The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Operation Husky - Sicily (Jul-Aug, 1943) - July 10th, 2003

http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/Brochures/72-16/72-16.htm ^

[radu]

Good afternoon y'all! I thought I'd take a moment, while y'all are awake (LOL) to say I hope everyone's having a great day!

And to our veterans and troops around the globe, "Thank You" for your service to the USA!!

[Fiddlstix]

Good morning Sam J

[snippy_about_it]

Well I'll be. radu in daylight. lol. HI!

[snippy_about_it]

Thanks for the pictures SAM. Prayers for our soldiers having to be cops. (grrrr.)

[snippy_about_it]

Ah, therein lies the problem, my interest is in everything. lol.

I'm not sure where to start. If I could get just three books I'd want something on WWII, Korea and Vietnam but there is so much from each war you can't cram it into one book. I really don't know where to begin, either biographies or military strategies. I'm lost. :(

[snippy_about_it]

"To Hell and Back", thanks colorado tanker, I've heard of that one more than once on here so it sounds like a good place to start.

[GailA]

[radu]

Well I'll be. radu in daylight. lol. HI!

Amazing, ain't it?! ROTFLOL!! I don't get many opportunities to sit down to the 'puter in the daytime any more. *sniff* But since I had this one, I jumped at the chance to stop in and say "hello". Alas, I must leave and get back to it. *sigh*
HI!!!! backatcha and I hope you and everyone else here has a wonderful rest of the day!

[colorado tanker]

Your welcome, Snippy. Enjoy.

[snippy_about_it]

Thanks Gail. I'm almost looking forward to some fall weather it's so hot and muggy here!

[snippy_about_it]

LOL. You've got mail back atcha!

[SAMWolf]

Yeah MacArthur was involved in that too. He supposedly exceeded his orders. The Foxhole did a thread on the "Bonus Army"

[SAMWolf]

If you ever read anything about Operation Sealion, the plans for the German invasion of England, you'd be surprised by how thew Germans jury rigged all kinds of craft for landing craft. I don't see how it could ever have worked.

Specialized landing craft made all the difference in amphibious invasions.

[SAMWolf]

I remember seeing "The Man Who Never Was" Gonna have to see if it's available on tape.

[SAMWolf]

Well your HO is a good one. I don't know why we're paying them back pay. Detain them, do background checks and get rid of the Baath party members.

[SAMWolf]

Morning GailA, nice graphic today

[GailA]

Memphis is hot and muggy all summer.

[radu]

hehe....see ya tonight, with bells on!

[colorado tanker]

[at a display of dropping supplies by parachute]

"Lieutenant George Acres: Monty, that parachute that didn't open... Suppose we were to drop a fellow out of a plane over enemy territory, with papers on him saying we were going to invade Greece, and his parachute didn't open. The Germans would find him dead, and the papers, and "Aha," they'd say, "Look at this. Officer with secret papers, parachute didn't open... they're going to invade Greece."

Lieutenant Commander Ewen Montagu: Do we tell the man who jumps that the parachute doesn't work, or is it a sort of practical joke that he finds out on the way down?

Lieutenant George Acres: Well, of course it would have to be somebody you didn't mind much about.

Lieutenant Commander Ewen Montagu: Are you volunteering? No, George, it wouldn't work.

Lieutenant George Acres: What about using a man already dead?

Lieutenant Commander Ewen Montagu: The autopsy would show he was dead before he hit the ground. Let's get back to the office and think again."

They don't write dialogue like that anymore.

[radu]

I don't know why we're paying them back pay. Detain them, do background checks and get rid of the Baath party members.

Howdy SAM!
Looks like we see eye to eye on the matter. As long as the Ba'ath Party members are floating around, our troops will remain in danger of attacks. Getting rid of them is part of regime change, I'd think.

*giggle* Now I've really gotta get outta here. It's sooooo hard to leave FR and FRiends here. I've always had that problem. LOL! See ya tonight!