A few stories of women at war : -
1PUK,
Thanks for the “spartacus schoolnet” link!
This site provides historical information and discussion topics that I have never encountered before. Generally speaking, the folks in the UK provide a great deal historical publications with a unique perspective. One of my first experiences with a British historical publication was when I discovered some back issues of “AFTER THE BATTLE” in a small antique shop located at the edge of town in Tucson, Arizona about 12 years ago, man I couldn’t put the 8or so issues down. I wish there was a site that served as a source of similar articles in that unique format…especially with that attention to detail that the British authors can be counted on to provide.
Where do you guys come up with this stuff??!!
Thanks again, 1PUK, for the link.
I used to say that I only sleep 4-5 hours/night because I stay up reading.
Now I sleep about 3 hours/night.
Cheers,
Mike Rose, M.D.
Soviet female snipers
believe it or not they had big killing scores
Hi,
I’m back! Sorry I was gone so long. I missed you guys! Am I still the only “girl” on here?
Hi Francesca,
Welcome back. We have a few other ladies here. One of our most recent is Gracie.
Great to have you back 
Thanks for the welcome back! I don’t have much to contribute today, but I wanted to check in. OT, but didn’t there used to be a separate category for the different theaters of the war, such as European and Pacific? What happened. I have been gone so long I’ve missed out on the re-organization.
The American Military - European Theater and Pacific Theater forums were merged because of low activity in the American Military - Pacific Theater threads. It’s all there though. Some may have been archived.
Thanks George. As you know, most of my research is concentrated on the S.P., so I was looking for that section. Sorry, OT from the thread, but I’ve been reading about the Bataan Death March and Cabanatuan P.O.W. camp lately because I am returning yet another 6th Ranger Battalion dog tag. (I’m up to 2 from the 6th Rangers so far) What are the odds of two dog tags being found from men who were on the Great Raid? There were only about 121 men from the 6th Rangers on the raid and Henry Mayer found 2 of their dog tags in Port Moresby, PNG. The book I read states that the Great Raid on Cabantuan POW camp still holds the “record” for the most successful U.S. rescue mission. It is a pretty amazing story. Must give huge credit to the Filipino Guerillas and Alamo Scouts, though, since the raid would have failed w/out their expertise!
You’re welcome. I just noticed your additional posts yesterday on the Great Raid. You’ve done some great work.
http://www.ww2incolor.com/forum/showthread.php?p=131876#post131876
You’re right though, the support of the Filipino guerillas contributed greatly to the mission’s success.
Congratulations on the continued success of your dog tag project. Are the Rangers that are having their dog tags returned still living or are the tags being returned to next of kin?
Thanks, George. I’m up to 38 returned now! Unfortunately, neither 6th Ranger veteran is still alive. 
Another lady who volunteers for our project was doing the actual research on the second 6th Ranger veteran and she sent me the copy of his obituary. When I read that he was an Army Ranger, I knew it had to be the 6th Rangers, since his tag was found near the Port Moresby Airfield in PNG. I knew that the only Ranger Battalion in the S.P. was the 6th and I immediately contacted the man who runs the 6th Ranger’s Association, since I knew he could check his rosters and tell me which Company “our” dog tag veteran had served in. Sure enough, Company C! I haven’t spoken to the family yet, because the tag is still in New Guinea. I don’t know how long it will take to get it back here and I don’t want to get their hopes up and make them wait, if the person who has the tag doesn’t send it back in a timely fashion. He’s reliable, but does a lot of travelling, so he’s often out of communication. I can’t wait to speak with the family, though. We will be raising funds to return this tag in person and interview the family. If anyone reading this wants to donate (we are now an actual OFFICIAL (yah!) non-profit, so all donations are completely tax deductible), PM me and I’ll give you the link to the donation site.
Congratulations on the 38 Francesca
Well, I think that will be more common in the future since the WWII generation is in such an advanced state of age. It must be very interesting though, learning about the lives of the men behind the dog tags and the units in which they served. And very satisfying as well.
I still have the web address of your non-profit organization and will go through there to help out. I wish you continued success on this latest pair of tags and into the future.
although I don’t have a photo of mom handy. (and she was a beaut) she worked at the assembly plant in fairfax Kansas during the war prducing the B-25 Mitchell bomber. here’s the site:
[fairfax](http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/wyandott/naak.htm)
I’d love to see a picture of your mom! Did she tell you a lot of stories about the home front during WWII and what it was like to work on the planes?
I’d love to see a picture of your mom! Did she tell you a lot of stories about the home front during WWII and what it was like to work on the planes?[/QUOTE]
ill see if I can find it. its in an old box around here somewhere. I also have a family photo that was taken during the war. I wasn’t born till after the war. my sister, who’s 4 years older than me was born on June 6, 1942. that was during the battle for midway.
she never talked a lot about her job there. until 1 year we took her to an air show here locally. they had the B-25 on display. we took over there and her jaw dropped. you could just see the memories coming back. also there was 2 former B-25 pilots there. she climbed inside and started showing us what she installed. we could NOT get her to shut up. 
those 2 pilots showed their gratitude to her for helping out. my mistake was I didn’t have a camera !!!
Thank you, George. We appreciate the help. I found 3 living veterans last week, so it would be wonderful to get some funds together to return the tags in person, meet the veteran, take pictures, etc. We are just beginning our fund raising efforts in earnest and getting things in the non-profit organized since it’s such a new venture. Sorry to be so off topic! I promise to get back on topic with the next post.
Makes one sorta want to get captured by the enemy!!
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I’d love to see a picture of your mom! Did she tell you a lot of stories about the home front during WWII and what it was like to work on the planes?[/QUOTE]
ill see if I can find it. its in an old box around here somewhere. I also have a family photo that was taken during the war. I wasn’t born till after the war. my sister, who’s 4 years older than me was born on June 6, 1942. that was during the battle for midway.
she never talked a lot about her job there. until 1 year we took her to an air show here locally. they had the B-25 on display. we took over there and her jaw dropped. you could just see the memories coming back. also there was 2 former B-25 pilots there. she climbed inside and started showing us what she installed. we could NOT get her to shut up.
those 2 pilots showed their gratitude to her for helping out. my mistake was I didn’t have a camera !!![/QUOTE]
I look forward to that too, Gary.
I would like to see that. Besides the photos, I think some interviews of the veterans would be very touching also. They will probably have some interesting experiences and insights to share.
ok George. ill see if I can ‘dig’ her up tomorrow…
MARGOT DUHALDE
Chilean pilot, who participated in the World War II in the service of the French Air Force and the Real british Air Force.
After the war, remain in England, but working for the French Air Force squadron on a Spit Fire. After it was destined to Africa, in Morocco; made a course of gliders in France and was seconded to South America as a French officer.
L’Ambassadeur remet les insignes de Commandeur de la Légion d’Honneur à Mme Duhalde
Is the first woman pilot combat of my country
VIVA CHILE MIERDA
Thanks for reading
Greetings
haven’t found the photo of my mom. she’s gonna look and see if she has one. if so ill post it. I did find 1 of my late dad. wow. he was just a kid !!!
B-25 on display. this is really old and not in to good a shape
I also found these aircraft photo’s. I took these inside the hanger bay of the USS Yorktown at patriots point. near Charleston SC
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I snapped this from the bridge of the USS Alabama in Mobile on our way to Florida
does she look like she’s sitting on dry land??? I took this from a restaurant near the museum. except for the bow she looks identical to the Iowa class
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the bama web site [link](http://www.ussalabama.com/gallery.php)
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my god I even found an old photo of my graduation class photo from teletype maintenance school in Sdiego. 1968. we look like murderer’s row !!!