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I saw it this afternoon and was very impressed. Very well made and grimy but not gratuitously gory. No doubt our UP aficionados will enjoy checking out the authenticity of the gear.

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The Spirit of the American Doughboy These statues may be found over many locations in the US. I've seen one Pat in Rock Springs, WY while passing through the area on a hunting trip. There is another just outside Soldier Field in Chicago Here are a few links to the story behind the statues: http://en...

James Coburn played Sgt. Steiner in Cross of Iron. I liked it myself.

Steve

I'd agree with the surreal part, but it is a French movie in French with subtitles, so that part comes with the territory.[;)] Jodie Foster's bit part was pretty interesting, given she did it in French without overdubbing, that Harvard (or was it Yale?) education paid off.

I picked mine up at the Museum of the Horse Soldier in Tucson, so I wasn't sure of the actual means of ordering one other than what I got out of the book itself. Glad you found a source, enjoy,

Steve

I just picked up a paperback book published in 2004 titled "US Cavalry Cartoons" by J.R. Williams. You may remember Williams as the cartoonist who did the old "Out Our Way" cartoon that ran from 1922 to 1957. Anyway, Williams was born in 1888 and spent 3 years in the Cavalry arou...

I'll chime in with a recently released movie, A Very Long Engagement. While this one can be written off as a "chick flick" by some, it has very good and accurate war scenes interspersed with both a love and detective story. The search by the main character (portrayed by a lovely and fragil...

They seem to be running the show in real time for the most part. I think they're about in November, 1876. They've got a few years to cover before the town burns down in September of 1879, so things may change when that happens. For more info on the "fictionalized" real characters of Deadwo...

It was my impression that for the most part, the National Guard Troops left the border by late 1916 or early 1917 and the Border Patrol function was taken back over by regular Cavalry and Infantry into and through WWI. Case in point is here at Camp Little in Nogales, AZ. Most of the Nat'l guard unit...

I probably should have included it in the WWI posting, but given it was published in 1937, I figured it represented the mindset guiding the Army at the dawn of WWII.

Steve

Here's a handful of publicly published training books/textbooks: Horses, Saddles and Bridles by General William H. Carter, Fourth Edition, The Lord Baltimore Press, 1918 (Classic Publication, updated somewhat with "new" photos of some 1912 equipments) Basic Course For Cavalry by Lincoln C....

Cavalry Training Manuals: Cavalry Drill Regulations, War Department Document No. 340, 1909 Cavalry Service Regulations (Experimental), War Department Document No. 461, 1914 Cavalry Drill Regulations, War Department Document No. 561, 1916 Manual for Non-Commissioned Officers and Privates of Cavalry o...

Cavalry Arms & Equipment Manuals for the Period: Horse Equipments and Equipments for Officers and Enlisted Men, Ordnance Department No. 1719, May 10, 1905, Revised July 3, 1908, Printed 1917 Description and Directions for Use and Care of Cavalry Equipment, Model of 1912, Ordnance Department No. ...

The following are mainly textbooks and Field Manuals from the 30's into WWII, but I'm also including some Autobiographies by a couple of old Cavalrymen who transitioned into "the Modern Army" during the war. Tactics and Technique of Cavalry, 5th Edition, The Military Service Publishing Com...

Here's some fiction about the Punitive Expedition and Border Conflict. They Came to Cordura by Glendon Swarthout, Random House, 1958 The Tin Lizzie Troop by Glendon Swarthout, Doubleday, 1972 Last Reveille by David Morrell, Warner Books, 1977, Paperback 1994 Chihuahua 1916 by Otis Carney, Prentice H...

Volume I is also available online, I have always really enjoyed Volume I.

http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/comment ... 0index.htm

Biographies of key participants during the Mexican Revolution and Border Conflict 1910-1920. Pat had requested info on biographies of Pancho Villa on another posting, so here goes: Guerilla Warrior-The Early Life of John J. Pershing by Donald Smythe, Charles Scribners, 1973 Until the Last Trumpet So...

Here are some memoirs of military life on the border during the mobilisation period. With the National Guard on the Border-Our National Military Problem by Captain Irving Goff McCann, C.V. Mosby Company, 1917 Watching and Waiting on the Border by Roger Batchelder, Houghton-Mifflin, 1917 The Origin a...

Here are some specific Arizona references. Most of the above references deal with New Mexico and Texas. Buffalo Soldiers at Huachuca-Military Events in the American Southwest from 1910-1916, Huachuca Illustrated, Volume 1, 1993 (Available online) The Forgotten Soldiers-Historical and Archaelogical I...

The Wings and Saddles item is a booklet of 20 some pages. A neat side chapter of cross border raids, etc. written by a former pilot. I don't know much about Alberto Salinas Carranza, but actually Salinas is patronymic (father's name) so his mother was a Carranza as the matronymic in Latin America fo...