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Eddie Silks and I fooling around. The Thompson sub-machine
gun was given to us by a Major Nero upon a trip to Lydda
airport. Note WW1 helmets. (Major Ulysses S. “Sam”
Nero of 9th Bomber Command, Material. Legendary exploits
with General Billy Mitchell sinking Ostfriesland, and
keeping Ploesti raid B-24’s flying).
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Eddie Silks and I fooling around. The Thompson sub-machine
gun was given to us by a Major Nero upon a trip to Lydda
airport. Note WW1 helmets. (Major Ulysses S. “Sam”
Nero of 9th Bomber Command, Material. Legendary exploits
with General Billy Mitchell sinking Ostfriesland, and
keeping Ploesti raid B-24’s flying).
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Desert Convoy. Note vehicles are dispersed.
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Chow at new destination. Note tables are set on 5 gallon
“Jerry Cans” (5 gal. gasoline cans captured
from Wehrmacht and issued by British. Darragh West,
Libya.
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Me with possibly a cap in front of an abandoned Arab
well. March 1943.
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Locals.
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Original desert transportation.
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Figure in the distance was an Arab praying.
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Abandoned well.
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Well probably never produced water and was abandoned.