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    Company D, 113th Infantry Regiment

    Did anyone else notice "Corp. Stinky Finkle"? I have my dad's version of that photo *somewhere*. However, it unfortunately doesn't have all the names on the back. It was taken at Camp Campbell in mid-1943 and its sort-of "claim to fame" is that somewhere in the bunch is Charles Schultz -...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    I'm not sure if I can access the whole paper but here is the abstract and author's bio. I'll see if I can get any more. ABSTRACT This paper applies the theory of attachment to explain the reaction of readers to one of the most important deaths in comic strips: the death of Raven Sherman in...
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    Favorite '30s and '40s photos?

    Some information about where/when for this photo: State: Tennessee City: probably near Bristol or Jackson Time: 1936 or later Car: 1935 Pontiac Take a good look at the license plate - from 1936-1956 TN had license plates shaped like the State - note sloped and slightly jagged side edges The...
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    Minds And Computers

    In the house where I grew up - which was located about half-a-mile from WLAC-AM (50,00 watts) - we could sometimes hear the radio on the bathroom sink and toilet. However, best reception was on the metal washtubs in the basement. You could put your head down in an empty tub and actually...
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    Clean Jokes

    Actually, that's MY cat - "Midnight".
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I think we mentioned this previously when the topic of pickup-trucks and "rolling coal" (or was it "coal rolling") came up in the context of Northerners trying to be Southerners/rednecks. As a native Nashvillian - right in the mid-South - it was a surprise to me that such activity was...
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    What else do you collect?

    And keep it right there where it should be - not ruined by turning it into a movie prop. - Graflex cameras and accessories collector - (I once used several of those connected in series to take a midnight photo of a B-29.)
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    "America's most prized military secret (Norden bomb sight) is now in the hands of the Nazis..." I can't resist mentioning my own interaction (sort of) with the Norden bomb sight. When I was in grad school I was doing some work in the Computer Center and met a beautiful redhead. (She was also...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    Agree that there would not be a bombsight or radar or anything "top-secret" on a P-40 - a very ordinary fighter/pursuit plane. Sounds like the news person was trying to boost the story... As for the "Yoo-Hoo" incident - what got the soldiers in trouble was that what they were yelling at the...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Slightly amusing that we are on page "666" of this topic and we get to see bloody-gruesome wounds... (not complaining, just observing)
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    military movies with non regulation hair cuts

    "...barracks lingo insists that along with switchblade knives the 101st was issued individual cameras-unlike any other outfit and men were encouraged to shoot more than just the enemy." This fits with something the 101st Historian once told me: "82nd people claimed that 101st rifle squads had...
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    military movies with non regulation hair cuts

    I may have made some comments previously about the one-sided 101st to 82nd photo ratio. Here is the story as best I can research it: Gen. Bill Lee (original Division Commander of the 101st) was friendly with the Public Information Officer (PIO - Capt. Barney Oldfield) at Ft. Benning (Parachute...
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    military movies with non regulation hair cuts

    I decided to go back to some original photos of the 101st Airborne to see what their WWII hairstyles were like. I looked through "101st Airborne - The Screaming Eagles at Normandy" by Mark Bando. After looking at dozens of WWII paratroopers, not a one had what people think of as "military"...
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    military movies with non regulation hair cuts

    Average age for Vietnam soldiers was ~19.5, average age for WWII was ~26.5. And those WWII GI's had lived a hard life in the Depression by the time they enlisted or were drafted. I have an original picture album from WWII and in the photos many of the guys look like modern-day 40-year-olds. I...
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    Missing Members

    You may remember some time ago that we had a discussion here (FL) about the mustard/ketchup rules that some people and places have. At the time I said that such things were never mentioned or thought about here in Nashville/mid-South. Shortly after that discussion I ordered a hot dog at a...
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    Clean Jokes

    Those other people just haven't seen "Easy Rider" enough times (while not stoned) to get the joke. I think it's hilarious.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The writer in question - John Milius - knew what he was doing in terms of firearms and firearms information. Among other credentials he was on the Board of Directors of the National Rifle Association when Charlton Heston was President of the NRA. The "load only five" policy was applied to...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    That's Hollywood for you... John Wayne and all the other cowboys fought Indians and stagecoach robbers all through the 1870's and 1880's using 1892-model Winchesters. Errol Flynn and his troops fought the Civil War with 1873 rifles and pistols. And don't forget Roy Rogers' 50-shot...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Let me "second the motion" concerning Richard Todd - especially "The Dam Busters" (1955) in which he played Guy Gibson, squadron leader of 617 Squadron during WWII, which dropped the famous "bouncing bombs" which damaged three German hydroelectric dams. That movie is so good that I use clips...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I'd like to add "the Bedford Incident" as another excellent "war movie" of the destroyer/submarine genre. In this case it's set in the Cold War with Richard Widmark as the destroyer captain who is relentlessly stalking a Russian submarine which is just skirting NATO territory. Widmark is very...

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