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Survey of U.S. Army Uniforms, Weapons and Accoutrements
That article gives an overall concept but it isn't accurate in a few places. For example, it describes the Spanish-American era uniforms as canvas. In fact, wool was worn to Cuba in great amounts. The new M1898 uniforms weren't ready when the units left Tampa, and today we associate the uniforms...- p51
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- Forum: The Great Outdoors
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
About the cartoons, I had to explain to other kids in school where the slogans, "Now you're cooking with Gas" and "Next time, take the train" came from, from them seeing them on cartoons...- p51
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
If it wasn't for early Warner Brothers cartoons, I wouldn't know today what half of the slang of the 40s meant.- p51
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Show us your vehicles
Wow, crazy miles on that truck. A pal of mine has a Hyundai from 2003 with well over 350K on it. he still drives it. I just got rid of my 2008 KIA Sorento, which had 190K on it...- p51
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- Forum: The Display Case
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Moonshine making during WW2?
Dad and Mom both grew up just East of Elizabethton. He never saw the jump, just the formation passing overhead. I have that book as I have most of the good books dealing with war correspondents.- p51
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Fire fighting volunteers in Tennessee in the 40s and 50s?
YEP, that's it. Dad lived just easy of Elizabethton, so this was reasonably close by. I thought most of them were kids like him but didn't know they all were. I think Dad was on this fire in another location but I could be wrong, I'll have to ask him. This was a couple of days before his 18th...- p51
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Fire fighting volunteers in Tennessee in the 40s and 50s?
My dad tells me that when he was a young man in the 50s in Northeast Tennessee, the state would have trucks going up and down the roads during forest fire season and they'd just pick you up (with your own shovel). One year, he hopped into a truck with paratroopers from Ft Bragg called out for...- p51
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Moonshine making during WW2?
I have all those other named books but that TN maneuver one looks interesting. My Dad saw the entire 101st AB pass over the valley they grew up in, C-47s with troops and also towing gliders, going that direction. This would have been, I think, 1943.- p51
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Moonshine making during WW2?
I live south of Olympia and have read that book. But as the war impacted people differently in different places, I'm hoping for something that covers the area I'm interested in...- p51
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Moonshine making during WW2?
I'll keep an eye out for that "Why Women Cry" book, thanks for the suggestion. If anyone knows of any good books that cover the home front in the general area of the Appalachians, please let me know.- p51
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Moonshine making during WW2?
I've been into the 40s for most of my life but in recent years I've realized how little has really been written about stateside life in WW2...- p51
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Nazi Gold Train
It's no different from the 'forced apology mode' foisted upon the South for slavery (never mind slavery was legal everywhere in the US until not long before the Civil War). We've given the Japanese a pass for reasons I don't understand, either. I sure wouldn't want any items from their horrible... -
Moonshine making during WW2?
Does anyone have any idea how strong the efforts were to bust up moonshine stills in the US during the war? Did the Feds just put that on the backburner for the duration to focus on more important stuff? I can't find any historical references to moonshining between the end of the depression and...- p51
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Show us your vehicles
I decided to get a shot of my Jeep in my back yard after I came home from a short hop around town... Not bad for a cell camera, huh?- p51
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- Forum: The Display Case
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Jeep: 75th Anniversary WWII Salute Edition
Neat Arctic top, I see how common they are on Jeeps in the UK and EU. You never see them on WW2 Jeeps in the US today, though. -
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Hoboes, homeless and such during WW2?
I guess I started wondering about all this because I know that someone the locals considered to be a coward or draft dodger would sometimes get the living [bleep] stomped out of them in a back alley or lot somewhere, during WW2. I have talked with people who were exempted from service during the...- p51
- Post #39
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...
Makes you wonder how they figure out where the round came from at all. Most kids of any era would have ditched the pistol and lied to the face of anyone who asked about it...- p51
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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POW camp to be preserved
I think it was 1996 or 97, I went to this training base and saw several plywood shacks: http://www.samhouston.army.mil/bullistraining/ I was told that they'd housed German and Italian POWs in WW2. I bet that was great for the morale for the Air Force and Army personnel who used them in modern... -
Hoboes, homeless and such during WW2?
Still looking into whether there were laws against people being unemployed or not if they couldn't be drafted during the war. I am sure I remember, years ago, hearing there was such a law somewhere but can't recall the context of that now. I have a feeling that welfare programs were stretched...- p51
- Post #26
- Forum: The Golden Era
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POW camp to be preserved
Wow, brick buildings. All the ones here in the US were plywood and tarpaper, which is why almost none of those buildings exist today.
