We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/11/old_soldiers_fa.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:46:40 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Ry sent me an email stream. It starts with two lines. 89th Division Association from WWII is dissolving. The greatest generation is slipping away. Ry added: We can't let that go unnoticed can we? I'm going nuts trying to write the China sub thing, keep Al's kids in line over at GX40, and answering HE. Can't we tap someone else to do this? Pleeeeeeease? ry I suppose we can't, Ry. But we'll take it as a *good* thing, in a bittersweet way. The 89th Infantry Division, also known as the Rolling W and/or the Middle West Division, was raised... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/11/old_soldiers_fa.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/11/old_soldiers_fa.html Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:18:16 -0600 I'll defer to your knowledge, John, never having been in a DUKW, even the ones currently used as tour boats. I was just paraphrasing the official captions from the National Archives. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/11/old_soldiers_fa.html#comment-53334 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/11/old_soldiers_fa.html#comment-53334 Fri, 24 Nov 2006 19:07:02 -0600 I'm not sure about the rest of the division, but as of next month, my brigade (AC/RC Training Support) will no longer be part of the 91st "Powder River" Division, instead becoming the 191st Separate Brigade. Like I said, I don't know if the rest of the Division is still going to be there, or if it's going away too. There's a huge monument to the 91st at one end of the parade field on Ft Lewis, right smack in front of the CG's house. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/11/old_soldiers_fa.html#comment-53322 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/11/old_soldiers_fa.html#comment-53322 Thu, 23 Nov 2006 23:40:02 -0600 I just hate to lose this history John. I really do. When the Afleck 'Pearl Harbor' came out I was in a Lyons in Davis when I heard some art major declare he had no idea of what happened(but then went off for fourty minutes about the genius of the Polack movie). Not a friend of mine, just a loud joker in the next booth while I studied for my last final in p-chem(literally the last final of my undergraduate career, and the hardest). When we let these things pass away we forget something that shouldn't. We forget me and women who shouldn't be. We forget events that shouldn't. We become idjits. I don't want to be an idjit. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/11/old_soldiers_fa.html#comment-53320 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/11/old_soldiers_fa.html#comment-53320 Thu, 23 Nov 2006 21:11:08 -0600 Those brave Sojer boys are not crossing the Rhine in a "landing craft" or a "boat". They are enjoying a ride in the Army's nifty DUKW amphibious 6x6 truck. (note steering wheel). Nice to see the views both fore and aft. I have seen photos of LCM landing craft being hauled inland for river crossings, but have never seen any photos of them actually being used. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/11/old_soldiers_fa.html#comment-53312 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/11/old_soldiers_fa.html#comment-53312 Thu, 23 Nov 2006 18:41:07 -0600