Folks, the only picture I recognize is the Pygmalion poster for December. All the rest CougarGA7 found. I would also like to thank Cougar for adding the links to archived radio broadcasts here and there, which help bring the stories to life.
Happy New Year one and all. I look forward to a most interesting 1939.
This was wonderful and I’ve spent the morning catching up. I didn’t join your ping list (because I was unaware of it) until late in the year so I had a lot of catching up to do.
It’s just fascinating to read it with all we know today.
Thanks to both of you.
What can I say. I got lazy in December. Honestly I thought that poster just worked there. The N.Y. Post Headline was my favorite too. Actually if you look really close you’ll notice the date on the paper is dated August 5th (which is when he got back to the states) but there was no way I couldn’t post that one.
Rose, my bithday is in August too, but I’m really the young buck of the group I guess. My father was born 8 days before the dropping of Little Man on Hiroshima and I was born 4 days before the 25th anniversary of the event.
I’ve always been interested in history and the events leading up to and through World War II has always been of specific interest to me. I had a grandparent in each theater with one of them being a nose gunner in B-24 Liberators in Europe and the other was a private in Murrell’s Muraders in the Pacific. Neither one of them talked about the war and infact I didn’t even know grandpa Jim was in the war until I had enlisted in the Air Force and he took me aside and showed me some pictures he had taken from the nose of the B-24. Aside from my father these two men were the greatest men I’ve ever known.
I really enjoyed putting together the compilation of Homer’s work along with contributing what I could find and what I know. I have also learned alot from the Freepers that have contributed to the threads. I’m certain that 1939 will be even busier for these threads and I hope to contribute and learn as much if not more than I’ve learned this year.