This quote is one of my favorites but takes some setting up, so bear with me..( LUCKY is LUCKY FORWARD, General George Smith Patton, Jr's Third...
Ah, Mr Gardner, but what about my comment that I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man in any combat unit that didn't think his was best? I'm...
It might be of interest to you that Ike picked Ambrose to work with him on a couple of books about himself ( Ike ). Ambrose got his start as the...
This discussion has been mostly about air to air use of tracer or lack thereof. This, however, might be of slight interest... In 1963,During...
Mr Martin Bull...Either you or I missunderstood that scene...if it is the scene on the bridge you speak of... "Capt. Miller", half dead, and...
Here's a good link which contains other links within it. Col Ortiz was the man i was primarily thinking of, along with Sterling Hayden. Ortiz was...
You people evidently do not know what day this actually is. I will enlighten you... [img] Dear Folk, 228 years ago, at a drinking...
Here's a site with a story pretty close to MARINE Historical and a pic of the First Flag coming down whilke the Second and more famous goes up....
I'd say it should be worth about as much as Snake Stabler and his 3 yard pass completions were to the Oilers.. [img] I live in Houston, and...
Wow...what a discussion! I'm glad I was here to read it.
I've read all the Falaise posts and would simply add this personal interview of my Uncle ( who was in 5AD "Victory" ) and was in what he called...
Very interesting, gentlemen. I confess I thought Gen'l Clarke was a Texan as we named a highway after him. But he's from New York. Here is an Oral...
Just for grins, and not getting smart or anything, if the two men ( Ridgeway and X )are all who know exactly what happened, and Macdonald ( the...
I'm re-reading Gen'l Doolittle's "I could never be so lucky again." I recommend it as an easy going read - full of the origins of safe flight,...
I know the answer as i used it to explain what the MARINES, in particular, and the Army, and Aussies were up against in the Pacific. They had just...
Some forget that dissent is a tradition in this country. It is encouraged, as a matter of fact,in Republics. US Grant, for instance, advised...
General G. S. Patton, Jr. would argue that he would "rather have the Medal of Honor than be a General" as he was heard to say the times he awarded...
Here's a pretty good article on Huertgen --- My opinion is that Ike, Bradley, Hodges, Collins and probably Cota should have been HUNG......
