Always a good read – Hunter’s Fountain

Posted on July 9, 2026 by laststandonzombieisland Leave a comment Some 85 years ago this week, the 10,000-ton Dutch Java-Pacific Lijn/VNS passenger steamer SS Jaegersfontaine pulled out of San Francisco on 10 July and, steaming West across a wide and nervous ocean, arrived a little over 8,000 miles away at Rangoon in British Burma on the 28th, making it in aContinue reading “Always a good read – Hunter’s Fountain”

13th Horse on the March

Posted on June 29, 2026 by laststandonzombieisland Leave a comment Some 90 years ago today. Fort Riley, Kansas, 29 June 1936. The 13th U.S. Cavalry Regiment is seen returning to garrison from its last march as a horse cavalry outfit before shipping off their mounts, trading horse shoes and oats for tires and tracks. The regiment’s colonel at theContinue reading “13th Horse on the March”