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Military Vehicle Preservation Association:
for those preserving and restoring special interest military vehicles, from bicycles and
scooter to tanks and even ships. From the days of horse soldiers with wagons, through
WW I, WW II, Korea, Viet Nam and Operation Desert Storm...
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2009 MVPA Transcontinental Convoy:
In 1919, the US Army decided to plan and execute a motor convoy of various vehicles across the contry, on the
newly-formed Lincoln Highway. In general, the route began at the White House, in Washington, DC and ended at
Lincoln Park, in San Fransisco, CA - some 3250 miles and 62 days later. This would be the first motor
transport convoy -ever- to cross the United States.
The 90th anniversary of this pivotal convoy will take place in 2009, the 200th anniversary of the birth of
its namesake, Abraham Lincoln. The MVPA is planning to conduct a convoy of HMVs that will retrace the
original 1919 Transcontinental Motor Convoy route - along the famed Lincoln Highway and in conjunction
with the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. The MVPA is in the early planning phase of this project -
MVPA's Transcontinental Motor Convoy 2009.
For ongoing information, visit www.MVPAConvoy.org
and get prepared to join this great convoy!
- Other Texas MVPA Chapters
- Arrowhead Chapter (south and west of the DFW Metroplex)
- Bluebonnet Military Motor Pool (Houston area)
- Rio Grande Valley Chapter (in and around Mission and those locales)
- Lone Star Chapter (Austin area and west)
- 6th Cavalry Historical Association (Houston area)
- Texas Airborne Historical Association (South Waco area)
- Other Regional MVPA Chapters
- Arkansas MV Travelers (Arkansas)
- Tulsa Military Vehicle Group (Northeast Oklahoma)
- Dixie Division Military Vehicles Club (Alabama)
- Arizona Military Vehicle Collectors Club (Phoenix area)
- Visit Historical Denison Texas
- Perrin Field Info
- Perrin Air Force Base Research Foundation
- Perrin Field Historical Society / Perrin AFB Museum
- Camp Maxey, a World War II infantry-training camp ten miles north of Paris, Texas, was named in honor of Samuel Bell Maxey.
- Camp Maxey, Texas
- Camp Maxey
- Sam Bell Maxey House State Historic Site
- Birthplace of President Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Museum of the American GI
- Military Museum of Texas
- The Veterans Museum in Texas
- Vintage Military Trucks
- Texas "Power Wagon" Museum
- Jeep Drawings & Specs
- Everything You Always Wanted To Know About The WWII Military Jeep...
- The Commemorative Air Force
- Vintage Flying Museum
- Army Air Corps Living History Group
- Of Other Interest
Soldiers' Angels "May No Soldier Go Unloved"
Soldiers' Angels is a volunteer based, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Soldiers' Angels is a national
organization with members in all fifty states and Puerto Rico, and several friendly countries who support
our brave men and women in uniform as they carry out their mission. Soldiers' Angels mission is to provide
aide and comfort to the men and women of the United States Army, Marines, Navy, Air Force and the Coast
Guard and their amazing families.
- The Lucky Bastard Club
In every generation those who believe in the right are called to defend it, sometimes at great cost to themselves. Letters are a point of contact to the life -- and the love -- they have to leave.
Lt. Roy R. (Jack) Fisher, Jr. left his bride of only 3 months to go to war. At the tender age of 21, he was assigned a brand new B-17 bomber; and given responsibility for the lives of nine other men.
Join Jack in this powerful first-hand account of World War II, seen through a pilot's daily letters to his bride at home.
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