I'm really facinated by this one. It seems that U-977 had escaped at the end of the war via Antartica to South America possibly with Hitler or gold...
I was just looking over a lot of the past posts. Some as far back as last Feb. It looks like they had a lot of fun and some real great info was...
I really need to clarify something for all of the young hopefuls,the state of mind our soldiers and myself had concerning going to Vietnam in the...
I just saw my first Vietnam war movie from start to finish. Since it didn't have much to do with the Army I decided to give it a try. It was...
I had to start a new thread concerning the reports of the coalition forces killing civilians in the bombing runs. It's not that I like posting new...
6 October 2014 Finally, the U.S. Army has been called in to pit its Apache choppers against ISIS! The coalition bombing and straffing runs have...
WWII had airborne units all over the place. The Germans didn't do well with them in that they tried too many low level drops into Russian snow banks...
Jean-Claude Duvalier finally went to meet the 10 star general in the sky. I'm not real sure if this block is the place for this thread, but the...
Here is yet another reason to love this forum! It seems that most folks in this group like to really crack the books and go to the ends of the earth...
22 December 1944 General Mc Auliffe's famous reply at Bastogne when the Germans demanded the surrender of his troops was one of the funniest...
30 September 2014 I guess everyone can make a mistake, but this one totally takes the golden finger award. (for those of you who remember that award)...
There is a very special vet out there. He's missing! He was, along with other soldiers, trained to fight as a team. They lived as a team, fought as...
I was doing a little study concerning one of the other threads regarding slavery. While covering those areas that were American States, versus those...
This is just a note for the combat and non-combat vet. I went for a lot of years not knowing the value of getting registered with vets affairs and...
Perhaps I'm a little cranky on this subject, but the tombstone at Arlington National Cemetary called "The Tomb of the Unknown," has been on my rant...
I was just going through some literature and discovered I missed a POW/MIA rememberence day. I actually did not know there was one. 19 Sept. 2014...
When I look around or see the news I'm constantly reminded of where I was when I turned 17. I was not a good person, but that being said, I joined...
Its a funny, weird sort of thing. Our involment with Vietnam started in 1951. Some say a couple of years later but the president at the time,...
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