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If you, like me, are having trouble with all these battalions, platoons and squads and companies, etc. then this might help.

(From 'Shifty's War', by Marcus Brotherton)

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Omegaverse Winnix where Nixon just stole Dick's scarf and yeet it somewhere only known to him and god.

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Blue Skies — Frank Sinatra

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@rossmccallsqueen asked for a slideshow of all the guys in MotA with their names and I know I'm missing some, but by god I tried and I scoured IMDb to get names to faces and now you get to reap the benefits.

Also if you can ID a guy I left off (or notice a mistake I made) please let me know (even if you just do this by sending me a gifset someone made of someone I don't have on here without saying anything). I'm gonna keep making updates to this and it would be nice to have it be as complete as possible for everyone to reference

A couple corrections have been made thanks to @rubyfruitjungle and @carninator-blog pointing out some mistakes <3

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“Off my face”

I made a bold attempt of doing this with one layer🫡

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ANTHONY BOYLE as JOHN WILKES BOOTH in MANHUNT (2024), episode six

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🚨 Help Us Escape the Devastation of War 🚨

Hello, everyone.

My name is Mohammed Abu Swierh, and I’m writing to you from Al-Nuseirat, Gaza, where my family and I face unimaginable hardships. My wife and I are raising our three beautiful children: Mira (6 years), Bakr (3 years), and Maria (1 year). But our once peaceful lives have been shattered by the relentless conflict that has plagued Gaza for about a year. 💔

Our home, which once held so many dreams, is now damaged beyond recognition. Every day, our children live in fear, surrounded by destruction, without the safe place for our children to grow up. The war has stripped them of the freedom and childhood they deserve. Instead, they are growing up in a world filled with fear, uncertainty, and despair. 😔

After many sleepless nights and countless prayers, we’ve come to the heartbreaking decision that we must leave Gaza. We are hoping to build a safer, better future for our children, a future free from war and filled with hope.

But we can’t do it alone. Here’s where you can make a life-changing difference for our family:

- $20,000: To cover the expenses of leaving and rebuilding our lives in a safe country.

- $9,000: For a year’s worth of rebuilding our life, housing, food, and essential living costs as we adjust.

- $1,000: To cover transaction and fundraising fees.

We humbly ask for your help. No contribution is too small, and every dollar brings us closer to giving our children the chance to grow up in peace. This is more than just a financial plea; it’s a call to save a family from the grips of war. 🙏

Your generosity can be the light that leads us out of this darkness. Please consider donating and sharing our story with those who may want to help. ❤️

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Guide for the recent BoB fandom information explosion

Essentially, the US Army and Heritage Education Center possesses a vast collection of materials related to Dick Winters, which served as the original source for writing the book Band of Brothers and for the production of the TV series. This includes a huge amount of photocopies of Winters' personal papers and personnel documents; photocopies of correspondence, memoirs, news clippings, oral history transcripts, and photographs from the men in Easy Company.

There are a total of 20 boxes, containing 100+ PDF documents that can be read online, involving most of the E Company soldiers whose names we can recognize.

These materials may have been on the internet for many years, but no one paid attention until very recently.

Here are some notable files among these materials: The complete catalog of the Dick Winters collection

Dick Winters interview in Aug 1990

Another Winters interview transcript with 10 pages all about Nix

Lewis Nixon file

Harry Welsh file

Ron Speirs file

Carwood Lipton file

Herbert Sobel file

Doc Roe file

Bill Guarnere file

Babe Heffron file

David Webster file

Floyad Talbert file

Skip Muck file

Don Malarkey oral history: 1/4 2/4 3/4 4/4

Johnny Martin file

Bull Randelman file

Joe Toye file

George Luz file

Band of Brothers TV series "Bible": 1/4 2/4 3/4 4/4

...

For all other materials, you can search on the main page here: https://arena.usahec.org/

ps, you can also find the 506's newsletters from the late 70s-early 90s: The Five-O-Sink

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Harry Crosby’s 32 Missions

LEGEND:

Green Square: 100th BG arrives at Thorpe Abbotts

Yellow Squares: Crosby’s Official Missions

Note: the date of Mission 30 is not known

Gray Squares: 100th BG’s first and last combat missions

Note: Crosby did not fly on these missions

Red Lines: Periods when grounded

Blue Line: Russian Shuttle Mission

Blue Square: Promoted to Major

Green Star: End of war in the ETO

**see below for descriptions of key events**

June 9, 1943: Arrival at Thorpe Abbotts

June 25, 1943: First mission of the 100th BG

July 26 to August 17, 1943: Blakely and Swartout crews, along with two lead crews from every other bomb group involved, were grounded by General LeMay in lead up to Schweinfurt–Regensburg Mission to prevent them from being shot down and spilling information to the Germans.

Note: Col. Harding did not know why they were grounded, only Jack Kidd did. Harding was not happy two of his lead crews were grounded and went against LeMay’s orders, hence Crosby and Blakely’s crew flying on August 12.

October 8, 1943: Mission to Bremen in which his crew in Just-a-Snappin’ were presumed dead and crash landed into a tree at a dummy airfield in England. This is the last mission for the Just-a-Snappin’ crew as a majority of the crew were seriously injured and one dead. Sometime after this mission was when Crosby was promoted to Group Navigator.

February 14, 1944: He was grounded after his 22nd mission to prevent him from completing all 25 missions of his tour. He eventually convinced 100th’s new CO, Col. Jeffrey, to let him fly on the Russian Shuttle mission because he would not yet reach his increased requirement of 28 missions.

Note: Crosby is quoted saying that he was grounded after his 22nd mission, not his 24th like you might presume. I’m assuming he only flew on those two specific missions (his 23rd and 24th) because the 100th was leading the 13th AF and also leading the entire 3rd Air Division on both.

June 21, 1944: Start of the Russian Shuttle mission. He convinced the Colonel to let him go on the grounds that this wouldn’t bring him even close to the new quota (28 needed for Crosby). An unscheduled mission was added on July 5, bringing him up to 28 missions.

July 5, 1944: Crosby’s 28th mission, signaling the completion of his mission requirements (and the end of the Russian Shuttle Mission). He was promoted to Major while he was flying back to Thorpe Abbotts, meaning he had to either complete another tour or take a ground role somewhere in the ETO.

April 20, 1945: Last combat mission for the 100th BG

May 8, 1845: VE-Day

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if any of you guys are having an okay day and want to have an even better day you can watch david/blakely being gay and getting fucked in a bathroom stall at the 6:54 time stamp of this (:

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February 3rd, Rosie got shot down.

On March 1st, Crosby received a phone call.

It was Rosie.

"I'm in Russia. Will you save a squadron for me?”

He could have called and asked for anybody, and he asked for Crosby.

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TOLKIEN (2019)

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We are happy to announce, that @hbowardaily is once again hosting an online gift exchange for the holidays with now MotA added also!  

This event is open to anyone and we will be accepting all characters from the four shows in any creative form! Gifsets, edits, graphics, moodboards, fanarts and fanfics are all welcomed! However in this event you can only participate on Tumblr, which means all creations should be posted to Tumblr, even the full texts of fanfictions!

Please use the tag #hbowarsanta24 for every creation so we can reblog them!

During this event everyone will give something and receive something. After the sign-ups are over we will reach out to everyone and send them their giftee’s url and preferences.

During the exchange, you have to send anonymous messages to your giftee to get to know about them and their likes/dislikes, the goal of the exchange is to get to know each other better! At least two anonymus messages should be sent during the event.

Make sure you have your ask and anon feature enabled to participate!

You can make your gift anytime, but don’t post it before the posting starts!

Make sure you allow messages from those you don’t follow or give our admin (@supervalcsi) a follow, so we can send out your giftee’s information. This will be checked upon applying, and your application won’t be accepted until you do the needed!

In case somebody is not able to finish the event, we are in need of pinch-hitters for those who wouldn’t get anything otherwise. Please if you would be able to make one more gift in this case, fill out the respective question on the sign-up form you can find below!

Our drop-out system applies for this exchange too. Those who drop-out after sending out information will be banned from our next exchange event, those who drop-out after posting has started will be banned for two years from all our exchange events. Dropping out during the sign-ups won’t have any consequencies.

Schedule:

Sign-ups: Sept. 26. - Oct. 24.

Sending out information: Oct. 25 - Oct. 28

Creating: Oct. 29 - Dec. 23

Posting your creations: Dec. 24 - Dec. 27.

HERE you can find the sign-up form! You are able to send your application to your email address, so you have your choices and answers later on. It is not automatic, you have to choose it at the end of the survey.

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us!

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my favorite TOS bloopers, outtakes (x), and bts footage (x) for your consideration & enjoyment

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yesterday i was insane about that fictional man. today i am insane about that fictional man. tomorrow? take a wild guess brother

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Zippo? — Dougley