Some wonderful pictures!

My favorite slide was one of my Grandfather who is pictured in the Navy get up above.
He had a picture of him and a black dude his age on his shoulders just hanging out on the ship. You could tell he just found some poor farm kid like him that was going through the same sh!t as him. I'm not big on race debates but the picture summed it up for me.

My great uncle in the MP picture could club the English into anyone in Panama who had English amnesia. Also a great man.

I guess they both knew their crowds and made it through with that knowledge.

My Grandfather made these into lamps. The wiring and shades went bad over time but I may redo them some day.

I believe the one on the left is anti aircraft.

This was the young man of the same picture of the man in the hardened picture. War sure does change things. He spoke about burning the lice off his uniform while surviving on turnips in France. He came back hardened.

Here's my favorite military photo so far...It's a pic of my youngest son that was taken a few weeks ago while on a deployment to S. Korea. It's hard to believe that a year ago this week he graduated high school and was getting ready to ship out to basic training.

Great pics. Thanks

The boys of Pointe du Hoc. These men were simply amazing. I’d love to say a prayer of thanks at the base of those cliffs someday.

This is my least favorite of all of my Army pics.

I recognize the inside of a cattle car when I see it.

At 18 yrs I was highly insulted at having to ride in such an inhumane contraption. But on the other hand, I was glad I didn't have to walk.
This one has bars. One layer sits on the benches and another layer stands up and holds onto the bars. Like a subway.

You get in those things and some would be comedian will invariably start making mooing noises. Every time.

Yup

My daily ride for a few weeks to the Million Dollar Hole at Ft Lost in the Woods.

Recovery and Salvage Course, Last week

Ace of Aces, The One Man Airforce, Captain Dominic Salvatore Gentile, arguably the best fighter pilot ever born.







Don is my paternal grandfather's 1st and 2nd cousin. He bought a homemade plane at 17 and was soon given a safer one by his parents. He used to buzz the school, fly under bridges, fly through barns and be a general nuisance in our hometown of Piqua, Ohio with his plane. He was to short to enlist in the US Airforce, so he enlisted in the RAF. He was transferred to the US Airforce after we entered WWII.

Don had 30 kills. Dwight D. Eisenhower called him the "One man Airforce".

Keith