Our Best Is None Too Good

[BearPipes-1]

Ran across this WWII era photo, and was amused ...

(Full size photo here)

[cabinetman]

That's some cool sign. Would look good hangin' in my shop. The one guy looks like he's dressed to make sawdust. Back then they didn't use much of what we consider "dust collection". How did you run across this one?
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[BearPipes-1]

How did you run across this one?

Well, to make a short story longer, I've been playing a grand-strategy WWII computer game, Hearts of Iron II, off and on for a while. I occasionally look up information about some of the better leaders (in this case, Courtney Hodges). The attribution of Hodges' photo took me to the Army's website, and to a page of photos from various eras.

[cabinetman]

Well, to make a short story longer, I've been playing a grand-strategy WWII computer game, Hearts of Iron II, off and on for a while. I occasionally look up information about some of the better leaders (in this case, Courtney Hodges). The attribution of Hodges' photo took me to the Army's website, and to a page of photos from various eras.

You certainly did some research and came up with some great sites and pictures. Thanks. No, I didn't see myself in any of them.
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[lcm1947]

Yeah a pretty cool picture and sign for sure. So a gamer are you. Me too. I love them. I guess the best so far I've played is from Battlefront.Com. The game is Combat Misson - Barbarossa to Berlin.

[Martin]

Photo credit

New Guinea. Pvt. Arthur Ristinen of Menagha, Minn., and Pfc. John Weinzinger of Phillips, Wisconsin, 186th Inf. Reg., 41st Inf. Div., relax in front of Warisota Plantation sawmill run by men of the 186th. Sawmill was used to obtain lumber for bridge construction on the new Oro Bay Dobodura road, New Guinea. (5 May 43) Signal Corps Photo: GHQ SWPA SC 43 5816 (T/4 Harold Newman)

to to Photos WWII, the early years.

[mater]

That was a neat picture.