Links
Suggested sites to visit
Suggested sites to visit
Aircraft Mechanic Shirts
www.aircraftmechanicshirts.com/
Aircraft Mechanic Shirts.com was founded on a simple principle. Make kick-ass shirts you can be proud to wear. Wrenching on aircraft can be a thankless job but that�??s no excuse to wear lame shirts. Thanks to our loyal fans, we�??ve grown a lot in the first year of operation. This allows us the privilege to keep creating new products showcasing the real heroes of aviation, the Knucklebusters!
Suggested Documentaries
Suggested Documentaries
Some selected favorite military documentaries (These sites have no official affiliation with www.marinebattleherk.com)
Pappy Boyington Field DVD
Strap into the cockpit for an inspirational story about duty, honor, and courage.
The way we get by
The SXSW Special Jury Award winning "The Way We Get By" is a deeply moving film about life and how to live it. Beginning as a seemingly idiosyncratic story about troop greeters - a group of senior citizens who gather daily at a small airport to thank American soldiers departing and returning from Iraq, the film quickly turns into a moving, unsettling and compassionate story about aging, loneliness, war and mortality.
When I came home
whenicamehome.com/
WHEN I CAME HOME is a film about homeless veterans in America: from those who served in Vietnam to those returning from the current war in Iraq. The film looks at the challenges faced by returning combat veterans and the battle many must fight for the benefits promised to them. Through the story of Herold Noel, an Iraq War veteran suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and living in his car in Brooklyn, WHEN I CAME HOME reveals a failing system and the veteran's struggle to survive after returning from the war.
Reference material
Reference material
Here you'll find the historical documentation I used to compile this project
R4D Skytrain information (PDF)
www.history.navy.mil/branches/hist-ac/r4d-5.pdf
From the Naval Historical Center
USMC / USN BuNo numbers
www.joebaugher.com/navy_serials/navyserials.html
A great link for every Marine and Navy BuNo number search