The FULL United States Marine Corps Band, Orchestra and Chorus
 

Thanks Carmen. The sepia is for the past, the gray is battleship gray and it's composed as a montage to show chaos and the wreckage effect when Pearl was bombed.
I've added the revised version to my book.

Tuskegee Airman 1 of 4 Panels
 

Tuskegee Airmen 2 of 4 Panels
 

Tuskegee Airmen 3 of 4 Panels
 

Tuskeege Airmen 4 of 4 panels
 

bump..........

I am really enjoying your WWII pannels. I just finished with the Tuskeegee one and really enjoy the layout, photos you took and text. Do you write your own text? I really think of this as an art thread based on a subject I find very interesting.

What a great subject too!

Thanks J. Sometimes I write the text. For the Tuskegee segments I ued text from Tuskegee Airman, Inc. Then I added all the graphics.

Speaking of "Band of Brothers"....
 

I skimmed through this thread.

I was raised in Normandy by parents who were 14 during WW2. I have memorabilia at home still.

My parents taught me to be grateful for peace.

As a child growing up in this area, I was very much sensitized (? ) to the history and the realities of every day life in a mostly rural area, during those times.

My mother always said that those times were terrifying but also quite exciting as you lived and loved for the moment.

If you have any questions or are looking for local info, pm me. I'd be happy to help.

dedicated toDecember 7, 1941

Military link
 

My father was in the Engineer Corps. All I really know is that when the war was over and he eventually came home (his battalion went into the Concentration camps as soon as the war was over to clean up) he burned his uniform..everything except his boots. Those were too comfortable to burn, he said.

He didn't speak to us about his experience. When we would get together with our parents' friends, the men would get together and laugh about old war stories. We laughed and said, "There they go again" and ignored them.

I eventually regretted not listening in to those stories.

When my father died in 1980, in cleaning out his things I went into his wallet. There, wrapped in smooth cellophane (I learned that now many people haven't experienced cellophane so let me explain one thing. Smooth cellophane meant that it wasn't opened and re-closed. Just wrapped once and left). There, wrapped in smooth cellophane were 4 photos. He never looked at them. He just always needed to have them with him. To the day he died. 4 photos that he took in cleaning up the camps. I look at those photos every now and then and think of the horrors that so many of these brave fighting men experienced....and the horrors that so many innocent people lived and died through.

In WWII and all wars.

Thank you to all who have served and blessings to all who suffered

Now, a happier WW2 story....

My father had 2 best friends in the war. The wife of one of them would send boxes of baked goods which my father and the other would steal.

When the war was over my Dad come home and eventually met my mother. As time went on he met her family. They went to her cousin's house. She was home but her husband wasn't. They sat with her and my father saw the family photos on her piano, jumped up grabbed one photo and said, "Who is this????"

"My husband!"

"I ate your cookies!!!!"

Yes, one of my father's best friends was soon to be his cousin in law.

The other man became a wholesale jeweler. My mother's father owned a Jewelry shop. You guessed it. Connected again. :)

Think they were Meant to Be? lol

One last thing....After my cousin passed away 2 years ago, in cleaning out her things we found a letter that my father had sent to his sister soon after The Battle of the Bulge. It described his experience. We never knew he was in that battle until 2 years ago.