Motion Pictures WW2 in HD (slightly O/T)

'wrong kinda people' ? I have a SS-helmet,couple of uniform jackets etc.and I'm a nice guy.

 

interesting, I was looking at the medals recieved by my relative and it looks like he was in the phillipines too in some manuever to do with MacArthur and at that time he was with Squadron MTB-3.

If you are ever down in Fredericksburg, Texas they have a great WW2 museum with a restored PT boat. They also have one of the packard engines on display.

 

My next door neighbor has an SS Helmet his Grandfather "picked up" in the European Theater.
After he had it Authenticated,He decided to keep it after running into all kinds of problems trying to donate/sell it.
So am I wrong?
Not by what he went through.

Yes,SOME museums will take the stuff,but the caveat is,YOU NEED TO DO YOUR HOMEWORK ON WHERE IT ENDS UP.
Just because a "Museum/Collector" wants it,doesn't mean THEY are on the up and up....
When money is tight,SOME Museums sell off items they can't use and the Collector might be a "Middle Man",so there's no telling where the stuff will ultimately end up.

 

I find it outstanding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I also have world at war it has lots of both sides of the ocean fighting, its amazing the***** sank two brit ships
three days before Pearl Harbor ! three days but the brass in Washington wanted to check it out first but it happened on a thur and it was a three day weekend. lots of blame to go around. but the worse was the what happened to the crew and ships capt on the Indy. lots of brass should have been up on charges that day! Lots of brave men and woman
on all sides were lost. gods peace to all the lost.

 

>>>>>,Revhead; you have a famous relative ,,,MTB-3 was the three P T Boats that rescued MacCarther and his family just before the***** invaded ,,,my Dad was in MTB 24 & 25 ,Kool info ,,

 

much respects!

 

>>>>>,Revhead; back in the '70's-'80's & '90's ,,my Dad was chief historian for the P T Boaters****n ,,he helped raise money to restore the Boats for the museums ,,there's two at Battleship Cove in Mass ,,
the only existing WW II P T Boat left ,,in fulll battle gear ,,other than those three in the museums ,,belongs to the Sea Scouts in Seattle ,Wash ,,it was a training boat at the Brimerton ,Wash P T Boat Training Base ,,where my Dad took Torpedo training ,,,the one the Sea Scouts have never saw battle ,,,they also have six spare Packard Engines ,,still in the crates from the '40's
they've been offered a million bucks for their boat & spares ,,but refuse to sell,,

 

My grandfather was a machine gun squad leader in the Marines.

He never spoke about the war but hated Japanese cars (he also worked at GM).

After he died I came across a bunch of his stuff including his diary that he kept...he lived though some awful stuff.

He fought on Tulagi, Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Sipan, and Tinian.

 

>>>>>,fordf1trucknut; those were some tuff battles ,,,alot of the WW II guys won't talk about it ,,don't blam em ,,,it's a bad memory fer sure ,,

 

i have been a big ww2 buff since i was like 7

 

>>>>>,When my Dad first graduated from torpedo school ,,he was****igned to Subs ,,patroling off the Eleution Islands ,Alaska ,,,in the winter,,,when they asked for volineers for P T Boats ,,he jumped on it ,,just had to get outa those "Tubular Coffins" ,,he never would talk about his 'Sub" days ,,
he ended up on a P T Boat with his best friend from Hi-School ,,on a trip up a river to find a Jap base ,,they found it ,,and his best friend got cut in half by a Jap .50 cal , half went in the water ,,half stayed on the deck ,,my Dad jumped in the water to get that half so he could be buried at sea in one piece ,,
in his Skippers Book ,,i've read things my dad did that he's fergot ,,i know more about what missions he went on than even he remembers ,,or wants to

 

>>>>>,Funny Story; the P T Boaters got R&R in Australia ,,one time ,,my Dad and a few of his buddies stole an Army Jeep ,,,,then ,,,put a spare P T Boat Supercharged Packard V-12 in it ,,took em a little time ,,but when they got it runnin' ,,they lost control ,,Too Much Booze,,& crashed it into a Quanset Hut ,,at full speed ,,they all ran away ,,and was on their way back to the Phillipines the next morning ,,the M P's never knew who did it ,,

 

fucken crazy! man tell your dad thanks for me for him and his friends, for what they did for the whole world!

 

>>>>>,Thanks ,,,My Dad will be 85 day after tomorrow ,,

 

and tell him happy birthday!!!!!!!!!!

 

>>>>>,O K ,,,will do ,,he's had some health problems lately ,,,but doing better now ,,
thanks,,

 

from an aussie point of view, my granfather was stationed in singapore in '39,the***** came in hard and fast,he was in the engineers, singapore at that time was badly under defended,he was captured along with many thousands of aussie's and english.most were taken to changi prison camp.beheadings,malnutrition and subhuman conditions were the norm.many suffering malaria,berri berri and other insidious conditions.
i had the priviige of sharing time with him up until his death in '84.
my mum told me she didn't recognize him when he returned from war, a man 6 ft tall weighing 50 kg.
my father was in the middle east theatre, joined up at 16 years of age, i couldn't imagine what it was like for a 16 year old facing war.
THEY TRULY ARE THE GREATEST GENERATION.
btw,a lot of the pacific was filmed in my hometown and state,melbourne,victoria,my mate had his black 34 tudor in a couple of scenes.

 

>>>>>My Dad has the greatest admiration for all the Aussies,,when ever they went to Australia on R&R ,,the Navy guys were treated fantastic ,,the People ,,the Food ,,the Booze ,,The Fun ,,he even got to Box a Kangaroo ,,,and got his***** kicked ,,litteraly ,,,lol,,lol,,
He's always said ,,as long as i can remember ,,if he had to live anywhere else ,,it would be in Australia ,,

 

Part 4 was good as well.