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It seemed likely that you would beat the historical victory date for the last couple of years, but big congratulations on doing so. You fought well and JIII fought on after the conclusion was no longer in doubt, which makes both of you guys I would like to have on my side ...

The tripod-mounted heavy MG pictured may be Japanese, but the LMG is a Bren gun, a British weapon equipping units from 1936 until 1991.

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<B><s>[b]</s>Battle of Gunzan:<e>[/b]</e></B> Mixed shock attack and deliberate attack by Allied army is immediately decisive.<br/>
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cafard

= "Too much time in garrison and not enough in the field." That may describe the problem of John's KB.

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Amazing that folks in the '70s (and later) still harbored such feelings about Sherman, Stoneman, Butler, etc. so that it would show up in rock or folk songs, movies, stories, etc. But that's the way it is in the South, even to this day ...

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But the real spigot is Oz, where I've spent the past year stockpiling supply and fuel. Getting the empties there was vital. Some are there and loading. Lots more are on the way.<br/>

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How fortunate for you ...

<r> I cannot too strongly recommend <B><s>[b]</s><I><s>[i]</s>Quartered Safe Out Here<e>[/i]</e></I><e>[/b]</e></B> by George MacDonald Fraser, a memoir of his service as a grunt in Burma. Still in print.<br/>
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Just as good, but harder to find are <B><s>[b]</s><I><s>[i]</s>Bugles and a Tiger ...

<r> It is odd how congruent the eclectic musical tastes of war gamers tend to be. I have never liked Frank Sinatra, but that is because I worked in hotels and meeting him professionally kept me from enjoying his work. You may have seen Jefferson Davis' quote "Never be haughty to the humble; never be ...

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To us Brits, thats just an insane drive.<br/>
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Thats from Lands End to John O'Groats, give or take a few miles
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A lot of Uropeens have that problem. When I worked at a hotel in New York City, we had ...

I am old enough to remember some of the original multiboard BurmaShave roadside ads:

Within this vale...

Of toil and sin..

Your head grows bald...

But not your chin.

BurmaShave!

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Centerline 20cm & F 20cm that actually hit.

They're not really that big, but it looks that way to a Superfortress pilot when the Frank makes a head-on pass.

Meanwhile, in history...

1 May 1888 - Confederate Brigadier General William Wirt Adams and newspaper editor John H. Martin shoot each other dead in a street encounter in Jackson, Mississippi.

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On Christmas we were all talking (GOTP, her 29-YO daughter, and her BF) about what cell phones have done to society. I mentioned that it was normal in the old days to have at least a dozen phone numbers memorized. GOTP and I both recited ...

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Of the 4.7, and 25 MM rounds........the numbers seem endless.
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Nitpick, but given that amazing miniature <I><s>[i]</s><B><s>[b]</s>Yamato<e>[/b]</e></B><e>[/i]</e></I> you constructed,you may want to know. By 1941 all ...

I am certainly a winner! I learned more about steam plants in this AAR than I did in two successive sea tours in 1969-71.

HOLY $#!+!

Historical character, and even the virtual Hara has the luck to survive! [:)]

Time to bump!

Pretty sure that Yamato sortied for the last time with no aircraft...

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Nifty model!

Hokaze is old, ancient by the standards of steam warships. If she is still afloat then, 22 December will be the twenty - fourth anniversary of her commissioning.