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[GH85Carrera]

Luftwaffe Focke Wulf Fw 190 fighters awaiting disposal at Flensburg airfield in Germany, 2 August 1945.






On July 4, 1944, 2nd Lt Lonnie L. Moseley (St. George, Utah) was flying over Rouen, France, when his P-47 Thunderbolt got hit by German anti-aircraft fire. The engine failed, so Lonnie bailed out, and landed deep inside enemy-occupied territory. The Germans were everywhere, searching for the pilot they had just shot down. That's when a Frenchman appeared from nowhere and told Lonnie to follow him. This mysterious man was Lucien Lestang, an active member of the French Resistance. Lucien, his wife Nellie, and their 20-year-old son Bernard, welcomed Lonnie into their home, and decided to risk their own lives to protect this American pilot. Shortly after, Lucien's network created fake identification papers for him. Lonnie was now Louis René Meslin, a deaf and mute French farmhand. More than two months after his arrival, Lonnie learnt that British soldiers were in a neighbouring village, but to get there, the American pilot would have to walk right through the German lines. So Lonnie said goodbye to everyone, and took his chance. He recalled "I just acted like I was going to town and walked right through the middle of them. I kept waiting for a burst of gunfire to rip through my back, but it never came". Lonnie then approached a British patrol and was finally on Allied territory. The special relationship between the Lestang family and this American hero never ended. As Lucien always said: "Lonnie is my son from America". Lucien passed away in 1964 and Lonnie died in 2014.


WWII Vet Paul Newman was born in a suburb of Cleveland in 1925. After Newman graduated from Shaker Heights High School in 1943, he joined the Navy's V-12 program at Yale University in the hopes of becoming a pilot. His hopes were dashed, however, when it was discovered that he was color blind.
Instead of completing the program, Newman was shipped to basic training where he qualified to be a rear-seat radioman and gunner for torpedo bombers. In 1944, Newman was sent to Barber's Point where he operated in torpedo bomber squadrons designed to train replacement pilots. He was later stationed on an aircraft carrier as a turret gunner for an Avenger aircraft.
One of Newman's later posts was aboard the USS Bunker Hill which fought in the Battle of Okinawa in 1945. In a stroke of fate, his pilot developed an ear infection and they were held back from flying in the Okinawa campaign. Because of this, he and his pilot avoided the destruction of their ship, and the deaths of the sailors aboard. Newman was discharged in 1946 in Washington. His military honors included the American Area Campaign medal, the Good Conduct medal, and the World War II Victory medal.

[Captain Ahab Jr]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Castle is located in Sirmione, Lake Garda, Italy

[GH85Carrera]

The 150th Pennsylvania Infantry camp on Belle Plain, Virginia, is pictured in March 1862, three weeks before the Battle of Chancellorsville.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

How much power does she have?

[GH85Carrera]

“William Howard Taft (27th, 1909-1913) was the last president to own a cow which provided the White House with milk and butter. Pauline Wayne, seen in front of the Executive Office Building next to the White House, was a Holstein cow (a Dutch-bred dairy cow) and was the Taft’s second cow, replacing Mooly Wooly who died suddenly in 1910 after being owned by the Taft’s for about a year and a half. It was reported Mooly Wooly ate too many oats which caused digestive issues, resulting in her untimely death. Nicknamed Miss Wayne, the cow was purchased for the Taft’s by Wisconsin Senator Isaac Stephenson and grazed on the grounds of the White House from 1910-1913. Pauline Wayne gave birth to a young bull on the White House grounds and he was named Big Bill, after Taft himself. She was considered more pet than livestock to the Taft family, residing in the presidents stables next to the Taft’s fleet of cars, and it was reportedly a sad day when the family moved out of the White House and had to ship Pauline to Wisconsin to graze on a farm there. She reportedly lived many years more in Wisconsin in good health.


The rocket-assisted take-off of a Boeing B-47B, powered by GE J47 engines and Solid Rocket Thrusters; reportedly taken on 15th of April 1954 Nasa Image

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[Racerbvd]

[GH85Carrera]

The CSS Stonewall was a 1,390-ton ironclad built in Bordeaux, France, for the Confederate Navy in 1864. After she crossed the Atlantic, reaching Havana, Cuba, it was already May, 1865, and the war had ended. Spanish Authorities took possession, soon handing it over to the U.S. government.


Smoky Mountains TENN: The Walker Sisters were the only family who choose not to sell their land to the National Park Service when the Smokies became a national park. The six Walker sisters watched from the only home they had ever known as their lifelong neighbors moved after selling their land to the park. They lived together in a 20-by-22-foot cabin at the time the national park was established in 1934.




Juilerapass - mountain pass in Switzerland

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[GH85Carrera]

Mineral Park, Arizona was settled in 1871 as a gold and silver mining town. It was the county seat of Mohave County from 1873 to 1887, but lost the seat as the mines and town began to decline. Mineral Park is a ghost town today.






Dog Child, a North West Mounted Police scout, and his wife, The Only Handsome Woman, members of the Blackfoot Nation, Gleichen, Alberta, ca. 1890.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Dog Child, a North West Mounted Police scout, and his wife, The Only Handsome Woman, members of the Blackfoot Nation, Gleichen, Alberta, ca. 1890.

Interesting that the guy is holding a Japanese sword. I was curious. A little google lead me to this post on a bulletin board from a guy named "Peter Bleed"

https://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/13181-photos-of-amerinds-with-nihonto/#comment-137268

This whole issue seems something like an albatross. It should go away. Years ago, in my youth, i came across a photo of the the interior of Chief Red Clouds cabin and saw that it showed a handachi hanging on one wall. Then i had shown to me a photo in the NCMP archive of an identfied Blackfoot in Alberta holding a Japanese sword,

Further research showed that the Red Cloud photo was made in late 1890 and that a group of Japanese Army officers passed thru his community in about 1877 as they returned overland from the Philadelphia Bicentennial Exposition and decided to visited western forts (given the Indian fighting going on at that time, Little Bighorn and all that). While they were in the West, one US officer said something of them like, "They were nice enough fellows but they couldn't speak English so we didn't know how they liked their eggs."

Could they have given Red cloud his sword? I have no idea. But I did put some feelers out to the Pine Ridge Dakota community. AND I DID GET A CALL(!!) saying that Red Cloud's sword had been found on the reservation (!!!). I made immediate calls - many of them. And got a nakago rubbing - which revealed a . . . . Koa Ishin blade. Looks like Indian GI's like souvenirs. Red Cloud's sword is still out there in South Dakota.

The Blackfoot sword photo was undated as i recall, but (again as i recall) somehow I did discover that the missionary to the Alberta Blackfeet had spent time in Japan.

I also published a little piece in Man at Arm that showed some Japanese blades that has been bought from native folks in Alaska. Those things all dated from the very early 1900's.

I could go on, but the bottom line is that Japanese swords seem to have been in play on Japan's northern frontier. I doubt that the folks who would have been sent to Canada or Alaska, or California in the 19th century would have carried swords. I think it is more likely that after 1876, the world was awash in old Japanese arms. Lev Bogoras did collect a Japanese Armor from the Siberian Chukchi. And do I recall that another was collected from Omdurman?

Peter

[mjohnson]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

The rocket-assisted take-off of a Boeing B-47B, powered by GE J47 engines and Solid Rocket Thrusters; reportedly taken on 15th of April 1954 Nasa Image

I always thought the B-47 was pretty cool, though being airborne 24/7/365 in ChromeDome (?) they did have a habit of crashing.

IIRC they carried this bad boy, of which they only recently dismantled the last one ten or so years ago. I was at Pantex and one of the tooling engineers had a 5-gal bucket of B53 parachute rigging parts under his desk. I might have claimed a few as souvenir/desk-jewelry.

https://www.energy.gov/articles/dismantling-final-b53-bomb

[Heel n Toe]

Stephen Stills & Peter Tork - 1968

[Heel n Toe]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

That's good... Photoshop, but hilarious and gets the point across well.

[GH85Carrera]

A view of the Shot Tower in Baltimore, Maryland from the mid to late 1800s
The tower was used to produce “shot” or musket balls. The process included dropping hot molten lead from the top through a filter into a large tank of cold water at the bottom. The cooled and hardened droplets were then refined into ammo


Addie Laird, a 12 year old spinner in a cotton mill. North Pownal, Vermont. February 1910.


Building Scotland's Forth Bridge, March 9, 1889.


A police officer examines the remains of a German V2 rocket missile that hit London, England in September 1944


Galileo Galilei’s finger on display at the Museo Galileo in Florence, Italy. The finger was detached from Galileo's body by Anton Francesco Gori (Florence, 1691-1757, literate and antiquary) on 12 March 1737 when Galileo's remains were transferred from a small closet next to the chapel of Saints Cosmas and Damian to the main body of the church of Santa Croce where a mausoleum had been built by Vincenzo Viviani.

[pavulon]

Originally Posted by dewolf

Well...one guy....but his home made rocket fell back to earth with a big thud. With him in it.

Should have named his rocket HMS Beagle II.

[GH85Carrera]

April 27, 1805 – After marching 500 miles from Egypt, U.S. agent William Eaton leads a small force of U.S. Marines and Berber mercenaries against the Tripolitan port city of Derna. The Marines and Berbers were on a mission to depose Yusuf Karamanli, the ruling pasha of Tripoli, who had seized power from his brother, Hamet Karamanli, a pasha who was sympathetic to the United States.
The First Barbary War had begun four years earlier, when U.S. President Thomas Jefferson ordered U.S. Navy vessels to the Mediterranean Sea in protest of continuing raids against U.S. ships by pirates from the Barbary states–Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripolitania. American sailors were often abducted along with the captured booty and ransomed back to the United States at an exorbitant price.
After two years of minor confrontations, sustained action began in June 1803, when a small U.S. expeditionary force attacked Tripoli harbor in present-day Libya. In April 1805, a major American victory came during the Derna campaign, which was undertaken by U.S. land forces in North Africa. Supported by the heavy guns of the USS Argus and the USS Hornet, Marines and Arab mercenaries under William Eaton captured Derna and deposed Yusuf Karamanli.
Lieutenant Presley O’ Bannon, commanding the Marines, performed so heroically in the battle that Hamet Karamanli presented him with an elaborately designed sword (Mameluke) that now serves as the pattern for the swords carried by Marine officers. The phrase “to the shores of Tripoli,” from the official song of the U.S. Marine Corps, also has its origins in the Derna campaign


Monteriggioni is a medieval walled town, perched on a natural hill, built by the Sienese in 1214-1919 as a front line in their wars against Florence, taking command of the Via Cassia that passes through the Val d'Elsa and Val Staggia to the west. During the conflict between Siena and Florence in the Middle Ages, the city was strategically placed as a defense structure. It also withstood many attacks from both the Florentines and the troops of the Bishop of Volterra.Photo by Max Lazzi


In the Fall of 1944, Bing Crosby toured Allied Air Bases in England. He was then at the height of his ever growing popularity and even though Christmas was 3 months away, his singing of “White Christmas” and “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” were the highlights of his every stop. On September 2, 1944, he performed a concert at the Airbase for the 381st Bomb Group in Ridgewell, England. The 381st didn’t fly a mission that day, so the entire base filled Hangar 1, where the concert was held. The enthusiastic airmen and ground staff literally hung from the rafters, showing their enthusiasm for his singing and the message of his two iconic Christmas songs with raucous shouts and applause. The previous night he had sung at the Stage Door Canteen, a popular London hangout for Allied troops.

[john70t]

Originally Posted by masraum

Interesting that the guy is holding a Japanese sword.

Early Japanese (Ainu) Jomon who live mostly in the north island of Hokkaido these days.
It's interesting that Toshiro Mifune was so hirsute but was widely popular.
The first pic might be a halfu or visitor..almost european.