World war II Weekend

[digger242j]

If you ever get the chance, the WWII Weekend at Reading PA. is well worth a visit. http://www.maam.org/maamwwii.html

There's plenty of vintage airplanes, but it's so much more diverse than just an airshow. The place is full of reenactors who re-create the WWII era right before your eyes. Since I know how much you all like pics, here's some of the "Old Iron" they bring along with them...

 

[digger242j]

A few trucks and jeeps...

 

[digger242j]

Cat D-4 dozer.

This was actually owned by the Navy, and is displayed by a contingent of Seabees. It has loader tracks rather than the original dozer tracks, but it's obviously been restored with a great deal of care, and no small expense...

 

[digger242j]

A "Benford"...

 

[digger242j]

A heavy wrecker, and a tractor and lowboy...

 

[digger242j]

Another wrecker; the boom also swivels to do crane work...

 

[digger242j]

A half track.

Also, for the snow removal guys, here's a fellow demonstrating a new snowmelter for sidewalk use... :wink2

 

[digger242j]

Also, I want to say that everybody we spoke to at the show (and everybody in Reading in general, actually), was SUPER nice. The reenactors are all very knowlegable about their stuff, and more than willing to talk all day about it. The pics don't really do justice to how well restored and kept up this eqipment is, and how much effort has gone into showing it. And I didn't get pictures of even 10% of everything there is to see and watch.

If anybody is interested in seeing the airplanes too, just say so.

Like I said, if you ever get the chance, it's well worth the trip... :thumbsup

 

[Jeff D.]

If anybody is interested in seeing the airplanes too, just say so.

"So"............there I said it.Now cough em' up!!

 

[digger242j]

Thanks, Jeff. I can always count on you to increase my workload....

Be patient, I need to re-size them....

 

[Jeff D.]

Be patient, I need to re-size them....

Aww,just forget it then.

All this waiting has become tiresome.My interest has waned.(insert little yawning head here)


:bouncegri

 

[digger242j]

Too late. You asked for them, and now you're going to get them, and you'd BETTER enjoy them. (As soon as, like I said, I get them resized....)

 

[xkvator]

we're waiting

 

[Jeff D.]

we're waiting

I know!!I think we could've built a plane faster.

He says he's re-sizing them.I picture Digger with a pair of scissors,and polaroid scraps all over the floor.:bouncegri

 

[tylermckee]

batch resizing is your friend

 

[digger242j]

Here, is one just to keep you happy.

It's FDR giving a speech from the doorway of a C-54 that flew in the Berlin airlft. Douglas MacAuthur is walking down the airstairs, probably on his way to show Jeff his corncob pipe.

We have nothing to fear, but fear itself. (That, and we really need to worry about Digger--did you see all the explosives he got from those Seabees?)

 

[Jeff D.]

It's FDR

Yup,it certainly couldn't be Gerald Ford,cuz he's not rolling head over heels down the stairs.

 

[RonG]

Digger,thank you for sharing those,I love to see the old military stuff.I took over a thousand pics while I was overseas in the early '60s,mostly B/W and I developed the film and printed the pics in the darkroom at the service club we had on base there.I have scanned them all into the computer and have lots of pics of the heavy equipment I ran and the jobs I did while I was over there.My assigned dozer was a TD-18 cable control but I drove the lowbed too the last year I was there while breaking in a new operator to take my place.
Thank you for all the effort posting the pics,I never get tired of looking!!Ron G

 

[norrodbh]

Great pictures ! Thanks !

 

[Jeff D.]

.....over a thousand pics while I was overseas in the early '60s,........

I hate to go off course on Diggity-D's thread here,but......

Ron,where were you stationed oversea's?Korea,perhaps?

I ask because my father was inbetween Korea and Vietnam much of the middle/later 60's & early 70's,and he was into B/W photography as a hobbie.Were you stationed on any bases where there were Air Force or Navy planes?Know anyone with last name of Dahlgren?

Just curious!!