Stories from WW2

cinderella · 04-29-2010, 09:31 AM

John, I've been looking for this phone for years!! I am going to look into getting a landline (a requirement for this phone), so I can buy a fully restored and functioning phone. And I want the original ringing mechanism too, DAMMIT!!! No, beeps, buzzes, or virating sounds - I want that loud ringing again - the way it should be!!!

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Originally Posted by Jet

Tanno Theo, I just got to thinking....they really were greatest American generation. They knew right from wrong, for the most part, they were spirted and heroic, and eager to win the war, and they had those great big black, rotary dial telephones that wired into the wall so you could hear on the god&%$*mn things, and mouthpiece wasn't on your upper jaw. Geezes, I was born late; I hate technology today. Jus' sayin'....

America had phones just like this.
The irony of all this is that post WWII kicked off a new technological age. *shakes head*

Jet · 04-29-2010, 11:14 AM

Command radio performance with announcer's intro on behalf of the War Department, 1943

Zing! Went the strings when I heard this today.
I have always liked this tune, especially because it's sung by Judy.

Jet · 04-29-2010, 05:50 PM

G.I. JIVE

Everything was geared toward the war and war effort including some great tunes about G.I. life.

One of the best had to be G.I. Jive no matter who recorded it—
and many did—Louie Jordan, Ray Mckinley and the great Johnny Mercer.
It's a hot, slow jump blues, boogie woogie.

This is remembering an incredible time and generation of Americans who could dance
and swing like no one's business all the while spitting in our enemy's eyes.
Damn, I wish I could have been there. I'd dance like crazy.

G.I Jive is one of my favorite jump jitterbugs during WWII from the great Johnny Mercer.

Jet · 05-03-2010, 10:34 PM

I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again:
your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

_____

Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 30, 1940

_____

Jet · 05-05-2010, 12:04 AM

BBC-LONDON
24 Dec. 1944

Major Alton Glenn Miller,
leader of the Army Air Force Band of the Allied Expeditionary Forces,
is missing on a flight from London to Paris, it was reported today.

Miller and crew members were aboard a UC-64 Noresman
single engine monoplane flying across the English Channel at last contact.

No trace of the plane has been found since leaving London nine days ago.

__________________________

For Glenn

__________________________

Jaques · 05-05-2010, 02:03 AM

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Originally Posted by cinderella

John, I've been looking for this phone for years!! I am going to look into getting a landline (a requirement for this phone), so I can buy a fully restored and functioning phone. And I want the original ringing mechanism too, DAMMIT!!! No, beeps, buzzes, or virating sounds - I want that loud ringing again - the way it should be!!!

....when i lst began working as an office junior in l964, aged l5, we had those phones on our desks!!!

My Dad was a desert rat with monty's 8th army during the war, before i was born, he and my mum wrote letters to one another for the 6 long years he was away and when they died, i read them, i cant tell you how moving they were, i have seldom been so moved and as my parents i couldnt imagine them being young and in love - well you dont do you - i have her wedding dress, his war medals and these letters, along with photos and other momentos i shall always keep............

04-29-2010, 11:14 AM	#2
Jet Timed Out - TOS Drama How Do You Identify?: .. Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: .. Posts: 3,471 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 292 Thanked 2,647 Times in 1,293 Posts Rep Power: 0	Command radio performance with announcer's intro on behalf of the War Department, 1943 Zing! Went the strings when I heard this today. I have always liked this tune, especially because it's sung by Judy.

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Jet Timed Out - TOS Drama How Do You Identify?: .. Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: .. Posts: 3,471 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 292 Thanked 2,647 Times in 1,293 Posts Rep Power: 0	G.I. JIVE Everything was geared toward the war and war effort including some great tunes about G.I. life. One of the best had to be G.I. Jive no matter who recorded it— and many did—Louie Jordan, Ray Mckinley and the great Johnny Mercer. It's a hot, slow jump blues, boogie woogie. This is remembering an incredible time and generation of Americans who could dance and swing like no one's business all the while spitting in our enemy's eyes. Damn, I wish I could have been there. I'd dance like crazy. G.I Jive is one of my favorite jump jitterbugs during WWII from the great Johnny Mercer.

05-03-2010, 10:34 PM	#4
Jet Timed Out - TOS Drama How Do You Identify?: .. Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: .. Posts: 3,471 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 292 Thanked 2,647 Times in 1,293 Posts Rep Power: 0	I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars. _____ Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 30, 1940 _____

05-05-2010, 12:04 AM	#5
Jet Timed Out - TOS Drama How Do You Identify?: .. Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: .. Posts: 3,471 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 292 Thanked 2,647 Times in 1,293 Posts Rep Power: 0	BBC-LONDON 24 Dec. 1944 Major Alton Glenn Miller, leader of the Army Air Force Band of the Allied Expeditionary Forces, is missing on a flight from London to Paris, it was reported today. Miller and crew members were aboard a UC-64 Noresman single engine monoplane flying across the English Channel at last contact. No trace of the plane has been found since leaving London nine days ago. __________________________ For Glenn __________________________