I had never heard of this either. Makes you wonder what the failure rate was when they had hundreds dropped in combat during the war. Those guys never...

Well, it looks like Matthew is going to head east and not bother us much. Hurrah! Incidentally, that is the name of my son so we've had a lot of fun w...

Cool! Sounds fun. I'm afraid I'm going to have to miss out on Thursday The kids are on school.

Do you have a list of what is happening each day? It looks like I won't be able to leave the Quantico area until about 1200 on Friday.

Awesome, as usual!!

Todd , Americans have already retired the M198. What's going to happen with them after they're replaced by the M777 howitzer? Despite its (M198) v...

I was searching photos of mine online and found this old thread. It was surprising to find that it was not entirely deleted after 30 days. I found tha...

Finally got to watch this (can't watch videos at work where I usually check the forum). Very cool story. I had never heard anything about the Queen Ma...

We were all getting so sad!! But we're glad to have you back! Sounds like you are keeping plenty busy. Good luck on your event...

Wow, Royer was 36 at the end of the war - he must have been "the old man" in the platoon!

Must have missed this topic. Great pictures! I plan on doing some sort of "engineering" in a 1/35 scale diorama and pictures like this always help. Of...

My grandfather, LTC John C. O'Brien landed on THAT D-day (oh, and 4 others)! Thank you, Marion, for the reminder. I am embarrassed to say I had forgot...

Very cool. Glad to see an interest in history and the initiative to spread that love!

Wow! What an extraordinary life! Ah key chee ta-keyn-we cha you oh nee huh pay. (Honor the veterans.)