"Anglo-Alabamian" hello!

Dear ww2Talk members,

My name is Danny Creasy. I'm a retired banker from Alabama. I've always been intrigued by the history of World War II.

My mother, Nancy Hemington Creasy, was born and raised in Eastleigh, England and in 1944 she met my GI father, James Eulis Creasy. They were close to completing the steps to wed in August, but Dad's 29th Infantry Regiment was deployed to France to guard the Communication Zone from black marketeers. After guarding the convoys of the Red Ball Express, supply trains, the bridges of the Meuse River, and SHAEF headquarters in Frankfort, he returned to England in 1945 and they were married in September. She had to wait with the thousands of other war brides and finally sailed to New York on the Queen Mary in January of 1946. Jim Creasy was there to greet her and they traveled back to Alabama by train.

Dad had two Army brothers; my Uncle Herschel served in the 6th Armored Division aka the Super Sixth and Uncle Vernon served in the 4th Combat Engineer Battalion.

Mom had two brothers and a sister; my Uncle Raymond served in the Royal Artillery in France, the Low Countries, and Germany and my Uncle Arthur was a navigator/bombardier (Brit = "observer") with the Fleet Air Arm serving aboard the HMS Indefatigable. Mom's big sister, Margaret, manufactured ailerons for Spitfires at Supermarine.

I finally kept a promise to myself and started writing all their stories down. Eventually, it became a work of creative non-fiction; Jim & Nancy: Two Paths Merged by War

http://dannycreasy.com/

I am looking forward to delving into these forums and feeding my hunger for the history of World War II.

All the best,

Danny

 

Danny hello and welcome to the forum


regards
Clive

 

Hi Danny, welcome to the forum.

David

 

Danny -
Hi & welcome -
the link does not work for me, howabout others, or Danny can you check or repost the link please

TD

 

Roll Tide!

 

Thank you, it was.

 

Here ya' go, TD: http://dannycreasy.com/

And, if that is still a problem, here is Amazon UK:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jim-Nancy-Two-Paths-Merged/dp/1457540312%3FSubscriptionId%3D1NNRF7QZ418V218YP1R2%26tag%3Dbf-ps-ee-21%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1457540312

 

Thanks as well to Clive, David, and Owen. Hope I'm keepin' up. What a friendly bunch. No surprise. When I visited my British side of the family in 1981, one wonderful batch of cousins would make me welcome and then hand me off to the next batch of cousins for the same treatment. Eastleigh, Stony Stratford, Kirton, Birmingham (the other one ;-)), and Llangollen.

 

Correct answer.

see post 26
http://ww2talk.com/forums/topic/50899-american-football-nuttiness/?p=658643

I know. I'm getting so sick of that play. I wish Henry had not broken a simple "run out the clock" play into a big gain. It made possible the marginal conditions for a field goal. Saban could have let the slightly early whistle go as well and not had the option for the kick. But nooo, fate had to intervene. I will always wonder what an overtime drama would have been like. The SEC network is showing this nauseating (unless you're an Aub) special called Miracle on the Plains. It features both the "Kick 6" and the "Immaculate Reception".

 

Correct answer.

see post 26
http://ww2talk.com/forums/topic/50899-american-football-nuttiness/?p=658643

I know. I'm getting so sick of that play. I wish Henry had not broken a simple "run out the clock" play into a big gain. It made possible the marginal conditions for a field goal. Saban could have let the slightly early whistle go as well and not had the option for the kick. But nooo, fate had to intervene. I will always wonder what an overtime drama would have been like. The SEC network is showing this nauseating (unless you're an Aub) special called Miracle on the Plains. It features both the "Kick 6" and the "Immaculate Reception".


Only thing that has ever topped that one in American sports is Bill Buckener's muff. Happy day in Metville!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18caPNisP2U

 

Roll Tide Roll!

Correct answer.

see post 26
http://ww2talk.com/forums/topic/50899-american-football-nuttiness/?p=658643

You know me too well.

Welcome, Danny. What city are you in or near? I am near Montgomery, or as it is more often pronounced by the locals, Mun-gum'ry.

 

Welcome to the forum, Danny - enjoy!

Jeff - The citizens named your local town/city after the best Anglo/American General of WWII; is it Bradley - no; is it Patton - no; is it Collins - no; is it Marshall - no; aha - it's Montgomery. Absolutely priceless...

Loved that - sorry!

Best,

Steve.

 

Obviously the citizens of Mun gumr'y Alabam are blessed with fantastic judgement...

Cheers

 

Not the same Montgomery actually:

Richard Montgomery (December 2, 1738 – December 31, 1775) was an Irish-born soldier who first served in the British Army. He later became a Major General in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and he is most famous for leading the failed 1775 invasion of Canada.

But y'all can keep thinking the city was named after the dear Field Marshal if that's what makes y'all happy.

Welcome to "the Talk" Danny boy, enjoy yourself and keep in mind the English these people use ain't quite the same as what we use around the house.

 

When British accents go bad




The biggest accent crime ever committed in film history has to be Dick Van Dyke's nausea-inducing Cockney in Mary Poppins (1964). Van Dyke has, kindly, pinned the blame on his Irish voice coach, who he insisted "didn't do an accent any better than I did".
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatpicturegalleries/8732642/When-British-accents-go-bad.html?image=5

 

That's ok, having too many Alabama people in one place can be a bad thing sometimes.