This photo of paratroopers Clarence C. Ware and Charles R. Plaudo painting each other's faces on the afternoon of June 5, 1944, was printed in Stars and Stripes, and helped form the legend of "The Filthy Thirteen."
This photo of paratroopers Clarence C. Ware and Charles R. Plaudo painting each other's faces on the afternoon of June 5, 1944, was printed in Stars and Stripes, and helped form the legend of "The Filthy Thirteen."
Some more background story ...
‘Filthy Thirteen’ veterans recount their antics during WWII
http://www.stripes.com/news/filthy-thirteen-veterans-recount-their-antics-during-wwii-1.85075
Studs...real Studs.
Great story, thanks
And they came home and named sports teams the Braves, Redskins, Sioux, etc etc. Respect and good times.
Now the weeping pussies in our society whine about such goings on.
A bond and spirit forged thru violence. Both terrifying and hauntingly beautiful.
GERONIMO!!!
This picture shows the 82nd Airborne and Combat Engineers. The game was played at the Berlin Polo Grounds in 1945. Both Eisenhower and Marshall Zhukov were in attendance. A reporter asked Marshall Zhukov which side he was pulling for and he answered: "The Engineers because they are wearing red". The Engineers did win the game. The picture was taken by my Father. Just thought it was interesting.BTTT - Screaming Eagle Lore!
Any WWII guys with mullets? Now that would be scary.
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
High & very tight ! You confront the one with the tommy gun.
NOT !
Great book.
My uncle was 101. in the bulge also. Or as he put it ‘The hole in the donut.’
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.
To me, Clarence looks as if he might be of Indian descent.
I had no idea that this look went back that far, as I had never seen it other than in pictures of Indians from way back until the 1980s when teen started sporting the hairstyle.
It wouldn’t surprise me at all if some of these guys WERE Mohawks.
BTTT … for June 6