The FReeper Foxhole Profiles Captain Eddie Rickenbacker - Apr. 5th, 2004

Aviation History Magazine | January 1999 | C.V. Glines

[snippy_about_it]

My sleep is so important to me the first thing I bought in Oregon for my new foxhole was a bed!!!

[Professional Engineer]

Flaggenspankentruppen

ROFL. I was thinking the same thing. Then scrolled down.

[SAMWolf]

The baseplate makes a lousy pillow. :-)

[Darksheare]

A COMFORTABLE one I hope?
No use grabbing one that could double as an ironing board, right?
(Unfortunately, the best sleep I ever experienced was on one of those awful military mattresses that pretty much IS an ironing board..)

[Darksheare]

Ouch.
*winces*

I remember using the Advance Party bag as a pillow.
Two DR-8 rolls, a hammer, some tent stakes, various batteries, an ANGR-29, TA-12, and whatever else of use that could be stuffed inside the ALICE pack was the pillow..

[Darksheare]

ANGR-29 shouild read -39 instead.
Cripes I'm awake today.

[PhilDragoo]

When I was a kid I read a book entitled "We Thought We Heard the Angels Sing." I'm sure Captain Eddie Rickenbacker was the author. I never forgot reading that book.

Lieutenant James C. Whittaker, author of We Thought We Heard The Angels Sing

[PhilDragoo]

There's a lot of overlap between the History Channel and the Foxhole; they just have higher overhead.

Reading pumps up the imagination, while viewing doth make couch potatoes of the little gray cells.

[Soaring Feather]

Hi Phil, thanks for showing the book. I don't know why I could not remember the author. Oh well, Sam and you set it right.

[bandleader]

Eddie"Hat In The Ring",Rickenbacker.The first US "ace"in WW1!!God Bless Him!!!!!!!!!