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AUinHsv

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  1. For those that are down on Ambrose - he read the manuscript in the 90's and said this absolutely needs to be published and then set that up.
  2. There are a lot of examples of soldiers doing stuff like that. In another Ambrose book he describes a soldier that basically took out something like 8-10 houses with Germans overlooking one of the beaches. He was asked why and said he couldn;t explain it. He would charge the house and kick in the door and use either grenades or his machine gun to kill the Germans and then went on to the next house - one after another
  3. If I remember my history from other sources - Webster didn;t jump with Easy on D-Day. I think he was assigned to headquarters until he transferred to Easy before getting hit.
  4. About 800 in 2015. As far as requiring a dial that is usually not correct. I have a semi vintage Sub (25 years old) with the older tritium dial and hands and they honored the do not replace. My understanding is they may refuse to service if the older dial could cause issues - ie if it is flaking particles off from the old paint they will not put it back on. I chose them because mine had totally froze up and I wanted it back to original specs
  5. navigation on this link is hard to follow but a ton of info on the soldiers https://wikiofbrothers.fandom.com/wiki/Easy_Company
  6. Depends on definition of larger. However the landing on Saipan was about 2-3 weeks after D-Day. Off the top of my head it probably was smaller in terms of men landing but much larger in terms of ships and men required. It is very interesting to note that the US was able to support two major invasions on opposite sides of the world in same month
  7. When my Sub needed work I just drove up to the Rolex Center in Dallas for a complete rebuild.
  8. especially clones of the wrong Eleanor... Not to be "that guy" but the real Eleanor is a 71 fastback from the original movie.
  9. Just put a baseball card in the spokes - old school sound
  10. TriStone - that picture is a little ways past the line. You might consider an edit.
  11. Not sure I don't agree with you but, again, the wild card which isn't on the chart is the penalty which moved kickoff back to 20. I think (key word - not putting money on it) that they didn;t want a returned 2 point conversion and then a short field for a fg. Or as I said above - they had no clue.
  12. only reason I can think is long odds. Up by 5 but if the other team intercepts and runs it back its a 2 point play and up by 3 and kickoff from 20 so they have a chance to get into FG range. Or the coaching staff can't figure it out very well
  13. Kinda like classic cars. I would love to find a restored to "like it left factory" Aristocraft 19. We had one growing up an loved it. basically a small shop in georgia did a fiberglass version of the wooden Chris Craft ski boat and added a removable hard top. We took ours everywhere to scuba dive - like 20 miles out in the gulf or Atlantic Ocean. I actually found 4 or 5 of them around the Austin area but they were not in great shape
  14. I was at that game and darn near died from the heat.
  15. This..... It's the same as dealing with upper management that wants to "add value" to a situation. Not going to turn out well and they are gone when it implodes
  16. I did 30 years with IBM. You would not believe the number of rules and guidelines I had to follow in terms of using that logo. And since I was customer facing I dealt with it for years. In addition, at one point, we were required to proof check all our presentations for trademark and registered trademark designations. My main presentation was over 1000 (yep 1000 charts) since I used hotlinks to jump around. Customers never saw but 50-70 charts but I had a lot of them to check
  17. Dang - figured the offseason was over.. I didn't mind it until i saw the view on the helmet. Warming up the torch and looking for a pitchfork
  18. Burger King was my high school summer job so I still like them. Plus here in North Alabama I get tons of coupons for buy one get one free so it's also a price performer. No idea on nuggets but I still like the Whopper.
  19. I had a lot of WW2 planes and ships but also had a balsa wood biplane that took a huge amount of time to build. It had some sort of paper that covered it and you had to cut and paste every bit of it. probably took 2-3 weekends to do the whole plane and house smelled like glue
  20. and if you didn't bundle a gazillion useless channels I might care. Give me ala carte now and let me pay only for the 20-30 channels I want.
  21. Not correct on the lifetime part. Growing up in Huntsville I knew several families affected by a NASA layoff. May have been true in Houston but everywhere.
  22. I like some of the retro styling like Mustang and especially Challenger - however I really wish someone would scrap the idea that the front and rear have to be plastic and go full retro with chrome bumpers. And i know it ain't gonna happen because of CAFE and pedestrian safety but I absolutely hate plastic ends on cars.
  23. It was also cool to order what you wanted not what they wanted to sell. A lot of under 30 folks might not know/realize that you could take the order list and pick and choose what you wanted. Dad didn't do this on his early 70's Camaro but someone wanted a V8, white seats, auto with shifter on column, AC and I think something like power locks and vinyl top.
  24. More - I spent too much time arranging and could not edit Yep - it was related to NASA The British came strong This was the an MGA similar to mine except it is almost perfect. Also the first one I have seen in Dove Grey b Several others Mustangs Chevy's Just for Mother Mopar and finally I mentioned the NASA bumper decal required to get on post and how people held onto cars with low numbers
  25. I mentioned there was a Saturn V Rocket nearby. This is actually a replica- the real one is inside The British came strong
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