Official Cool Picture - Video Thread.

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[southtexaspilot]

Took this pic last night at work. Hydrogen filled thyratron tube.

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Photochop?

 

[Dougw1515]

Photochop?

Yah Think??????

 

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[gamboolman]

They are paratroopers getting ready for the invasion of Normandy.

ms gamboolgals father, Mr. Beam, was in the 101st.

He was in the original group at Toccoa, Georgia and made both Normandy and Market Garden jumps. At Normandy before they jumped, he said the sky was bright as day from all the gunfire and that all he wanted to do was to get out of the plane.

He was in every battle and was never wounded. Although he did say that he had a pencil shot out from his hand and had his web gear shot off of him.

He had utmost respect for the German soldiers - as he said they were tough and excellent killers.

He was in Eisenhower's Honor Guard at Nuremberg - he walked many of the Nazi's to/from the trial and some of them to the gallows.

When I knew Mr. Beam, he was a kind and gentle man. But you would see the spark in his eyes from time to time.

Mr. Beam went back to Europe with a couple dozen other Veterans on a tour sponsored by a rich man. Their is a documentary on it and he was on the National news.
When Mr. Beam got back from that trip - 60 years after he had fought there - he said that he was glad he went back and toured France and many of the Battle locaigons and that he now felt that the War and all the terrible aspects of it had been worth it as he had not been sure the War had been worth the pain and misery it had caused.

We lost Mr. Beam in 2008. Mr. Beam was a father to me and we miss him dearly.

Mr. Beam is the lower right picture

 

[Texasgordo]

ms gamboolgals father, Mr. Beam, was in the 101st.

He was in the original group at Toccoa, Georgia and made both Normandy and Market Garden jumps. At Normandy before they jumped, he said the sky was bright as day from all the gunfire and that all he wanted to do was to get out of the plane.

He was in every battle and was never wounded. Although he did say that he had a pencil shot out from his hand and had his web gear shot off of him.

He was in Eisenhower's Honor Guard at Nuremberg - he walked many of the Nazi's to/from the trial and some of them to the gallows.

We lost Mr. Beam in 2008. Mr. Beam was a father to me and we miss him dearly.

Mr. Beam is the lower right picture

Thanks for sharing this awesome story.

 

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Spindletop Circa 1912

 

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