. Hi earlymb,   yes one of my local friends here often states his Jeep as being very ' green ' it was built ONCE eighty years ago and still on the road and running.  Without child labour having to mine rare metals in terrible conditions in various countries of the world to produce modern GREEN cars which won't last ten years and certainly the batteries don't, how many rare metals are left in the world for all the replacement batteries and parts in the coming years.  . . . . . . . .    Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, July  07  2O25.     ….  

As a pilot, definitely the B-25 is the loudest to be inside in flight. As a spectator, the T-37 at idle on the ground, has the most annoying, high pitched, loud squealing sound if ever heard. I’ve heard it was known as the “dog whistle” and the “converter”, because it converts fuel to noise. John

This post was from a long time ago, so i'm sure you've seen some more since, but here's a good few more now.

The uniform I got that sent me down the above photo sleuthing rabbit hole.

I realized the site's photo coppression completely obliterated them on this group photo. So I did some zoom-ins the best I could. 

Here my conversion 50-70 Sharps.  Did researches at my best and, accordingly this gun is just very short of the very last Model 1859 being made, before serial numbers switched to the Model 1863. Three-grove rifling, stock replaced who knows when, generic condition still good. Extraction system does work flawlessly.                        

One more group photo. Not sure who these guys are. But the guy on the far right clearly has it. There's one guy in the middle, I can't tell for sure.

Group photo Co. C 321ST machine gun. Quite a number of the people sitting for this picture have the mg patch visible.

Sergeant James Burke Barton from Natchez, Mississippi. He was with Company D, 321st Machine Gun Battalion

Thanks for the reply! I have seen vintage pictures of troops that have been on a campaign for months, and the troops look quite rough. No bath, no clean clothes (they would often sleep in their clothes), and they slept on the ground, using their saddle as a pillow. They would also sleep with the horse's halter line wrapped around their hand, using the horse as a natural alarm if they were in dangerous territory. Not an easy life! Robert