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    Mr “ABWorsham”,

    I think that’s a really fine pic of your granddad in his WW1 uniform.  Are you named after him(the 3rd) or is your A&A.ORG handle in his honor?

    By the way, you’re info lists you as located in East Texas.  Would that be anywhere close to the Longview, TX area?  It would be nice to have a new player in our games if so.  Also, my Dad and friends play in Shreveport, LA, just down the road.    Tall Paul

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    My avatar photo is of my late father, armored division, 1st and 20th, under Gen. Ike. Was the top gunner/spotter on a Sherman.  He enjoyed watching my brother and I and friends play Axis and Allies, though never played himself.  I had the fortune to join him at an army reunion once, wow… the stories I heard.  Despite growing up in the great depression and seeing the atrocities of WWII, his nickname was 'Jolly", because he was.


  • @Tall:

    Mr “ABWorsham”,

    I think that’s a really fine pic of your granddad in his WW1 uniform.  Are you named after him(the 3rd) or is your A&A.ORG handle in his honor?

    By the way, you’re info lists you as located in East Texas.  Would that be anywhere close to the Longview, TX area?  It would be nice to have a new player in our games if so.  Also, my Dad and friends play in Shreveport, LA, just down the road.    Tall Paul

    I’m named after him. He was the first, I’m the the 4th, my son is the 5th.

    I live near Tyler, 45 mins away from Longview. I’ll play A&A anytime. Give me a pesonal message and I’ll give you my email and phone number.

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    Hello,

    Does one have to have a minumum number of posts to be able to up-load pics(of my Dad in WW2) or is it that I just don’t know the process???  You’re allowed to call me ignorant(grin) if you inform me how to accomplish it.

    I was able to change my settings and add a pic of my Dad there, but it is so small and it feels a little unusual having his pic on my account.  If it were his account, it would be named “Big H” as that’s what he’s been called for decades.  Thanks,  Tall Paul


  • go to aditional atachments and press upload and then browse then click a picture or file under 285kbs (that might not be the cerect number)

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    Allright!  Thanks for the help “IRock”.  In my book,…you do ROCK

    This is my favorite picture of my Dad in WW2.  It’s wintertime just before the Battle of the Bulge.  Notice that my Dad is wearing a white snow cover.  It was rather unusual for US Army soldiers at that time to have them.  Since he was on an out-post on the front lines or even sometimes inside the German lines it was issued to him, along with the Thompson.  When the Germans overan his OP at the start of the “Bulge” he had to make his way 20 or so miles back to the American lines.  Once there the M.P.‘s noticed the white snow cover which was more common for the German troops, his being quite tall(6’-7"), angular, and being of English/German descent all made the M.P.'s suspicious of him and so they held him for questioning until someone from his unit could be located and vouch for him.  Remember, the Germans had parachuted  several American-speaking German commandoes into the American lines at the start of the battle to create confusion.  My Dad said he was very glad to get back to his unit alive not having been  shot by either the Germans OR the Americans, haha.

    Of course I’m just paraphrasing.  His article on this was probably 5-7 pages if I remember correctly and had several other “happennings” as well.

    By the way, my Dad would NEVER consider himself a hero and has told me so many stories of the infantrymen that he encountered that were ALWAYS facing death every minute of there lives.  Sure, he had his moments of sufferring artillery, sniper fire, and fighter-bombers(ME-262)…but not 24/7 like the line infantry did.  He really respected those guys and helped them out ANYTIME he could.  My point is that my Dad was a soldier that although he voluntered for some hazardous duty, simply just did his duty, and was fortunate enough to live through it.

    I hope I didn’t get too long-winded for anyone.  I’m sorry if I did.  I’m sure everyone won’t hesitate to let me know their opinions on this.    Later,    Tall Paul

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    DARN!  This pic of my Dad is 423 instead of 256 and so it’s too large a file.  Sorry guys, I appologize.  Maybe I can find some of them that are small enough.    Tall Paul


  • Here is a picture of a small unknown German unit, that my Grandfather brought back from the war.

    german unit.jpg


  • Here is a picture of a german woman named Lisa Averbach in Luftwaffa Uniform.

    German Woman Lisa.jpg


  • Here is a picture of an unknown German.

    Steven Hotcaveg 4.jpg


  • Here is a picture of a group of youthful German men.

    young german.jpg


  • Here is my Grandfather, Archie Worsham Jr at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma.

    pa pa Fort Still.jpg


  • My grandfather, A.B Worsham Jr. in uniform.

    pa pa Worsham uniform.jpg

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    ABW,

    I enjoyed seeing those pics of the previous “ABWs”.  Thank you  I feel it very important to remember our predecessors and their stories so we can preserve their part of “History”.

    Although I have already digitized several dozen pics of my Dad in WW2 I haven’t taken the time to get them reduced in “volume” so that I might share them here with ya’ll(I’m from the South,…and ya’ll is a contraction for you all).  Does anyone know how I might EASILY make these pics smaller in volume.  As they are they’re almost twice the maximum allowed on this forum.  Thanks in advance.
                                                                                        “Tall Paul”


  • Tall Paul I had the same problem, i had an printer/scanner from 1999. I just bought a newer model and it scanned these pictures great.

    My grandfather had some type of relations with the german women Lisa, I don’t know if they were lovers or friends, but he took great pride over that picture and talked about her.


  • @ABWorsham:

    Here is a picture of a group of youthful German men.

    I think they are of the R.A.D. wich was the Reichsarbeitsdienst…they all got that spat and similar looking insignias on their clothings…probably arround 1943

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