Good Monday morning to all. Hope the weekend went well. Time for the 90th Infantry Division – Picture of the Week. Who remembers the Big Band Music of WWII or the Swing Era? Ah one … ah two … ah three!
It’s Monday again, and time for the 90th Infantry Division – Picture of the Week. More snow and cold, here in the land of the History Junkie. Accordingly, we have to stay with a Battle of the Bulge theme.
Monday already? Really? Well, at least we’ve got the 90th Infantry Division – Picture of the Week.
This kind of weather has the History Junkie thinking of the Battle of the Bulge. The cold. The snow. Hell, HJ even woke up this weekend to thick dense fog. Following the D-Day landing at Normandy, Adolf Hitler witnessed his German forces being systematically pushed toward the homeland. In December, he struck back, with the [...]
Yes, it’s Monday again, and time for our 90th Infantry Division – Pic of the Week. As usual, the History Junkie has more questions than answers and was hoping that there are some WW II or 90th ID heavyweights out there that can help. I’m always looking to learn. 1. What is hanging across the [...]
Our good friend, Chris Guska, over at the 90th Division Association Website also moonlights with the 90th Infantry Division Preservation Group. In BOOTPRINTS, infantryman Hobert Winebrenner, talks of personalizing certain weaponry, while readying for a jeep recon patrol, just after the Breakout from the Cotentin Peninsula. “At that point, we held a surplus of BARs. [...]
Today we are unveiling another History Junkie mainstay. As mentioned before, HJ has a special bias for the 90th Infantry Division. Each and every Monday morning, from here until the end of time, we will feature a 90th ID – Picture of the Week from World War II! Pause for applause. While I was working [...]
Wow, what a weekend! Basketball, basketball and more basketball! The little junkies keep HJ busy. There will always be a soft place in the History Junkie’s heart for the 90th Infantry Division–the Tough ‘Ombres. Over the years, I have met so many wonderful people associated with the group, from front line soldiers, to grieving widows [...]
As the History Junkie readies to settle in for another Thanksgiving Day of overeating and a Lions loss, the combination brought to mind the relationship between sports stars, holidays and our troops. Over the years, our nation’s professional athletes have been very good about visiting our servicemen and women overseas, often in war zones, typically [...]