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Thread: Castner's Cutthroats Where's John Wayne when we need him?

  1. 05-16-2007, 08:00 PM #1
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    Castner's Cutthroats Where's John Wayne when we need him?

    I’ll give credit where credit is due, thanks Bullshop!
    Bullshop mentioned Castner’s Cutthroats, a really interesting bunch of World War Two Alaskan U.S. Army Scouts who were intrumental in kicking the Japanese Army out of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska but never had a big John Wayne-Gary Cooper-Gregory Peck-Joel McCrea-Walter Brennan movie made about them but should have. Of course don’t hold your breath waiting for Michael Moore to do it! Here is a quick read about them that was written in probably 1944. If you don't already have it, you will need the djvu plug in file opener that is available for free at:
    http://www.lizardtech.com/download/d...n&platform=win

    It took about 20 minutes for the djvu plug in application to download through my old slow dial up modem connection. The djvu files are like Adobe Acrobat files but the Adobe reader won’t open them.

    The address below is for the original 1944 newspaper article on Castner’s Cutthroats:
    http://dtl.lib.umt.edu/cdm4/item_vie...OPTR=48&REC=18


    The address below is for the table of contents for the rest of the available articles that are related to World War Two:
    http://dtl.lib.umt.edu/cdm4/browse.p...T=/collarticle
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  2. 05-23-2007, 06:02 PM #2
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    For those with Macs, google for MACDJView for reading .djvu files.
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    can somebody possibly cut and paste it into the thread? university computers block users from downloading software.
    Some where between here and there.....
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  4. 05-25-2007, 05:16 PM #4
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    I tried that but ran into problems. The newspaper article uses four columns of text per page. When the cut and paste function is used the computer can't tell where the text lines end, so it scrambles all the text into one big "word salad" that doesn't make sense.
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    There is no such thing as too many tools, especially when it comes to casting and reloading.
    Howard Hughes said: "He who has the tools rules".

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  5. 05-25-2007, 05:30 PM #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by redneckdan View Post
    can somebody possibly cut and paste it into the thread? university computers block users from downloading software.
    I can print the djvu file to a PDF. I then converted that to jpg and put the jpg on photobucket.

    http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g2...scuthroats.jpg

    If the linked image is too small to read, send me an email address and I will send you the pdf.

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