The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Anzio - 1944 - Jan. 23rd, 2003

http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/brochures/anzio/72-19.htm ^ | Clayton D. Laurie.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Good post, thank you.

[Victoria Delsoul]

LOL, is that what you tell everyone?

[SAMWolf]

ONly the ones who give me Chain Guns.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Is this one ok? LOL

[SAMWolf]

It's not a chain gun but it'll do.

[PhilDragoo]

The hindsight comment of Churchhill is not his finest hour.

I can't read these Medal of Honor citations without being moved.

Opportunity cost dictates that the Anzio operation contributed to the Allied victory.

As noted, every soldier moved to counter it was one less we had to fight elsewhere--after a while it seems a zero sum.

The victory was the affirmation of Americans' willingness to roll up their sleeves and do what had to be done.

Could Dan Rather or Peter Jennings allow ration stamps to be issued without claiming it was a Bush move to benefit the wealthiest?

That pair may find nothing untoward in Mohammad Atta's meeting with Saddam's agents--or Osama's meetings with the later head of Iraqi security.

They may find no problemo with Uday Hussein's trip to Pyongyang.

I eschew the Kool-Aid.

Godspeed swift victory and safe return to the finest fighting force on earth.

Saddam, this radio-controlled rocket bomb's for you.

[SAMWolf]

Evening PhilDragoo.

[The Real Deal]

I still hate Jane Fonda!

[garandgal]

My Great Uncle was in the 34th, and was captured at Anzio. He spent the remainder of the war in a POW camp in Germany.

He won't talk about it much, but the newspaper articles from when he came back are very interesting. He suffers from a limp from injuries that were not properly treated. He also told of eating thin broth, and one potato per day. The regular German soldiers would sneak chickens to them when the Nazi officers weren't around.

They finally "escaped", and walked for several days before running into American troops...and finding out the war was over!

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!

[Mudboy Slim]

The next ANSWER RALLY is scheduled fer DeeCee on the 15th of February 2003...I'm betting that Sodom'sInsane SHALL BE DETHRONED by then and the ANSWER RALLY will be a HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT--and Political LIABILITY--to the DemonRAT Party!! I say we plan a counterprotest RALLY for the 15th of February, but get a bigger spot 'cuz it may just end up being a CELEBRATION PARTY, as we cheer the Liberation of IRAQ!!

Let's talk about it at CPAC...MUD

[SAMWolf]

Thanks for sharing about your Great Uncle. I thank him for his service and sacrifice for our Country.

[facedown]

Great post! Thanks.

[facedown]

The most I ever saw them fire though was 2 barrels at a time.

Get a load of this!

The USS New Jersey fires her big guns in the Atlantic Ocean in 1968 (This is a rare color photograph of all nine big guns going off at the same instant. After the 1980s refits, the big guns fired three at a time at one-second intervals)

[SAMWolf]

Awesome!

[Darksheare]

Welcome back.
Don't freeze too much, stay out of the wind.
Get those projects done, and get some hot chocolate or CAFFIENE for warmth.

Currently 9 degrees F here in my section of New York.
Will be here, somewhere, wandering as I always do.

[Jen]

Holy Moly! What a picture. Thanks for posting it.

[Jen]

Did you see THIS? Wooooooooooo! Big Guns!!!

[PsyOp]

Your welcome.

I've been a big fan of Mauldin's work and have book of his collected military and political cartoons. He was one of the great ones. Sad that he is gone.

I wish I had known of the one site that sent him postcards before he passed. I would have liked to have told him how much I admired his work.

[PsyOp]

and could hit a target the size of a VW Beetle 22

Actually, the legend is that the shell weighs as much as a VW beetle. It was not quite accurate enough to hit one, but with a shell like that, close is good enough. You could probably drive half a dozen beetles into the shell crater.