Pacific Paratrooper – The Linden Chronicles

May 2, 2016

Pacific Paratrooper: Intermission (5) – POW in Japan

Originally posted on Pacific Paratrooper: Can you imagine what it must be like to be marched out to face a firing squad, say goodbye to your closest friend who is standing next to you and then have the squad shoulder their rifles and march away having not fired a shot? What are the odds on…

PacificParatrooper, G.P. Cox: USO and Nurse – Martha Raye

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The Big Band Era

Originally posted on Pacific Paratrooper: “You ain’t got a thing, if you ain’t got that swing…” Hi-do-ho all you hep-cats out there!! Vincent Lopez Swing was a verb that musicians used long before press agents turned it into a noun or adjective to describe both an attitude toward music and a special way of performing it. “Swing”…