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This week Galen Wagner joins us to provide just about all the information you need to know when it comes to the upcoming 75th Anniversary of Tarawa at Fort Morgan, Al coming up this November..
Oldest Pearl Harbor veteran, 106, gets a patriotic and fond farewell
latimes.com
Oldest Pearl Harbor veteran remembered at patriotic funeral"We became cannibals. We were ready to kill anybody or anything . . . I'll have to admit [killing] didn't bother me a bit. I just did it, and in a gruesome sort of way I enjoyed it. I haven't killed a person since the war, and I wouldn't, but the enemy, it's him or me. If I don't get him, he'll get me."
- Pvt. George P. Furber, Company B, 4th Ranger Battalion.
Source: Garland, Joseph E. "Unknown Soldiers: Reliving World War II in Europe." Rockport, MA: Protean Press, 2009. Pp. 460-461.
Original photo caption: "L to R: Sgt. Compton and 2nd Lt. V.E. Vazzana demonstrating hand-to-hand combat methods of disarming an opponent with a trench knife. Position #4. Opponent is now ready for the kill. Camp Forrest, Tennessee, February 11, 1943. Second Army Ranger School."
The correct "tall" style cardboard bandoleer inserts we created with WWII Supply Room and Ravenna Armory are back in stock at www.RavennaArmory.com ! You can purchase them here: www.ravennaarmory.com/gun-parts/bandoleer-cardboard-inserts-early-type/
Oldest Pearl Harbor veteran, 106, gets a patriotic and fond farewell
latimes.com
Oldest Pearl Harbor veteran remembered at patriotic funeral"We became cannibals. We were ready to kill anybody or anything . . . I'll have to admit [killing] didn't bother me a bit. I just did it, and in a gruesome sort of way I enjoyed it. I haven't killed a person since the war, and I wouldn't, but the enemy, it's him or me. If I don't get him, he'll get me."
- Pvt. George P. Furber, Company B, 4th Ranger Battalion.
Source: Garland, Joseph E. "Unknown Soldiers: Reliving World War II in Europe." Rockport, MA: Protean Press, 2009. Pp. 460-461.
Original photo caption: "L to R: Sgt. Compton and 2nd Lt. V.E. Vazzana demonstrating hand-to-hand combat methods of disarming an opponent with a trench knife. Position #4. Opponent is now ready for the kill. Camp Forrest, Tennessee, February 11, 1943. Second Army Ranger School."
The correct "tall" style cardboard bandoleer inserts we created with WWII Supply Room and Ravenna Armory are back in stock at www.RavennaArmory.com ! You can purchase them here: www.ravennaarmory.com/gun-parts/bandoleer-cardboard-inserts-early-type/
