... Fort Knox, Kentucky. "Infantryman with halftrack. A young soldier sights his Garand rifle like an old-timer. He likes the piece for its ...
Helmet Transition I have photos of my father in the Army in 1941 and 1942. In the early photos, in training in Alabama, he ...
... It looks like the owner of the store must have had a son in the military during WW I. There's a photo of a soldierin the window, with a "Welcome Home" banner just above it. Since the ...
... lived four or five houses down the block. It was taken in 1973 on the driveway in front of our house in Huntington Beach, California. ... and "Rat Patrol" with the stuff we found. Getting to play soldierin a sho'nuff Asian jungle ... MAN I loved being a kid.
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1956. "Segregation in South Carolina. Separate and unequal recreation facilities." I've looked at ... with earbud technology from the 50's.
Interesting tank top shape under his shirt, at least to modern eyes.
Earphone The ... I worked with a guy who in the '50s was an Airborne soldier stationed in SC. He said all the white bars played only country music. ...
... to digest, is ready to leave the hand of an infantryman in training at Fort Belvoir, Va." View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome ... like it would help Photoshoppers today in copying the soldier with ease. Could that have been part of the original reason for the ...
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e.e. A reference to soldier's death from a bullet made from the Sixth Avenue El is in e.e. ...
... helmets Rather than the pots that soldiers cooked in from WW2 until the advent of Kevlar in the late '80s, these guys appear to ... from the previous war.
Keep Strapped, Boys! Many a soldier's neck was broken from exploding ordnance within their proximity during ...