Raconteur Report

Research, photography, research, interviews, research, and travel, plus cajoling a major corporation into co-operation, and writing the thin...

From  Curtis LeMay and the USAAF's Greatest Hits album, featuring Hirohito and the Briquettes.

 

 

h/t  WRSA

h/t  VFLL Just because neither some drooling crayon merchant at the Hartford Courant , nor any of his woketard editors, know anything about ...

  Anyone who does this for more than two minutes per day can rightly be regarded as a thoroughgoing moron. Every single time. There, I said ...

  Fifty-four years ago, the US Navy nearly blew the USS Forrestal  out of the water off the coast of Vietnam, at the height of the Vietnam W...

h/t  tsk tsk should've known better AKA "Don't pee on my head, and tell me it's raining." A mere fraction of the Port ...

  h/t Matt Bracken,  WRSA , and over two thousand Vietnam POWs Many reports put the K with J, rather than C. Either approach works. This is ...

Seventy-six years and about two hours ago, men not much older than the idiots out rioting and looting last weekend, an...

Commander Zero reminded us yesterday that this is Rooftop Korean Anniversary time. His linked story, however, is large...

Some folks, on multiple threads,  apparently think I somehow missed Robert L. Gore's most recent essay . Au contra...

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference. - Robert F...

The Golden Age in the Golden State, circa 1958. Actual service, for 25¢/gallon. If somebody did this now, even at current prices, they...

  Che got nine bullets in his sorry @$$, and all I got was this rockin' meme! Salud, bitch. Forgive the lapse, but as Boat Guy ...

It's long past time the idiot savants proposing more freedom restrictions, that have never worked, recalled from the educat...

Whether you saw this in the theater and liked it, missed it and want to catch up, or never heard of it, but want to see a movie about wa...

Older Brother (the crazy one of the family; no, really ) knew from way out that he was not college material, long before the...