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Some famous selfies taken by a macaque that included a lawsuit over the ownership rights.
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Flash drive that PCNA handed out at a meeting several years ago… found it in a the desk drawer the other day and for some reason the computer won’t recognize it any more. Could be a Windows 10 thing?
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April 3, 1917. Oklahoma City. "Workshop of Sanitary Ice Cream Cone Co., 116 S. Dewey Street. Boys packing cones are John Myers, 14 years old, and a boy 12 years old who is working steady now. Boss said: 'He said he wasn't going to school so I took him.' " Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1656850956.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1656850956.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1656850956.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1656850956.jpg |
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should not be a W10 thing as it can read FAT , FAT32 NT formatting. USB dongle probably damanged or corrupt...But you probably should just try another pc to be sure |
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http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1656855763.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1656855763.jpg Happy 96th birthday Melvin James Kaminsky AKA Mel Brooks and his three brothers for their service to our country during WWII. Mel Brooks, the Brooklyn-born funnyman best known for directing side splitting comedies such as Spaceballs, Blazing Saddles, The Producers, is not somebody most people would associate with life and death type of dangerous work. Yet, that is precisely what Mel Brooks during the Second World War, when he fought the Nazis as a combat engineer clearing minefields under enemy fire, and was in the thick of in the Battle of the Bulge. As he put it: “I was a combat engineer. Isn’t that ridiculous? The two things I hate most in the world are combat and engineering“. Born Melvin James Kaminsky in 1926, Brooks was raised in poverty after his father’s untimely death when the future comedian was only two years old. Understandably, growing up without a father was rough, and it left its mark on Brooks, as a child and into his adulthood. As he put it decades later: “There’s an outrage there. I may be angry at God, or at the world for that. And I’m sure a lot of my comedy is based on anger and hostility“. Growing up small and sickly in a borderline slum in Brooklyn, Brooks developed a sense of humor and a precocious comedic talent early on. Brooks graduated high school in 1944, with nebulous plans to go to college and study psychology, but then decided to enlist in the US Army. As he described his decision: “I enlisted to go to college, not to be in, you know, foxholes and shot at. But listen, that’s what happens in a war. Being a kid of seventeen, eighteen, I was a peacenik, I was against war, but I knew what Hitler was doing to Jews. So, I really did feel this was a proper and just war, and a war that should be fought. My mother had four stars in her window. I think the limit was three if you had children in the army – that is, I think I could have gotten out of it, but I was gung ho at being a soldier“. Mel Brooks, the Warrior Like many Americans, Brooks was extra fired up to fight the Nazis, but was also well aware of the extra risks faced by Jews if captured by the enemy. As he put it: “My brother Lenny was an engineer gunner in a B-17, and in his 35th or 36th mission, his Flying Fortress B-17 was hit, and they all bailed out, and they landed in Austria. He knew he had on his dog tags, for Hebrew and he had heard rumors that the Germans were taking Jewish troops and sending them to concentration camps. So in his way down, while still in his parachute, he ripped [his dog tags] off. ” Sent to Europe in 1944, Brooks’ qualifications that got him into ASTP marked him out as a soldier of high intelligence. So his first assignment was as a forward artillery observer – a job that requires quick thinking on the fly. He was then assigned to a combat engineer unit, the 1104th Engineer Combat Battalion (ECB), attached to the 78th Infantry Division. Combat engineers often went out ahead of the main assaults, to clear out obstacles for follow on troops. Brooks’ unit used demolitions to blast a way clear for the main forces, repaired bridges destroyed by the Germans in a bid to slow the Allied advance, built bridges from scratch, helped lay out and construct field fortifications, and otherwise offered whatever support they could. The combat engineers often did their work under the enemy’s noses, while subjected to artillery raining down on them, and German snipers doing their best to pick them off. The 1104th ECB became the first unit to throw a bridge across the Roer River, and later on, it built bridges across the Rhine. Brooks’ tasks included clearing minefields and defusing land mines. It was a hairy job, that was made even hairier when he had to do it while exposed to enemy fire. As Brooks described it to Conan O’Brien on his show: “You take a bayonet, and you look for mines – planted mines. And they could blow a tank, I mean they’re big. You find them, unearth them if it could blow up a tank, it could certainly take away a Jew in no time“. On at least five occasions, Brooks’ unit had to down their tools and pick up rifles to fight as infantrymen, and took casualties while doing so. He also fought in the Battle of the Bulge during the winter of 1944-1945. Mel Brooks, the Veteran In recalling his WWII experience decades later, Brooks observed that: “War isn’t hell. War is loud. Much too noisy. All those shells and bombs going off all around you. Never mind death. A man could lose his hearing“. He distilled his wartime experience to its essence when asked what he thought during the war about saving Europe and the world: “You thought about how you were going to stay warm that night. How you were going to get from one hedgerow to another without a German sniper taking you out. You didn’t worry about tomorrow“. Aware of the jarring contrast between his comedic persona and his serious wartime experiences, Brooks once mused to reporters: “I was a combat engineer. Isn’t that ridiculous? The two things I hate most in the world are combat and engineering“. The end of the war in Europe came while Brooks and the 1104th were carrying out a reconnaissance in the Harz Mountains of northern Germany. Brooks, by then promoted to corporal, had survived the war, healthy and hale, and had grown up and matured real fast from the teenager who’d enlisted just a year earlier. He closed his days in Europe by taking part in organizing shows and entertainments for American soldiers, as well as for Germans. Finally, the time came for Brooks to return to civilian life, and resume his quest to become a professional funnyman. After the war, Brooks was discharged from the Army, and he went back to entertainment. Like most WWII veterans, Brooks never viewed himself as a hero, and went out of his way to downplay his wartime experience. He simply saw himself as one of the many millions from his generation who had answered their country’s call, donned uniform and did their part, then returned home, happy to be alive. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1656855763.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1656855763.jpg A photo of General Grant's Son, Governor Hughes of New York, and General Webb in a coach starting a tour of the Gettysburg battlefield. Original unpublished real photo postcard 1907 from The Gettysburg Museum Of History archives. |
^^^ Great post on Mel Brooks. I had no idea.
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Yesterday…Like to see you play that one. There’s alligators in them waters.
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Took me a while to find this. Family Day 1981 bronze medallion from Shop 31 (Inside Machinists) at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard. I had not yet started my apprenticeship there yet (1984), but my dad worked there at the time, 4th generation when I did eventually start. I have my great-grandfather's badge somewhere, but have unfortunately misplaced it. He worked there circa 1920! |
I don't think many folks understand just how massive the ship/Navy industry is in Norfolk. Just map it, go to satellite view and stare in wide wonder:
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http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1656877510.jpg Mel Brooks Before he could complete his degree in psychology from Brooklyn College, Brooks was drafted into the Army to fight during World War II. He served as a corporal in the 1104 Engineer Combat Battalion, 78th Infantry Division as a combat engineer. One of his tasks during the war was to diffuse land mines, and he also fought in the Battle of the Bulge. It has been reported that when the Germans played propaganda recordings over loudspeakers, Brooks responded by setting up his own sound system and played music by Al Jolson, a Jewish musician. He would get in a further dig at Nazi leader Adolf Hitler a few decades later when he directed The Producers, a comedy focused on the worst Broadway musical of all time, "Springtime for Hitler." When reminiscing on his years in the Army, Brooks trots out his trademark humor: "War isn’t hell... War is loud. Much too noisy. All those shells and bombs going off all around you. Never mind death. A man could lose his hearing." Asked by his son if during the war he thought about "what it would take to rebuild postwar Europe," he replied, "You thought about how you were going to stay warm that night, how you were going to get from one hedgerow to another without some German sniper taking you out. You didn’t worry about tomorrow." |
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Your photo doesn't even capture it all! Little Creek Amphibious Base, Oceania Naval Air Station, Dam Neck, St. Jullian's Creek, the mothballed fleet, the list and area goes on and on! And those are just the federal sites, not including all of the private contractor shipbuilding and repair yards. During and right after WWII, NNSY employed over 40,000 people. There were only about 12,000 employed during my 9 years there. Not sure how many work there today. |
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Western New York is nice and all (the summers here are gorgeous...little to no humidity), but I really miss this about Tidewater! I think of it as the sound of freedom! And it wasn't just Navy as Langley was on the other side of the James River and Marines from Cherry Point down in NC.
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I really miss the traffic on the air base. The first time that I was in Japan, even though it was an AF base, the flight line was Navy, so I remember seeing lots of P-3 Orions. We'd get planes doing touch and gos that I believe were from ships that were in port. We'd get some sort of (I think) prop type plane with a big disk on top (always called them AWACs). The second time I was there, we still saw a lot of the Orions, but we then got an F16 squadron/wing, so that was pretty exciting. When I was there, where my dad worked, "echelon". https://i.pinimg.com/originals/70/54...749025d98c.jpg transition period https://i.pinimg.com/originals/83/1f...b12a3383fd.jpg today the "elephant cage" or "dinosaur cage" seems to be gone. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1656903123.jpg |
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Dad was stationed in Misawa twice, was in Pensacola the first time as a student, and the second time as an instructor. He spent some time near Wash DC, and his last duty station was Rota, Spain, which was really cool. The second time that we were in Japan, he was on a few of these, including this one https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...639_Tautog.PNG https://storage.googleapis.com/hippo...079540-800.jpg |
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Bikes that ran on railroad tracks, Pellston, Michigan, 1910. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1657110733.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1657110733.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1657110733.jpg P-40 Chief test pilot Lloyd Child (C) with other test pilots at the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo NY - 1941 - Original Color Picture L to R; W. Webster, R. Fausel, H.L. Child, H. Fisher (standing on wing), Ed Elliott & B.T. Hulse Henry Lloyd Child was born in Philadelphia, PA, on May 25, 1904. After Graduating High School, Child majored in mechanical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania where he was a member of the varsity and all-state soccer team, he also played football & tennis. Child graduated with a bachelor of science degree in June 1926 and went to work for the Curtiss-Wright Corporation as an engineer. Child joined the US Navy in November 1927 and was trained as a pilot at Naval Air Station Hampton Roads, Norfolk, Va where was commissioned as an Ensign. He was promoted to lieutenant (junior grade) in November 1932, and to lieutenant in November 1935. While maintaining his commission in the US Navy, Child returned to Curtiss-Wright as a test pilot where he flew the first flight of the P-36 Hawk. Child worked for Lockheed from 1958 to 1968, when he retired, He passed away in Palmdale, California on August 5, 1970 at the age of 66. Thanks to José-Daniel Cabanilles for his assistance LIFE Magazine Archives - Dmitri Kessel Photographer http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1657110733.jpg Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park is an American national park located in western Colorado and managed by the National Park Service. There are two primary entrances to the park: the south rim entrance is located 15 miles east of Montrose, while the north rim entrance is 11 miles south of Crawford and is closed in the winter. The park contains 12 miles (19 km) of the 48-mile (77 km) long Black Canyon of the Gunnison River. The national park itself contains the deepest and most dramatic section of the canyon, but the canyon continues upstream into Curecanti National Recreation Area and downstream into Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1657110733.jpg 1939 Packard Twelve Convertible V12 Sedan The Packard Twelve is one of the most respected and desirable American pre-war classics. Built in two separate series, the earliest “Twin Six” models hail from 1916-1923, though it is the later cars that are seen as the most desirable. As the American luxury car makers battled for supremacy at the very top of the market, the twelve-cylinder Packard returned in 1932 to take on Cadillac’s headline-stealing V-16 and Lincoln’s V-12, among others. 1939 marked the final year for Packard V-12 production, with only 446 leaving the famous Detroit plant. |
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