I have a question can someone please answer it. Throughout places like this have they taken pictures of names in all places where soldiers have etched there names and families given a photograph of a name that was etched. Like this documentary. Very well done by the way. Please someone give me an answer. Thanks for sharing herr Dave blackburn
Wow exiting! It takes some courage to get down there. Philip Robinson already has been there decades ago. It’s also all on film. This was done for the company he worked for, (Durand England) so he wasn’t lying when he said that it was never filmed commercially. Together with his team he diffused forgotten amonal mines under ground. Now THAT stuff IS exiting. Especially when a chauffeur of a touringcar managed to park exactly on top of a mine. All stuff from the late nineties which is accessible on RU-vid. Hats off for Philip and the rest of the Durand people who worked on many unstable WW1 tunnels containing unstable explosives.
Thanks for informing me this is on RU-vid! I love the 90s (70s, 80s, too) original documentary and explorer-type material documented and archived on RU-vid - for a regular watcher like me - is amazing. There are great Jaques Cousteau films and fantastic (forget the legends name) explorer in Australia who lives with aboriginals in the red center, travels "over the top", likely shows the most OG film of the Kimberly, and does justice to the Torres Strait Islanders between PNG and AUS. He also visits PNG and other areas more regional. He is a LEGEND.
I wish my father would have talked more about his time in the Korean War and the two terms in Vietnam he was in. I know he got spat on when he came home from Vietnam.
Do you have any of his service records or know the unit / outfit he served with? We have a lot of information passed down verbally via my grandfather, a mechanized infantry soldier in Patton's 3rd Army from WWII, but I do not know enough because his service records were lost in the fire of a major record storage building in the ~1970's if I recall correctly. He won a purple heart and he watched his friends die in combat. His 3 best friends in his unit did not come home from Europe, but my grandfather did come home. He would always cry telling us about the war 😢. I also know he got in trouble because he and his friends were celebrating liberation of a town and they got pictures taken by local news in the area of them kissing local girls 😂 while riding atop some motorized army vehicle. That's my grandpa, but in his defense he had not met my grandmother yet, lol. I have narrowed down to 2 units that I believe my grandfather may have served with, but aside from his draft card no info or documents are available online. A lot can be done online though, so I pray the records you need or would benefit from were not lost in the same fire as my grandfather. It's unlikely given my grandpa served a lot earlier, iirc the fire destroyed primarily ww2 veteran's papers and documentation.
