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  1. OpanaPointer

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    If you've seen "Starship Troopers", the abortion, I mean movie, you should read the book. It's a parable about rights and duties of citizens. It's also a fun read. The guy who made that movie based it on having read the back to the paperback.
     
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    Beware the stobors.
     
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    I'm contemplating "Somnium" but it may take a few cases of Pabst !
     
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    So much to say in reply...But i haven't read the book. We must break away from our sheep/herd mentality - Let Wisdom be your guide.
     
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    SiaSL is still relevant, sixty-plus years after it was written.
     
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    Holding "to Fly and Fight" Memoirs of a Triple Ace in my hands now.
    by Col.Clarence E. " Bud" Anderson.
    Imagine my surprise when I saw this !!

    IMG_4949.jpg
     
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    29th Infantry Division's William Nelson's The Untold Story. Heard about it on Paul Cheall's Fighting Through podcaast.
     
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    The Last Lieutenant: A Foxhole View of the Epic Battle for Iwo Jima by John C. Shively
     
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    Trying to read Lord Lovat's March Past, but being American there's a lot of Scottish things that I am unfamiliar with & have to pause to look up.

    That reminds me of a book by an Englishman who enlisted into a Scottish regiment and he'd phoenetically write out what a Scot was saying. Reading it it made no sense but reading it aloud in one's mind does.
     
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    Put down Lovat and finished Flight and Return. It's by an Austrian Jew whose family fled to Paris and finally got to America. He turns eighteen here and eagerly enlists to help destroy Nazism. Because of his multilingual skill, he winds up in CIC.
     
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    Given the Nazi party in the USA pre-war immigrants were studied carefully before putting them in security tight positions. The young man must have had good reviews during his background check. (Or the pre-WWII equivalent.)
     
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    He was Jewish and his family applied four years earlier and was on a waiting list. His father's friend agreed to be their sponsor. Father's friend couldn't do it himself b/c he was already sponsoring another family.

    Read about another German Jew who got out of Germany and to the safety of the UK. Because he wasn't a nationalized British citizen and still a German citizen, he was interned as an enemy alien. Post-war he was deported to Germany and had to go through de-nazification! What bureaucratic irony.
     
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    There were endless way to get in trouble in those days. There were some attempts to get America First listed as "an agent of a foreign power".
     
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    The Road to Victory by David Colley. About the Red Ball Express.
     
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    Thats about as heroic a picture as it gets - Jeep Vs Tiger tank...Thompson firing - Good shit!
    I did a quick scan of the commando comics and there are a bunch featuring a tiger tank on the front - But i found an American story in Commando comics:
    Go you good thing!
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    In a spot of bother:
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    Hellcat action!
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    Apparently Aussies didn't need tanks...
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    I would have read that Haunted Tank comic hot from the racks, c. 1963. Twelve year old me approves.
     
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    I didn’t say that
     
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    The Day Of Battle, the war in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 Rick Atkinson
     
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