Posted on 06/15/2015 5:35:18 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
My favorite Mauldin was from last summer, as the Americans liberated France:
"This is the town my pappy told me about."
British cartoons were racier than the American. This Jane cartoon gives a little better image of what was on the troops mind.
I open up a copy of Seamonkey (the old Mozilla pre-Firefox) and use the composer there when I want to do HTML right. When I have everything looking like I want it, I click on the tab to show the code, and then copy and paste back to FR. I find it quicker and easier than fumbling with rarely used codes.
Thanks for your helpful suggestion.
Talking about the change of clothes - here is from an interview of my Dad’s cousin that I found on-line:
I know that during the Bulge, one time I helped a couple of the fellows who were wounded to an aid station. After we got them to the aid station, I helped lift this one fellow off the litter by putting arms underneath his waist to lift him off; it so happens that part of the litter was full of blood, and so my sleeves were soaked in blood up to the elbows. And it was exactly thirty days later that I got to change my shirt.
So we went for a month at a time without a change of clothes; and, as I say, taking our shoes off at night
was a luxury. We didnt get to do that too often.
MH: Did everybody smell pretty ripe, or was it just so cold that you didnt notice?
RD: We didnt notice, no. I have tried to recall how often we had a change of clothes, and you know, I can only remember it happening twice: once in France, early on in France, and then once in Luxembourg.
MH: They actually would bring you new uniforms, new fatigues?
RD: Well, I dont remember getting the new uniforms, exactly, other than underwear. But as far as during the Bulge and after the Bulgeafter the Bulge, I wore a pullover sweater that I got out of a German department store, and some socks that I got out of a German store, where we were in the town. Of course, it wasthey had fled; there were no Germans in the town when we got there, a small village. And I remember outfitting myself pretty much with clothes from the store, just helped myself. So, no.
During WW-2 Kansas City, KS had a B-25 assembly plant located at the old Fairfax airport.
After the war General Motors operated it as a car plant known locally as the B-O-P plant, Buick, Oldsmobile and Pontiac.
During the Korean War and shortly afterwards the plant not only produced cars but Republic F-84 jet fighters! This was one of a very few plants that produced both cars and planes.
A couple of links regards the old B-25 plant...
http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/week-kansas-city-history/flying-high
http://www.kshs.org/publicat/history/2005winter_macias.pdf
Sorry for the late reply but I ended up being away from the computer most of the day yesterday.
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
Sorry for the late reply I ended up being away from the computer most of the day yesterday.
And a big thanks for the link to the HTML page, will have to rebook mark that.
Will have to look into the Seamonkey thing, thanks!
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
Thanks for the post. I suppose if everyone was in the same clothes for the duration, nobody would notice.
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