ok smarty pants!!
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ok smarty pants!!
I've got a book "The Journals of Daniel Boone" and Simon Kenton mentions him in tales, and at Fort Boonesbourgh his picture is hanging up. He also had another one named Neddy but I'm not knowing which one is in the pic so take your pick :D I know my hicks sis, I am one myself so there ya go:D
takes one to know one huh???LMAO!!!
Yes it does, and the second dog... Neddy was named after his son.
Now who is this? I know WarEagle knows this fella.
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Pssssssssssssssst.... Who iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis thisssssssssss?
Okay this was posted on Feb 22nd at 1807 hours, and no one knows who it is but ya'll been looking. Come on, ProudAmerican you should know this you read about them and him.
Maybe there was a movie made about him and his group.... could be.
You guys are freak'n boots.
That's Darby, ya sing about him all the time.
Oh yeh, that's Brig. General Darby.
The Fighting Officer.
My God!!!!!!!!!! It took a Marine to tell you Army guys and especially you Rangers who that was!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so ashaned, thanks FVR I know there's one real soldier in here.
Soldier, you're the soldier. I'm the Marine.
Here is a little about the Col.
William Orlando Darby was born 9 February 1911. He grew up at Ft. Smith Arkansas.
Darby attended West Point and graduated in 1933 as a cadet company commander, he was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Field Artillery. He ranked 177 out of 346, he was assigned to Ft. Bliss in the 1st Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery of the 1st Cavalry Division. The 82nd was the only horse mounted artillery unit remaining in the Army.
On 1 October 1940 he was promoted to Captain after serving with varied artillery units and in many assignments.
Darby received early Amphibious Training Assignment which would help him in later years; in early 1941 he participated in amphibious training in Puerto Rico, and later in North Carolina.
Orders were cut for Darby to ship to Pearl Harbor after November of 1941 but before he shipped over the Japanese attacked the islands.
His orders were changed and he was assigned as aide to Maj. General Russell P. Hartle.
In January of 1942 Hartle, Darby and staff shipped out with the 34th Infantry Division bound for Northern Ireland. Darby requested a combat assignment but was turned down.
British Commandos were recognized as an essential first-strike unit and since Lord Louis Mountbatten was chief of Combined Allied Operations he called upon Colonel Lucian K. Truscott Jr., to form such a unit and in turn Darby was given the Choice assignment.
The unit would be called: Rangers; in the spirit of Rogers Rangers whose operations were successful during the Revolutionary War.
Darby's organization and leadership catapulted the Rangers toward the front where they distinguished themselves in combat from North Africa to Europe.
Darby was killed in Action by an artillery round on 30 April 1945.
At 34 Darby died just a few days before VE Day.
The timing of Darby's death was tragically ironic.
The day before Darby was killed, Mussolini had been slain by Italian partisans in Milan and Generaloberst Heinrich Gottfried von Vietinghoff had agreed to surrender unconditionally all German forces in Italy effective at noon on 2 May.
With further irony, on the day of Darby's death, his name appeared on a list of nominees for promotion to brigadier general being submitted to President Truman. On 2 May, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson recommended to the President that, in view of Darby's outstanding combat record, his name remain on the list and that he be promoted posthumously. Truman agreed and on 15 May 1945, slightly more than three months after his thirty-fourth birthday, Darby was promoted to brigadier general.""
He was the only Army officer to be posthumously promoted to star rank during the war.
Who's this guy?
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Sergeant Major Daniel Joseph "Dan" Daly (November 11, 1873 – April 27, 1937) was a United States Marine and one of only 19 men (and two Marines) to receive the Medal of Honor twice.
seems we're the only ones who know our warriors.
You're good.
I think you may be right.
This is kind of fun. Makes ya do a little thinking.
And who is this?
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Man, I'm stumped, well for now.
The Naval Officer, I've seen that pic somewhere and I am banging my head on the keyboard to remember where.
The second man, I'm lost.
I will find them.
Well this guy here is one of my favorites as we have the same last name and are related on my dads side. Who is it?
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Here lets try this guy he's easier for ya. Now don't get him wrong or I'll disown ya.
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