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    Re-branding Pearl Harbor anniversary for a new generation

    Firstly, let's remember that these are all personal opinions; however, I have to agree. I know of our men did some bad things too, and perhaps movies in the past tended to make our soldiers look like innocent school boys, but now days it's popular to root for the antiheros, or even outright bad...
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    An Intro to Hat Terminology: A Fedora Lounge Guide

    Okay. Well, my Dobbs hats all have double layer brims, no special edge treatment, are very stiff, and they snap up and down very well, and very crisply. But let's not argue about it, let's just leave it at that.
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    What if Edward VIII never abdicated?

    I love these things. Unfortunately, it's never so easy. The problem is--the Butterfly Effect. Here's just one of a nearly infinite number of infinitesimal things that can happen: Edward and whom ever he marries, have a baby boy--the future King. They go to Germany for a little holiday. The...
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    A-3 Pants?

    No! If anything 100% lanolin. But then, you're a grown up, so do. as you like.
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    A-3 Pants?

    Again, I've been a leather expert for 30years, and i would strongly advise against putting any kind of cream on them, with one exception--100% Lanolin cream, not oil. Lanolin comes from sheep wool, and what causes so many people to itch when wearing wool sweaters. If you wash them with woolite...
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    A-3 Pants?

    Wash them, by hand, with a soft brush--like the kind people use to wash their backs--with Woolite (maybe misspelled but you know what I mean) and warm water. It might make them a little darker, probably not. Hang them to drip-dry. WARNING: no matter what anyone else tells you, DO NOT WASH...
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    Re-branding Pearl Harbor anniversary for a new generation

    To get back to the actual subject here, every time I hear about people wanting to jazz things up to make it more interesting to younger generations, a chill runs down my spine. I get images in my head of Lady GaGa, wearing nothing but a T-back and a B-17 on her head, rapping the Star Spangled...
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    Re-branding Pearl Harbor anniversary for a new generation

    In all fairness though, although you're an historian (as am I) most people, of any age, are not. Still, most adults I know understand very well that WWII actually began before the attack on Pearl Harbor, even if they don't know as much as you do. I know I was taught all this in high school, in...
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    Re-branding Pearl Harbor anniversary for a new generation

    Perhaps I'm just being dense, but your generation reckoning is a little confusing. To your way of thinking, my father was too young to have served in WWII--he was 10 in '42, but my grandfathers were old enough to have served, right? So, by your way of thinking, that means I am one of those...
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    Tear it down or leave it up?

    The photo I saw of it looks to have a huge stone in front of it, with a lot of writing on it. The pic's so small I can't make out what it states, but if it's letting people know it's Hitler's birthplace they should certainly remove that! Otherwise I say let it stand. When all the skinheads...
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    What is your favorite aircraft of all time?

    A true Muscle Plane!
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    What is your favorite aircraft of all time?

    Or military C-47. This was by far one of the most important and most valuable aircraft the US had in WWII! Quick little anecdote: General George Kenny, SWPA, loved the C-47 (DC3)--he had this thing about hauling things. Anything and everything! He used to brag about his men cutting...
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    What is your favorite aircraft of all time?

    A lot of people over the years have criticized the Warhawk, unjustly in my opinion. It's one of my favorites too. Okay, it wasn't lighting fast, but it was built like a tank and could take a beating! And for a plane that wasn't supposed to be very good, they sure made an awful lot of them...
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    What is that Color?

    Yeah, khaki!
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    What is your favorite aircraft of all time?

    If we're talkin' WWII, I'd have to go with the A-26 Invader! I really dig the attack role--taking-out bridges and trains, and strafing folks on the ground, watchin'em scatter! It's hilarious! And I really feel that "ground support" is not only vitally important but, somehow, very noble...
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    What is your favorite aircraft of all time?

    Very cool!
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    Ask a question, get an answer

    Couldn't you just buy the ribbon and make it yourself? If you take it apart carefully it really is easy to do. You don't even have to use a sewing machine. I've made many of them putting them together with high-quality two-sided tape--the white stuff from the hardware store, not the clear...
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    1947 USAF - service cap info

    That's very interesting. There's really a lot of confusion on this subject. No doubt the main reason is because none of us is old enough to have first-hand knowledge. After doing some research, this is the impression I'm left with: when the Army Air Forces broke from the Army in '47 there...
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    An Intro to Hat Terminology: A Fedora Lounge Guide

    Very interesting. Please expand on that.
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    Rank and Patches on Military Jackets - Might I Offend a Veteran?

    I can answer that question! I've been a professional historian for more than 30 years--my real expertise is in Medieval history, but of course I've studied other periods as well. Firstly, I'd like to correct you on something, if I may. Although it may seem that history is 80% about war, it...

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