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There are very few problems that won't respond favorably to the careful application of high explosives

It does make you wonder how much equipment from the ship disappeared with the GIs

That reminds me of the observation that Marines solve their problems with the bayonet. The Army prefers High Explosives.

Gen Clark was personally brave but not a good commander. He landed at Anzio and instead of attacking inland immediately, stayed on the beach and let the Germans regroup and counterattack. Churchill...

I'm thinking I'm glad I was in the Artillery

Doubt its Remagen. The towers are square, not round and the terrain is relatively flat. Also the Remagen bridge did not collapse until sometime after it was taken and it looks like these fellows...

Full auto! Holding on tight!

We had the cattle cars at Ft Polk and Ft Sill in the late 60s. No civilian drivers though. Always one of the Training company or battery members did the driving.

Never walk if you can ride!

Probably one of the later models with the wet storage of ammunition. Much less likely to burn. If that's a hit on on the lower hull it looks like it could have taken out the gears to the tracks and...

Cinders what you say is largely true but it still remains napalm and flame throwers are terrible weapons whatever the justification for using. If I were a GI in WWII I'd much rather use a Flame...

Effective but my God out of all the hellish ways to die there are in war it may be the worst.

My battalion was shipped to Washington D.C. after Martin Luther King was assassinated for riot control. It was indeed a very uncomfortable feeling. These are memories I'd rather not have but it is...

Engineers with Bangalores I suspect. They just don't look like Rangers.

Why wouldn't the pilots be equipped to fight? After all a drop is almost always behind enemy lines and the enemy isn't going to let them pass just because they are the glider pilots. I suspect they...

Kind of reminds me of winter FTX at Grafenwoher. No fun but a picnic compared to what those boys went through.

In the bleak mid-winter
Frosty wind made moan;
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak mid-winter
Long ago.

It's a GI proverb - "Never walk if you can ride!"

That's an awful lot of hair for a Marine.

Good advice. It's almost certainly on someone's firing chart

Looks like Marty Feldman

Kind of a rushed paint job

Officer with a pipe and no equipment. Sergeant with a cigarette and ammo belt with canteen. Private loaded like a mule.

No atheists in a foxhole