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Need help in Disney unit insignia identification...
DO NOT USE A DISNEY ANYTHING IN ANY DESIGNS! Disney has teams of lawyers (one of them is a pal of mine) and they will go anywhere to squash anyone using Disney art or characters for any reasons. It doesn't matter how small the use is. Trust me on this. Disney managed to hold copyrights to... -
You know you've been re-enacting WW2 for too long when…
Two more: You cry at the end of "Band of Brothers" no matter how many times you've seen it You start finding photos of yourself at events and think, "When and where was this taken?" Case in point, took me an hour to realize this was taken right before my first P-51 hop, in 1996: -
You know you've been re-enacting WW2 for too long when…
I used to be into Rocky big time back in the early 90s, seen it over 250 times in a theater. I haven’t seen it in over a decade, though, and I guess it was something I got out of my system eventually. That being said, I still remember it word-for-word. :offtopic: -
WWII Reenactment Pics
Got to pick a few nits on the following photos. No hard feelings intended. Nice postwar OT-810 track. I know the modern back ends bug some folks, but I'd rather see one of these than no German tracks at all, and it’s extremely close on the outside to a 251 track. Neat paint job, too... -
Vintage Souvenir View Folders
I collect items pertaining to a USAAF fighter training base in my hometown in Florida (I now live several thousand miles from there), and I have a few for the town itself, all dated WW2 dates: More on the rest of the collection can be seen here if anyone cares.- p51
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- Forum: The Reading Room
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World War II Camps - California
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You know you've been re-enacting WW2 for too long when…
You know you've been a re-enactor for too long when: 1. You sit around with buddies and spend hours talking about what vehicles/airplanes/weapons you'd buy if you won the lottery. 2. If you had a time machine, you'd rather go back to 1997 and be an extra in "Saving Private Ryan" than to go... -
Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds
Saw it today. It was good, I'll give QT that, but I guess I expected more like "Pulp Fiction in the 40s" which this really wasn't. The ending made me wishing things HAD gone like they did. I can't help but think some kid someday will use it as the basis for his last-minute history report on what...- p51
- Post #116
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Show us your vehicles
Posted my ride here before, but here are some newer images of my 1944 Willys:- p51
- Post #651
- Forum: The Display Case
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Rank and Patches on Military Jackets - Might I Offend a Veteran?
If I ever build up a fifth A-2, what I'll likely do is exactly that, for a vet I befriended in the 90s and sadly passed soon afterward. He gave me tons of stuff he'd saved, even "adopted" me as his personal storyteller. I passedalong the story of him being shot down in 1944 into a book someone... -
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Need help trying to ID an animated movie I think from the 1960s
Thanks., I'd searcvhed google for a long time and turned up nothing.- p51
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Vintage Camera Club Thread
There is a guy out of Eastern Europe who made a very impressive PH47 Army camera housing for his Canon EOS. I'd love to do something just like this but I don't have a period camera to make a copy from. Here is a link that shows this camera: http://radek.syka.us/gallery/muzeum/ph47d/album/- p51
- Post #164
- Forum: The Display Case
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Need help trying to ID an animated movie I think from the 1960s
I’m hoping somebody here might know about this, so here goes. When I was a kid, I remember seeing in school a animated movie from probably the 60s about (I think a boy, maybe a girl) a kid who played a harmonica and at some point, paired up with a caterpillar who danced to the tunes. They became...- p51
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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"Show us your self portrait"
As an artist, I actually drew myself as a cartoon character when I was in college for a newspaper, need to dig them up and scan them someday. I did this as a cartoon when I was on active duty, that same college newspaper character as a Army officer, which I was at the time. If I posted the...- p51
- Post #25
- Forum: The Display Case
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Stateside Air Field collection
More The civilian log book is from the WW2 era (they had limited civilian traffic there through the war), signed by one of the town's aviation pioneers: And the crown jewel of the collection to the right. Not even the Florida State Archives has a copy of this! The photo album to the left has...- p51
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- Forum: The Display Case
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Stateside Air Field collection
I grew up not far from the former runways of this 3rd AF fighter training base. They closed the field in the early 60s when they moved the airport outside of town. It was a large AAF field until 1945. I have stacks of photos and volumes of books and notes for the book about the field I never...- p51
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- Forum: The Display Case
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If you said you looked like one celebrity from the Golden Era...
Wow, yeah, I see that other than the hairline. But after reading his profile, the similarity ends there as it sure doesn’t extend to lifestyles. Still, I keep going back to Dean Jagger, although the hairline for his earlier years isn’t the same either:- p51
- Post #1,108
- Forum: The Golden Era
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WWII Reenactment Pics
There’s no question that there ARE groups out there who do nice things for vets, but generally speaking, most don’t. I want to strangle the people who brag that they ‘work with vets” when in fact what they’re often doing is badgering them for info and trying to talk them out of what little of... -
WWII Reenactment Pics
AMEN to that! I have started to mentally compile a list of the personality types you encounter. There’s the postwar vet who never went anywhere or did anything and wants SOMEONE to hear his barracks floor buffer stories, there’s the ROTC cadet who has to show off his skills because his friends... -
The Vintage Camera Club Thread
Yesterday I found two great old cameras that GI's would have used in the big one: 1941 Argus C3 "brick" 35 MM and late 1930s (no serial number) Cine Kodak Model 25 8MM movie cameras. I have a manual for the 8MM coming in the mail (cheap score off eBay). I knew these were at a local antique...- p51
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- Forum: The Display Case
