No one is immune from The Good Idea Fairy

No one…

One ringy-dingy, Two ringy-dingy

United States soldiers manning a portable trench phone

Is this the party to whom I am speaking?

If you get the jokes, you’re old too…

It’s like herding cats

Nearly 30 PBY Catalina flying boats at anchor, 1940s, location unknown

Tooling around over Tientsin

USS Intrepid SB2C Helldiver over Tientsin, China 5 Sep 1945

I can think of worse ways to spend a day

Mask up!

Our CEO is flying in for a site visit and meeting today and we all have to wear masks even though we’re all spread out in a warehouse because of corporate rules for offices.

Gun crew with gas masks aboard HMS Broke

I suggested Iron Man or luchadore masks but got shot down with a quickness. Everyone thought the idea had merit though…

What’cha doin’ today?

A U.S. Navy Vought OS2U Kingfisher floatplane of Observation Squadron 1 (VO-1) being recovered by the battleship USS Arizona (BB-39), after a flight in the Hawaiian Operating area on the morning of 6 September 1941. The pilot, Ensign Lawrence A. Williams, is holding the belt of his rear-seat man, Radioman 3rd Class G.H. Lane, who is hooking up the aircraft to the ship’s crane for recovery.

Oh, just hanging around…

Mr Thompson and the man from MARS

Clyde Covault of US 5332nd Brigade (Provisional) cleaning his Thompson submachine gun, Camp Landis, Kachin, northern Burma, Dec 1944

The MARS Task Force was the second American LRPG (Long Range Penetration Group), activated just weeks before the first American LRPG aka 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional) aka GALAHAD aka Merrill’s Marauders was deactivated after having been almost completely used up in roughly 4-5 months of fighting in Burma.

MARS Task Force fought in Burma until March 1945 when their area of operation was deemed clear and they were moved to China to help train Chinese troops.

MARS also produced the only ground action CMOH in the C-B-I which also happened to be the only one given to a WWII special operations soldier: 1LT Jack L. Knight

Canadians at Anzio – 77 years ago today

Canadian 1st Special Service Force troops receive a brief before a patrol, Anzio beachhead 20 Apr 1944

Remember hay bales are just concealment, not cover.

Hatchet job

Close-up view of the forward port side of a Bf 109 fighter, 1939-1940

I haven’t been able to figure out this is a unit or personal marking on this Emil. Any ideas?

They could take theirs and beat yours…

Marines of the 2nd Marine Division uses captured Japanese Chi Ha medium tank Saipan 1944

And they could take yours and beat you.