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I ran across these excellent photos in the National Archives (digitized and online) and thought some of you Thompson freaks http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/blink.gif http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/laugh.gif might appreciate them. These brave lads (members of the Mitchell Field airbase flying squadron) fought, and many died, to preserve our many freedoms, like the Second Amendment (Right To Keep And Bear Arms). Let's not drop the ball at our generation, in the Twenty-first Century!! http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/ohmy.gif http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/cool.gif Regards, Walter

 

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To think that most of Mitchell Field has become a shopping mall!!! It's on Long Island, about 10 miles east of New York City.

 

Phillasteen,

Hey, that's my neck of the woods. are you from NY also?

Mitchell Field is also where Mr. Lindburgh took off for the first trans-Atlantic flight.

I believe there is a Krispy Kreem shop at that spot now http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/smile.gif

Zamm

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Hell,

How do you like that. I grew up in Suffolk county,

live in Patchogue, work in Manhattan now, downtown. Upper west side, you must have been

past a place I do some work for, Maxilla and Mandible, all kinds of bones and stuff, Columbus and

81st st.

Just to keep to the Thompson topics, where do you keep yours? Florida I presume?

Is it possible to own a semi in the 5 borroughs?

Best, Zamm

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I've been to M&M, it's a neat store.

 

I work downtown too, on Broad Street, about a block from the former HQ of the Auto Ordnance Company (the building is long gone). My Thompsons live in Florida - not surprising that no semi (or full) Thompsons are allowed in the city. The irony that Tommy Guns came from a company in downtown Manhattan is not lost on me.

 

There's a Colt 21 and a Savage 28 on display at the NYPD museum on Old Slip, you should makes sure to check those out some time. I believe the Colt 21 is the one used [EDITED HERE TO CORRECT] to murder Frankie Yale.

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Thanks,

I did not know that. Will check them out as soon as the weather get's above 10 degrees http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/wink.gif

Here's a shot of the Colt 21 at the Museum's website. Looks like a C drum on it.

http://nycpolicemuseum.org/html/tour/williesutton.html

Shame that the old biulding does not exist anymore. I work on Broadway a block north of Canal. Allways thought I would take a walk down a have a look at the original offices of Auto-Ord. Too bad http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/sad.gif

I 've allways though of running over and scouting the area by the Brooklyn Navy Yard where

Fisher Spring Company was housed. See if it is still there, and find out if any of the locals

worked for them so I could ask what they did with all of the L drums that where rejected

by the US Gov. wishful thinking http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Small world, talk soon, Zamm

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I am glad everyone seems to be enjoying the memories that these photos engender, but let's not forget the guys in the photos and the generation that they represent. They fought and died for the freedoms that we all now enjoy in this nation. Those same freedoms that they sacrificed for, many of our sleezy politicians are now intent upon taking away, unless we awaken to the awful truth!! http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/sad.gif What freedoms, you may ask, are these politicians trying to remove? Let's start with the First, Second and Fourth Amendments to the United States Constitution, since that is where our freedoms are currently being erroded most rapidly!! http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/ohmy.gif http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/blink.gif http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/mad.gif Regards, Walter

 

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."-Edmund Burke

 

"The principle of free speech is no new doctrine born of the Constitution of the United States. It is the heritage of English-speaking peoples, which has been won by incalculable sacrifice, and which they must preserve so long as they hope to live as free men."-Robert Lafollette

 

"None can love freedom but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license, which never hath greater scope than under tyrants."-John Milton

 

"To preserve the freedom of the human mind then freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom."-Thomas Jefferson

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