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************Snippy, I bequeath to you the FR TH PL.

148 posted on 08/24/2004 11:39:45 AM PDT by Cannoneer No. 4 (I've lost turret power; I have my nods and my .50. Hooah. I will stay until relieved. White 2 out.)

Good morning Cannoneer. :-)

[alfa6]

Bump for Treadhead Tuesday

Regards alfa6 ;>}

[Cannoneer No. 4]

Good morning, snippy.

It's great to be back in the world.

Had to replace my entire wardrobe. Left a size 46, returned a size 36. The Kandahar Diet works!

[tomball]

 

Excellent thread today for tread heads.  American All The Way.  This is another amazing story about WW2 troops that is currently being made into a movie.  The History Channel is also working on a segment about the last days of WW2. (The 761st Tank Battalion)

 

"After being in combat 178 days, on the front line, word was out that the war was coming to an end.  Orders were cut not to give the 761st any gasoline for their tanks to keep them from being the first American troops to meet the Russians.  That honor was to go to the 13th and 14th Armored Divisions, white troops, however, a sergeant of the 761st supply company took trucks to the Kohlgrube depot and talked with the men in a Black quartermaster unit.  By telling them who they were, what had happened, and what they wanted to do, they agreed to help.  The quartermaster enlisted men stole 30,000 gallons of gasoline from the airstrip for the 761st Tank Battalion.  You may not read about it, or see it in the movies, but the 761st Tank Battalion were the first American troops to meet the Russian Army at the Steye River, Austria."  -- Lee Davis

The Battle of the Bulge