'....but somebody's gotta do it. 1942" (1 Viewer)
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Hi Randy,
Can I ask, what are you using as "sand"? It's very effective.
(I just know the answer is gonna be - sand).
Cheers
H
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Hi Randy,
Can I ask, what are you using as "sand"? It's very effective.
(I just know the answer is gonna be - sand).
Cheers
H
Woodland Scenics Ballast Buff Fine Grain. Available at railroad and hobby shops. Will not scratch paint like real sand can. Very soft texture. Randy
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Very nice picture and title, Randy,
thanks for posting it.
Now I want to take a little time and tell a story of which I was reminded by your title and the subject of your picture.
My father was a NCO in the German Wehrmacht during WWII and was deployed to the Eastern theatre. As far as I know he was never at the Frontline but active to secure supply lines for the troops who were at the front.
He never talked about the war during my whole childhood and my older brothers and sisters confirmed that, when I asked them at some time if they ever heard a story about our father in the war.
There was this one exception and that came up when he was outraged about the stupidity of one's comment during a conversation and he told me that something similiar had happened to him as a soldier.
They were in the western part of Russia and had to secure a railroad track and the surrounding area which was a vital supply line for the troops. He was often ordered to go out with a small group and search for mines. The area they were at was "Partisan" area and mines were a favorite weapon to destroy and interrupt supplies and troops of course. He and his group usually found several on their tours and were successful with deactivating them and so it happened that it became his primary duty.
At one point another NCO said: I can't believe you are so keen to go for the mines all the times.
That made my father flip and he replied: What the f... is wrong with you? How can somebody be keen to go out and search for mines, but "somebody's got to do it".
He told me it was a duty and every morning he went out he was scared and every evening he returned he was thankful for another day.
He also said that he was lucky that all of the mines he found were of the kind that detonated when pressure was applied. Apparently there were some mixed in there which were secured against being picked up, so they would detonate either way, upon push or pull.
This little talk was all I ever heard about war from my father. He was born in 1906, so he experienced the WWI and the desolate times after it as a kid and then WWII as a soldier. Any time the talks got to a war subject he would turn around and ignore.
Had to tell this, as Randy's title were the exact words that my father used.
Konrad
thanks for posting it.
Now I want to take a little time and tell a story of which I was reminded by your title and the subject of your picture.
My father was a NCO in the German Wehrmacht during WWII and was deployed to the Eastern theatre. As far as I know he was never at the Frontline but active to secure supply lines for the troops who were at the front.
He never talked about the war during my whole childhood and my older brothers and sisters confirmed that, when I asked them at some time if they ever heard a story about our father in the war.
There was this one exception and that came up when he was outraged about the stupidity of one's comment during a conversation and he told me that something similiar had happened to him as a soldier.
They were in the western part of Russia and had to secure a railroad track and the surrounding area which was a vital supply line for the troops. He was often ordered to go out with a small group and search for mines. The area they were at was "Partisan" area and mines were a favorite weapon to destroy and interrupt supplies and troops of course. He and his group usually found several on their tours and were successful with deactivating them and so it happened that it became his primary duty.
At one point another NCO said: I can't believe you are so keen to go for the mines all the times.
That made my father flip and he replied: What the f... is wrong with you? How can somebody be keen to go out and search for mines, but "somebody's got to do it".
He told me it was a duty and every morning he went out he was scared and every evening he returned he was thankful for another day.
He also said that he was lucky that all of the mines he found were of the kind that detonated when pressure was applied. Apparently there were some mixed in there which were secured against being picked up, so they would detonate either way, upon push or pull.
This little talk was all I ever heard about war from my father. He was born in 1906, so he experienced the WWI and the desolate times after it as a kid and then WWII as a soldier. Any time the talks got to a war subject he would turn around and ignore.
Had to tell this, as Randy's title were the exact words that my father used.
Konrad
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Great pic as usual Randy and thanks to Konrad for sharing his fathers story with us.