Cat3406

B. J. here, I'm 25 but you wouldn't think so if you first met me. A lot of me is old fashioned, which is why friends and family think I was born in the wrong decade. 😎

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US Army Boeing CH-47 Chinook lifting off, circa 1967.

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USAF Lockheed C-130 Hercules, circa 1968

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Johnny Carson.

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From the source:

US military personnel salute as one of the 21 sets of remains of US servicemen killed in Vietnam is loaded aboard a C-141 Starlifter aircraft. A total of 136 servicemen’s remains have been returned to the United States over the past 13 years, 4/1/1986

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May 18, 1969 – During the Apollo 10 mission, replicas of Snoopy and Charlie Brown sit atop a console in mission control at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. In lunar orbit operations, the Apollo 10 lunar module was called Snoopy when separated from the Command Module, which went by the name Charlie Brown. (NASA)

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The Muppet Performers.

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The Muppet Performers and their Muppets.

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75th Anniversary of the Women’s Army Corp (WAC)

Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts proposed a bill in May 1941 with the support of Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall to establish the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corp (WAAC). The bill was passed a year later and the first enlisted auxiliaries arrived for training at Fort Des Moines in July 1942. In July 1943, the Reserves was incorporated into the Regular Army and reestablished as the Women’s Army Corp (WAC). During WWII, about 150,000 women served in the WAAC and WAC.

During the war, Eleanor Roosevelt continued the ceaseless activism that had long marked her as America’s most public First Lady. Mrs. Roosevelt was outspoken in her support for gender equality. She championed women’s entrance into the armed services.

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See H.R. 6293, A Bill to establish a Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps for service with the Army of the United States. 1/28/1942

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US Army M48 Patton tanks joining soldiers of the 22nd Infantry Regiment.

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US Army Bell UH-1 Hueys take off, 1968

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327th Infantry soldiers waiting for helicopter extraction from FSB Veghel, date unknown.

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“A wounded American soldier returning to the X-ray landing zone in the Ia Drang Valley, South Vietnam, November 15, 1965. Credit: Neil Sheehan/The New York Times” 

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From the source: “Don Jestes with King 61A0 - 1968. This trip to the field was a wet one”

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USAF Lockheed C-141 Starlifter, Da Nang Air Base, 1967.

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After my graduation, I returned to my unit and worked at the battalion headquarters as a staff member in the fall of 1964. A year later, our battalion commander told us that the battalion would select several officers as missile instructors to train the NVA missile troops in North Vietnam. As a well-trained new staff member, I was selected in the summer of 1965 for the missile technology teaching assignment in Vietnam. I was told that the teaching mission would last about one year, and that I would return to my unit after the overseas assignment. I became a missile training instructor with the rank of captain. At that moment, I had learned that the Soviet surface-to-air missiles had been shipped to North Vietnam to fight against the U.S. Rolling Thunder air campaign. The Soviet SAM sites became operational in North Vietnam in April 1965. The Soviet missile troops began their engagements on July 25, shooting down three U.S. warplanes that day. Now we needed to train the Vietnamese missile troops which could join the Soviet SAM operation and shoot down more American airplanes. In the summer of 1965, the Vietnamese established their first antiaircraft missile regiment in the North.

“Major T.”, Training Instructor, SAM Missile Training Center, North Vietnam, Russian Armed Forces. He requested to remain anonymous for his interview conducted by Xiaobing Li for the book Voices from the Vietnam War. (via vietnamwarera)

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Johnny Cash (1932-2003), January 1960, California, USA.

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General Motors Corp, 1962