Tag Archive: WWII

I guess these Army jeeps were not built for precision or comfort. There is a picture my dad took around here somewhere… I think it was in Okinawa. Some AF guys standing around looking at a jeep on it’s side,…
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A lot of people are starting to feel like this private doing KP in WWII – like, he’s not living up to his potential? All in good time, my friend. Pretty soon we will be back to the grind.

This little girl does not understand, the Calvary must train somehow, and everybody is on a low budget. As the Kinks so truthfully said, “I’m a cut price person in a low budget land”. In fact, we are still in…
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Long before “Microsoft Flight Simulator”, we had this. It looks kind of silly, a grown man in that thing, but who knows. Maybe it bucks like one of those mechanical bulls they had in taverns years ago.

I like these “check off the box” postcards, because who wants to waste their vacation writing home. Or in this case, who wants to waste the war writing home. This one hardly has any room on the back for a…
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This new enlistee wants a raise on his first day. He figures that he is working harder now than he will later, because he doesn’t know what he is doing. He has a point, but that’s not how any of…
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When I was a kid, I thought McDonald’s and other fast burger spots had a guy in the back doing this. Imagine my disappointment when I found out it’s all done by machines. I guess the guy with the bayonett…
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Here’s a postcard from a young man training at Biloxi to (I presume) his girlfriend back home. Or maybe his girl friend. Back then I think a guy could be friends with a girl without complications. I found it interesting…
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