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My better angels want crew-served weapons.

I write about USMC 1866-1917

“The Marines Have Landed At Nantucket…” Marine Corps Gazette, May 2025

History blog: https://islandjohnny65.blogspot.com
baleful
/bāl′fəl/

adjective
1. Portending evil; ominous.
"The guard's baleful glare frightened the children."
November 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
November 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Love this.

Without any disrespect:
November 14, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Looks fantastic.

One more bit of colour on grill and tailgate might fit.
November 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I’m guessing it’s an Junkers F-13.

Windshield and cockpit are pretty distinctive.

Cool post. You provide some great content every day.
November 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
14-tracks

35:18

February 1977

£4,000 production cost
November 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Bonk Newman aboard the human couch.

#OurDailyCatContent
November 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Seems like fair guidance if you’re waging war amidst the general population.

Might work for law enforcement too.

But hey, I don’t know about “things”.
November 12, 2025 at 8:49 PM
At one point in time, the nation’s air service used to know a thing or two about painting aircraft.
November 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Ching is not amused by the seemingly preferred status of others in #OurDailyCatContent
November 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
November 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Taylor’s work:

(Forgot to attach)
November 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The sun's gone down here.

I hope all Veterans had the day they wanted.
November 11, 2025 at 11:18 PM
“… that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

- Abraham Lincoln
November 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM
“Honor to the soldier, and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country’s cause.” – Abraham Lincoln
November 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Blessings, all.

#OurDailyCatContent
November 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I didn’t know this Marine, but I’d like to have heard his story.

To all who served, may your dreams be realized today, and every day.

Pax.
November 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
"GOOD NIGHT AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHESTY, WHERE EVER YOU ARE."
November 11, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Happy Birthday Henry Clay Cochrane.
November 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I’ll see your FDR, and raise you a John Twiggs Myers…
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
John Thomason’s introduction of his WWI account, ‘FIX BAYONETS’, may be the most masterful history of the USMC up till 1918.

If I could write like he does, well that would be something.
November 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
“… - and they transmitted their temper and character and view-point to the high-hearted volunteer mass which filled the ranks.”

- John W. Thomason
November 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
“… and words culled from all the folk who live on the seas and ports where our war-ships go. They were the old breed of American regular, regarding the service as home and war as an occupation;…”
2/
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
“Diverse people who ran curiously to type, with drilled shoulders and bone-deep sunburn, and a tolerant scorn of nearly everything on earth. Their speech was flavored with navy words…”
1/
November 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Happy Birthday Archibald Henderson.
November 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM