10-251 Garand Picture of the Day - 33 INf Div

[Mark in Rochester]

American soldiers of 33rd Inf. Div. and a Filipino resistance fighter carry supplies along a trail during the fight to regain the Philippines.
Location: Baguio, Luzon, Philippines
Date taken: April 1945
Photographer: Carl Mydans




off topic - just returned from Barns and Noble - checking out ......the Military history section

picked a few books sat down and started to flip a few pages

Old fellow started to chat me up

turns out he flew 100 missions in the CBI in P40's

50 missions in P51D and one in a P38

He remembers a Linbaugh in his squadron

Also was a WW2 CBI MIS-x trained code writer (only one in his squadron)

also flew close ground support in Korea

87 year old and still sharp - better than any book I could have purchased



For more on MIS-x see books below

Lt. Colonel A. R. Wichtrich, "MIS-X Top Secret," Pentland Press, Raleigh, N.C., c. 1997 ^ "The Escape Factory: The Story of Mis-X" Lloyd Shoemaker. St Martin's Press, May 1990.

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