LtRGFRANK Posted August 1, 2012 Share #5126 Posted August 1, 2012 Oh...This picture rates up there at the top of the list of great posts! Don't sell yourself short! Were you hungry again an hour after eating the all you can eat meal? ....Kat OK Kat. One up him with one of your favorite pictures. Robert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack's Son Posted August 1, 2012 Share #5127 Posted August 1, 2012 Teresa and I love it!! She said she approves and wants me to add that you are still......."A HUNK"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack's Son Posted August 1, 2012 Share #5128 Posted August 1, 2012 She also wants me to add that....."she still remembers that day in Paris, she wore gray...." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted August 1, 2012 Share #5129 Posted August 1, 2012 #1...... Oh...This picture rates up there at the top of the list of great posts! Don't sell yourself short! #2...... Were you hungry again an hour after eating the all you can eat meal? ....Kat #1.... :blushing: #2..... Hi Kat, well we were all stuffed when we left the place, sadly however I pushed some more calories down my throat back at home an hour later. :crying: ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 1 August 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted August 1, 2012 Share #5130 Posted August 1, 2012 :thumbsup: LOVE that Tie. Robert Hi Robert, you just have to love that tie dont ya'll, it's an eye catcher. ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 1 August 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted August 1, 2012 Share #5131 Posted August 1, 2012 Teresa and I love it!! She said she approves and wants me to add that you are still......."A HUNK"! Hi JS, well the photo I saw of Teresa this week in a little red number hugging some tall sun tanned dude in California, she looked Hot, Hot, Hot. :thumbsup: ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 1 August 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig_pickrall Posted August 1, 2012 Share #5132 Posted August 1, 2012 Ken you need to get your terminology right if you want to stick with the bowling. That so called ditch is actually the gutter. The wide thing between the two gutters is the lane and the round thing that rolls is the ball. Nice to hear you bowled a strike. Did you also get any pars or eagles? Really like the outfit. Are those dirty bucks on your feet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted August 1, 2012 Share #5133 Posted August 1, 2012 She also wants me to add that....."she still remembers that day in Paris, she wore gray...." ' We will always have Paris ', shall I get Sam to play it again for her . One of the greatest films of all time, I have a poster for it hanging here in my kitchen ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 1 August 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted August 1, 2012 Share #5134 Posted August 1, 2012 Ken you need to get your terminology right if you want to stick with the bowling. That so called ditch is actually the gutter. The wide thing between the two gutters is the lane and the round thing that rolls is the ball. Nice to hear you bowled a strike. Did you also get any pars or eagles? Really like the outfit. Are those dirty bucks on your feet? Hi Craig, still out there then, thanks for trying to impliment the true terminology of bowling to me, however we are still two nations divided by a common lanuage, but now I have French in the mix as well. The reason we refer to that there ' gutter ' thing as a ditch is when the ball drops in it then the ball is referred to as a bitch and put the two together you have a runaway ditch-bitch, sounds better than a gutter bitch. Boots are ' desert boots ', possibly something akin to what British officers wore in North Africa during WWII, and the scooter mods wore in the UK in the 1960's, and and possibly something that all of us old scooter farts have worn ever since. So in the bowling alley's of Virginia I expect to soon be hearing the word's 'damn that's a ditch-bitch ' :thumbsup: ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 1 August 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutiger83 Posted August 1, 2012 Share #5135 Posted August 1, 2012 So in the bowling alley's of Virginia I expect to soon be hearing the word's 'damn that's a ditch-bitch ' :thumbsup: You forgot to add in the "y'all" "damn y'all! That's a ditch-bitch" ...Kat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack's Son Posted August 1, 2012 Share #5136 Posted August 1, 2012 "damn y'all! That's a ditch-bitch" ...Kat ....... :laughing1: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted August 1, 2012 Share #5137 Posted August 1, 2012 Tennessee State University visit ...................... Somewhere back in the dark pages of these ' Reports from Normandy ' I made mention of an American pilot named Robert Sarvis who attended the Tennessee state university around the start of WWII who dropped over the border into Canada and volunteered for the Canadian airforce and ulimately the British RAF. Several years ago when I moved to Normandy and became aware of a local crash site I started to make investigations into the plane and the aircrew of that crash site. I learnt that the pilot was Robert Sarvis of Tennessee and that he ordered all the crew to bail out before losing his life in the subsequent crash. I found mention of Robert Sarvis listed on the Tennessee University website and read that they believed that his plane was lost over the English Channel returning from a bombing raid over Germany. I contacted the University website to relay the information that in fact Robert died here in Normandy at the controls of his aircraft and was buried at the American cemetery at Colleville sur Mer in Normandy I exchanged many emails with Derek Frisby of the history department at the university and back in 2011 he arranged for a party of university students to visit Normandy and the crash site of Robert Sarvis one of their wartime students. Unfortunately I was held up in the UK and couldn't make the arranged meeting with Derek and his students, but we managed to eventually meet this year May 2012 when once again Derek arrived with another group of students. Here is a shot of the university students, I am middle centre back row and Derek Frisby is photo left of me wearing a cap. It was a pleasure and an honor for me to meet with Derek and his students and to guide and talk them through the local area and to the crash site. ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 1 August 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted August 1, 2012 Share #5138 Posted August 1, 2012 You forgot to add in the "y'all" "damn y'all! That's a ditch-bitch" ...Kat Yip, Yip Hooray it's taken off already I can hear it down south in Dixie :thumbsup: ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 1 August 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted August 1, 2012 Share #5139 Posted August 1, 2012 ....... :laughing1: Way to go JS. :twothumbup: ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 1 August 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chunky Monkey Posted August 1, 2012 Share #5140 Posted August 1, 2012 Love that shirt and tie Ken ~ simply awsome! Would you be interested in selling them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig_pickrall Posted August 1, 2012 Share #5141 Posted August 1, 2012 Ken, I think this is in the correct order for student fashion here in the late 50's / early 60's. Pat Boone got it started with white bucks, then there were dirty bucks. I'm thinking this was because it was so hard to keep white bucks white. Then we had desert boots too. Always liked them. Very comfortable. I'm old enough to have gone through all 3 styles. Looks like to me if you call it American Bowling you should try to get the names right rather than making up stuff. There have been many a bitch found in the gutter and I guess a few have been found in ditches too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack's Son Posted August 1, 2012 Share #5142 Posted August 1, 2012 There have been many a bitch found in the gutter and I guess a few have been found in ditches too. Only in France can a man....."pitch a bitch in a ditch". Only in Verginia can a woman...."pitch a bitch from a ditch"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig_pickrall Posted August 2, 2012 Share #5143 Posted August 2, 2012 Only in France can a man....."pitch a bitch in a ditch". Only in Verginia can a woman...."pitch a bitch from a ditch"! Where is Verginia? Is that in France too? Here in Virginia, USA women are allowed to pitch a bitch where ever they choose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hbtcoveralls Posted August 2, 2012 Share #5144 Posted August 2, 2012 Where is Verginia? Is that in France too? Here in Virginia, USA women are allowed to pitch a bitch where ever they choose. And of course if they pitch a bitch they might be a witch and end up in the ditch. Tom Bowers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LtRGFRANK Posted August 2, 2012 Share #5145 Posted August 2, 2012 Tennessee State University visit ...................... Somewhere back in the dark pages of these ' Reports from Normandy ' I made mention of an American pilot named Robert Sarvis who attended the Tennessee state university around the start of WWII who dropped over the border into Canada and volunteered for the Canadian airforce and ulimately the British RAF. Several years ago when I moved to Normandy and became aware of a local crash site I started to make investigations into the plane and the aircrew of that crash site. I learnt that the pilot was Robert Sarvis of Tennessee and that he ordered all the crew to bail out before losing his life in the subsequent crash. I found mention of Robert Sarvis listed on the Tennessee University website and read that they believed that his plane was lost over the English Channel returning from a bombing raid over Germany. I contacted the University website to relay the information that in fact Robert died here in Normandy at the controls of his aircraft and was buried at the American cemetery at Colleville sur Mer in Normandy I exchanged many emails with Derek Frisby of the history department at the university and back in 2011 he arranged for a party of university students to visit Normandy and the crash site of Robert Sarvis one of their wartime students. Unfortunately I was held up in the UK and couldn't make the arranged meeting with Derek and his students, but we managed to eventually meet this year May 2012 when once again Derek arrived with another group of students. Here is a shot of the university students, I am middle centre back row and Derek Frisby is photo left of me wearing a cap. It was a pleasure and an honor for me to meet with Derek and his students and to guide and talk them through the local area and to the crash site. ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 1 August 2012 does everyone notice Ken is standing close to the cute ones. He still has it. Robert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted August 2, 2012 Share #5146 Posted August 2, 2012 Love that shirt and tie Ken ~ simply awsome! Would you be interested in selling them? Hi Chunky, yep that's an awsome combo of the shirt and tie, goes down well worn at the right function it raises some smiles here and there. Sorry to say that they are part of my vintage US clothing collection, here's another shirt that's a favourite of mine, good part about it as well is that it actually has the name Ken on the front. ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 1 August 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted August 2, 2012 Share #5147 Posted August 2, 2012 does everyone notice Ken is standing close to the cute ones. He still has it. Robert Too kind sir, way to kind, I realise my limitations now that's why I am here on the forum ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 2 August 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chunky Monkey Posted August 2, 2012 Share #5148 Posted August 2, 2012 Murwin I got to get me some of those shirts!! No wonder you get all the ladies! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Apathy Posted August 3, 2012 Share #5149 Posted August 3, 2012 Dick Winters, Band of Brothers commanding officer landing spot ............................ It's reported locally that the field to the left of this house is the field that Dick winters landed in on the the 6th June 1944, I don't have a wartime image of this building with which to do a comparison photo. This road junction has St Mere Eglise just a few hundred yards to the right of the photo, Chef du Pont is a couple of kilometres away to the bottom left of the photo, and la Fiere bridge is along the road a few kilometres middle left of the photo. ken Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 3 August 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LtRGFRANK Posted August 3, 2012 Share #5150 Posted August 3, 2012 did you check the field to see if his boot marks are still there when he hit. sorry. I'm feeling goofy today. Robert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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