I well remember some of the Gasoline Alley of when Skeezix was somewhere in Europe when our troops were fighting the Germans. I wasn’t quite in my teens then. Fond memories. There was one scene where Skeezix and his buddy captured a ‘Kraut’, placed him in their jeep, and when they came to a fork in the road they asked him, “Which way?” The German soldier pointed in one direction and they took the other. WISE.
“our adult grade school teachers were only too happy to relate it as they understood it as small kids at the time.”-——————————————————————-Well, Gweedo, you’re much younger’n me, fersdamhure ! Our HS teachers were the Real Deal from WWII; Our history teacher, a former OSS Captain showed us 8mm movies (no sound) of what he’d seen in Europe and it wasn’t pretty, not by a long shot. Also on board was our English teacher, who’d been shot up pretty badly, Art teacher who was lucky enough to be in ’Patton’s Army plus a former WAAC who taught French and Latin. Still got a beer-drinkin’ partner at the local VFW age 94 and sharper’n ME at remembering details of our younger years, but changes the subject about his days waiting to attack Japan, proper. He thanks God every day for the Atomic Bomb. OBTW, I think this is a ‘colorized’ re-creation of one of the strips from ‘back in the day’ when our world was either in sepia or black ’n white…Keep the Vizine handy. (klink!)
But Jeep-love was a well-established meme back then. There’s a famous cartoon of a G.I. turning his head away and weeping as he mercifully puts a bullet into his broken-beyond-repair Jeep.
cpalmeresq almost 9 years ago
“Letters from home were more precious than gold…”. I’ve heard that sentiment expressed many times.
MJ Premium Member almost 9 years ago
I wonder where they bought that color film.
hsawlrae almost 9 years ago
I well remember some of the Gasoline Alley of when Skeezix was somewhere in Europe when our troops were fighting the Germans. I wasn’t quite in my teens then. Fond memories. There was one scene where Skeezix and his buddy captured a ‘Kraut’, placed him in their jeep, and when they came to a fork in the road they asked him, “Which way?” The German soldier pointed in one direction and they took the other. WISE.
unca jim almost 9 years ago
“our adult grade school teachers were only too happy to relate it as they understood it as small kids at the time.”-——————————————————————-Well, Gweedo, you’re much younger’n me, fersdamhure ! Our HS teachers were the Real Deal from WWII; Our history teacher, a former OSS Captain showed us 8mm movies (no sound) of what he’d seen in Europe and it wasn’t pretty, not by a long shot. Also on board was our English teacher, who’d been shot up pretty badly, Art teacher who was lucky enough to be in ’Patton’s Army plus a former WAAC who taught French and Latin. Still got a beer-drinkin’ partner at the local VFW age 94 and sharper’n ME at remembering details of our younger years, but changes the subject about his days waiting to attack Japan, proper. He thanks God every day for the Atomic Bomb. OBTW, I think this is a ‘colorized’ re-creation of one of the strips from ‘back in the day’ when our world was either in sepia or black ’n white…Keep the Vizine handy. (klink!)
John W Kennedy Premium Member almost 9 years ago
But Jeep-love was a well-established meme back then. There’s a famous cartoon of a G.I. turning his head away and weeping as he mercifully puts a bullet into his broken-beyond-repair Jeep.