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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #255 on: September 24, 2018, 02:23:17 AM »
Audra Lindley, television's Helen Roper, was born on September 24, 1918.

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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #256 on: September 24, 2018, 11:41:14 AM »
No, not too much. ;D Thanks, I wish I could have the time to open some threads on other periods of history but I'm going to stick with the 100 years ago thread.  I think some interesting events will be coming up after WWI is over.  Uppermost, I guess, the deadly Spanish Influenza of 1918.  I'm pretty sure that it will continue on into 1919.  I would like to see you start a thread on WWII.  I would certainly enjoy reading it, and perhaps you could start it out on December 7th and do some day by day coverage of what was happening 77 years ago?

I'm thinking about it. I'm no writer of even a decent researcher. Just a history buff.

To do WW II any real justice, I would need to start when the Sino-Japanese War started. That period in history is also overlooked and interesting in its own right.
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« Reply #257 on: September 24, 2018, 06:20:39 PM »
I'm thinking about it. I'm no writer of even a decent researcher. Just a history buff.

To do WW II any real justice, I would need to start when the Sino-Japanese War started. That period in history is also overlooked and interesting in its own right.

...and possibly the Italians activities in East Africa and the Spanish Civil War.  At least to help set the stage.   

If you do it @Exile I'll do what I can to help.  As my time allows anyway................

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« Reply #258 on: September 24, 2018, 06:45:26 PM »
...and possibly the Italians activities in East Africa and the Spanish Civil War.  At least to help set the stage.   

If you do it @Exile I'll do what I can to help.  As my time allows anyway................
And "the Great Game" needs to be covered.

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https://www.amazon.com/Peter-Hopkirk/e/B00JOP2AOG/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1

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« Reply #259 on: September 24, 2018, 06:51:37 PM »
Hey Rix. 

Is it okay if I hop back a month or so to August?  I know there were Americans involved in the Russian Civil War and they weren't alone - British, French, Czech, Greeks, Italians, Chinese, Japanese all were involved to some extent but I don't really know much about it.    I think the Americans involvement starts in August 1918 in Siberia.  Looks like it might be an interesting little offshoot to look into.

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« Reply #260 on: September 24, 2018, 06:58:04 PM »
And "the Great Game" needs to be covered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Game

https://www.amazon.com/Great-Game-Struggle-Central-Kodansha/dp/1568360223

https://www.amazon.com/Peter-Hopkirk/e/B00JOP2AOG/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1

and you are just the dude to cover it.  With all the time on your hands after fleeing the Dietrich thread......................

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« Reply #261 on: September 24, 2018, 06:58:14 PM »
Hey Rix. 

Is it okay if I hop back a month or so to August?  I know there were Americans involved in the Russian Civil War and they weren't alone - British, French, Czech, Greeks, Italians, Chinese, Japanese all were involved to some extent but I don't really know much about it.    I think the Americans involvement starts in August 1918 in Siberia.  Looks like it might be an interesting little offshoot to look into.

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The White Movement was too diverse and had too many competing interests, goals, and ideologies.

ps: there was a prominent Admiral and Polar Explorer named Kolchak who was prominently involved. Later his grandson would  carry on the family's bravery by becoming an intrepid reporter.

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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #262 on: September 24, 2018, 06:59:17 PM »
and you are just the dude to cover it.  With all the time on your hands after fleeing the Dietrich thread......................

Now you are making seem like YP with all this "fleeing" business. I simply haven't tuned in for a while....  ;)

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« Reply #263 on: September 24, 2018, 07:06:27 PM »
The White Movement was too diverse and had too many competing interests, goals, and ideologies.

ps: there was a prominent Admiral and Polar Explorer named Kolchak who was prominently involved. Later his grandson would  carry on the family's bravery by becoming an intrepid reporter.

Well I've started to look into it just a tad.  Trying to figure out what 11,000 Americans were supposed to accomplish in the middle of all that mess.  As usual..."Follow the money"

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« Reply #264 on: September 24, 2018, 07:19:52 PM »
Hey Rix. 

Is it okay if I hop back a month or so to August?  I know there were Americans involved in the Russian Civil War and they weren't alone - British, French, Czech, Greeks, Italians, Chinese, Japanese all were involved to some extent but I don't really know much about it.    I think the Americans involvement starts in August 1918 in Siberia.  Looks like it might be an interesting little offshoot to look into.

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By all means, Walks, that would be great.  I actually read a book about that Polar Bear Expedition, a number of years back.  All I can remember about it was that some of the American troops went through some awful depravations...mostly starving and being frozen.  I'd love to hear about it.  Anything that happened in 1918 period, is fine for the thread.  Plus, you know me, give a year here, take a year there, fine.  I'm always happy to have other EllGabbers contribute to the thread.   

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« Reply #265 on: September 24, 2018, 07:22:08 PM »
By all means, Walks, that would be great.  I actually read a book about that Polar Bear Expedition, a number of years back.  All I can remember about it was that some of the American troops went through some awful depravations...mostly starving and being frozen.  I'd love to hear about it.  Anything that happened in 1918 period, is fine for the thread.  Plus, you know me, give a year here, take a year there, fine.  I'm always happy to have other EllGabbers contribute to the thread.

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« Reply #266 on: September 24, 2018, 07:49:49 PM »
...and possibly the Italians activities in East Africa and the Spanish Civil War.  At least to help set the stage.   

If you do it @Exile I'll do what I can to help.  As my time allows anyway................

I'm playing a war game via vassal right now that simulates the 1941 campaign to eliminate the Italian presence in East Africa.  Also gamed out the Spanish Civil War too.

No account of WW II would be complete without mentioning these. @Walks_At_Night Resources mainly. My knowledge is very limited to whats out there.
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« Reply #267 on: September 25, 2018, 12:25:50 AM »
From the Imperial War Museum, September 25, 1918.

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The observer and pilot in a Handley Page bomber: the former in the nose, equipped with a Lewis gun on a Scarff ring and the latter in his cockpit just in rear of front observer, it is fitted with two sets of controls. Near Cressy, 25 September 1918.
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The observer and pilot in the nose of a Handley Page Bomber, showing a Lewis gun on a Scarff ring and the bomb-sight of the former. Near Cressy, 25 September 1918.
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A Caproni triple engine bomber ascending at the aerodrome of the American First Army Corps. Souilly, 25 September 1918.
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Long line of German prisoners coming down a French communication trench led by two of their officers, 25 September 1918. Tahure region, Marne.
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« Reply #268 on: September 26, 2018, 12:55:54 AM »
From the Imperial War Museum, September 26, 1918.
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An American 14 inch gun on railway mounting near Tincourt, 26 September 1918.
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An American 340 mm gun under camouflage covering near Baleycourt, 26 September 1918.
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An American 340 mm railway gun firing at Baleycourt near Verdun, 26 September 1918.
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Re: The 100 Years Ago Thread
« Reply #269 on: September 26, 2018, 01:59:36 AM »
From the Library of Congress.  The Herald, (New Orleans) September 26, 1918.

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