The Lobo Tank Busters; Ag Day March 15th By: Stan Jordan This picture was given to me by Oley McMichael, the date on the postcard was 1915. The first partial building on the left hand side was a tin shop. I don’t remember just who that was, but I remember of at least three more…
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Origins of Veteran’s Day, and other stories – Stan Jordan
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The Lobo Tank Busters; This Past Growing Season; I Attended The Senior Citizens Breakfast At The High School The Lobo Tank Busters By: Stan Jordan This morning, we four pilots in our P51D’s had on extra fuel tanks and we headed northeast to the small country of Luxembourg. Some of the Resistance people gave us…
“The Cell Phone Craze, and other Happenings” – Stan Jordan
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The Lobo Tank Busters By: Stan Jordan We are going down to the area of Duren Germany, one of their better middle size cities. This city has been bombed time and time again and is pretty much destroyed. But it is still a big, busy railroad yard. This place is well guarded by automatic anti–aircraft…
Adventures Around a Bonfire and Assorted Stories – Stan Jordan
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THE LOBO TANK BUSTERS By: Stan Jordan We four P51D’s were in flight to around the Duren, Germany area. My wing man was off to my left and back a little bit, the other two pilots were to his left a little bit. I sure like this plane. I crawled into it and closed the…
“More on Medical Marijuana”, and Assorted Stories – Stan Jordan
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THE LOBO TANK BUSTERS By: Stan Jordan On today’s mission, we went north up to southern Belgium. This is fall now and most of the leaves are gone from the trees and the Germans are fighting hard against Patton’s troops as they are nearing some German soil. The German border in this area is close…
The Land of Gosh – Stan Jordan
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The Land of Gosh By: Stan Jordan The fact that the state of Ohio issue 3 about legalizing the use of marijuana, compels me to tell you about an old WWII army buddy of mine and their state of chaos dealing with the same issue. After the end of WWII, Ben went back to his…
Some Football History of AHS – Stan Jordan
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By: Stan Jordan The above picture is of the Antwerp High School Football team in the fall of 1938. We were undefeated, untied and un-scored upon – the only team in the state of Ohio with a record like that, for that year. I remember after we were un-scored upon in the third game, Coach…
Wacky Weed – Stan Jordan
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The Lobo Tank Busters By: Stan Jordan On today’s mission we had a ball in the area of Renanange, France! We came upon a convoy of old German tanks. I think they were used Rommel in North Africa, maybe called the M10. They were in a column retreating towards Belgium. These tanks only had about…
Senior Center and the Fall Elections – Stan Jordan
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The Lobo Tank Busters By: Stan Jordan On today’s mission, we were to go to the Stuttgart, Germany area. Some of the free-French told us there might be a launching pad area over that way for the German V-2 Rocket that is causing so much trouble for the English at London. For the first 300…
Credit Where Credit is Due – Stan Jordan
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The Lobo Tank Busters By: Stan Jordan On today’s raid, we had on extra gas tanks and we flew straight west to the French and German border to a place called Wolfhaggen. This is a big railroad yard that connects to the French National Railway. It was a very big yard and it looked like…
Lobo Tank Busters & assorted tales – Stan Jordan
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The Lobo Tank Busters By: Stan Jordan We took off this morning about like any other morning on dawn patrol. We had on a full-load of rockets and ammo, but no extra gas tanks. We were on a common hunt and destroy mission, when the radio crackled and Col. Bainbridge called and said some of…
In God We Trust – Stan Jordan
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The Lobo Tank Busters, Ol’ #9, The Methodist Church and Parsonage, The Memorial in Rennes FranceIn God We Trust By: Stan Jordan Back in 1941-42, I was a senior at AHS. One of my teachers, Mr. Wilbur Carter, taught American History – one of my favorite subjects. The world was in a turmoil at that…
Help was On the Way! – Stan Jordan
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The Lobo Tank Busters, Horse-power Holiday; Tractor-Pull at Hicksville Fairgrounds, Hotels & Boarding Houses in Old AntwerpThe Lobo Tank Busters By: Stan Jordan We took off this morning on dawn patrol and we headed over towards Germany, Ruhr Valley. That is the Pittsburgh of Germany. Many factories, foundries, and defense plants. We were up about…
