Today is the birthday of Air Force General James H. “Jimmy” Doolittle, who died September 27, 1993.
December 14th is also the birthday of the late John Warren Wadleigh (born 1927, died September 24, 2013). Wadleigh was better known to many SurvivalBlog readers by his pen name – Oliver Lange. He was the author of the best-selling resistance warfare novel Vandenberg.
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The last day! By popular demand, I extended the month-long Patton’s Birthday Sale at Elk Creek Company [1]. It will now end tonight. Get your order in by 1700 hrs, Pacific Time on Tuesday, December 14th. With our unique ordering system, you can choose between paying in Federal Reserve Notes (i.e. check or postal money order), or with pre-1965 U.S. silver coinage. I should mention that about half of our customers now pay in silver.
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Today’s feature article (“The Handyman’s Tool Pouch”) was too short to be included in the judging for the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest [2].
More than $725,000 worth of prizes have been awarded since we started running this contest. Round 98 ends on January 31st, so get busy writing and e-mail [3] us your entry. Remember that there is a 1,500-word minimum, and that articles on practical “how-to” skills for survival have an advantage in the judging.