Happy New Year

 



  

HAPPY NEW YEAR


Photos from Danang, Vietnam, Tet New Year Celebration. A little different today then back in our day.

Danang is Fireworks Festival city. Lunar New Year’s Eve Fireworks is a great celebration.

Which is the way I remember it. We watched the Tet Celebration for 1970 from the top of Hill 327 looking over DaNang and south to Chu Lai.  You could see many tracer rounds fired up from positions up and down the coast, with multiple explosions. Very impressive. The rounds were going up, mostly. They just don't make fireworks celebrations like they did back in the good old days.

https://chinesenewyearblog.com/danang-lunar-new-year/




This time-lapse photo shows a Douglas AC-47 "Spooky" at work on the outskirts of Saigon. The sheet of red raining down from the night sky represents only one of every five bullets fired from the gunship’s miniguns. (U.S. Air Force)




The New Years celebration in Vietnam in 2021 is much nicer and better than the ones during the Vietnam War.

Peace on Earth, Good Will Towards Men (and Women)


Happy Thanksgiving

 Happy Thanksgiving - Please keep Linda and Woz in Your Prayers


Thanksgiving Dinner Back in the Good Old Days - Finger Licking Good!


Thanksgiving Dinner Back in the Good Old Days - Finger Licking Good!

Our turkey dinner in Vietnam!

Add a heat tab.... and a veritable feast.  Yummie!

Delicious and nutritious. It was better with hot 
sauce.

Some guys liked NÆ°á»›c chấm sauce with it. 
NÆ°á»›c chấm is a Vietnamese dipping sauce - 
an acquired taste. 

Happy Thanksgiving.



P-35 "John Wayne" Can Openers


 

A friend asked if we were issued can openers for our C-Rations. We were!


Official military designations for the P-38 include 

"OPENER, CAN, HAND, FOLDING, TYPE I".


We were issued a P-38 can opener, commonly called a "John Wayne".  Many of us wore the opener around our necks with our dog tags. They were small and handy and many of us still have them.


From Wikapedia


The P-38, developed in 1942,[1] is a small can opener that was issued in the canned field rations of the United States Armed Forces from World War II to the 1980s. Originally designed for and distributed in the K-ration, it was later included in the C-ration. As of 2020, it is still in production and sold on a worldwide market.[2]


Click to read more:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-38_can_opener


Happy Thanksgiving!




Thanks to Taffy Cannon MPHS 66 for sharing the video below from WKRP Cinncinati video on Thanksgiving.  No turkeys were harmed in this video.

WKRP "As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf3mgmEdfwg
Nov 24, 2011 - Uploaded by Epic Houston
WKRP "As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly"Thanksgiving.

WKRP Thanksgiving Turkey Drop - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p00nBSNIPwg
Oct 13, 2014 - Uploaded by Cuchulainn's Picks
Les Nessman discovers that his station's Thanksgiving promotion just isn't going to fly. For more info ...

Watch WKRP in Cincinnati Online - Turkeys Away | Hulu

www.hulu.com/watch/322
    
Sep 20, 2007
Stream WKRP in Cincinnati season 1, episode 7 instantly. ... This one website, wetpaint, showed 12 Thanksgiving Day episodes, and the  ...

WKRP "Turkey's Away" - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeCGURWzjwE
Nov 24, 2011 - Uploaded by whoohaaa1000
WKRP "Turkey's Away" .... This was a great old Thanksgivingshow. .... WKRP "As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly" Thanksgiving  ...

WKRP in Cincinnati Full Episode (Turkeys Away) - IMDb

www.imdb.com/video/hulu/vi254935065/
    
Watch the latest WKRP in Cincinnati Full Episode (Turkeys Away) on IMDb.