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WWII uncovered: Honoring Medal of Honor Recipient William Harrell: Holding the Line at Iwo Jima: The Two Man Alamo
"William George Harrell departed for overseas duty in February 1943 with Company A, 1st Battalion, 28th Marines, 5th Marine Division, as an armorer. He first served in Hawaii, then went on to Saipan then to Iwo Jima. Sergeant Harrell earned the Medal of Honor during the Iwo Jima campaign for continuing to halt a Japanese advance toward his Command Post although suffering from the loss of one hand and several disabling cuts on his legs.
"On March 3, 1945, Sergeant Harrell and Private First Class Andrew Carter dug in for the night in a long narrow two-man foxhole on Iwo Jima, on a little ridge 20 yards forward of the depression where the company command post was established. Beyond the foxhole the ridge fell off into a ravine which was in Japanese territory. Because of their nearness to the enemy, the two men took turns standing one-hour watches throughout the night while the other slept when Japanese troops infiltrated the lines in the early morning.
They battled several of the advancing enemy until Carter’s rifle jammed. While Carter left to obtain another weapon, the assault on Sergeant Harrell continued. An enemy grenade disabled his left hand and fractured his thigh. Eliminating two of the enemy, Sergeant Harrell then challenged more enemy troops who charged his position, and placed a grenade near his head. Dispatching one man with his pistol, he grasped the grenade with his right hand and, pushing it, saw his remaining assailant destroyed, but his own hand severely damaged in the explosion. By dawn, the enemy had withdrawn leaving twelve perished around the foxhole. His commander later called Sergeant Harrell’s position the “two-man Alamo.”" -Texas State Historical Association
Sergeant Harrell was presented with the Medal of Honor by President Harry S. Truman at the White House on October 5, 1945 and promoted to Staff Sergeant upon his discharge from the Marine Corps in 1946.
Sergeant Harrell passed away on August 9, 1964 in San Antonio, Texas, and was laid to rest in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, San Antonio.
In addition to the Medal of Honor, Sergeant Harrell was awarded the Purple Heart; Presidential Unit Citation; Good Conduct Medal; Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with one bronze star; American Campaign Medal; and the World War II Victory Medal. Lest We Forget.
Private First Class Andrew Carter was honored with the Navy Cross for his bravery and valor during this confrontation. Lest We Forget.








British tanks, trucks, and other armored vehicles that took part in the defeat of Germany at the end of World War II, lie piled on top of each other at a scrapyard in Hamburg, still waiting to be broken up and recycled, May 1958.

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Needless sign of the week...




Nice weld.

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A stove in a Maryland home. 1935
Photo by Theodor Jung.




1932 Duesenberg Model J

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Rod knock Anyone?


Cyndi Crawford in the 90s.

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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

1932 Duesenberg Model J

I had one of those. Too hard to park and service was expensive, so I traded it in on a Ford Escort.

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In this photo taken from the ISS, the rising Sun casts long shadows across the Philippine Sea.-Credit NASA








Louis Comfort Tiffany Peacock Doors at the Palmer House in Chicago, 1925.

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Colt Vickers M1915 Machine Guns are inspected at an Ordnance Depot in the UK by Female Personnel after their arrival from the USA - 1941
In 1940/41 a total of 7,071 Colt Vickers M1915s were purchased by the UK to help re-equip their forces due to equipment losses during the Dunkirk evacuation.
In British Service; some Colt Vickers M1915s were issued to the Home Guard in their original US 30.06 calibre, while others were converted to British .303 for general issue, it is unknown exactly how many were converted.
The Colt Vickers M1915 has an interesting story, abeit not one that is well known;
In 1913 the US Military embarked on a search for a new standard Machine Gun, the Vickers easily won in competitions held in 1913/1914 against other machine guns such as the M1904 Maxim and M1909 Benét–Mercié.
Colt's Manufacturing Company obtained a license from Vickers and the new machine gun was designated “Vickers Machine Gun Model of 1915, Caliber .30, Water-Cooled”.
However, due to numerous delays, by the time the USA entered WW1 in April 1917, Colt had not produced a single M1915 besides prototypes. Production rapidly began with shipments to US Troops on the Western Front beginning in 1918. The first twelve US Divisions to reach France were given French Hotchkiss M1914 MGs, but the next ten were issued Colt M1915s. Subsequent arriving Divisions were mostly issued the new Browning M1917 machine gun which had also been adopted, but due to delays with M1917 production some were issued Colt M1915s.
In addition over 2000 Colt M1915s were converted for aircraft use in a similar fashion as the British Vickers aircraft machine guns.
Post WW1, the US Military had around 8,000 Colt M1915s which were put into storage in favor of standardizing on the Browning M1917.
The remainder of the M1915s not sent to the UK in 1940/41 were mostly sent to the Dutch East Indies & the Philippines, where they were subsequently lost or captured by the Japanese.
Vickers MG Collection & Research Association
NARA - 196325

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Duallies, not just good for mud! Here, they enable a Jimmy (CCKW) to cross wooden poles over a ditch.

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Lille, Grand Isle. Aroostook County, Maine. September, 1940.
Mrs. Eloise Cote soothes her baby in the rocking chair, while her husband was out picking potatoes on their small farm.
Image courtesy of the U.S. Farm Security Administration Archive, Library of Congress.


Ordnance for distribution over Japanese occupied territory in the South-West Pacific being brought up on the low trailers to load onto the bomb racks of aircraft of No. 80 (Kittyhawk) Squadron RAAF at a forward operational base on Kamiri Airstrip.


Most C-47s used in the 1948–49 Berlin Airlift were World War II veterans, some bearing D-Day invasion stripes. (Bundesarchiv)

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1890. Pioneers moving into Indian Territory. Near present day Blaine County, Oklahoma. (Watonga area)


Feb 1963




Yakima, Washington, 1939...
Champion hop picker in squatter camp before the season opens. Earned five dollars a day in the 1938 season. Age twenty three, been on the road seven years. Married. "I think I did pretty well, only have one baby. Want to get out of this living like a dog." Washington, Yakima Valley...
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Farm Security Administration Dorothea Lange photographer

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Caroline's Fishless Tuna ingredients

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The mid-century uranium mining boom in the American West was enthusiastically greeted by merchants. Here are two 1954 pics from a Salt Lake City, Utah


NASA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) | Stardust




Say no to soap flavoring in foods!

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[Robert Coats]

Well played sir:

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Originally Posted by john70t

Back when the first IBM PC was released my boss went to the IBM store, and the salesman talked up the first 4.77 MB dual floppy with 640K of RAM so the boss bought it. We followed the directions and it booted up to A> and sat and blinked. There was ZERO software for doing anything except write your own code. I still have a copy of the IBM PC DOS 1.1. It was just $7,000

The boss boxed it up and took it back. The salesman was reluctant, but he took it back at full value, and sold a IBM System 36 with 8 inch floppies and an accounting package designed for a warehouse. We had no inventory to keep track of, but we could get reports on the sales and what departments did what.


James Butler, (Wild Bill Hickok 1837-1876) met William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill 1846-1917) at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas both working for a Stagecoach and wagon freight Company, Russell, Major's and Waddle.
This photo was taken in 1873.






IWO JIMA.
Echelons of Amtracks churn their way ashore to crawl up the invasion beach of Iwo Jima and bring their loads of Marines another step on the road to Tokyo. Quoted from the original photo caption, released by the Pacific Fleet on 22 February 1945. The LVT (amphibious tractor, or amtrack) in the foreground is marked SA-29. Collection of James Edwin Bailey. Donated by his wife, Helen McShane Bailey, 2006. Official U.S. Coast Guard Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command.
ORIGINAL HISTORIC WARTIME CAPTION. (NHHC)




1949 Jeep graveyard in Okinawa