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Chatting with a member of the 1251st

Great article on Tophat. They had all kinds of sports teams there including football, baseball and basketball there to help kill time. My fathers un...

18 years ago
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Chatting with a member of the 1251st

Taking a deep breathe, gritting my teeth,,,,I'm going to try to post a picture. Marion, if I mess it up, please kill the post..... Bandbox a...

18 years ago
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Chatting with a member of the 1251st

Erwin, I would love to see some pictures. I wish that I were better at sending pictures, because I have some great ones of how Camp Tophat used ...

18 years ago
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Harry Church

This is from the website that I found. It took me a while to figure out how I got there. I googled normandy 720th railway battallion. It was down a...

18 years ago
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Documentary - No Bridge Too Far

Has anyone awarded Rocky a medal for that suggestion? What a great idea!!! Marion, have you contacted anyone at the Combat Engineer Museum? A...

18 years ago
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Harry Church

Hi George, Welcome aboard. Your search sounds a lot like mine: a lot of rumors and things that people remembered...sort of. (The only true thi...

18 years ago
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Chatting with a member of the 1251st

That's really great. They were on the road to Antwerp? Can you explain please? Does he remember any places? Erwin ...

18 years ago
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We Remember Pearl Harbor Day!

On a side note, it is also my mother's Birthday although she was born 4 years later (in 1945). Erwin Makes it easy to remember her b...

18 years ago
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We Remember Pearl Harbor Day!

The Military Channel ran a loop of about 5 different shows on Pearl Harbor today. Very moving. Was hoping AMC would run "Tora, Tora, Tora" but it w...

18 years ago
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Documentary - No Bridge Too Far

Marion, You might have to pop open a bottle of wine before viewing this part of the tape "9. Front-line Showers: American fumigation and bath uni...

18 years ago
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Documentary - No Bridge Too Far

Ohhh Marion. Computers can be the most frustrating things at times...I am sorry to hear that. Sometimes its best just to walk away for a while. One...

18 years ago
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Documentary - No Bridge Too Far

Hi Marion, I have pics of my father and his unit at....bridge school. They're little bitty pics. Also lots of great photos of Camp Tophat. Whi...

18 years ago
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HITLER'S JEWISH SOLDIERS

Desperate times call for desperate measures. There were black Confederate soldiers during the Civil War.....

18 years ago
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Pearl Harbor on the Military Channel 12/7

I would have been handing you the kleenex because I would have been bawling away. That was a wonderful answer the father gave her. Instead of ...

18 years ago
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Betty Grable

I had fried chicken ONCE, but I had to go out and kill it. (M1). It wasn't Ma Kettle it was my buddy, Ken Ryan. Rocky It does tend ...

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