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 Author  Topic: Earl Richmond
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Post a Reply To This Topic    Reply With Quotes     Edit Message     View Profile of earl  Posted on: Nov 3, 2016 - 3:02pm
hi guys/finally got my vomputer to where i can read it again, thanks to all of you fir thr birthday wishes.hey will, i had a party would have been nice to have you there.shucks. you were a klittle baby before i was.

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dick i liked the card.i ghad most of the stuff on it and made my own torpedo juice/alky/ brandy and raisin jack/// 30.00 Giart

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Hey, Earl. Glad you enjoyed your birthday! Raisin Jack brings back some memories...

Will

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Happy Birthday!!

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Earl It is really good to hear from you again. Our cook confiscated some dried apples, sugar and yeast from the chow hall someway. We put it in our wooden life raft keg with water for about two weeks in the hot sun. Boy that stuff was potent for a kid that had never drank much.

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hey friend/ i used raisins/sugar/yeast and water in a 5 gallon dehydrated potatio can.put it out in the jungle near my tebt with only a cloth over it.fermented in about 7 days.used apricots to make the brandy and put it iin a 6 gallon water jar and let it sit for about two weeks.not bad.the alky was a little more troubledom to make. had ro f fistill it first using a h LF METAL FRUM/COILS AND FIRE.STARTED FOING ALL THIS ON ONE OF THE BASES I WAS ON//ON 5///BUT HAD SOME ARMY GUYS AND SOME AUSSIES DOING THE ALKY FOR ME,.THE ALKY H AD TO BE DILUTED WITH JUICE BEFORE YOU DRANK IT AS IT WOULDEAT OUT YOUR STOMACHE IF YOU DIDN,T.SOLD IT FOR THIRTY DOLLARS A QUART.THAT IS WHAT THE PILOTS WERE GETTING FOR THEM WHEN THEY BROUGHT THE REAL STUFF BACK FROM AUSTRLIIA OR NEW ZEALAND. BOTTOMS UP CJ AND LETS PARTY ONE MORE TIME

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  Frank Andruss

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Happy 91st Birthday Earl. Hope your day was special. We love all your comments here on the message board keep them coming.........


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THANKS FRANK/ I DID HAVE A GOOD DAY

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Happy belated 91 years young Earl. Excellent Card Dick.

Wayne


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Geez Earl, $30 in 1944 dollars is about $400 current dollars. Nice!



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