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Re: Recips in Texas in the early 50's ...and TANKS

To: wmtsmith@landracing.com
Subject: Re: Recips in Texas in the early 50's ...and TANKS
From: "Doug Anderson" <boogiewoogie12@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 01:24:19 +0000
I'm proud to say that my Dad was in one of those tanks Neil.  For real.


                                     -Doug Anderson ,in NeuYaWK






From: Bill Smith <wmtsmith@landracing.com>


on 11/29/01 2:15 PM, Albaugh, Neil at albaugh_neil@ti.com 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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