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From The Mail: SS Uniforms Cause Stir at Dambusters Event.
I'm not pro-SS re-enactor or anything (frankly, I don't 'get' it, and never have), but simply can't portray an entire time period and then say, "Oh, half of you can't show up, we don't like the other part." How silly would a Napoleonic re-enactment be if, say, the French weren't allow to attend... -
From The Mail: SS Uniforms Cause Stir at Dambusters Event.
I'm not a German re-enactor and will never be one, but I have to ask the question, then: If you're trying to portray a specific time period, isn't it a bit silly to edit out the parts we don't like? I mean, come on, the Germans lost, SS and all. When you see American Civil War re-enactments... -
Vet reunited with A2 Jacket - a $17 Goodwill purchase!
There's no point in going to any thrift store in my area for stuff like this. All of them already have collectors or dealers on call for any military stuff. The only things that ever get out to the public are old woodland BDUs... I knew someone in charge of a Goodwill in the area and he... -
Vet reunited with A2 Jacket - a $17 Goodwill purchase!
Probably the only WW2 flight jacket to go for that little in generations. Most Goodwill stores have a few collectors that military stuff automatically gets filtered to and the public never sees it.. -
Tractor use on farms in the US during WW2?
The layout will be U-shaped and no more than 3 feet away from the wall, so there's no room in O scale for forced perspective other than the backgrounds (flat representations of hills in the distance, roughly an inch or two thick). I have some figures and vehicles in 1/43, 1/48 and 1/50 scale...- p51
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Brooks Brothers Great Gatsby Collection
I just looked through the prices. Heck, I could find original stuff much less expensive than these prices... -
Tractor use on farms in the US during WW2?
Thanks for the link. I'm modeling in O scale (narrow gauge), but their stuff does look good. More info if anyone cares about my layout plans can be seen here: http://www.freewebs.com/willysmb44/modeltrains.htm- p51
- Post #17
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Tractor use on farms in the US during WW2?
Well, this question got answered fast. My Mom just e-mailed me and said in WW2, nobody had tractors in their part of the state, they had horses sometimes but mostly mules. Mystery solved. I'm not shocked, the depression hit that part of the state right after WW1 and the economy has never been...- p51
- Post #15
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Tractor use on farms in the US during WW2?
I was aware of the ration classes, but I didn't think that farm tractors had the same rating. Really large and commercial farms never would have survived the war if they'd had gas rations that low for their tractors and farm vehicles. My problem is that I not only want to know how common a...- p51
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Tractor use on farms in the US during WW2?
I'm currently gathering stuff together for my model train layout that will take place in Eastern Tennessee in 1943 and I've decided I need either a tobacco or corn farm along a portion of the tracks as the area I'm modeling had a lot of farming (and still does). The area was financially...- p51
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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A2 bomber jacket - 487th Bomb Squadron "The Dogface Squadron" - WHATS IT WORTH?
I wouldn't do anything. Don't wear it. It's way too valuable to be worn at this point, especially as there are lots of great repro A-2s out there to be had in any size you'd like... -
Railroad Operating Battalions
There is one of these at the US Navy Yard museum in Washington DC: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/US_14_inch_railway_gun_Washington_Navy_Yard_1993.jpg/800px-US_14_inch_railway_gun_Washington_Navy_Yard_1993.jpg -
Railroad Operating Battalions
The Jeep is easy to find (I have one in my garage, a 1944 Willys MB), but the RR wheels are almost impossible to find. Very few examples exist today. -
WWII US War Correspondent Collection / Impression
Click here for all the info you'll need. It's perfect weather in these parts that time of year, very little rain and it rarely gets hot here in the summer. -
Purgatory Station: Inside San Francisco's Vintage Streetcar Boneyard
My wife and I went to SF a few years back and we rode the PCC cars along the waterfront up to the mint downtown just for the heck of it. I wanted to ride the one painted for the Pacific Electric RR but never managed to hop a ride when that one was around.- p51
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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WWII US War Correspondent Collection / Impression
Svenn e-mailed me with the same question a few days ago and he said he was looking more for the photographer's aspect of things. I have some photos from WW2 of some of their vehicles around here somewhere but I can't find them right now. The problem with correspondents is that they're split... -
WWII US War Correspondent Collection / Impression
Svenn, I replied to your e-mail on this subject with several photos. You might want to contact these people as they focus on Army Signal Corps photographers: http://home.insightbb.com/~tsrcgi/wsb/html/view.cgi-home.html-.html -
songs that make you shiver/cry
I have to fight back the tears every time I hear Happy Xmas (War Is Over) by John Lennon When i was still an Army officer, I had to escort a body back to the hometown of the soldier who'd been killed. It was just a wide spot in the road with a Grange hall, a church and maybe three houses in the...- p51
- Post #448
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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WW2-era short hairstyles?
I've seen that book in a bookstore recently. It's good, but honestly that's a lot of coin for something my wife might use maybe once a year at the most (if even then). I was hoping there might be some decent guide online somewhere... -
WWII US War Correspondent Collection / Impression
I just got confirmation the other day that we have a display space at the MVPA Convention this year for the War Correspondent/Photographer display myself and another collector have been plotting on for over a year now! I don't think this has ever bene done before anywhere. The display spot is...
