US Cavalryman, circa 1935.
Posted on 04/17/2017 7:05:22 AM PDT by Kartographer
He cut his supply lines and lived off of what he captured but mainly off of what he took from the small farmers (mostly women and children cause the men were off to fight).
It’s truly amazing that as relatively the 1940s in the midst of the greatest and most cataclysmic war in human history that the major powers of the world, including the US were using horses for combat(The Cossacks in Russia in WW2) and for pulling transport and artillery pieces(Germany.) Think of the evolution of it all. 1939 armies are still using horses. Six years later and the power of the atom is unleashed. That’s like being a cave man in the morning and an astronaut by lunch time.
US Cavalryman, circa 1935.
I should also add that he’s wearing an M1 helmet, which wasn’t adopted until 1941 — but I’ve seen this picture dated 1935 on multiple occasions...Make of that what you will.
My dad, who lived to 90, would have been 100 this year. He had friends that were friends with Truman in WWI in the artillary. His mom got him a shot gun for his 10th birthday because with Model A cars appearing, a bicycle was too dangerous. He learned construction when many mills still ran with leather belt driven bench machinery. Went to Europe in the Battle of the Bulge and ended up a Bronze Star Master Sgt. He saw the birth of the radio era, the birth of talking pictures, saw a man land on the moon, bought an early hand held calculator after working with crank machines, and used a PC and a big screen at the end of his life.
Wonders were everywhere but the last thing he spoke of at death was the love of my mother.
Incredible isn’t it?
God bless your father. He and his generation saved the world. Think of what we saw as well. I was born in 1956. I saw the birth of the space program, the birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll and The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show, the beginning and ending of the Vietnam War, Desert Storm, Operation Iraqi Freedom, 9/11. I saw men land on the moon. As a little kid watching tv on a Sunday morning I saw Lee Harvey Oswald gunned down by Jack Ruby. I have seen the birth of computers and the internet and X-Box(got one, love it!). Indeed this has been an amazing century. My sympathies for the loss of your Dad. I lost my mother eleven years ago to the ravages of Alzheimers. I don’t have children of my own but I come from a large family, four other brothers and two sisters. I saw in the example of my father that the greatest thing any father can do for his children is to love their mother. My dad certainly loved my mother.
I saw Willie Blythe and Barry Soetoro so it wasn’t all good.
Yeah. Those two are the worm in the apple alright.
Yeah that is weird. The “Kelly Helmet’’ was in use up until 1942.
My guess, is that the ‘no heavy cavalry wearing breast plates’ was influenced by there was no enemy cavalry to oppose here in North America, other than perhaps the Mexican cavalry, but the main opponent was the American Indians, whom one could call ‘light cavalry.’
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