "MAGNIFICATION!" Suddenly is great, although the ending is a bit...
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    Reporter's diary adds clue in Amelia Earhart mystery

    I asked my father about this story again this weekend, just becuase it was a bit hazy to me too. Some of my details were a bit off (I was only 6!). My dad set me straight on a few points : 1. The woman who told him the story was the daughter of the woman who claimed to see Amelia Earhart...
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    Mystery Uniform Pants

    Hah-ha! Yes, very scratchy, and given that it's in the 80s-90s here, I won't be putting them on any time soon. But for some reason I couldn't pass them up. Thanks for every ones input.
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    Mystery Uniform Pants

    I picked these up yesterday at a local thrift store for $3.99. Unlike any I've seen before, but they looked old so I snagged them. They're pretty heavy olive drab wool with lots of pockets an buttons. The tags says "M & S" with various sizes and 10-62 stamp (is that a date?) and a more...
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    Crush Cap question...

    As with the uniforms, I believe olive drab denotes the European theater and tan is Pacific/ Tropical/ North African Theater, if I'm not mistaken.
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    Ghost haunts court: Vision of 1930s-era judge creeps out clerk

    You can watch a clip here. http://www.scifi.com/ghosthunters/
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    Ghost haunts court: Vision of 1930s-era judge creeps out clerk

    Anybody else watch the TV show Ghost Hunters? Basically, a couple of Roto-Rooter plumbers and their friends research the paranormal on their days off. My father got me excited about it. I'm sure most people think it's the bunk, (my fianc?©e thinks I'm daft) but I like how these guys are so...
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    Reporter's diary adds clue in Amelia Earhart mystery

    And that's why I love thrift stores! Thanks for the great article. I have followed Earhart's story for a while now and I even have a few connections of my own. Firstly, a minor but interesting family story is that my great uncle was at the Oakland, CA airport in 1937 as part of the...
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    Kamikaze remembered

    Historical omissions and revisions are a very easy things to do. They're also very political. I'm pretty sure that if one attended a 4th of July/ American Independence Day celebration this year certain subjects were ignored, like: 1. The 400 years of Indian Wars/genocide and the reservation...
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    Show us your sailor uniforms!

    On the subject of older US Navy uniforms, I was wondering if anyone could identify the origin and/ or era that this belt buckle was made: I found it in a box of my grandmother's. I know her father was in the Navy during World War One (before he joined the Army!), but I can't be sure...
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    What is your favorite aircraft of all time?

    Hey Diamondback, did you fly the Big Ugly Fat "Fellows"? Sounds like maybe you did. My dad was a radar nav/ bombardier/weapons officer on those beauties (esp. the tall tails) from 1973-1988.

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