Recent content by lucanus

Hi guys, I guess my choice is most of Ted Nugents' - and now for the kicker my loving ball and chain is taking me to INDY to see the Van Halen tour with DL Roth fronting for em......Guess this means I will have to take her to see the Cirque or say it isn't so the Ballet...eek! Cirque wont...

Ok here goes....My memory bank seems to remember a bomb used in Nam and Desert Storm that weighed 15,000 lbs and was dropped out of a C130 Herc...The bomb was a BLU-82 BBC NEWS | Americas | Fact files: Daisy Cutter bombs Or key in daisy cutter in google images for some more snaps of...

You know Aussie, when 911 happened - I went to a recruiter and said 'Sign Me UP!!!' First question was 'ow old are you Sir?' :shock: And my reply was 'Old enough to know better but to young to quit, Sgt,':) 'I don't need boot again...I still remember - How to clean weapons, walk a post...

Here is an interesting story told by SSgt(T) Lester Levi 'Slip' Davis, TT/Eng 544th BS 384th BG: Sometime in late 43 or early 44, a B17 from the 91st BG was trying to make its way back to 'Blighty' on the deck - The aircraft is experiencing engine trouble...As they were deing harried by a...

translation of T4.H's passage for those who don't speak German-My German is a little rusty

Yes they attacked Altenbergen, Germany a RR Viaduct, They lost no aircraft - This was a B-17 Group. I would be interested in comparing some of the notes I have from my Uncle...Below is the link to their web page it list all the missions as well as aircraft lost 384th Bomb Group I have...

I think you will find that Davy Crockett's hat died somewhat earlier than 1945...More like 1835...:lol: By the by Erich did any of your relations fly against the 384th BG?

The 213 Things Skippy Is No Longer Allowed To Do In The U.S. Army Not sure if this has been posted but all former officers and NCO need to check out his list...If you are in the military now it is up to you, but be warned some of his ideas could lose a stripe or two

Now I am not trying to start something...But to state: Implies to me you saw it done or your real name is David Zucchino. I know that what I said: Is a fact, cause I was there firing the 'mad minute/FPF', I have also seen 106mm RRs fire their beehive rounds to breakup NVA assaults...I...

You could be right about that, but then I wanted a cold one and I guess that was one he couldn't get rid of... At that time, I was 19 and in a very sstrange place. Think of the confusion I would have cause if I asked for a DP ( remember this is the mid-70s) - My brother who I mentioned...

Well aside from the cold one in my hand....When I can get it Holstein, friend of my lil brother family used to own the brewery in Germany, And for summer jobs those two went over and were tasters.....But years later, I was in the land of Roos and those dropdead gourgeous Aussie women and...

Clave Guns owned: 5 Number of people nearby with guns: not worried about it Likely number of times being held up at gunpoint: better than even Number of policemen killed in this area in 30 years: more than 1 Chances of getting robbed: .5% Reasons to buy a gun: self defense, keep those...

The Last Kaiser, Armoured units of the Russian Civil War - Reds and Whites, and Hitler's Pirates

I did 2 hitches (8 years) - In the mid-70s the Corps started to OJT 0311, etc and I got a little nervous - I know I know all services draw down after wars (one of the US's problems is not remembering what happened the last time), But my concern was since we were FMF, we were on-call 24/7/365...

Yes he was part of the Navy that escorted the Prinz Eugen to the Pacific after they had inspected the radar installation on board...