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Gold Remains a Good long-term Investment Whether the dollar goes up or down, gold is still going to be a good investment because we have virtually all the important central bankers focused on growth and not inflation. Gold is a dynamic metal....

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Request for Identication - Crashed Plane 1945 I need the following answers : (Body) German or British ? (Plane) German or British ? I have studied the photos for more than an hour and I am still wondering because the Cockpit looks like an AAF P-38's...

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Marty & Cindy : Unpublished Photos 17th A/B 1945 Another Wartime photos set and like the one before it's a really good one. Joe Summers Pontoon bridge over the Rhine River. Note signs : (left) seems to be a "one way - Red Ball Express",...

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Marty & Cindy : Unpublished Photos 17th A/B 1945 And here is the next set Wartime photos of the 17th Airborne Division. My Dad took a photo of the same concrete bunker from a distance. It had a Russian star on top of it when he took the photo....

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Marty & Cindy : Unpublished Photos 17th A/B 1945 Well, these new photos are fields photos and request from me some researches. This is exactly what I like to do, so it will take a little more time as usual to be posted. And once again thanks to Cindy...

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Gold Remains a Good long-term Investment

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Whether the dollar goes up or down, gold is still going to be a good investment because we have virtually all the important central bankers focused on growth and not inflation. Gold is a dynamic metal. Aside from being industrially useful, gold has a variety of attributes that naturally lend itself as a medium of exchange. Gold is easily divisible, fungible, has a superb value to weight ratio and never decays or rusts. It is rare, difficult to mine, nearly impossible to counterfeit, and has a magnificent track record of holding its value.
As Example : in 1935, when an ounce of gold was worth $35, you could buy :
- a top-quality tailored suit for $19.75 – or 0.56 ounces of gold
- a family car for $500 – or 14.3 ounces of gold
- a house for $7,150 – or 204.2 ounces of gold

Today, with an ounce of gold worth north of $1000 an ounce :
- that same top-quality, tailored suit costs $600 – or 0.56 ounces of gold
- the family car now costs $15,000 – or 14.2 ounces of gold
- the house averages $181,100 – or 204.6 ounces of gold

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Request for Identication – Crashed Plane 1945

Category : Identification Request

I need the following answers : (Body) German or British ? (Plane) German or British ? I have studied the photos for more than an hour and I am still wondering because the Cockpit looks like an AAF P-38’s one but the Pilot’s boot looks like German one beside in 1945, British, German and American Pilots as well as Crews’ members were wearing equipment made of sheepskin. Even the Signal Cartridges (could also be Engine Starter Cartridges) were all in aluminum…
Here are the photos.

Marty & Cindy : Unpublished Photos 17th A/B 1945

Category : 017th Airborne Division, Battelfields Photos

Another Wartime photos set and like the one before it’s a really good one.

Joe Summers


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Marty & Cindy : Unpublished Photos 17th A/B 1945

Category : 017th Airborne Division, Battelfields Photos

And here is the next set Wartime photos of the 17th Airborne Division.


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Marty & Cindy : Unpublished Photos 17th A/B 1945

Category : 017th Airborne Division, Battelfields Photos

Well, these new photos are fields photos and request from me some researches. This is exactly what I like to do, so it will take a little more time as usual to be posted.
And once again thanks to Cindy and Marty, thanks to Joe’s daugther. And once again for every other US Vet’s, if you have photos pass them over here because I love playing with wartime photos.


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Marty & Cindy : Unpublished Photos 17th A/B 1945

Category : 017th Airborne Division, Battelfields Photos

Bombed out bridge along the Rhine River with a pontoon bridge in the background. This was taken near Duisburg, Germany or near the Krupps plant that the 17th guarded after the war ended.


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Marty & Cindy : Unpublished Photos 17th A/B 1945

Category : 017th Airborne Division, Battelfields Photos

Unexploded bomb near concentration camp


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Let me Salute a Great Man !!!

Category : Archives Movies, Tributes

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Marty & Cindy : Unpublished Photos 1945

Category : 017th Airborne Division, Battelfields Photos

The German civilians would come over during the day and tend to their gardens. They would also wash the soldiers clothes for them. Notice the wooden shoes.


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The Best Way to Move in the USA – Canada

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We usually do this almost the same way in Europa. We pack everything, assemble all the material to be moved in the garage then call for transport (mostly one rental trucks). Then, like a circus convoy, we move with the truck, cars full, trailler full to the other place and it’s done.
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Marty & Cindy : Unpublished Photos 1945

Category : 017th Airborne Division, Battelfields Photos

Hello Gunter, these photos were taken by Lawton Clark who is a good friend of my Dad Kenny Cavanah. They were taken at the end of the war and from the smiles on most of their faces you can see that they are happy the war is over. This photo is of Lawton Clark. 194th Glider


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Marty & Cindy : 17th A/B Unpublished Photos 1945

Category : 017th Airborne Division, Battelfields Photos

Message #01 : Some of the photos I sent yesterday failed to be delivered. I will try again. Have a good day. Operation Varsity taken by Joe Summers of the 17th Airborne. Marty Cavanah

Message #02 : Photos taken by my Dad Kenny Cavanah who was in the 193rd & 194th Glider Infantry of the 17th Airborne. Photo was taken on August 12, 1945 as he was boarding the USS Thomas Berry at La Harve, France. He had been transferred to the 13th Airborne to be sent to Japan. However, the war ended while they were at sea and soon docked in New York. Marty Cavanah

Message #03 : Hello Gunter, photos of my Dad with his best friend Cecil Dawson boxing. My Dad Kenny Cavanah is on the left and Cecil Dawson is on the right. Another photo of Cecil Dawson with a baseball glove. Dad went up to the cemetery after the war ended and found his grave. He paid a girl to put flowers on the grave and took a photo of Cecil Dawson’s grave and the cemetery. After the war he kept in touch with Cecil Dawson’s parents visiting them several times and visiting his grave after his body was transferred back to the US. Cecil Dawson was killed as he stepped out of his glider after landing near Wesel, Germany. Marty Cavanah

Message #04 : Gunter, glad to see the photos put up on your webpage and that you were glad to receive them. I have two more photos taken by Pvt Joe Summers of the 17th Airborne. I received these photos from his daughter and was allowed to scan them into the computer in order to have and to share with anyone who may like them. I will send you two more. One photo is of Marlene Deitrich and an unknown soldier in front of a parachute. The second photo is of Mickey Rooney. Joe Summers is the photographer standing next to Mickey Rooney with the camera. I have photos taken by Joe Summers during Operation Varsity. I will send them to you if you would like them. Have a good day and I enjoy your website very much. Marty Cavanah

Message #05 : I tried sending these to you a couple of minutes ago but do not think they came through. Will try again. I believe there is another photo of Marlene Deitrich. I will let you decide. It is taken on a stage in front of a parachute. I will send a few more images taken during Operation Varsity. Some other photos were taken by Howard Oyler who is a good friend of my Dad and was in the 17th Airborne. After the war he went back and took photos of the gliders to document the damage done. Some of these were taken at that time. Some were taken by Joe Summers of German soldiers being captured during Operation Varsity in March 1945. I have many more. Post what you like and may find interesting and let me know if you want anymore sent. I will send them to you 4 at a time.

Answer : Marty and Cindy …. keep sending … keep sending … as I am planing to create your own galerie for all the photos and the maximum is 25.000 photos / galerie :)

Cindy & Marty : Unpublished Wartime Photos

Category : EUCMH : Donations, Marty-Cindy Cavanagh

Cindy & Marty : 17th Abn Unpublished Photos 1945

Category : 017th Airborne Division, Battelfields Photos

Well I don’t know what to say. Of course a great great thanks for the Worldwide Historian’s Community as these photos were never published before and these are really interesting photos.
Photos at about Waco CG-4A (T1) Gliders Planes used by the 193rd and 194th Glider Infantry (17th A/B Division) for Operation Varsity (Germany) in 1945. Note that none of these Gliders were using the AGF (Fort Benning) Col Griswold ‘Noose”. Note also the photo done somewhere in Alsace (see the RF Sign : (sic) République Française and traditional Clothes on the girls).
Note also : Corcoran Jump Boots, M-1943 (Reinforced) Field Trouser as well as the out burned Waco’s skeleton …
It was asking for guts to jump out of a flying plane to become a Paratrooper but – hell – what about flying inside this painted Olive Drab Gasket to the LZ ?
Respect
And again Thanks to Cindy and Marty as well as thanks to the boys who made history.


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Could Help : Debt Consolidation Connection

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Lili Marlene and Mickey Rooney 1945 (Never Published)

Category : 017th Airborne Division, USO-17th Abn

Gunter, glad to see the photos put up on your web page and that you were glad to receive them. I have two more photos taken by Pvt Joe Summers of the 17th Airborne. I received these photos from his daughter and was allowed to scan them into the computer in order to have and to share with anyone who may like them. I will send you two more. One photo is of Marlene Dietrich and an unknown soldier in front of a parachute. The second photo is of Mickey Rooney. Joe Summers is the photographer standing next to Mickey Rooney with the camera. I have photos taken by Joe Summers during Operation Varsity. I will send them to you if you would like them. Have a good day and I enjoy your website very much. Marty Cavanah

Dear Marty, Thank you for the pictures. And yes I am happy to be able to share these never published before photos. To say the true … I am feeling like a young trout in a mountain fountain.
Gunter

732d Railway Operating Battalion (Photos)

Category : 732nd R.O.B, 732nd ROB Photos

Someone asked me for these photos from the 732nd ROB. I have just found them inside one 2 Tetras-bytes External Archives Disk and that’s why I am posting them immediately.
These photos were send to my by a World War Two veteran I wish to thanks for this donation.

Summary of War Damage – Navy (3)

Category : US Navy 1940-1945, War Damages

The Commander-in-Chief, United States Fleet and Chief of Naval Operations directs that this report be shown only to those persons to whom the report would be of value in the performance of their duties. Steps shall be taken accordingly to insure that the report will be seen by those persons responsible for design, construction and repair of naval vessels, as well as for their operation, but by no others.

US Battleships
Carriers and Cruisers
Destroyers and Destroyer Escorts
Dec 8th 1943 – Dec 7th 1944
File 00-444-3 (PDF)

Summary of War Damage – Navy (2)

Category : US Navy 1940-1945, War Damages

The Commander-in-Chief, United States Fleet and Chief of Naval Operations directs that this report be shown only to those persons to whom the report would be of value in the performance of their duties. Steps shall be taken accordingly to insure that the report will be seen by those persons responsible for design, construction and repair of naval vessels, as well as for their operation, but by no others.
Sumary of War Damages : US Battleships, Carriers, Cruisers, Destroyer and Destroyer Escorts. From the same archives file there is the part two of the War Damages Listing.

US Battleships
Carriers, Cruisers, Destroyer
Destroyer Escorts
File 00-444-2 (PDF)
8 Dec 1942 – 7 Dec 1943

My Sweet Little Belgium (0001)

Category : Gunter's Belgium 2010

In a song, Jacques Brell said “Mon Plat Pays qui est le Mien”. This should mean for a lot of people that our country is flat like a dead tire. In the Northern part of Belgium, the Flamish (Dutch and French Speacking) part it’s really flat as a dead tire because this part of the country is for centuries an huge agricultural area. The Southern part, the Wallonish part (French and sometime Flamish but also German Speaking), the country becomes like tortured as one small deep valleys, has on it’s both sides, hills that drive you back into others valleys and this on almost 80% of the country. In every valley there will be a river that turn the whole place in very difficult area to fight for an Army. If you have now 2 Armies fighting in the same area, the Battlefield will turn into a trap for every soldiers located down a hill while those located at the top of a hill will be also trapped with long range artillery. The last time this happened, it was during the winter 44/45 and everyone call it the Battle of the Bulge.
To show you the way it looks today and also allow you imagine how it was difficult to fight, eat, sleep, life in such an area, who better than a kid raised in the middle of the place could show you these place using photos or while serving you as a Guide ?

Did you just say : Willys Overland ? (3)

Category : Willys Overland

I am out of work for a week or so because I am on the Battlefields in Belgium (Northern Shoulder), Zon and Vicinity (Holland), Gerolstein then Remagen in Germany and finaly Zwikau along the Tchekoslovakian border with the relatives of a 9th Infantry Division’s World War Two Veteran. That’s why I am not working to much on my jeep right now.
Should someone wants a Civil CJ2 Jeep I know one (as is) for 500 euros and the ‘as is’ is more like a deburied MB from the field as a Jeep. I can remake it of course but this will be some big USD bills.

Summary of War Damage – Navy (1)

Category : US Navy 1940-1945, War Damages

US BATTLESHIPS CARRIERS CRUISERS AND DESTROYERS
17 OCTOBER, 1941 TO 7 DECEMBER, 1942
The Commander In Chiet, United States Fleet and Chief of Naval Operations directs that this report be shown only to those persons to whom the report would be of value in the performance of their duties. Steps shall be taken accordingly to insure that the report will be seen by those persons responsible for design construction and repair of naval vessels, as well as for their operation, but by no others.

US Battleships
Carriers
Cruisers
Destroyers
01-444 (PDF)

Submarine Report Depth Charge, Bomb, Mine etc

Category : Submarine Report, US Navy 1940-1945

SUBMARINE REPORT
DEPTH CHARGE, BOMB, MINE, TORPEDO
AND GUNFIRE DAMAGE
INCLUDING LOSSES IN ACTION
File 00-S-001 (PDF)

Japanese World War Two Merchant Marine Losses

Category : Jap Losses, US Navy 1940-1945

Jap Navy
Japanese
World War Two
Merchant Marine Losses
File 00-J-01 (PDF)

Escort Carriers – World War Two Damages and Losses

Category : Escort Carriers, US Navy 1940-1945

Click to ReadESCORT CARRIERS
GUNFIRE
BOMB AND KAMIKAZE DAMAGE
AND LOSS During World War II
Report #-0041 (PDF)

Destroyed Vessels Reports – United States Navy

Category : Destroyed Vessels, US Navy 1940-1945

This Listing is connected to my archives and will allow to read them as well as download them. Please don’t forget to make a small donation when you download because I don’t get these archives for free and thinking that if you don’t make the donation (USD 1.00) the next will is entirely stupid. So this time try to play the game on a regular basis or as usual I will place these archives inside a closed directory on my web server. It’s up to you.

Click to ReadDESTROYER REPORT
GUNFIRE
BOMB AND KAMIKAZE DAMAGE
INCLUDING LOSS IN ACTION
October 17 1942
Report #-0051 (PDF)

Click to ReadDESTROYER REPORT
GUNFIRE
BOMB AND KAMIKAZE DAMAGE
INCLUDING LOSS IN ACTION
October 17 1942
Report #-0051 (Full Version) (PDF)

Message : American Residential Law Group

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Lili Marlène, Mickey Rooney : 17th Abn Base

Category : 017th Airborne Division, USO-17th Abn

Here are two wonderful photos from Marty Cavanagh.
Well Marty I am really happy for the one with Lili Marlène (I will add this to my collection) ad well as the second one, Mickey Rooney (this is my first one). Marty you really did my day :)

Thanks Gunter

Photos from our Visitors and Friends

Category : 1914-1918, 2nd Div-AEF

I am sorry. I have been (and still am) busy with the snow and also with the jeep I am refurbishing.
Here are the photos I have found in the Incoming Directory. I have also to say that if you upload a photo to the web server and don’t send me a quick note about it, this make really hard for me guess what going on.

A wonderful photo from World War One. Unfortunately I have no idea of who sent this to me. Anyway thank you. Caption : American Soldiers and Children – a natural combination, whether in France, Italy or as in the above picture, Germany. Here are Men of B Company, 9th Infantry, 2nd Division, in Bendorf, Germany, 1919.
Thank you for this very nice photo !!!
Gunter
PS : If you sent this photo, tell me more about it and I will be really happy to credit you as well as tell things about your Grandpa.

Short AAR 505/82nd Abn Div 1945

Category : 505/82nd Abn Div, Germany

Aside from the normal routine of G-1 activities, the G-1 Section was concerned primarily with the problems incident to the capture of many thousands of German prisoners of war, and the supervision of the evacuation of liberated Allied prisoners of war, and the evacuation of displaced Allied nationals. A minimum estimate of the number of German prisoners of war who surrendered to the 82nd Airborne Division has been set at 144000, during the period subsequent to the crossing of the Elbe River and the rapid advance to a Junction with the Russian forces between Ludwigslust and Grabon, Germany. The climatic disintegration of German formations in the area of Division responsibility presented an unparalleled situation. The surrender of enemy units was so rapid that it was impossible to concentrate the defeated foe in Division Collecting Points without seriously depleting its outnumbered strength to provide sufficient men to control and process the tons of thousands of Germans.
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