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The FReeper Foxhole Revisits The Ploesti Raid - (Aug. 1, 1943) - May 15th, 2004
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Posted on 05/15/2004 12:00:14 AM PDT by snippy_about_it

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To: SAMWolf

"The Washing of the Spears," standard text on the Zulu War, says that Lt. Bromhead was stone deaf ... that's why his company was sitting in the rear! If they'd had that in the movie, it would have looked like "Monty Python and the Zulus!"


61 posted on 05/15/2004 2:25:27 PM PDT by Tax-chick (It's possible that I look exactly like Catherine Zeta-Jones.)
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To: snippy_about_it; bentfeather; SAMWolf
Good afternoon folks. Baby-gram.

Ready for some chow!

My Independence Day dress.

I'm gonna have to grow for this Foxette headgear.

62 posted on 05/15/2004 2:48:12 PM PDT by Professional Engineer (Islam is a cancer on humanity. Time for some radiation treatments.)
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To: SAMWolf
"Zulu" is one of those pics I can watch over and over again

The Sandpebbles too....they just don't make them as good as this....



63 posted on 05/15/2004 2:49:23 PM PDT by Light Speed
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To: Professional Engineer

OH, what a cutie! Is this your first girl? One of my college friends is having a girl next month; I'm looking forward to shopping for her, since my last two were boys.


64 posted on 05/15/2004 2:57:41 PM PDT by Tax-chick (It's possible that I look exactly like Catherine Zeta-Jones.)
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To: Professional Engineer

LOL. She's so cute. We figured it would take awhile to grow into the clothes but we couldn't find any Foxhole gear any smaller. Can't wait to see her in her camo a few months from now. Or a year. Whatever it takes we'll be waiting. :-)


65 posted on 05/15/2004 3:05:23 PM PDT by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
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To: radu

Good afternoon from the Foxhole radu.


66 posted on 05/15/2004 3:09:41 PM PDT by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
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To: snippy_about_it; SAMWolf

The little sandles are adorable. Thanks so much.


67 posted on 05/15/2004 3:11:49 PM PDT by Professional Engineer (Islam is a cancer on humanity. Time for some radiation treatments.)
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To: Light Speed

Oh Man! Thanks for the reminder. I think I'll see if I can rent it tonight. Haven't seen that one in a long time.


68 posted on 05/15/2004 3:12:04 PM PDT by SAMWolf (Vengence is mine says the Lord, but I'm busy, so I sent the US Marines.)
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To: Neil E. Wright

He's probably wandering around FR on other threads. We have a "help yourself" policy at the Foxhole.


69 posted on 05/15/2004 3:13:19 PM PDT by SAMWolf (Vengence is mine says the Lord, but I'm busy, so I sent the US Marines.)
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To: radu

Hi Radu. Prayers offered for Hubby's Aunt.

Hug back at ya.


70 posted on 05/15/2004 3:14:15 PM PDT by SAMWolf (Vengence is mine says the Lord, but I'm busy, so I sent the US Marines.)
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To: Professional Engineer

AWWWWW! That Oregon bib looks just right on her. Based on the Hat size I guess the shorts can be used as a blanket right now.


71 posted on 05/15/2004 3:15:50 PM PDT by SAMWolf (Vengence is mine says the Lord, but I'm busy, so I sent the US Marines.)
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To: SAMWolf
Based on the Hat size I guess the shorts can be used as a blanket right now.

ROFLOL

72 posted on 05/15/2004 3:22:53 PM PDT by Professional Engineer (Islam is a cancer on humanity. Time for some radiation treatments.)
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To: SAMWolf

My husband just mentioned that he met one of the Ploesti pilots when we were sightseeing in Guthrie, OK. They were having a WW2 reunion of some sort, and he visited with the guys while I was in the Territorial Museum with the older kids. (But in my teens, I sat at the kitchen table with one of the Dam Busters!)

If anyone is ever by there, lots to see in Guthrie!


73 posted on 05/15/2004 3:27:09 PM PDT by Tax-chick (It's possible that I look exactly like Catherine Zeta-Jones.)
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To: SAMWolf; Neil E. Wright

Looking over my shoulder, it's squarely stacked in the 'side tunnel' behind me.


74 posted on 05/15/2004 3:43:38 PM PDT by Darksheare (Bretheren & Sisteren In Chaos Inc, LLC "We're All About Bad Ideas!")
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To: Professional Engineer

Guess which one of us picked out the camo. LOL.


75 posted on 05/15/2004 3:51:14 PM PDT by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
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To: Neil E. Wright; SAMWolf

"So how come you haven't offered me a beer yet, Darksheare?"
Well, check in that plastic lined howitzer ammo crate over there, there should be some ice in there, and drinkable expendable in there.


76 posted on 05/15/2004 3:58:15 PM PDT by Darksheare (Bretheren & Sisteren In Chaos Inc, LLC "We're All About Bad Ideas!")
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To: SAMWolf

Watched Geronimo last night ...this is such a great movie...
The grandeur of the Southwest...
Ry Coders soundtrack...the U.S. Calvary on the march.

Reflecting..
Thought to myself..."Thats what those treacherous Jihadi/death cultists in Iraq need.....A U.S. Divison of Full Blooded Apache's comming down on them"...

Hamdi would just $...!

Robert Duvall..[Al Seibert] in the movie comments...

"You get into a fight with the Apache......you save the last bullet for yourself"

77 posted on 05/15/2004 3:59:05 PM PDT by Light Speed
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To: Tax-chick

You and got to talk to one of the DamBusters and your husband met a Ploesti pilot!! I'm jealous. It wuold have been such an honor for me.


78 posted on 05/15/2004 4:38:56 PM PDT by SAMWolf (Vengence is mine says the Lord, but I'm busy, so I sent the US Marines.)
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To: snippy_about_it
Guess which one of us picked out the camo. LOL.

Snippy?

79 posted on 05/15/2004 4:39:42 PM PDT by SAMWolf (Vengence is mine says the Lord, but I'm busy, so I sent the US Marines.)
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To: Light Speed

Only saw "Geronimo" once, when it first came out. IMHO the Cavalry uniforms of that time were the best uniforms the U.S. Military ever had.


80 posted on 05/15/2004 4:41:13 PM PDT by SAMWolf (Vengence is mine says the Lord, but I'm busy, so I sent the US Marines.)
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