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Marvy!

Bob

Yep. A plaque on the side declares "Dual Control."It does indeed.That's about all I could find about them.That's a good question and I haven't found any info on this unit with multiple searches on...

Very nice!!!

Bob

I grew up in a rather unusual home. Very loving, but unusual. My father was a scientist, a professor a the state land grant university. In those times, the Federal Government had a fantastic...

He retired in 1953. I wonder if this is a presentation to him?

Bob

HERE is an article on the Marines Site acknowledging the flag raising in your photo above as the first and listing the participants.

Bob

It is a wonderful story and a great movie. See it if you can.

Bob

The name of the film is "Devotion."

https://www.milsurps.com/images/imported/2023/02/Devotion_282022_film29-1.jpg

Bob

You know, there are all sorts of target servo parameters contained in those missiles programming. They need to make the missile distinguish between objects the size of a duck and an aircraft, for...

Still praying for you. FYI, I'm on a couple of meds that wreck my digestive track. All week long discomfort and most weeks a visit from either diarrhea or nausea ending in violent vomiting, so I...

Everything I've read puts him with the 8th Infantry in Germany.I notice you differentiated between "a career" and "songwriting." Being in music, I do understand the difference! Just kidding, but...

It is Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, VA. In the pic she lies in the big aircraft carrier drydock of the period, number four, that sits at an angle from the others to the left (North) in the...

Seeing the pic now, thanks!

Bob

No pic, just Chinese characters. Sorry.

Bob

Congrats on passing another mile marker!

Bob

Lefties do the opposite. Speaking from experience.

I've always wondered how soldiers had the time to unship the lower link and form the regulation sling. I wonder how often a hasty sling was...

Note sling position for accuracy.

Bob

A friend went in to Tarawa. He was a semi-famous radio announcer, joined the Marines, and became a radio specialist. The day before the landing, someone up the chain of command pulled him from his...

Looks like fun! The internal politics with the Wehrmacht and Heintz Guderian on tank destroyers were fascinating.

Bob

As a troop carrier, the capacity was two crewmen and eight to ten passengers.

MORE.

Without the skin:

https://www.milsurps.com/images/imported/2023/01/Piasecki_HRP_towing_tests_Jun1953-1.jpg...

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Technically, these are a predecessor, the Piaseki HRP that appear to be HRP-1s, having doped fabric skins over mild...

When I was in Scotland, we were entertained by that year's Burns Champion Cantor, who recited The Cutty Sark for us. He also defined what a cutty sark is: it is a short, cut-off skirt, like a...

Communication. Boy, some can and some can't. I went with my wife to all the pre- and post-surgical visits and much of her rehab when she had her right knee replaced. I really had to pump several...

Ah! Pan Am Clippers.A friend did a lot of flying in first class on Pan Am to Japan and they gave him a couple of china plates containing scenes of their early planes that he passed on to me. They...

I used those halazone pills all the way into the '70s while hiking.

Bob