JON,
Nice photos as usual and thanks for serving our nation, as KEITH has said. Love your gun collection. How many M1 carbines and Garrands do you have? Love those guns I have 1 and 1 want more but starting to get high. If I win lottery going to go for WWII tommy gun,full auto of course.
laz57
Ralph,
I'm not sure. The USACE people who took the photo probably don't know unless they are in the RR department.
That's great, Jon,
Here's a USACE photo of an Army switcher in Tulsa. It was taken very recently.
To: Just a Hobo, RaleighTrainFan, and Traindaddy1, I know where you Brothers are coming from!! I'm blessed and proud to still be in the military and serving this country!
RaleighTrainFan wrote: You may be correct on the poster. I'm not much of an authority in that area. Seeing as it came with the truck, I assumed it was period.I merely thought you would want to know, given the admirable contemporary detail with which you supplied the scene.As most of us old timers know John alot of things/equipt was used at the beginning of world war 2 from the world war 1 era. Our boys in the pacific were outfitted with old outdated materials --- one main reason the Japs did so well against us at first.And not just old-timers. From our troops in Bataan, who had WWI Stokes mortars that sometimes were duds one round in every five, to our Marines on Guadalcanal, who initially had Reising guns that were as likely to jam and misfire as shoot, our Pacific War troops initially fought with a great disadvantage in equipment against one of the worst-equipped armies in the modern world. And that was very, very, wrong.
You may be correct on the poster. I'm not much of an authority in that area. Seeing as it came with the truck, I assumed it was period.
I merely thought you would want to know, given the admirable contemporary detail with which you supplied the scene.
As most of us old timers know John alot of things/equipt was used at the beginning of world war 2 from the world war 1 era. Our boys in the pacific were outfitted with old outdated materials --- one main reason the Japs did so well against us at first.
And not just old-timers. From our troops in Bataan, who had WWI Stokes mortars that sometimes were duds one round in every five, to our Marines on Guadalcanal, who initially had Reising guns that were as likely to jam and misfire as shoot, our Pacific War troops initially fought with a great disadvantage in equipment against one of the worst-equipped armies in the modern world. And that was very, very, wrong.
Thanks for the nice comments,all!!
What a very, very nice scene - right down to the correctly contemporary trucks.
One comment: The "Gee, I Wish I Were A Man" poster was made in either 1917 or 1918, and I thought it was primarily used during the First World War, not the Second. Here is a link discussing the poster:
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/arttopic/pstr-rec/nrp-w1a.htm
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Real nice !!!
Jim
Very nice Jon !! A beauty of an engine, and like I always like to say, ARMY WINS !!
Thanks, John
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