Thanks for posting all of these photos as well as the detailed history. As you say, it's hard for us across the pond to get over there and see these p...

Here is the flag I am flying today. My normal American flag is currently at Ft. Knox to be flown on the base to eventually be included in the shadow b...

Very cool! I looked him up in that knower of all things, Wikipedia, and found this. He seems to have been a been there done that kind of guy just a li...

Great pic's V!! I'm so jealous!! Hopefully I could make it out there some time. Doesn't look like next year is going to work, being in Iraq and all, b...

Here is a list of D-Days I put together for a paper I was working on. Let us not forget Dieppe on 19 August, 1942 (12 after the Guadalcanal landings) ...

ANZIO--JUST DAYS AT THE BEACH. Oh come on! We know what it was really like at Anzio: On a separate note - do you know wha...

Thankfully there are certain days in the American calendar that honors those who fought in WWII. The unfortunate side effect of the D-Day invasion bei...

Here is the aforementioned Jeep. I doubt if it were any earlier than a mid-late 70's model. Any Jeep experts in the house? -- attachment is not av...

Here is an article: Amazingly enough, Lucas isn't the only MOH recepient who survived being a grenade sponge. Duane E. Lucas smothered ...

To the rescue!! And here are the other great Riojas photos. . . Rocky, I was looking at a website for the M...

The first vehicle I ever actually drove was an old surplus JEEP. I don't know how old it was; probably not too old because it was put in the hands of ...

Welcome aboard! I remember reading about army firefighting in this post not too long ago. I'm glad that folks such as yourself are keeping the memory...

Apparently, there are similar problems here in the states. . .

Not giving CE's the CIB is totally insane! The main mission of the CE's is mobility and counter mobility. Does it help to obstacles in the rear echelo...

They were HIGHLY decorated with the 442nd being the Highest decorated Regt. of WW 11. No doubt! This is from the 34th's site: Medal...