In one of my Dad's letters to his mother from the beachhead, he writes that he & his buddy Bob Cunningham were listening to the news from the Columbia Broadcasting System in NY. He also wrote: "We have the Jack Benny program on - Jack is still kidding Rochester. Deanna Durbin is singing now "Say A Prayer For The Boys Over There", she has such a beautiful voice!".

This must've given my grandmother the understandable impression that her son was sitting comfortably in some nice dry tent at Anzio, peacefully listening to some kind of cabinet radio on that Sunday night - much as their family would've done at home in Wellesley.

Well, we certainly know THAT wasn't true! So I started wondering - where in the wide wide world of sports, did all the guys on the beachhead get radios???? I couldn't imagine that the Army was handing them out. I did some research and found this article on "Foxhole Radios" by Don Adamson. It also may explain why - during my childhood - radios were one my father's many "tinkering manias" (I think we had more radio cases, vacumn tubes, dials,

and other radio parts in our cellar than Westinghouse!).

http://members.aol.com/djadamson7/articles/foxhole.html

I ordered this from NTIS - The National Technical Information Service. The exact title is:

History of the Army Ground Forces. Study Number 22. The Amphibious Training Center

It was written in 1946 by Capt. Marshall O. Becker

I've just begun skimming it and I am very pleased. I've never seen any similar to it and it covers with illustrations, background on amphibious operations, activation and mission, organization, training at Camp Edwards and Camp Gordon Johnston and an epilogue. Good stuff.

It will come in handy for my documentary, and I'm also planning on copying it for the website in the near future.

http://www.ntis.gov/

Have you all seen this 6 minute video of 1944 Anzio beachhead on youtube?

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Rather than place these on Ebay, I thought I would offer them to my members first.

We are selling all our VHS tapes and converting to disks, and amongst the collection are a few war-related tapes. You can pay me through paypal (will give you my email addy for that upon request), or send me a check. Here's what's for sale. All prices include shipping!

The Windtalkers - Nicholas Cage - $5.00

Pearl Harbor - The History Channel - Three tape set - $15.00

Great Fighting Machines of WWII - 6 tape set - $30.00

All in excellent condition in their original boxes!

Hi everyone, not sure if you have seen these images of WAR.

I was overawed to see such photos.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/photosnormandie/