Photo's found by accident while searching on line.

[patches]

Tanks of the 161st Tank Company 161st Infantry 41st Infantry division. Spokane Wash, the 1949 Veterans Day Parade.

[Salvage Sailor]

Indian troops in winter clothing with US Thompson submachine guns in Persia (Iran), 1944

 

 

And.....

 

 

Two Sikh members of an Indian camouflage unit in Baghdad, with a dummy Stuart tank mounted on a car chassis, 25 March 1942

[tthen]

Salvage Sailor, thank you for posting this. I love the pictures of the Indian troops with what looks like M1 and M1928 (Cutts Compensators) Thompsons.

[R Leonard]

On 11/6/2025 at 3:38 PM, Bluehawk said:

> "Yesterday, LTC Eric Osbourne brought his World War One history class to the museum so cadets could learn firsthand about the material culture and weapons technology of the era. Museum Director Col. Keith Gibson discussed firearms, handguns, tanks, and alumni who served. Thanks @vmihistory for the visit!"

 

 

 

VMI cadets in the VMI Museum . . . I see one wearing a cadet officers buckle an another wearing a first class private's buckle.  Gibson, a near contemporary, a three years behind of yours truly was class of 1977.

[patches]

11 Bravos on the Moon 

[Bluehawk]

In December of 1935, TWA's first class of 22 hostesses graduated from the airline's training school in Kansas City, Missouri. The requirements for these female hostesses were extremely specific. For example, a woman had to be young (between 21 and 26 years old), small (between 5 feet and 5 feet 4 inches tall) and weigh no more than 118 pounds, single, and white. Original hostesses were also required to be registered nurses to help bolster public confidence in air travel. Pictured is the Hostess Corps in their summer whites passing inspection in front of the Boeing Stratoliner in 1940.

[Bluehawk]

> Dismounting an LCVP

[yokota57]

20th Air Force Jeep at Kadena AB, Okinawa.

[yokota57]

USAF 22d Crash Rescue Boat Squadron R-2-692. Check out the "Bow-Art".

[patches]

Came across this cool photo, a publicity portrait of Charlton Heston as Colonel George Taylor in the 1968 Planet of the Apes, it is done in the manner one sees with many real life later 1980s NASA portraits, the ones without Astronaut in outer space gear.

 

[Bluehawk]

> Now this IS strange... for one thing, the racks are almost duplicates

 

[6th.MG.BN]

1 hour ago, Bluehawk said:

> Now this IS strange... for one thing, the racks are almost duplicates

 

It looks like he served 6 tours on Uranus.

Ken

[Salvage Sailor]

3 hours ago, Bluehawk said:

> Now this IS strange... for one thing, the racks are almost duplicates

 

 

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[patches]

Was curious if official like portraits were made of the other members of the crew of LIBERTY 1 in Plant of  Apes.

 

And there was see.

 

Lieutenant Maryann Stewart, as a Lieutenant we gather she was Navy, Stewart of course dies in suspended amination during that whopping 2000 years into the future voyage, some sort of  a malfunction with her sleeping bed or whatever its called.

[mikie]

On 4/25/2026 at 3:49 PM, Salvage Sailor said:

 

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