"Home Sweet Home": Ernie Pyle in North Africa (1 Viewer)

[PolarBear]

WWII correspondent Ernie Pyle is shown with members of the America 3rd Division at a forward base in Tunisia. Pyle has just interviewed some of the members of the division and is typing up his story for America's hometown newspapers. (RON--here are more American troops for North Africa)
Randy

 

[Capitolron]

Randy

Great work - you sure have the talent in photo dioramas !

Yes - We need to make 2008 the Year of Americans In North Africa from K&C !!

Ron

 

[PolarBear]

Randy

Great work - you sure have the talent in photo dioramas !

Yes - We need to make 2008 the Year of Americans In North Africa from K&C !!

Ron

Glad you like it Ron. It's all part of "Operation GIs in North Africa for '08". Something to warm the cockles of any lobbyist's heart

Randy

 

[Rob]

These are fantastic Randy,excellant work.Keep them coming!

Rob

 

[binder001]

You are an artist! Great scenes! Keep up the good work.

Gary

 

[Wraith]

Randy,
Great photo and great backdrop.
Simon

 

[jazzeum]

Randy

Great work - you sure have the talent in photo dioramas !

Yes - We need to make 2008 the Year of Americans In North Africa from K&C !!

Ron

A superb job Randy, maybe your best yet.

To Ron's point, there don't seem to be that many D Day sets that are not retired that would work for North Africa. As Tunisia was also a three Allied nation affair, it would nice to be some French troops (I'm assuming 8th Army would work but haven't done an investigation for the British participation).

 

[PolarBear]

A superb job Randy, maybe your best yet.

To Ron's point, there don't seem to be that many D Day sets that are not retired that would work for North Africa. As Tunisia was also a three Allied nation affair, it would nice to be some French troops (I'm assuming 8th Army would work but haven't done an investigation for the British participation).

Thanks Brad. The subject has a personal interest for me. While at Syracuse University I worked on the Margaret Bourke-White papers. MBW was in North Africa with a B-17 BG and flew on a mission with them (first woman to do so). While in N.A, she met Pyle whom she said had a big influence on her photojournalism, especially the interest she took in the common soldiers fighting there and the other theaters of war she visited. Below is a photo taken in North Africa showing her with a pilot from the 1st FG also stationed there. My dream would come true if K&C did a figure of her in her WWII uniform. Randy

 

[Louis Badolato]

Thanks Brad. The subject has a personal interest for me. While at Syracuse University I worked on the Margaret Bourke-White papers. MBW was in North Africa with a B-17 BG and flew on a mission with them (first woman to do so). While in N.A, she met Pyle whom she said had a big influence on her photojournalism, especially the interest she took in the common soldiers fighting there and the other theaters of war she visited. Below is a photo taken in North Africa showing her with a pilot from the 1st FG also stationed there. My dream would come true if K&C did a figure of her in her WWII uniform. Randy

Margaret Bourke-White sounds like an amazing person. If Andy made her figure in that flight suit, I would certainly buy it and put it on my RAF diorama alongside my B17.

 

[jazzeum]

Randy,

You've certainly had an interesting life to be sure!

I agree that a Margaret Bourke White figure would be fascinating. The only K & C WW II figures of women that I know of are from the Berlin set and a ground controller made by Del Prado. It would be wonderful to see some more women in uniform.

 

[PolarBear]

Randy,

You've certainly had an interesting life to be sure!

I agree that a Margaret Bourke White figure would be fascinating. The only K & C WW II figures of women that I know of are from the Berlin set and a ground controller made by Del Prado. It would be wonderful to see some more women in uniform.

Brad

It was an incredible experience going through her wartime notes and diaries. She kept detailed information on the soldiers that she met. She told of one young B-17 pilot who flew for the 97th BG in England and later in North Africa. He was from Florida and studying to be a doctor. She said in her estimation this young man would "one day be very important in HEAVY BOMBING". I guess she didn't know how heavy, for eventually he was transferred to the Pacific to be the pilot of a B-29 called the Enola ***: Paul Tibbetts. I had the opportunity to interview him about MBW when I was at SU. I was also able to track down a number of the B-17 crew members that she knew and they kindly shared their stories and snapshots with me. This was in the 1980s and sadly most are gone now.

Brad & Louis:

Read MBW's: They Called It Purple Heart Valley: A Combat Chronicle of the War in Italy (1944). It is an outstanding companion to what Pyle wrote and the cartoons of Bill Mauldin who served in that theater,

Randy