From: Nigel Hay (Nigel@milweb.net)
Date: Mon Jan 12 2004 - 12:16:40 PST
I am lucky- in all the many years of presenting the Arena events at
Beltring, I have met all the jeeps and even a Dodge Ambulance that came
ashore with the FIRST wave at Omaha, many that saw active service in every
major battle in ETO (including those top secret pre-production Hotchkisses)
plus dozens of vehicles that were not only in Kelly's Heros but were still
roadworthy enough to take part in Private Ryan 30 odd years later. One of
the best anecdotes was a chap who claimed his ex Norwegian Dodge was not
only a D Day and Arnhem veteran, but was finally knocked out by an 88 at
Bastogne. ( he had a log book apparently which detailed its life) A
remarkable restoration by the US military I felt before this vehicle was
delivered to Norway under the MAP but never mind. Sometimes it was hard not
to challenge the proud owners as I interviewed them to the crowd.
Er, that's enough cynicism for one day,
NIGE
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan M Gill" <rmgill@mindspring.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 8:44 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Normandy Trivia
> At 11:42 AM -0800 1/12/04, chance wolf wrote:
> >
> >Wrench: NAPA, $8.97 + tax
> >Story: $1157.43
>
>
> Make it a special 'Commando Parachute battalion' maintenance wrench
> and you'll get at least another thousand out of it. You'll have to
> change the transport bit to the "air landing brigade glider that
> crashed in the swamp near St Mere Egliese".
>
>
> >EUC required. No foreign shipments on this item. $31.47 Handling Charge
> >applies because "you have to use extra care packing these things". Buyer
> >must pay me the 2% + 1.17 + .43 that PayPal charges me because I'm not
> >making enough money on this story..err...'item'. All sales final.
> >Certificate of Authenticity included, signed by the guy who told the guy
who
> >told my uncle who told my friend that he heard it's all true.
> >
> >(Do we all get this jaded after collecting military vehicles and stuff
for a
> >few years, or is it something in my local water supply? :)
>
> Nahh. Just sharp and pointy towards the BS.
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