Alright. Wear it in good health! And thank you, I'm quite happy with my HJ. Might not be the best hat out there, but I wanted one for over ten years now so I finally bought it. Will get a much better high quality hat next year or so...
Steve McQueen wanted to do a motorbike chase in the movie. If the filmdirectors didn't give him that, he wouldn't have signed up for the movie either. Glad they did and a classic movie was made. And there my love for the A2 jacket started.
Here's a picture of me in my Akubra Federation which I got in 2002. The other guy in the picture is my dear old friend, Colonel Ed Shames from Virginia who was part of Easy Company 506, better known as the Band of Brothers.
I hope to get a new fedora next year. Thinking of the Herbert...
Here in Belgium you don't see many people wearing fedoras whatsoever. There are, here and there, but you don't see it on the streets sadly. As for the Indy fedora, I own a Akubra Federation since 2002 and still wear day in day out. Guess I'll be needing a new one soon as this one has seen a...
Indeed, they are getting less and less. Last year one of my dear friends of the same company passed away. Jack Foley was platoonleader of 1st platoon near the end of the war. What a great man he was.
I met many of the Band of Brothers and I was lucky enough to befriend a couple of them...
Hello all
My name is Ronald and from Belgium. I am an oldtimer at Club Obi Wan and now I have finally arrived here. I'm a journalist and a historian and currently working on my first ever book which will be the memoirs of a US WW2 paratrooper. Still lot of work to be done as it's my first...
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