uss mt hood

[tvashtarkatena]

Patton and Eisenhower also tried to chase down Pancho Villa after his raid on Columbia, TX. They were unsuccessful.

 

 

[ScottP]

Best 3 WWII flicks:

 

Das Boot

Patton

Thin Red Line

 

Come and See (1985)

 

Enemy At The Gates

and though not a combat movie, Schindler's List is right up there with other WWII cinematic masterpieces.

[ScottP]

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostsub/map.html

This show was about U-869, as stated, and was also covered extremely well in Robert Kurson's book, Shadow Divers. If you have any interest in U-boats and wreck diving whatsoever, then I highly recommend this book. Captivating. I think I read it in, like, 2 or 3 days. Couldn't put it down. :tup:

 

That was an awesome book.

[Hugh Conway]

Best 3 WWII flicks:

 

Das Boot

Patton

Thin Red Line

 

Come and See (1985)

 

Enemy At The Gates

 

that's a joke, right tool?

[ivan]

enemy at the gates was kinda lame imho, but the movie took the title from the authoritative book on stalingrad, and is well worht the read

 

best book i think i've read on ww2 is "the forgotten soldier" an english translation of a frenchman, guy sajer's, service in the wehrmacht - depressing as phuck.

[YocumRidge]

My Grandad in May 1945, after taking Berlin:

 

[YocumRidge]

enemy at the gates was kinda lame imho, but the movie took the title from the authoritative book on stalingrad, and is well worht the read

 

Oh, Ivan, - "Seventeen Moments of Spring" is my favorite movie on the WWII with the best background and documentary you can ever find.

 

Currently released as a 6 DVD set (circa 1973), with english subtitles!

 

 

 

[ivan]

6 dvds?!? jesus christ, can you children of tolstoy do anything that's SHORT?

 

ww2? don't you mean The Great Patriotic War?

[YocumRidge]

Mussolini/Hitler relationship was not a particularly short one either

[Hugh Conway]

The number of burly dudes still wearing their medals from The Great Patriotic War is pretty amazing, imho.

[ivan]

The number of burly dudes still wearing their medals from The Great Patriotic War is pretty amazing, imho.

they have been soaking themselves in Nature's Own Preservative practically from their mother's tit afterall!

 

[tvashtarkatena]

Good God that avatar pick is some sweet form of torture. Pure cruelty for this kennel full of wagging dicks.

[ivan]

i'm sure the two of you would get along famously, patrique, the russian and irish people being, after all, famously alike in their affection for booze, cruel sport and livestock

 

you're about due for a return to the bacon-wand - come do something grandiose on the south side this time and maybe i can even arrange an introduction?

Edited November 13, 2010 by ivan

[ivan]

my pop somewhere about 1941

[tvashtarkatena]

I have been hankering for it, Big Man.

 

A man should understand not all phenomena, and that includes women, in the universe are knowable, but that truth shouldn't prevent him from appreciating those moments of pure beauty as they happen.

[tvashtarkatena]

The weekend following thanksgiving and after are open for me, BTW.

[Hugh Conway]

The number of burly dudes still wearing their medals from The Great Patriotic War is pretty amazing, imho.

they have been soaking themselves in Nature's Own Preservative practically from their mother's tit afterall!

 

heh, the last one I met was muslim, so none of that

 

damn did he love beef fat though. cool people, hard life

[ivan]

The weekend following thanksgiving and after are open for me, BTW.

then make it so, beyotch!

 

on (not so) sober reflection, i'm changing my best ww2 movie - clearly raiders of the lost ark deserves the nod?

[Fairweather]

Thin Red Line.

 

Saving Private Ryan.

 

And, of course, the greatest movie of all time: Inglourious Basterds.

 

A Midnight Clear was good too.

 

 

[Fairweather]

The weekend following thanksgiving and after are open for me, BTW.

then make it so, beyotch!

 

on (not so) sober reflection, i'm changing my best ww2 movie - clearly raiders of the lost ark deserves the nod?

 

That Nazi flying wing was fucking cool.

[Fairweather]

Mount Hood is unclimbable in November. This is a well-know fact.

[Hugh Conway]

My favorite would be "Downfall"

[ivan]

My favorite would be "Downfall"

i can't NOT want to play solitaire after frau goebells offs her whole clan, then sits down for a hand

 

more love for thin red line - what does it mean? the split second image of a baby bird dying on the ground amidst the first big battle scene is probably the best. its wierd that a man can give a shit about seeing a person die, but no, not a ittle-bitty birdie!

[mccallboater]

A little late on this, but I thought you all might enjoy this shot of my Dad next to his Jug, a couple of months before he was shot down the the first day of the Battle of the Bulge, while his flight was trying to stop tanks from taking St. Vith. He was severely burned, and wandered around in the snow for two days until he was captured by the Lufvfwaffe. His first night was in the barracks with the outfit that shot him down. The rest of the war he moved from one Lufvfwaffe hospital to another. Six times I think, mostly on foot. They treated Dad like their own pilots, but he still weighed 115 lbs when he was liberated. They also provided the best burn treatment in the world at the time. Several more operations in Menlo Park followed, at the hospital with 5000 other burn patients, where he met and married my mother after one month of courtship. They were together for 60 years.

 

The climbing and skiing side of Dad is that he and Everett Davidson are the first names one finds in most of the cairns in the Selkirks between Bonners Ferry and Priest Lake, including the first ascent of the Lion's Head. He and Everett started most of those cairns when they were in high school in the late 30's. Dad, a life long skier, was also one of the original board members of the non-profit that started Schweitzer Basin. He had just bought his season pass for the 53rd year in a row when he died in December of 2006.

 

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[tvashtarkatena]

Great photo and an even better story.