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Posted: 7/7/2022 3:50:53 AM EDT
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 My kindergarten class 1951. I'm the handsome one. |
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Posted: 7/7/2022 4:28:52 AM EDT
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 My friend Rob and his Dad, probably around 1968-1970. Somewhere in Massachusetts. |
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Posted: 7/7/2022 8:37:35 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My Grandad's airplane, ca 1916. May be the first enclosed cabin airplane in the U.S. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/92432/SCAN0168_jpeg-2443527.JPG wow ! What was that thing called? |
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Posted: 7/7/2022 8:49:27 AM EDT
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Posted: 7/7/2022 8:54:32 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryYour bottom pic is flipped. The edelweiss badge goes on the left side of his hat. 
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Posted: 7/7/2022 8:55:36 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My barracks. I lived in this building for two years, but we had a better flag up on the pole. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/180048/74392859-E2A6-4527-BA55-9BE445F78972_jpe-2443410.JPG |
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Posted: 7/7/2022 8:57:49 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryWas thinking for a bit, what is wrong with his enlarged right thumb. Took me a few seconds.... |
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Posted: 7/7/2022 9:14:00 AM EDT
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My Dad's 1934 Ford Cabriolet in L.A., in the '50's. That was his friend Lyle posing by the car.
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Posted: 7/7/2022 9:18:28 AM EDT
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My dad and uncles on the family farm.
 Attached FileA group of hillbillies moving back to the family farm (my mom is pregnant with me here).  Attached File |
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Posted: 7/7/2022 9:22:06 AM EDT
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Posted: 7/7/2022 9:26:39 AM EDT
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My dad and his sister. He was born in Jan '50, so this should be 1955 or 1956?
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Posted: 7/7/2022 9:33:11 AM EDT
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My Great-Great Grandfather Daniel Bacon on my white side of the family. Fought for the north with the Iowa 45th regiment.
 Attached FilePic of me 150 years or so later.  Attached FilePic of Isaac Billy, My native Great Grandfather.  Attached File |
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Posted: 7/7/2022 9:33:12 AM EDT
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 Attached FileOne of my many years-ago cousins that fought with the Georgia infantry in The War Between the States. He was involved in the great locomotive chase and helped arrest the yankee spy gang that stole a train at the Big Shanty. Survived the war and was sent home with dysentery and he died from that. |
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Posted: 7/7/2022 10:34:40 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: wow ! What was that thing called? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: My Grandad's airplane, ca 1916. May be the first enclosed cabin airplane in the U.S. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/92432/SCAN0168_jpeg-2443527.JPG wow ! What was that thing called? It was not named, but labelled an "aeroplane". I was told it was later given or sold to the Calif. National Guard, but I haven't ever found any record or trace of it. He flew it out of the old Griffith Park air park. |
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Posted: 7/7/2022 11:56:54 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Where is this? I think I have a photo of my grandfather in front of that building in 1951-52 when he was stationed in Germany. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: My barracks. I lived in this building for two years, but we had a better flag up on the pole. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/180048/74392859-E2A6-4527-BA55-9BE445F78972_jpe-2443410.JPG @Deadtired Armstrong Barracks (also called Armstrong Kaserne) in Budingen, W. Germany. It’s about 30 miles NE of Frankfurt. Do you know what regiment or Division he belonged to? Budingen was part of 3rd Armor Division, but when your grandfather was there I think it was still 4th Infantry Division. 3AD took over in 1956, then 1AD took it over when 3AD was deactivated after Desert Storm. It was a really small Kaserne. It only housed two battalions. Our motor pool and airfield were separate from the main base. Most of the buildings on our bases looked the same. They were all German bases until the end of WWII. The red bricked office on the corner of the building was unique to Budingen, though. That was our office for gate guards. We also had a guard house right at the gate entrance. Here’s a couple of older pictures.  Attached File Attached File |
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Posted: 7/7/2022 2:10:55 PM EDT
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 Attached FileLibrary dedication where I live. The building is still there. The house off to the right of the library is still there too. But it doesn't look the same around the area anymore. |
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Posted: 7/7/2022 2:21:48 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/7/2022 6:52:34 PM EDT
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Mom helping pin LtCol on my father, circa 1966. He enlisted at 17 in 1943, fought across the Pacific and was commissioned early in the Korean War. Left shortly after this picture was taken for Vietnam. I had just turned six, and was eight before he came home. Very proud Marine, and one of the nicest people I ever knew.
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Posted: 7/7/2022 6:57:50 PM EDT
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Quote History@SurvivingAZ My wife had an 86 TA that looked just like that. |
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Posted: 7/7/2022 7:01:59 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/7/2022 7:04:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Mom and Dad going out on a date. 1948/49. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/279984/263885861_4409978642446607_2156119611179-2444398.JPG Nice ! |
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Posted: 7/7/2022 7:09:33 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/7/2022 10:34:55 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/7/2022 10:45:51 PM EDT
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A set of great-great grandparents on my dad's side:
 Attached FileA set of great-great grandparents on my mom's side:  Attached FileA photo of the kids of three very close families in Arkansas, all dressed in their Sunday best. Three of these folks are the kids of the couple right above and one of them literally looks like someone photoshopped my sister's face into the picture. The guy with his arms crossed, the girl at the very back (who looks identical to my sister) and the girl on the far right are my relatives. I think the guy on the far left may be a brother to those three, but I'm not sure. My great-grandmother was their sibling but she had already passed away when this photo was taken.  Attached FileThe whole family. Three of the kids are in the bridge photo. My great grandmother is on the left, with her hand on her hip.  Attached File |
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Posted: 7/8/2022 1:18:19 AM EDT
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Wyatt Earp 1923 about six years before he died. One old man you dont mess with.
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Posted: 7/8/2022 10:34:22 AM EDT
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 Attached FileMy father, grandfather, great grandfather and great great grandfather  Attached FileMe, my father, grandfather and great grandfather. |
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Posted: 7/8/2022 10:42:38 AM EDT
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Logging East, TX 1915.
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Posted: 7/8/2022 11:03:28 AM EDT
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Posted: 7/8/2022 11:51:44 AM EDT
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 I think it's a Coast Guard 83-foot Patrol Boat (from page 18 of: https://media.defense.gov/2018/Apr/11/2001901931/-1/-1/0/FLYNN_SMALL_CUTTERS_WPBS-2014.PDF Taken by my dad, probably when he was on the USS Lejeune https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Lejeune_(AP-74) , probably late 1945-early 46. Or not. Sit down and talk to your dads while they're still alive 
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Posted: 7/8/2022 12:17:12 PM EDT
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Neighborhood a few blocks from where I grew up in the 1940s
 Theater nearby, ~1934, still there but surrounded by development  Wendell Willkie 
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Posted: 7/8/2022 12:32:56 PM EDT
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Yorktown, VA with the York River and Gloucester Point in the background.
My grandfather was a professional photographer and had a contract to teach aerial photography to members of the US Army Air Service in the 1920s. A double swinging bridge was built here in the early 1950s, and carries US Route 17 over the York River. Note the Yorktown Victory monument in the center of the picture.  Attached File |
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Posted: 7/8/2022 12:40:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryBattle of Los Angeles |
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Posted: 7/8/2022 12:41:50 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryI have similar photos of my grandfather and my uncle that I've been meaning to scan for a long time. |
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Posted: 7/8/2022 12:50:44 PM EDT
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From when they were building I-55, heading towards St. Louis. (Pic facing away from St. Louis).
I'm on the left;  Footing for a walk bridge;  My brother and I went across the bridge, but I was scared and went on hands and knees;  From our front yard;  |
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Posted: 7/8/2022 12:56:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: @Deadtired Armstrong Barracks (also called Armstrong Kaserne) in Budingen, W. Germany. It’s about 30 miles NE of Frankfurt. Do you know what regiment or Division he belonged to? Budingen was part of 3rd Armor Division, but when your grandfather was there I think it was still 4th Infantry Division. 3AD took over in 1956, then 1AD took it over when 3AD was deactivated after Desert Storm. It was a really small Kaserne. It only housed two battalions. Our motor pool and airfield were separate from the main base. Most of the buildings on our bases looked the same. They were all German bases until the end of WWII. The red bricked office on the corner of the building was unique to Budingen, though. That was our office for gate guards. We also had a guard house right at the gate entrance. Here’s a couple of older pictures. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/180048/3B9554A1-EEF9-4847-8EE9-1744BC031249_jpe-2444555.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/180048/3D08C10F-A360-4CC0-BC74-06A4EB930D65_jpe-2444556.JPG When I was little, I lived at the Flint Kaserne in Bad Tölz, then later at the Prinz Heinrich Kaserne in nearby Lenggries. I have fond memories of those times.  |
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Posted: 7/8/2022 1:04:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
Mom and Dad going out on a date. 1948/49. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/279984/263885861_4409978642446607_2156119611179-2444398.JPG |
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Posted: 7/8/2022 1:07:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: WWI. Gas attack before the charge that follows. The body language in this photo is great. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/227/WWI-Russians-with-Winchester-M1895-Muske-2443397.JPG Russians with 1895 Winchesters, very interesting |
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Posted: 7/8/2022 1:08:44 PM EDT
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Mom's first trike
 My mom (2nd from right, back row) and her mother (2nd from left, back row) at the bomb plant.  From Wiki: "Army-Navy "E" Award. The award was also known as the Army-Navy Production Award. The award was created to encourage industrial mobilization and production of war time materials. By war's end, the award had been earned by only 5% of the more than 85,000 companies involved in producing materials for the U.S. military's war effort." Mom & Dad's wedding picture.  Mom's "Crazy" Uncle Leonard. Visited the farm once by landing his plane in the field.  Rode an Indian Motorcycle, also, along with some friends.    |
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Posted: 7/8/2022 1:19:21 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: @Deadtired Armstrong Barracks (also called Armstrong Kaserne) in Budingen, W. Germany. It's about 30 miles NE of Frankfurt. Do you know what regiment or Division he belonged to? Budingen was part of 3rd Armor Division, but when your grandfather was there I think it was still 4th Infantry Division. 3AD took over in 1956, then 1AD took it over when 3AD was deactivated after Desert Storm. It was a really small Kaserne. It only housed two battalions. Our motor pool and airfield were separate from the main base. Most of the buildings on our bases looked the same. They were all German bases until the end of WWII. The red bricked office on the corner of the building was unique to Budingen, though. That was our office for gate guards. We also had a guard house right at the gate entrance. Here's a couple of older pictures. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/180048/3B9554A1-EEF9-4847-8EE9-1744BC031249_jpe-2444555.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/180048/3D08C10F-A360-4CC0-BC74-06A4EB930D65_jpe-2444556.JPG You called it. 4th ID, Div HQ Company. |
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Posted: 7/8/2022 1:25:52 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/8/2022 2:03:24 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/8/2022 2:21:39 PM EDT
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my dad and his crew testing liquid nitrogen nozzle cooling on an F-4 at Edwards AFB, 1965-ish
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Posted: 7/8/2022 2:26:23 PM EDT
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nvm
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Posted: 7/8/2022 2:32:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: nvm He had a Stevens shotgun. I had one those with the flaming bomb. |
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Posted: 7/8/2022 2:38:34 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/8/2022 2:46:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I don't remember the back story, but this is absolutely real and not photoshop. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/271112/pilottractorphotolarge_jpg-2445669.JPG  https://theaviationgeekclub.com/the-story-behind-a-famous-photo-of-an-ejection-from-a-raf-lightning-interceptor/ |
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Posted: 7/8/2022 2:46:48 PM EDT
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The first photograph:
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Posted: 7/8/2022 2:56:48 PM EDT
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I'll add my humble contribution
 " />Dad, WWII, Infantry. He was one of two from his basic training class who went to war in Europe that survived, if I heard the story correctly. Like most he talked little about it except with other WWII vets. |
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Posted: 7/8/2022 3:16:35 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/8/2022 3:34:45 PM EDT
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From my Grandpa's photo album.
 Note the date.   Grandpa, on the Steens Mountains, SE Oregon. Working for the Oregon Fish and Wildlife as a Game Biologist. |
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