BRITISH OPEN NEW OFFENSIVE IN NORMANDY AS AMERICANS PURSUE FLEEING GERMANS (7/31/44)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 7/31/44 | E.C. Daniel, Harold Denny, James MacDonald, Gene Currivan, W.H. Lawrence, Robert Trumbull, more

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[Tax-chick]

Wow, that was really creepy!

[henkster]

The books mentioned that American soldiers were very impressed with the product.

I'm sure they were...(snicker)

[Tax-chick]

Tastes like apple juice, knocks you sideways, and keeps your bowels going. What’s not to like?

[henkster]

The POWs in the photos should be downright thankful they didn’t march through the streets of Moscow two weeks ago. Especially the guy with the SS runes on his uniform.

[Tax-chick]

Nobody wants to be sent to the Russian Front!

[henkster]

The Japanese don’t do too many communiques do they?

Too busy counting all those American ships they've sunk....

[Mikey_1962]

I like the Guide Lamp M3 next to the GI.

[EternalVigilance]

Yeah. Pretty nice grease gun.

[EternalVigilance]

[colorado tanker]

In that part of France they make what we would call a "hard" cider.

That tanker has an M3 submachinegun, what we called a "grease gun." It was still standard issue when I was in. Not terribly accurate, but it could throw a lot of .45 slugs at the bad guys in short order.

[Tax-chick]

Huh. All the times I’ve read “grease gun” in books, I never knew what it was!

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Thank you for posting all the great pictures. They enhance the readers’ experience.

[Alas Babylon!]

You know, it really does look like a grease gun.

[EternalVigilance]

Indeed it does! :-)

[EternalVigilance]

My pleasure.

The wonders of the internet. There truly are amazing resources out there, readily available.

And when you find something good, you want to share it, right?

[colorado tanker]

The very same. It was called a grease gun not because it could “grease” the bad guys, but because it resembled the old mechanical grease guns used by mechanics at the time.

[Tax-chick]

And there’s another fact I didn’t know. I wouldn’t know a mechanic’s grease gun from a hole in the head!

[untenured]

The Gestapo man directly responsible is Alois Brunner. He is the commander of the Drancy transit camp, north of Paris.

According to many accounts, Brunner made it to Syria, where as a Nazi he was welcomed by Syrian authorities. Mossad managed to get letter bombs to him that took out an eye and multiple fingers, but he was thought to still be alive in the early part of the last decade. He was unrepentant, indeed proud to the last about the genocide of the Jews.

[Tax-chick]

Dayum.

[Tax-chick]

The French writer, Antoine de St. Exupery, author of “The Little Prince” and “Wind, Sand, and Stars,” is killed in an F-5 Lightning crash during a reconnaissance mission off Marseilles, France.

I didn't realize St.-Ex had died during the war. I had the idea it was earlier.