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Gus and Guy
Gus and Guy is a tale of two brothers in the US Air Force during WWII.
Sitting in his favorite rocking chair, staring away at some distant scene of life that denied its very existence to me, Dad began hesitatingly to reminisce. A faint, teasing trail of his liquored breath hit me as I settled down - a long story was coming, I knew, and he was not prone to long stories.
Marauder 453
Marauder 453 is a novel about the Marauder 453 bomber squadren.
“After we were in Tent City for a day or two,” Tex continued, “we noted that no one came around and called the roll or otherwise checked on us or assigned us any duties. A few of us went up to headquarters to see what our status was. We gave an officer our names and after checking around he informed us that none of our records had arrived and that we should go back to ‘Tent City’ and await further orders. We went back and told the others what we had learned and several of them left and went ‘absent without leave’ (AWOL). Some were gone for up to two weeks and were never missed. I Richard J. Travis sure felt like going myself but I just couldn’t bring myself to do it and besides Captain, 453rd I didn’t want to risk losing my stripes. Time sure passed slow just laying around with nothing to do and I thought, ‘Here we are with a war going on, and I’m an aerial gunner and should be out fighting those damned Japs, but I’m just here in this tent city laying on my butt.’” The squadron commander, Captain Travis, acknowledged the difficulty of throwing so many men together into non-existent units and trying to organize them into efficient squadrons in such a short period of time.[15]
1st New Mexico Volunteers
1st New Mexico Volunteers is a book about the Texan invasions of New Mexico.
The problems between New Mexico and Texas did not begin during the American Civil War. They began during the Texas revolution for independence in 1836. When General Sam Houston’s troops captured Santa Anna himself, Houston judiciously tried to cinch his success and avoid further bloodshed by making a deal with him. In return for sparing his life, the Mexican leader agreed to pull his troops out of Texas. It was a good move because Santa Anna had 4,000 fresh troops not twenty miles away. The Texan army followed the retreating Mexicans to the banks of the Rio Grande. Once there, Sam Houston and his officers inspected their newly won Territory and tried to decide where the western boundaries of their new country lay.
La Famille Poulain
A history of our ancestors in the new world
According to the dictionary, ‘poul’ is a 5,000 year old root word meaning the young of an animal. In French Poulain, the original spelling of our name, means pony, a foal, a young horse. Two possible origins of the name are generally considered. One possibility begins during the Crusades and one earlier.