FYI Half-Track!! Cover!!

[ZeroK]

Who knows where I got that quote? A relative of mine recently passed. He drove a halftrack for Patton’s 3rd Army. He was in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia when the war ended. He had a cool Nazi machete but was reluctant to tell me the story behind it. RIP Big Al.

 

[wiggins]

Who knows where I got that quote? A relative of mine recently passed. He drove a halftrack for Patton’s 3rd Army. He was in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia when the war ended. He had a cool Nazi machete but was reluctant to tell me the story behind it. RIP Big Al.View attachment 673329View attachment 673330View attachment 673331View attachment 673339View attachment 673331

Trousers neatly bloused over boots, creases sharp, all squared away. Looks like Patton's third army...

My condolences but he had a very long life...

 

[Flatus Tube]

“Half-track, cover!”… Saving Private Ryan quote, the bit where they actually find Ryan.

 

[ZeroK]

“Half-track, cover!”… Saving Private Ryan quote, the bit where they actually find Ryan.

Exactly. I had the good fortune of watching SPR with Al. During that scene he leans over to me and said “That’s what I drove”. Love your memory

 

[Punisher_1]

I been and stay at Ft Chaffee Arkansas and well it is still a WW2 barracks.

 

[ZeroK]

I been and stay at Ft Chaffee Arkansas and well it is still a WW2 barracks.

Excellent. Yes now it’s called Fort Chaffee, named after Adna R Chaffee. Known as the ‘Father of The Armored Force’

 

[hedgerow]

your uncle seemed like a cool guy...i wonder if that small gutter in pic 4 overflowed in bad downpours

 

[Marsha]

My condolences on you're uncle. Veteran of War ❤️

 

[ZeroK]

your uncle seemed like a cool guy...i wonder if that small gutter in pic 4 overflowed in bad downpours

Good eye u got. I didn't notice it

 

[JAMES HÜRZOG]

mmmmmmkay

 

[ZeroK]

@McM as a lover of military history I wanted to make sure u saw this

 

[Sauerkraut]

“Half-track, cover!”… Saving Private Ryan quote, the bit where they actually find Ryan.

Who’s doin the shootin?

 

[wiggins]

Exactly. Love your memor

you two should go off and join the foreign legion as doctors for your military memory skills...

 

[D.O.A.]

Who knows where I got that quote? A relative of mine recently passed. He drove a halftrack for Patton’s 3rd Army. He was in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia when the war ended. He had a cool Nazi machete but was reluctant to tell me the story behind it. RIP Big Al.View attachment 673329View attachment 673330View attachment 673331View attachment 673339View attachment 673331

Cool story bro that's a guy who lived one hell of a life. Here we are stuck in traffic and paying $8 for a latte while complaining about bullshit. A lot of people will never know let alone understand how good they have it now.

 

[spidey1982]

Combat infantry

 

[McM]

@McM as a lover of military history I wanted to make sure u saw this

That's very nice having such memorabilia from your relatives, thanks for posting. Was your relative maybe of Italian or native descent, if it's not too much to ask? His appearance reminds me a bit of the indigenous Canadian scout Tommy Prince from the US/CAN 'Devils Brigade' I recently read about.
I had to look where Pilzen is exactly located; it's approx. the same degree of length as Berlin and Leckwitz where the US met the Russian troops for the first time. I think the US forces went any further in the East.
Unfortunately, the WW2 soldiers in my family left no photographic traces I'm aware of, just a small amount of paperwork. Out of five, four died at the Eastern front.

 

[ZeroK]

That's very nice having such memorabilia from your relatives, thanks for posting. Was your relative maybe of Italian or native descent, if it's not too much to ask? His appearance reminds me a bit of the indigenous Canadian scout Tommy Prince from the US/CAN 'Devils Brigade' I recently read about.
I had to look where Pilzen is exactly located; it's approx. the same degree of length as Berlin and Leckwitz where the US met the Russian troops for the first time. I think the US forces went any further in the East.
Unfortunately, the WW2 soldiers in my family left no photographic traces I'm aware of, just a small amount of paperwork. Out of five, four died at the Eastern front.

Yes he may have had some native descent but the primary heritage is Mexican. We Americans write it as Pilsen but the correct way is ‘Plzen’ with a diacritic glyph over the ‘n’ maybe umlaut or a Caron

 

[mrln]

I been and stay at Ft Chaffee Arkansas and well it is still a WW2 barracks.

ft benning is the same way,and also has newer updated barracs. the same with ft leonard wood.

 

[McM]

‘Plzen’

Didn't see at all there's no i in the word.
Blind like a mole without glasses.

 

[spidey1982]

He made good this guy; no fooling