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How do you get your World War 2 Fix?
Feb 1, 2009 11:25 PM
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Hi Guys,
I guess it is safe to assume that we are World War 2 addicts here. How do you get your fix? By watching THC? Watching war movies? Going to the museum? Please share.
As of mine, a combination of pretty much everything. I would put on my CD player the boogie-woogie bugle boy of Company B on repeat. Then I would put on Stalingrad on DVD on my TV (with the sound off) then I would break out my hobby box in which these are the contents. Plastic Cement, paint, airbrush, nail file, clippers, then I would open a Tamiya 1:35 model Kit...ohhh the yummy goodness. Smell the plastic and the insides.....yess...ahh...needed my WWII fix! Smoke some Lucky Strikes and drink some Vat 69. Then get a reality check from my wife to go to bed because its 4 AM! "Tsk! Tsk!"
Whats yours?
-GINO
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Re: How do you get your World War 2 Fix?
Feb 2, 2009 6:49 AM
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I use to get my fix by going to historic battle sites, out of the way battle sites and out of the way museums in Europe. While deployed watching BoB, Stalingrad and other favorites like Objective Burma did it for me.
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Re: How do you get your World War 2 Fix?
Feb 2, 2009 7:31 AM
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Dear Gino,
I get my "fix" a lot of ways, doing the WW 2 reenactments, collecting books from the era as well as new histories, firing my M-1 at the range, and posting here.
TH
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southern bc
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Re: How do you get your World War 2 Fix?
Feb 2, 2009 9:17 AM
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Read books, read posts, collect many different items and post in here and another forum.
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Re: How do you get your World War 2 Fix?
Feb 2, 2009 2:13 PM
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Books, the good movies, assurting my dominance amoung those around me with WWII, even a video game or two. Oh, and collecting/ using WWII era type equipment, ex. canteens, helmets ect.
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The only thing that new these days is the history we have yet to discover.- Unknown
Why join the Army and sleep in the dirt and eat MREs when you can sleep in a bunk and get steak and eggs for breakfast in the Navy?
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Re: How do you get your World War 2 Fix?
Feb 2, 2009 3:47 PM
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reenactments history channel WWII section (obviously) movie of or about WWII or reading about it with some heavy metal blasting
(hay even teen WWII geeks need something destroying our eardrums)
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-Sermo datur cunctis; animi sapientia paucis
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Re: How do you get your World War 2 Fix?
Feb 2, 2009 4:22 PM
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I'm a Vietnam veteran, but for some reason i've always been more interested in WW 2, maybe because my dad, most of my uncles, and a lot of my friends dads were in WW 2. So i've lived and breathed WW 2 since I was very young.
I like to collect old tech manuals on aircraft and weapons' plus I have a pretty big collection of WW 2 books of all kinds. I had to start my collection over from scratch in 92 when my house burned down. Lost a Tanker Garand (fake ), Carbine, .45 auto and a P38 in that fire, among other things.
The history channel lately doesn't have much for me as a history buff.
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I really liked your scenario...
Feb 2, 2009 9:03 PM
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... of model building. Pretty funny. I vividly recall watching Hogan's Heroes reruns with my brother & his friend using Testors on our Airfix models--good times. Actually I recall a few years ago sitting out on the back deck with my kids listening to the likes of Harry James, Artie Shaw & The Life of Riley while we were building various Grummans & Messerschmidts, etc...
and just getting "In the Mood" as it were.
"She had a dream about the King of Sweden
he gave her things that she was needin'
gave her a home built of gold and steel
a diamond car, with the platinum wheels
Hiddie, hiddie hiddie hi"
Minnie the Moocher,
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Re: I really liked your scenario...
Feb 3, 2009 5:30 AM
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For me, I have a grand son who has developed an interest. Guiding him through my library has been a joy. Also, he brought one my books on Finland to his high school class and teacher was overjoyed.
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Re: How do you get your World War 2 Fix?
Feb 3, 2009 9:16 PM
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Hay!
How do I get my WW2 Fix
By collecting evey thing I can get my hands on
I have been doing this since I was 5 years old.
And now today I have some 10,000 artifacts and
I'm not stoping 40 years of collecting a full steam a head.
Googel my name to learn more about me.
Thank's
Darrell English
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Re: How do you get your World War 2 Fix?
Feb 3, 2009 9:29 PM
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Darrell English at 5 i started at 7 how did you get interested at 5 dad buy a tank or something? for me it was a NAVY TRAINING MISSAL
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Re: How do you get your World War 2 Fix?
Feb 4, 2009 7:10 AM
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Being an absolute junkie for WW 2 history, getting a fix--whether it's through reading, documentaries, movies, museums, air shows, building models, collecting photographs and autographs, or meeting and talking with the veterans of the war--only increases my craving for more. More than anything, though, it's meeting and talking with the amazing men who fought the war, getting their personal accounts of what they witnessed and/or were a part of, that gives me the greatest satisfaction. Two of the most cherished possessions I own are an autographed photo of 'Memphis Belle' by her skipper, Robert Morgan, and an autographed copy of 'Sole Survivor', written and signed by George Gay, the only survivor from Torpedo Squadron Eight at the Battle of Midway.
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Feb 4, 2009 9:11 AM
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Since I was a boy of twelve and found my dad's copy of "Then There Was One" about the war exploits of his ship (USS Enterprise), I have been hopelessly hooked. That was in 1961.
Voluminous study of books (currently own about 700 on the subject), movies, Avalon Hill games, models, air shows, Navy ship open houses (I live in San Diego), etc.
That was then, and now isn't much different.
I developed a WW II game of air-sea warfare, and have the USS Enterprise (and every other major warship of the world) represented by a "tile" about an inch square. Since I recently acquired a piece of wooden flight deck of the old CV-6 Enterprise, I am going to sacrifice a small piece of it to make the tile for the Enterprise so that it doesn't just REPRESENT the Enterprise, it WILL BE the Enterprise!
Then of course, I have been here on the WW II Boards since 1996, with no "days off" unless I was travelling.
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Feb 4, 2009 2:59 PM
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Dear CT,
You've got more time in grade than I do; I wasn't born until you were 13. I got hooked a little younger than you from a Collier's History of the Second World War printed in 1944. This is a big black "coffee table" book I got from my mother and still have to this day. I have a daughter who has caught the bug too and wants to set up a WASP impression for WW 2 reenactments.
TH
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Feb 5, 2009 2:32 PM
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As a senior citizen born during WW2 i'VE GOT MY FIX EVERYWHICH WAY YOU CAN-read the books' saw the movies;listened to the excllent war radio progrmammes we used to get in the 1950's in Britain-from dramatisations of Colditz to the Dams Raids between 1953-53 on BBC radio-watched the great American WW2 tv series in 1956-57 called ''Victory at Sea'' talked to veterans, from both sides; also to the Holocaust survivor who taught me French who was let out on the last Kindertransport '' allowed witth Jewish kids out of Nazi Germany and visited many WW2 battle sites in France/ Denmark Holland and France and WW2 memorials in Australia i.e to HMAS SYDNEY memorial in Geraldton West Australia and stood on the ramps in Freemantle, West Australia, where the US Pacific submarine fleet were based and sallied forth to inflict mayhem on the Empire of Japan.between 1942-45..
So truly I have circumnavigated the globe getting my WW2 fixes..
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