Doug;
Glad he was, too-- he & lots of other guys are what kept the Soviet tanks on
their side of the border!
Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Anderson [mailto:boogiewoogie12@hotmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 6:24 PM
To: wmtsmith@landracing.com
Cc: land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Recips in Texas in the early 50's ...and TANKS
I'm proud to say that my Dad was in one of those tanks Neil. For real.
-Doug Anderson ,in NeuYaWK
From: Bill Smith <wmtsmith@landracing.com>
on 11/29/01 2:15 PM, Albaugh, Neil at albaugh_neil@ti.com wrote:
> Russ;
>
> Well-- surprise-- I was an "Army Brat", too. I never did get to see an
operational B-36 but I finally did see one in the AF Museum in Dayton. Man,
were those things big! I was at an airshow, too, where a P-51D made a very
low- level high- speed pass over the crowd and then pulled up in a high "G"
climb. A real thrill. What a sound!
Armored vehicles make neat sounds, too. Hearing a tank moving in the dark
in your bivouac area is not a comforting sound-- even when you know darned
well that it's one of yours. The movie "Patton" had the most realistic
scenes of armor that I've seen in the movies. The scene where an armored
column is moving on a muddy road through the falling snow to relieve the
Airborne in Bastogne is so real that I could almost reach out and touch the
cold metal.
> They got the tank sounds right, too.
>
> Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
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