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As fall comes rolling around what better to keep warm than in a nice tanker jacket, right? ;) I've got for sale an ATF Tanker Jacket that I got about a year ago. It's a size large (Chest 41-44, sleeve length 35", back length 26" per the ATF website). Worn to several events, and around town...

"Yankee Samurai" by Joseph Harrington is probably the most widely available book on the topic. It's all over the place, and you can probably find a copy online for no more than a couple dollars. "Rising Sons" by Bill Yenne is a more recently published book that also covers some of the work of...

Cool deal, I'll shoot him an email after the New Year. I know the Navy had it's own Japanese/Oriental Language School based out of the University of Colorado, Boulder, and sent many of its graduates to Allied Translator and Interpreter Service in Brisbane, Australia. I would assume that some...

Josh - Do you know if Rob's still making Hawleys? I know he stopped production on his C-Rations until next year, but do you know if he's taking a break from everything or still working on the liners? I think it might be time to pick up one, if my wallet survives the holidays. As for USMC...

Similarly, a while back I saw a WWII officer's coat tailored by them, but have never seen any equipment with them as the maker, not to say though that they didn't. It seems highly plausible that considering how large of an outdoors company they were back then that the military may have made...

Welcome to sunny California! I think there's quite a few swing events that go on in Santa Cruz. Haven't been down to check any of them out myself, but you might want to look around.

LaMedicine - How difficult would it be to search for a certain mon for a family in Japan? My grandmother's side of the family has no record of what our mon was since my great-grandparent's died, and we probably lost contact with any relatives there back in the 50's. I've been officially tasked...

WOAH! Those are wicked cool. Thanks for sharing! Any possibility of getting those pages scanned so they come out a little more high-res?

The recommended ones from the original site are: ACademy BAldwin CApital CAstle http://ourwebhome.com/TENP/Recommended.html or if you're number's old enough you can try and look up what the original exchange name for your area was: http://rcrowe.brinkster.net/tensearch.aspx

Try Faber's Cyclery 702 S. 1st St., San Jose, CA 95113. That's where I got a bunch of stuff to fix my bike up. It's one of those best kept San Jose secrets. It's an amazing bike shop built into an old saloon right under 280. The yard is stacked high with vintage bikes, and the inside is a...

Haha this is so cool! Thanks for bumping the thread scotrace. It's one of those things I've always heard in old movies and stuff, but never really thought about until now. Luckily both the houses that I've lived in were built in the late 50's/early 60's so I was able to find the exchange names...

I got to meet Shifty, Earl McClung, and Mo Alley, a couple years back at the Memorial Day Parade in D.C. Shifty was the nicest guy! I asked them to autograph an EM pass that I'd printed off the web, and after Shifty signed it Earl turned to him and said, "say Shifty you just signed him off for a...

Man, I've been trying to make it up there for either JTD or the Bulge game for the last couple of years now. The weekends have always fallen on a date that I'd had a previous commitment though :( . One of these days I'll make it out. I like idea of combining airsoft and blank fire, you kind of...

Prien - Don't know if you've seen this before, and these guys might be a bit far from where you are, but they do a U-505 impression, and are trying to get set up to do events with the actual U-505 at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. http://u505mannschaft.9f.com/

Haha thanks. It's really not too bad, there's still original stuff (although it costs an arm and a leg), and reproduction stuff out there, so its certainly do-able. I really need to update that website though:o ...I'm supposed to be the webmaster - oh well another summer project. Now a fellow...