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The cast of "Saving Private Ryan" (1998) endured a grueling, week-long course at boot camp instructed by technical advisor Dale Dye. Tom Hanks, who had previously been trained by Dye for the Vietnam war scenes in "Forrest Gump" (1994), was the only one of them who knew it would be a hard and uncompromising experience: "The other guys, I think, were expecting something like camping in the woods, and maybe learning things while sitting around the campfire." All the principal actors, except for Matt Damon, underwent several days of grueling army training. Damon was spared so that the other actors would resent him and would convey that feeling in their performances. All but one of the principal actors voted to quit, as they found it too arduous. The one dissenting voice was Hanks, who thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Naturally, his vote counted the most, so the rest of the actors were obligated to complete their training.
Hanks revealed that the film captured only a fraction of Omaha Beach's importance "We were interlopers, of course," Hanks said. "We had the audacity and the hubris to think that somehow we could capture some of what that place means in the history of the world. It turned out we sort of did, but at the end of the day, all you can do is kind of like bow your head in understanding of, you know, the great providence that had happened there." "I don't think anybody who has some semblance of historical knowledge, or even without it, can go to a place like that--and they are scattered all over France, they're scattered all over Europe--and not take pause there, and think, 'What would I have done if I had been a 19-year-old kid there on that day?'" Hanks recalled feeling like he'd visited a "holy place" when he went to the real Omaha Beach.
In 2006, Hanks was inducted into the US Army's Ranger Hall of Fame as an honorary member, largely thanks to his portrayal of Captain John Miller






Every five years Amsterdam welcomes scores of tall ships and hundreds of other historical ships from all over the world for the greatest nautical spectacle in the world called Sail Amsterdam.

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1905 WW1 Bicycle

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For Byron

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Originally Posted by Adrian Thompson

Damn gas is cheap these days.
If we assume that pic is 1970, that's 8.17/gal today
If we assume that pic is 1971, that's 7.83/gal today
If we assume that pic is 1971, that's 7.58/gal today
If we assume that pic is 1971, that's 7.17/gal today

[GH85Carrera]

Canyonlands National Park In Utah, USA!!!

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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

That's some crazy shizzle up there!


Looks like a great place for some tubing! What could possibly go wrong?

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77 years ago, the last of the 40 Luftwaffe aircraft captured by the Allies, including aircraft such as the Arado Ar 234, Messerschmitt Me 262, and Dornier Do 335, arrived at Cherbourg, France (July 8, 1945). The aircraft were flown to France by members of “Watson’s Whizzers.” The aircraft were then hoisted aboard H.M.S. Reaper, and delivered to the United States for testing and evaluation.


Red Canyon Arch on Hwy 12 in Utah


VICTORY SHIPS
One byproduct of the war was that is was a driver of innovation. When Liberty Ships proved to be too slow and too small to carry the vast loads of supplies needed to ensure victory, the US responded by launching a new ship-building program to solve the problem.
The result was the Victory Ship, a faster, larger vessel with a modern steam turbine engine that propelled it forward, allowing it to join high speed convoys on its way to deliver cargo.
All of the ships’ names ended with the word “Victory” except the 117 Victory Attack Transports - named instead after state counties. A total of 531 Victory Ships were built. Most had a combined crew of Merchant Marines and naval personnel.
No Victory Ships were lost to U-Boat attack - the bane of the Liberty Ship - but Japanese kamikazes sunk three in April 1945.
Most Victory Ships were used to carry much-needed supplies, but the Navy converted 97 of them to carry troops. Those ships took part in Operation Magic Carpet, the effort that brought our men home after the end of the war. The troop versions of the Victory Ship could hold 1,600 men in the cargo holds – converted with bunks and hammocks stacked three high.
This National Archives Photo ID 520918 shows Victory Ships lined up at a U.S. west coast shipyard for final outfitting before being loaded with supplies for Navy depots and advance bases in the Pacific. Ca. 1944. 208-YE-2B-7.


In 1952, USS Sea Poacher (SS-406) performed a unique submarine-to-airship rescue when it towed the disabled K-86 blimp and its 10-man crew for 40 miles to NAS Key West




July 10, 1942 - The sharp-eyed crew of a US Navy Catalina spots the month-old wreckage of a Japanese A6M Zero fighter on the remote Alaskan island of Akutan. Recovery of the largely-intact plane allowed aviation experts to study and fly the Zero, teaching US pilots how to exploit its weaknesses.

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[QUOTE=masraum;11743768]That's some crazy shizzle up there!


That's a whoooooole lot of ummph in a small package rite thar...............Surface drives too

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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I wonder how long it took for the driver and the guy on the port side to go deaf?

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The two photos above: Loading Oil at The Crump Oil Station, Ora, California. Image taken 1908-1909 by Walter J. Nichols of Coalinga. Ora was a train stop just east of Coalinga where oil cars would be filled up with crude oil. These oil cars would then be shipped to refineries, such as the Hanford Gas & Power Company. This is one of my favorite "occupational" postcard images because it shows how casual the danger of crude oil was taken. Crude oil is highly flammable and just seeing this man standing next to a spigot of flowing oil with no eye protection or safety equipment of any kind is mind-blowing. The best part is the oily board that was laid down between the loading platform and the rail car which he used to cross over to the oil tank to close it off. OSHA would have a heart attack.

Oklahoma City had a similar loading area. During WW2 much of the oil that won the war came from one square mile in OKC. The trains were loaded with oil at breakneck speed, and the oil spillage on the ground was huge. After the war, and the slowdown of that oil field, they just put down some topsoil, and ignored it. Years later a bank wanted the are e for a branch and discovered what an environmental mess it was. It was a superfund site and cleaned up.


The routines of camp life of the 31st Penn. Infantry (later, 82d Penn. Infantry) at Queen's farm, vicinity of Fort Slocum, Washington, District of Columbia, during the Civil War in 1861.


These progressive high school girls learn the finer points of auto mechanics in 1927.
Typical staged photo about like the stock photos of today.

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You can't pick your parents.




SERVICE station in 1950 Allentown, PA. the two men pictured would (1) pump gas, (2) check oil (note cans, probably of 10w30), (3) put water in the radiator if needed, (4) clean the windshield, (5) give directions or a roadmap (free), and (6) point to the air pump (also free).

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Pacific Coast Railway Steam Shovel #1, Avila Beach, California. Image taken 1909-1911 by Ansley of San Luis Obispo








Sasakiu and his family in front of their lodge, in camp on Sarcee Reserve No. 145, near Calgary in southern Alberta - Sarcee - 1885

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