THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE FIRST FLORIDA CHAPTER

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1 southern outpost THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE FIRST FLORIDA CHAPTER Issue MAR-APR-may 2013 A very hot barrel somewhere in se asia Editor Emmett Thompson Leonard Rd. Lutz FL KT4AL@att.net 1

2 HEADQUARTERS PRESIDENT David Thomas 78 SE Fisher Way Loop, Ocklawaha, FL VICE PRESIDENT Charles Craven 1100 SE 170th Street, Summerfield, FL SECRETARY Stan Kinmonth 194 Malley Cove Lane Fleming Island, FL TREASURER Michael Roberts 1510 SE 5th Street Stuart, FL WEBSITE ADMINISTRATOR / ONLINE ACTIVITY ADMIN. Roger Francis 110 Sweetwater Blvd.,N, Longwood, FL REGIONAL CORORDINATORS Panhandle Region-Russell Deese North I75 Corridor Region-Jerry Sumner Northern Region-Joe Lorentzson Central Region-Charles Hildebrant Western Region-George Hecht Eastern Region-Michael Roberts Southwestern Region-Curt Leonard Southeastern Region-Fred Perkins NEWSLETTER EDITOR Emmett Thompson Leonard Rd. Lutz, FL KT4AL@att.net NEWSLETTER STAFF Roland Grady Dick Deren Christian Isaly CLUB T-SHIRT SALES Peggy and Walter Keller th Avenue South, Safety Harbor, FL , tokarev@earthlink.net CONTRIBUTING EDITORS THIS ISSUE Terry Burton CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRATHERS THIS ISSUE : 2

3 PAGE 3 President s report I would like to start out with a big Thanks to Col Roberts, and his crew. The 2 nd Qtr. meeting was held at the road to victory Museum. The Museum has a lot of really interesting military items. If you have not been to the Museum it is well worth your time to go check it out. Behind the Museum is a very nice park you could pack a picnic lunch and go visit the museum and then have lunch in the park. Col Roberts and crew provided us with a great lunch. The meeting went well things seem to be pretty quiet out there. We talked about new T shirt designs and some changes to be considered for the next Rally. There were also plans for a weekend event to be held in the Ocala National Forest. This would not be a meeting but a possible cook out and trail ride. More information will be provided on this event. Please let I or your area coordinators know if you are interested in an event such as this. The 3 rd Quarter meeting will be August 10 or 17. Probably will be in the Tampa area will post ASAP. I hope everyone is doing well. Please go out and support the events in your area and have a good time. I would ask that everyone pray for our troops and this country. Thank you. Dave Thomas. 3

4 Central Dispatch Sat April 20th 2013 Central luncheon at Burke's BBQ Fruitland park. By David Johnson Hello there members. Well the weather might of not been the best this weekend but we still had a good lunch at the grand opening at Burke's BBQ in Fruitland park. (Thank you J.C for the great food!) We had had some trucks there for every one to view like Dave's Halftrack and his jeep, Mike and Buddy Chidester's M-35-A3, "Cholly" Hildebrant's CCKW and WC Dodge. Other members who attended the luncheon was Doug Krause, Ezra Johnson,David Johnson and Robert "Torpedo"Thomas. Well until next time keep them trucks Rolling. Over and out. 4

5 Note from the Editor; Please send all correspondence in a WORD document and photos in a JPEG format. Anything else and I have to do a lot of typing as this is the most un-user friendly program I have ever used. Also, sorry for the continued delays as I am learning how to work this program and not a lot of training is possible over the phone. If you do send photos, please send me the name of the person that took the photo and what it is, and who owns it. Please pick the photos you want to be published and not send a bunch of them as it fills my server making it time consuming to dig through the lot. With all the parties and projects going on, not to mention work, I sometimes have trouble getting my priorities straight. I will endeavor to improve. Thanks, Emmett OBITUARY In the last edition of the newsletter we published a story submitted by Terry Burton on D-Day Veteran Jim Smith. It is with great sadness the Terry reports that Jim passed away on April 19th at the grand age of 89 years. He is having a full military funeral on May 20th which would have been his 90th birthday. At his request, his ashes are to be placed in the remains of the German Bunker he destroyed on D-Day 6th June 1944 on Gold Beach in Normandy. 5

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7 3rd Quarter meeting 10 August 2013 Market of the Marion There have been some major changes that will effect the rally and we would like to talk about those changes. Lunch will be from 11:30 to 12;30 Meeting to follow 7

8 Western Region Hits the Greens Again By Dick Deren Photos by Dick Deren The 5 th Annual Military Muster Charity Golf Tournament was held at the Fox Hollow Country Club in Trinity (New Port Richey) Florida on March 18 th. FFC was invited to provide a vehicle display by tournament organizer, Bill Gilkes. FFC members Roland Grady, with 44 MB and Dick Deren with 42 GMC CCKW352 provided the vehicles. Highlight of the tournament was the opening ceremony which included the placing of the Colors by the USMC Amtrak Bn. Color Guard (headquartered on Gandy Blvd. in Tampa) and the Amputee Veterans Association Color Guard and the placing of a wreath in memory our fallen heroes. Our next tournament will be the Birdies for the Brave Tournament in April. Roland Dick 8

9 For all you Deuce owners out there Feb 1999 issue of PS mag. (The Preventive Maintenance Monthly) 9

10 GA REGIONAL MAP PANHANDLE REGION NORTH I75 CORRIDOR REGION FL NORTHERN REGION Panhandle Region (FL/GA Cavalry) Russell Deese, Cairo, GA. North I75 Corridor Region Jerry Sumner, Chula, GA. CENTRAL REGION Northern Region Joseph Lorentzson, Orange Park, FL. Central Region (Central Dispatch) Charles Hildebrant, Wildwood, FL. WESTERN REGION EASTERN REGION Western Region (The Western Front) George Hecht Southwestern Region Curt Leonard, Sarasota, FL. SOUTHWESTERN REGION SOUTHEASTERN REGION Eastern Region Michael Roberts, Stewart, FL. Southeastern Region Fred Perkins, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. MAP NOT TO SCALE 10

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12 He left Southampton at around 9.30pm on June 5 th on massive United States landing craft. During the night he was woken up and offered food, but didn t feel like eating. The tension was building up inside him as it was with everyone else, then at 6am he landed on Gold Beach. Sydney Bernstein was 28 years old when he became part of the first wave of British troops to arrive on the French shores on June 6 th, Along a 50 mile stretch of Normandy coast, the allied troops began advancing towards the enemy lines and Operation Overload- D-Day had begun! Sydney was a sapper in the Royal Engineers in the 81 st assault squadron. He was in one of nine Churchill tanks and was in the first wave to land on Gold Beach. I was too busy to be scared he says, there was no time to think or be worried, you had to go there to do a job and if you came out of it alive, all well and good. We did lose one tank to the biggest mine I ever saw, four of the five men in it died and the fifth was permanently blinded. We had American soldiers to our right and Canadians to our left. The Americans sadly lost a lot of men. But everyone was well trained and we had three ships behind us firing salvo after salvo to areas in front of us to give us support. We ourselves were supporting the Canadians as they made their way up a hill, but by the end of the day the allied troops had made their way over the hill at Gold Beach. Sydney, a self-confessed insomniac said, we had advanced quite a bit by the evening of D-Day and we finally settled in an orchard come evening to rest and I was so tired that is the only time in my life I have ever managed to sleep right the way through to the morning. That particular night as tired as we all were the mood was exuberant amongst us all. But even now, all these years later Sydney said he often woke up in the middle of the night and wondered if he really did land on Gold Beach all those years ago or was it a bad dream, it all seems such a distant memory. 12

13 Sydney is Jewish and was born in the East End of London; he admitted that he had some extra incentive to do some Germans in, as he once put it, I had pride in in my Regiment, pride in that I was British and pride in my Jewish faith, he said. After the awful D-Day itself, Sydney s 81st Assault Squadron steam-rolled its way through Normandy into Belgium and Holland, then by February 1945 they had reached Northern Germany. With the Germans flagging on all fronts, Sydney was witness to the horrific scenes at the infamous Bergen- Belsen concentration camp after its liberation in April Although it did not have the killing ovens like Auschwitz, more that 35,000 prisoners, most of them Jewish had died there, many of them from typhoid which was running rampant in the camps inhumane conditions. It was really too bad to describe said Sydney, it s difficult to put into words because it was so awful there. The prisoners were just walking skeletons. We only spent a few hours there as we were ordered to push on, but it really was the most terrible scene to ever have to witness. We gave them some food and I was able to talk to them in Yiddish, which really amazed many of the soldiers. Sadly Sydney passed away in 2012 at the grand age of 96 years. Article written by Terry Burton 13

14 CHASCO FIESTA PARADE NEW PORT RICHEY FLORIDA 6 APRIL 2013 BY DICK DEREN PHOTOS BY KELLIE WILLSON This our fifth year of joint participation with Holiday Detachment 567, Marine Corps League, in the Chasco Fiesta Parade, marked another successful venture. FFC fielded 15 wehicles and loaded them up with Marine Veterans, Honor Guard, Auxillary, their families and friends and FFC family and friends. As in the past, the Detachment furnished the pizza and drinks for our annual tailgate party held while we waited for the parade to start. This year the parade actually started on time. The only glitch was trying to fit 15 vheicles in the one vehicle space the parade people allotted us to line up in! The vehicle line-up included 4 jeeps, 6 six by s, one scout car, one staff car, 1 CUCV, one ambulance and one 3/4 ton. All the vehicles made it through the parade and all the personnel made it through as well. The only incident was Marine Soto s bull dog. He followed the Detachment Color Guard, but with his short legs he could not keep up. So, we had to put him in Roland Grady s MB for most of the parade. Can t say he didn't try. Riding with Cliff Moffett in his M3A1 Scout Car was a special guest, General George Patton (aka Cliff s Dad). The entire parade route was literally crowded 3 deep with spectators and they appreciated the Marines judging by all the cheering generated as we rolled by. Following the parade we all headed back to Detachment 567 for a little adult refreshment. Later that evening, some of the lads and lassies ventured back downtown to participate in the Fiesta festivities. Line up included: R. Grady-MB, R. Curran and N. Price in T. Voyles GPW, W. Carlton-M35, D. Deren, Diane and B. Waterman CCKW 353, T. Jarman-M515, Tom and Lora Hauslein in T Jarmen s CUCV, C. Moffett, G. Patton and wife M3A1, S. Deren and K Willison in C. Isaly s M35, M. Evans and his two sons in B. Metnick s Staff car, Alan and Becky Steen in Bob s M35, Brad and Sally Martin-GPW, T. Butler 5 ton, J Lindell-M37, H. Townsend M1010, Doug in John s M35. Thanks to the Marine Corps League. 14

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16 FYI Submission of Articles for Publication Articles for the newsletter will be accepted by . Please try to limit your article to no more than one typed page in length. The editor reserves the right to accept, reject, edit, lengthen or shorten any submission, as required, at his discretion. Ethanol-free Gasoline For the locations of gas stations that sell ethanol free gasoline, go to pure-gas.org or Info furnished by FFC Member Scott Campbell Welcome New Members Christopher Heesch 1945 Willys Andy Shillinglaw M151A1 Please send the editor any stories, photos or related information so that it can be included in the next copy of the Southern Outpost. I will try and include any materiel that is related to our hobby. 16

17 UPCOMMING EVENTS 8 June 2013 We have a military show that I thought your members may be interested in. It is the Florida Military Collectors Show at Fantasy of Flight to be held 8 June 2013, it will be located at 1400 Broadway Blvd SE Polk City FL right at Exit 44 on I-4 between Tampa and Orlando, Hours are 9:00AM to 4:00PM. For information please contact Greg Spalding (407) or QED4@aol.com 15 June There will be a local Touch-a- Truck from 9am to noon at the Sports complex on the southwest corner of Stirling Road and Palm Ave. (100th Ave.) We plan to leave the workshop at 8:40am to convoy 1 mile to the show. Contact Fred Perkins(954) eve s. 29 June 2013 Needed military static vehicles for the Congressmans Annual Veterans Resource Fair. Located at River Ridge High School, 11:00 to 2pm. for more info. 4 July 2013 Big City of Plantation Independence Parade. Staged NLT 8:30 at the Westgate Shopping Center. This is well attended! Contact Fred Perkins, (954) eve s or (954) cell on day of event only. 17

18 Stan Kinmonth 194 Malley Cove Lane Fleming Island, FL NORTH I75 CORRIDOR REGION JERRY SUMNER Visit FLMVPA.org 18 for more information

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20 SUPPLY ROOM ads are free to Members and non-members but are limited to 100 words and one photo per ad This section is intended for persons who have an occasional item (s) for sale. Occasionally I will publish ads from other newsletters which may be of interest to Members. Ads will run for two consecutive issues and then be dropped. If you wish to extend an ad, please let me know as soon as you can. If, however, you have a lot to sell, I suggest putting it on a full page ad at $5.00 per issue for Members or $10.00 per issue for non-members. Business card ads are $10.00 for six issues for Members and $20.00 for six issues for non-members. Ads should be type written (less chance for me to make an error). to KT4AL@att.net or us mail: Emmett Thompson Leonard Rd. Lutz, FL SOUTHERN OUTPOST THE SUPPLY ROOM Nothing for sale this issue. 20

21 Recent Acquisitions From reptilian69 (who ever you are) Walter Keller s new toy.nice! 21

22 MANEUVERS Unless otherwise noted, the contact person for events listed here are the regional coordinators. FYI events are informational only. Attendance is on an individual case basis. All activities are open to any Member regardless of which region they live in. If you are aware of an activity that you think the club would be interested in, call your regional coordinator to have it put on the schedule. REGULARLY SCHEDULED EVENTS Panhandle Region-Applebee s Car Show, Moultrie, GA. First Saturday of each month hrs. till? 50% off your meal if you enter your vehicle. 1st, 2nd, 3rd place peoples choice trophies awarded each month. FFC CON: Russell Deese, rdeese@windstream.net, Southeast Region-Meets most Friday nights (weather permitting) at the Tower Shops in Davie, FL. in conjunction with the weekly car show in the parking lot. FFC CON: Fred Perkins, perk51@att.net, Western Region-Meets on the last Thursday of each month at Quaker Steak and Lube, 49th Street and U.S. 19, Pinellas Park, FL. Around 1700 hrs. FFC CON: George Hecht, georgeh@depcopump.com, Central Region-Brooksville area meets on the second Thursday each month at the Chick-Fil-A Car Show, Rt. 50, Brooksville to 2000 hrs. FFC CON: John Manolis, jemanolis@aol.com, FYI-Third Sunday every month. Putnum County Fairgrounds Car Show and Swap Meet, 117 Yelvington Rd., East Palatka, FL to 1500 hrs. Event Con: FYI-Second Sunday every month. USA Flea Market Car Show, US. 19, Port Richey, FL. FYI-First Saturday of every month. Dade City Car Show, downtown hrs. FFC CON: John Bolender, , JJBolender@aol.com FYI-First Sunday of each month. Webster, FL. Car and Cycle Swap Meet Websterautoswap.net It is suggested that if you plan to attend any of the above on going activities, that you call the contact to make sure the activity is still on for the day you plan to attend. Some of the activities may be suspended in the summer months. MANEUVERS CONTINUED ON BACK COVER 22

23 Devil dogs military depot 6th annual military show, 9-10 mar 2013 By Dick Deren Devil Dog, John Lindell has done it again with another successful spring rally at the Gunn Highway Flea Market in Odessa, FL. This year s show was expanded to two days in hopes to bring out more Veterans, militaria collectors and vehicle enthusiasts. There were 17 plus military vehicles on display ( a good many of them belonging to John).. FFC members displaying their vehicles along with John were Emmett Thompson, M151A2, Mike Davis driving Emmett s M109A3, Roland Grady, MB, new member Andy Shillinglaw, M151A1, Walter Keller, Mk48/14, new member Thomas Butler, M934, Walter Carlton, M-35, Phil Sieglein and his driver, Kuebelwagen, Dick Deren and Bob Waterman, CCKW 352,. Other FFC members attending were Terry Voyles, John Vara, George Kellner, Ed and Katherine McKenzie, and Hugh Townsend all of whom had vender spaces. Each vehicle owner and vendor received a nice trophy to commemorate the occasion compliments of the Devil Dog Military Depot and John Lindell. Thanks John for a great show. Emmett and Roland Andy s new toy 23

24 From the Secretary A few years ago, the club decided to stop issuing laminated ID badges every year. The last batch went out without a year on them; intending that they be kept and used year after year. If you have an ID without a year on it, and it s in good shape, this message is not for you. However, if you are a new member or a member whose badge is tattered, please a request for a badge to me. I will compile a list between now and April 31; at which time I will run off a batch of badges. Please note this is to minimize scrap from the laminating process. Also, If you have previously requested a new / replacement badge PLEASE RESUBMIT your request. My stantr6@comcast.net Please put FFC-ID in the subject line Thanks, Stan Kinnonth, Secretary 24