Posts by Harold

How do I mark my location???

This site will give your loogitude and latitude for USA
http://www.bcca.org/misc/qiblih/latlong_us.html

I always thought Robert Taylor wasn.t to bad in weasterns.

I watched "A guy named Joe" last night and I think Ward Bond was in it more then Spencer Tracy. Good movie....

Why don't you check out this site
http://www.goldbucklenetwork.com/

Another good Buldge movie is "Battleground"

Rio Grande was when Maureen OHara was helping to tip over the wagon after the Indians had taken the Children and a Trroper fired his rifle close to her head and she turned and gave him a nasty look.

All kinds of stuff on the above subject on the History channey....

I still think it's a nasty word.

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Originally posted by The Ringo Kid@Apr 27 2005, 11:55 AM
Hi Cole, quite welcome. When I first got interested in WWII history I too loved reading and studying about the War in the Pacific. I especially loved reading everything I could get my hands on about Guadalcanal, Midway, Wake, Iwo Jima, Siapan and some of the other actions in the R.T.O. (Pacific Theater of Operations) The only thing at that time that I had an interest in dealing with the E.T.O. (European Theater of Operations) was anything to tdo with the Battle of the Bulge especially the 101st Airborne Div at Bastogne.

Well, I wanted to expand my horizons by reading more and more about the E.T.O. (including Italy and North Africa) and got hooked on those areas. Then I moved to anything to do with the Normandy Invasion (D-Day) followed by the battles for the Falaise Pocket and the Reichswald. I then went afew years back in time to get the poiint of view of the combatants before the USA became involved. I studied the Battle of Britain, the Invasion of Norway (Narvik) Holland, Belgium, France, Poland, The annexation of Austria, followed by the occupation of Czecholslovakia etc. I studied about the evacuation of Dunkirk, the invasion of Crete etc. From there, I was hooked on the war in Europe.

Next I read up on the Battle for Berlin having not been interested in the Russian involvement of the war but started having an interest after reading about the Battles for the Seelowe Heights. I then read up all I could from the German invasion of the Soviet Union, to the gates of Moscow, the encirclement at Stalingrad, the Siege of Leningrad, the fall of Sebastopol, the great tank battles of Kursk and Kharkov, and the great retreat across the Crimea and Kuban.

Along the way, I found a great interest in the Finnish/Russian war and the Spanish Civil War. I have since scaled back a bit to only or mainly the war along the Eastern Front.

I'm not disturbed about how many people are fascinated with Germany in WWII. I am just as fascinated with them for many reasons and I do not have one single belief that the nazis believed in. For one, you practically summed it up when you said "I guess people just like the German equipment and uniforms." That is part of my fascination as well. But also when you add in the history and also living history to it, that is something i have an insatiable appetite for. There is a syaing that also sums it up when it comes to uniforms from various armies: "The German Army goes into battle like it was going on Parade, the British Army goes into battle like they were going to a Soccer match, and the American Army goes into battle like thay have spent the day digging ditches." This by all means does not keep me from liking American of British equipment and uniforms. I like them all.

I collect WWI and WWII German Militaria and most of the items have a swastika somewhere on it. This does not mean I care for that symbol (which really is a religious symbol) also used to be the symbol for the U.S. Army's Infantry Division that was made of up men from the New Mexico/Arizona area. This insignia for that Inf Div was later turned into the Thunderbird insignia.
The main thing that disturbs me is, is that anything and everything to do with the germans is automatically labled nazi this and nazi that. That could not be the most wrong thing there ever was.

For instance: I have heard people refer the German Wehrmacht (Armed Forces) called the Nazi Army or Nazi navy, nazi Airforce. There is no branch of the German Armed Forces that could be correctfully labled at a Nazi force or nazi military. There were no nazis allowed to serve in the Kriegsmarine (German navy) though they were allowed to serve in the Heer (Army) and the Luftwaffe Airforce)To turn it around a bit, would the USA's Armed Forces be correctly called if they were called the Republican Army or Democratic Armed Forsces? I don't think so. The very same thing goes for the German Armed Forces of WWII.

Also, contrary to popular misconception, there really were not that many nazi's in the military with the vast majority being Civilians. In WWII, Germany had about 80 million citizens. Of that 80 million, about 4 million were in the nazi party. Now, if there ever was a German force of anykind that could be labled a "Nazi Army" or nazi military, that would have to be for the S.A. (Sturm Abteilung) or Brownshirts. Also you can lump the Allgemeine SS (General SS) trash in with that group but you cannot place the Waffen SS in with that group as those were also frontline soldiers. The Allgemeine SS were the ones who wore the all black uniforms, the Waffen SS wore the grey-green uniforms.

Sorry for my rant, im not defending any atrocities that members of the Wehrmacht did do, I just wanted to make sure it was clear that the nazi lable, cannot be placed on every german whop lived and served in the military of that era.

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My opinion only but as a John Wayne fan I don't think he was interested in the nazi's. This started out as WWII question. Please don't take this comment as a complaint or anything else......

Try a search in Yahoo under WW2.

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Originally posted by SXViper@Mar 31 2005, 08:00 AM
Yes, truly a shame. She was a nice looking woman. Sad to see what love can do to some people, some times.

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The next time you watch Hatari take notice to how many cigarettes are smoked and most of them chained smoked. I'm not a smoker and don't care who is!!!!

I have “BATTLEGROUND” on DVD. I like all of the innuendoes such as almost getting into the short arm line (raincoat), gathering Christmas greetings, like take a leap on a flying doughnut, etc. Viper is right it makes realistic.
I copied "AMBUSH" on VHS from TV but trying to find it on DVD...

Sometime check out "AMBUSH" with Robert Taylor. It's not on TV very much but worth watching..
Also for a war movie "BATTLEGROUND" with Van Johnson and others...

Question??? When are you going to watch all of THEM??????

My Favorite War Movie is on TCM at 6:00 PM EST;

Battleground
118 mins.

This realistic World War II drama centers on the 101st Airborne Division's role in the Battle of the Bulge. Surrounded by Germans who are making a supreme effort to turn the tide of the war, the “Screaming Eagles” defend Bastogne in the winter of 1944.

Cast: Van Johnson, Ricardo Montalban, John Hodiak, George Murphy, James Whitmore, Douglas Fowley, Jerome Courtland, Leon Ames, Richard Jaeckel, Don Taylor, James Arness, Bruce Cowling, Scotty Beckett, Marshall Thompson

Check out Robert Taylor in "Ambush" almost as good as a John Wayne western...

Here's a good Western to see if TCM ever shows it again. Next to John Wayne westerns this is my favotite.

Ambush (1949)
CAST: Robert Taylor, John Hodiak, Arlene Dahl, Don Taylor,

Searching for a white woman held by the Apaches.