"just pull that vehicle in behind me"

As Christmas 1944 approached, the American forces in the Ardennes Forest were still in disarray and struggling to hold back the German onslaught.

Versions of the story vary, but what is known is that retreating armor came upon a lone infantryman of the 325th Glider Infantry Regiment digging a foxhole.

He was scruffy, dirty, and battle-hardened. When he realized the retreating armor were looking for a safe place, he told them, “Well buddy, just pull that vehicle in behind me. I’m the 82nd Airborne and this is as far as the bastards are going.”

 They would indeed hold the line before driving the Germans back over the next several weeks.

http://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/6-badass-military-quotes-created-by-combat

For more true hero stories, both military and civilian: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/hero 

Tin Tin and Snowy's guide to WW2 aircraft, 17 selected pieces from a gallery of 5 dozen

A series of drawings of planes during the Second World War, made in the 50s by the artist Hergé (real name - Georges Prosper Remi, known as the author of the comic book "The Adventures of Tintin")

if you want to know what plane it is, and few are not well known, go to the link at the bottom of this gallery, each plane is labeled there. I figure most of you already know them all, I've posted so many WW2 planes in the last 2 years.

For the full gallery http://feldgrau.info/engines/13154-spravochnik-risunki-samoletov

the Scamell Pioneer, with a center pivot front axle steering

http://feldgrau.info/engines/13478-transporter-scamell-pioneer

An Avenger, (torpedo bomber) missing since 1944, was recently located in the waters surrounding the Pacific Island nation of Palau

The Air Force Heritage Flight Foundation founder and chairman Dan Friedkin finances ongoing search and discovery of MIA, at the families request, and scattered among and concealed within the dense mangrove forests, lagoon waters and coral reefs of Palau’s island chain are several dozen U.S. aircraft and the remains of as many as 80 U.S. airmen.

"We have identified 100 cases worldwide that are suitable for recovery and over 200 families have reached out asking for help with MIAs," he said. This case took two months of towing side scan sonar.

“The importance of our mission is reinforced with each new discovery of a missing aircraft," said Eric Terrill, an oceanographer from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, one of Project RECOVER's three founding entities.

Project RECOVER’s goal is finding the final underwater resting places of all Americans missing in action since World War II.

Established in 2012 with initial support from the Office of Naval Research and now private funding, Project RECOVER is a partnership among researchers at the University of Delaware’s College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, and the BentProp Project.

http://www.projectrecover.org/
https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/downed-world-war-ii-aircraft-missing-72-years-located-pacific-islands-project-recover

best photo I've seen yet of a road layer, must be a publicity or advertising shot

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1631935880418477/

the art of Flywheel, made in a German Stalag POW camp, by English prisoners trying to keep up spirits when they were malnourished and imprisoned in drafty huts in freezing northern Europe

they even did art to show what they imagined a auto show would be like if the war wasn't ongoing

and many times they did articles about the history of various car makers

 and had essays on topics like the Gran Prix racers, and the Tourist Trophy, and what British car makers ought to do after the war was over

they even made up their own advertising section

the post about the book that goes into detailed story is at http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-most-amazing-thing-i-saw-today-book.html  this post is just for the art