Vinegar Joe

one year on. one year off

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We're in similar predicaments. Nice pfp btw. Stargate rules.

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Yea, tealc adds a different vibe to the cataloged aspbergers of the page. Hey, atleast we dont have the anthrax vaccine

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Lieutenant General Joseph Stilwell awarding a Silver Star medal to a Chinese soldier in the field, about six miles south of Laban, northern Burma, 28 Apr 1944 

US army

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Lieutenant General Joseph Stilwell speaking to combat engineers, Myitkyina, Burma, 18 Jul 1944- ww2dbase

Stilwell has to be one of my favorite men of all time. He had the toughness to kick ass alongside his men well into his 60s.

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The poor man was placed in the backwaters of the second world war as a sort of placeholder. Nobody in high command expected him to last as long and as well as he did. 

Old enough to cash his social security, he decided instead to pick up his carbine and dole it out.

When the war ended though, the jungle had taken its toll. He would die of surgery complications from cancer while still on active duty a year later.

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Railway station in ruins, Saint-Lô, France, 1944 

United States Army Signal Corps

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An American LVT equipped with flamethrower attacked a Japanese position at Peleliu, Sep 1944 

Photographer   Robert A. Bailey United States Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Identification Code   NH 104297

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XP-80A prototype jet fighter Gray Ghost in flight, 1944-1945 

United States Air Force

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General Joseph (Vinegar Joe) Stilwell holding a roadside conference with Brigadier General Lewis Pick whose engineers were instrumental in the completion of the Burma Road, Burma, 1944. 

United States Army Signal Corps

Identification Code   LOC PR13-CN-1991-34-11

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USAAF 3rd Bomb Group photographer George Tackaberry and another man with a wrecked Japanese Ki-43 fighter, Nadzab Airfield, Australian New Guinea, early 1944 ww2dbase

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Oh look, man made horrors beyond my comprehension

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Wisdom 3:1 Matthew 5:8-9 Lux aeterna v. 1-3

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Beautiful Navy TBF-1 Avengers at the Munda Airstrip, New Georgia, Solomons, Sept 1943. 

Source  United States National Archives via Larson Family Collection Identification Code   342-FH-3A-44430

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US C-54 Skymaster aircraft at the Berlin-Gatow airfield, Germany, 15 Jul 1945; these aircraft brought Harry Truman and other US leaders to Berlin for the Potsdam Conference

United States National Archives Identification Code   ARC 198944

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C54s fucked hard

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Female members of the German military in a prisoner of war camp for women at Regensburg, Germany, 8 May 1945

United States National Archives Identification Code   ARC 531285

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F4U-1A fighters of Navy Squadron VF-17 transiting the Panama Canal on the flight deck of an Escort Carrier, circa Aug 1943. Note the unusual National Insignia on the lower surfaces of the folded wings. 

United States National Archives

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Near-finished F4U Corsair fighter at the Chance-Vought factory in Stratford, Connecticut, United States, Mar 1943 (why do the Corsairs always get the art-sy photos?)

 US National Archives

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Carrier Enterprise’s Torpedo Squadron 6 TBD-1 Devastator aircraft in flight, 1938 

United States National Archives

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Ugly and pretty at the same time

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WAVES Seaman 2nd Class Mary Swamberger and Seaman 2nd Class Dorothy Gasperi rolling a snowball at the Yeoman Training School, Iowa State College, Cedar Falls, Iowa, United States, 1944 

United States National Archives Identification Code   80-G-K-14444