Hello Everyone,
It's been a while since I posted anything. I have popped in from time to time to read and follow the discussions, but I did not contribute. I just read. I can't help it, I love history.

I was wondering what history might be in your area? We have members all over the world and WW2 was global so many of us have sites and/or museums in our hometown. I thought it may be nice to share our places that remind us of that history.

I could post pictures if the proceedure is the same as a few years ago. I just wanted to say "Hello" (again) and share what we all seem to love . . . HISTORY. [img]smile.gif[/img]

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My town is a historic town. Mainly the Revolutionary War. Washingtons HQ is in the town next to mine but 2 minutes down the road (off the one i live on) is a place called Jockey Hollow. Its where GW and his troops spent the harshest winter of the war - its a National Park, with the huts rebuilt to mimic what the conditions were like in real life. Theres a really awesome (real steep) hill to sled down during the winter.

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Hello again, Mott - living in London has many downsides, but on the credit balance, within 10 miles of my house there is ; -

The RAF Museum & Hendon Aerodrome
The Mosquito Museum
The Cabinet War Rooms
The Imperial War Museum
HMS Belfast
Public Records Office

- and probably a few more things besides. Also, I'm within easy driving distance of Duxford and many of the 8th USAAF's wartime East Anglia bases.

Plenty to keep me occupied !

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I am in the same situation as Martin (with the added bonus of working a full 10 minutes jog from the RAF museum in Hendon). Not to mention the other historic sites of London, the Tower, various important buildings, I could even show you a couple of car parks which are bombed out houses that were not re-built after WW2. We also have the site of the first Zeppelin to be shot down in WW1 (near Cuffley IIRC) and IIRC the first aircraft to be shot down by a Zeppelin (funny how those two are so close together).

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in my dry neck of the woods we have the Oregon Trail, which was actaully split south as it neared Oregon forming the Applegate trail running south in my county. We also have a very large domacillory in Eagle Point some 20 miles to the east and this camp was home to a US mountain division serving in Italy during WW 2. Also as a prisoner of war camp for truppen of the Afrika Korp. They have a fine museum which I need to make time to visit.

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My neck of the woods is famous for battles, but most of them mediaeval-Stirling Bridge, Bannockburn, Sauchieburn etc. Then there's Stirling castle, still the RHQ of the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders. Sterling silver was actually named after the biggest lump of silver ore ever discovered in Britain, on the Sterling estate near Tillicoultry in the 1700s. Stirling's been Scotland's newest city since HM's Jubilee in 2002, recognition of the fact that the castle was a royal residence into the early 20th century.
WW2 is a bit more sparse-D-Day training area on moorland 5 miles NW; Touch House used as the base for the fictitious invasion of Norway in Fortitude North; Barnwell, designer of the Blenheim, born here originally. Local football stadium destroyed by an aerial mine 1940. RFC aerodrome beneath the castle in WW1.

Regards,

Gordon

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[quote]Originally posted by mott5ranch:
[QB] Hello Everyone,
It's been a while since I posted anything. I have popped in from time to time to read and follow the discussions, but I did not contribute. I just read. I can't help it, I love history.

I was wondering what history might be in your area?

In Houston, we have San Jacinto Park where Texas' fight for independence from Santa Anna and Mexico ended.

You will not find this information anywhere as it is certainly not modernly politically correct, but I think it provides the flavor of the battle. A letter written home by a "Texican" soldier after the battle said something like this: ( loose quote here ) " Gen'l Houston ordered us to to quit shooting Mexicans, so we turned the rifles around and bashed their heads in with the rifle butts..." I guess after you enter the battle with the war cry "Remember the Alamo!! Remember Goliad!! this can't be then turned off by a mere General...

The Battleship Texas flirted with and nearly killed me for the months I worked in a little chemical plant near her. Each morning and evening I almost ran off the road looking at her until I MADE myself look away at that point of the road through the park, as it curves just as your eyes lock on her. She is beautiful in her Pacific Blue paint and still serves us. The local chem plant Rescue teams receive permission to utilize her deep holds and hatches to practice setting up their overhead entry rescue equipment. ( It was fun to wonder what the general public thought was going on, the day we took our "Rescue Rangers" out for a day in the deep holds of USS Texas -- Several tourist took pictures of my men that day....!! )

Be sure to check out USS Texas' pages on the provided link.

http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/park/sanjac/

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Also check out the Admiral Nimitz Center in Fredricksburg TX. Be sure to go by the Australian M-3 that was recovered from Buna on their back lot. About half that tank really came from a half dozen that were shot to pieces by the 8/40th Armored Battalion on the tank tables in Garden Canyon on Fort Huachuca AZ back in the mid-70's. Yours truly recovered them (under fire no less, the battalion was out that weekend shooting over us...literally....I can clearly remember the orange blobs of APDS screaming overhead...amazing what you can do when the base security officer is your friend's dad and allowed us to do this)using an engine hoist and a cutting torch. Grumman provided the 18 wheeler to Texas. A friend's lawn was littered with tank parts for about two weeks between. It got interesting looks from the neighbors....
The museum director at the time, Douglas Hubbard, was grateful for the addition.

Nothing really here, boring wisconsin, other than one of Al Capones hide outs which is now a B&B i believe but thats couple hours north of my location, other than that not a whole lot around here =\ some louis and clark stuff i guess considering they did come through WI [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Fort McCoy, Wisconsin was the location at which Japanese-American soldiers were stationed by the Army following Pearl Harbor. These internal exilees later became the 100th "Purple Heart" Battalion of the 442nd Regimental Combat team, the most decorated unit in the United States Army:

U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt: Spark M. Matsunaga Fort McCoy, Wisconsin: World War II Highlights (1939-1945) [ 18. August 2004, 10:45 PM: Message edited by: Deep Web Diver ]

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