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(Photos) U.S. Army Paratroopers with Mohawks - World War II
Retronaut ^ | August 23, 2012 | Retronaut

Posted on 08/26/2012 12:01:24 PM PDT by DogByte6RER

U.S. Paratroopers with Mohawks - World War II

U.S. Paratrooper Mohawks, World War II

U.S. Paratrooper Mohawks, World War II

U.S. Paratrooper Mohawks, World War II

427U.S. Paratrooper Mohawks, World War II

U.S. Paratrooper Mohawks, World War II


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KEYWORDS: 101stairborne; americanindians; badass; bandofbrothers; commandos; cuttingedge; dday; earlypunkrockers; filthythirteen; haircut; mohawk; normandyinvasion; operationoverlord; paratroopers; photojournalism; screamingeagles; usarmy; warpaint; warriorethos; warriors; worldwar2; wwii
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To: DogByte6RER

Currahee, a corruption of gurahiyi, a Cherokee word possibly meaning “stand alone”, may refer to:

The motto of the 506th Infantry Regiment, a unit of the 101st Airborne Division
“Currahee”, the first episode of Band of Brothers (TV miniseries) written about the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment
Currahee!: A Screaming Eagle at Normandy, a non-fiction book by Donald Burgett, about the actions of the 506th PIR in the Normandy Invasion
Currahee Mountain, a mountain located in Stephens County, Toccoa, Georgia which gave the motto to the 506th PIR
Camp Toccoa, a United States Army paratrooper training camp during World War II five miles west of Toccoa, Georgia, the original home of the 506th PIR


21 posted on 08/26/2012 12:51:31 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: Krankor

These were real men.


22 posted on 08/26/2012 12:52:31 PM PDT by Citizen Tom Paine (An old sailor sends)
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To: DogByte6RER
This was just released on 8/17, but it looks like it's not getting a very wide distribution. Guess I'll just have to wait for the dvd...


23 posted on 08/26/2012 12:58:26 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: twister881

Agreed.

There is a good reason the Army has named a boatload of stuff from helicopters to infantry units after Indian tribes: because they were fearsome warriors.

All the limp-wristed liberal twits want to portray Native Americans as peace loving tribes who only became warlike because the white man came.

They were as brutal and ruthless to each other when the situation called for it as they ever were to settlers or American soldiers.

I appreciate the homage we pay to them, and they should be damn proud of it.


24 posted on 08/26/2012 1:10:24 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Rub some bacon on it.")
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To: twister881

Man, don’t get me started. Enough to make this ex-swabby embarrassed to admit it.


25 posted on 08/26/2012 1:12:14 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Rub some bacon on it.")
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To: DogByte6RER

High & very tight ! You confront the one with the tommy gun.

NOT !


26 posted on 08/26/2012 1:15:52 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Oh Crap !! Did I say that out loud ??!??)
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To: twister881
IIRC, the last strippers at the Pensacola O Club was about 1983. There were still some Vietnam era senior officers around and a young pup could learn a lot. The place was always packed on Friday nights well into the later 1980s.

I don't doubt your narrative; throw faggots into the mix and I cannot imagine an effective fighting force.

And lest I forget, there was Oceana . . .

27 posted on 08/26/2012 1:49:17 PM PDT by Jacquerie (Exterminate rats.)
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To: DogByte6RER

Great book.

My uncle was 101. in the bulge also. Or as he put it ‘The hole in the donut.’


28 posted on 08/26/2012 1:59:07 PM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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My dad was a WWII vet, as was my first boss, Mr. Tindol. Of course, in the 80’s, men wore their hair a little longer, so Mr. Tindol called me a ‘hippie’. It was hilarious.


29 posted on 08/26/2012 2:19:42 PM PDT by real saxophonist (CTHULHU 2012 - Why vote for a Lesser Evil?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I read that book. It really left an impression on me.


30 posted on 08/26/2012 2:48:52 PM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: DesertRhino

Which one of these is not like the other? Which one of these doesn’t belong?


31 posted on 08/26/2012 2:55:42 PM PDT by SengirV
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To: DogByte6RER

The US Army’s longest war was against the American Indians. It lasted 109 years (and much longer if you count the colonial period before the Revolutionary War). Indian warriors were fearsome opponents and were rightly feared. The were not the “tame” reservation welfare dependents so prized by liberals. American Indians were warriors and real men.


32 posted on 08/26/2012 3:11:40 PM PDT by MasterGunner01 (11)
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To: yarddog
I had to look it up to see where it was

Berlin Polo Club

Still in existence. Was stuck in East Germany when the Wall went up.

33 posted on 08/26/2012 3:14:20 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Congrats to Ted Kennedy! He's been sober for two years now!!)
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To: Hugin

Yeah, I served with a few of the “Old Guy’s from the WWII Airborne Units.
Some of them were still “Bad Ass” when they got riled .
They were the men we wanted to be. They made you stand up straighter.
GERONIMO.!!


34 posted on 08/26/2012 3:21:45 PM PDT by Pompah
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To: VeniVidiVici

I checked out that site. It looks a bit different but then I realized Daddy’s picture was taken 67 years ago. Even that tree could have easily grown since then.


35 posted on 08/26/2012 3:35:24 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: MasterGunner01
My Gr Gr Grandfather was named Elias Vansickle. He had quite a life. Below is something I typed from the Congressional Record about the Senate hearings concerning the "Indian problem" in early Texas.

Statement of Elias Vansickle

Nacodoches, January 23, 1839.

By request, Elias Vansickle states that, about the 1st of October last, he was taken prisoner at the Saline, Nacodoches county, by a party of Mexican Boluxee and Shawanie Indians, and kept by them until the 21st of December following, when he made his escape.

He states that he was in their camp at the Kickapoo town at the time of the battle between General Rusk’s force and them, and that there were then fifteen Cherokees with them, who all joined in the attack upon General Rusk’s camp.

He states, also, that Dogshoot, a Cherokee, came into the enemy some time before and brought a scalp which he said belonged to one of the Kilough family, who had been murdered about the same time in the Cherokee nation. The Cherokees, Dogshoot and others, said that in three days from that time, thirty besides those in the camp would join them, and unite with them in a war upon the white settlements. Several Shawanies—five, he thinks, in number—were at the hostile camp some days previous to the battle. Fifteen Coshattees were in the battle against us, led by Benash, a chief. Another chief was killed a few days before in an action between Major Mabbit’s command and the Indians, in which it is known the latter made the attack

36 posted on 08/26/2012 3:38:10 PM PDT by saminfl
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To: yarddog

Send them an email with the pic and ask them if it was their club where the pic was taken :)

info@berlinerpoloclub.com


37 posted on 08/26/2012 3:48:02 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Congrats to Ted Kennedy! He's been sober for two years now!!)
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To: saminfl

I can only imagine what was going through the minds of the Wehrmacht troopers when they saw their opponents up close and personal, dressed like Huron warriors on the warpath, looking to lift a few scalps.


38 posted on 08/26/2012 3:50:14 PM PDT by Ax
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To: VeniVidiVici

I don’t know how to add a picture to an email and I have a dial-up modem.

It would be interesting tho. If you want to email them, you have my permission to use the picture.


39 posted on 08/26/2012 3:53:16 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: yarddog

Ok! We’ll see what happens :)


40 posted on 08/26/2012 4:05:04 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Congrats to Ted Kennedy! He's been sober for two years now!!)
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