Russ;
Frozen Chosen, eh? Most of my army days were spent in Germany. Your Dad
might have been in Heidelberg at the same time that my Grandmother was in
that hospital with pnuemonia. She died there, too-- just as Patton had about
ten years earlier. I did my sophomere year in Heidelberg American High
School. That's a nice town.
Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
-----Original Message-----
From: rtmack [mailto:RTMACK@pop3.concentric.net]
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 6:38 PM
To: Albaugh, Neil
Subject: Re: Recips.
Neil:
I was a wheel/track vehicle mechanic in the army. In Korea, we had a M-88
(tank recovery vehicle-- like a tank without a cannon) that had to be
started every day. The ritual took place about dawn-- what a great sound to
break the cold, early calm-- the big "boxer" 12-cyl Continental diesel (not
a "V" as someone suggested earlier). Yeah, tanks are excellent, too.
BTW, dad worked in the hospital (Heidelberg) where Patton died (although he
didn't get there until a couple of years later).
Been to the Wright/Patt AF Museum 3 times, myself. Each time I have to have
my hour of meditation beneath the XB-70 Vulcan (and very near the Blackbird
and the X-15). Sorry, recips. Love ya, but-- come right down to
priorities-- the "need for speed" rules!
Russ
"Albaugh, Neil" wrote:
Russ;Well-- surprise-- I was an "Army Brat", too. I never did get to see an
operational B-36 but I finally did see one in the AF Museum in Dayton. Man,
were those things big!I was at an airshow, too, where a P-51D made a very
low- level high- speed pass over the crowd and then pulled up in a high "G"
climb. A real thrill. What a sound!Armored vehicles make neat sounds, too.
Hearing a tank moving in the dark in your bivouac area is not a comforting
sound-- even when you know darned well that it's one of yours. The movie
"Patton" had the most realistic scenes of armor that I've seen in the
movies. The scene where an armored column is moving on a muddy road through
the falling snow to relieve the Airborne in Bastogne is so real that I could
almost reach out and touch the cold metal. They got the tank sounds right,
too.Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
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