Wonderful, amazing photos, sir. I especially like and appreciate the Christmas pictures. The children in them are now probably just a bit junior to you, but they remember American warmth; and their shiny, expectant smiles are timeless.

Awesome pictures.

Excellent photos!

Just wonderful.

Please post more when you have them.

Thank you so much for taking the time to share some history of your time at A&M and service to our country.

America's greatest generation.

Thanks for posting and for your service, & God bless.

aggie1944 - The Newest TexAgs Legend. Thanks for the great photos and your contributions to our nation and university. Gig 'em

Those photos are such an AMAZING look into our history. Thank you so very much for sharing. I can't wait to show these to my children.

Great photos! Thank you very much for posting them & sharing Aggie & American history.

Incredible...Thanks!

Wow! Thank you so much for sharing those photos. That was very meaningful.

Incredible

Thank you so much for sharing your prized photos.

Awesome!
Thank you for your service to our Great Country.
The pictures can tell a lot of stories.
Thank you for your trust and for sharing.

I keep looking at those photos and thinking, "If he was my Dad/grandpa, I'd spend hours looking through his pictures and asking questions."

It's funny what you spot in those - the old Campus Theater showing bargain matinees of "The Man with Nine Lives" - an old Boris Karloff flick. The Elko borders around all the photos from - I guess - an extinct photo production company in Missouri (not much on Google).

I'm looking at the haphazard construction of bonfire and people crawling all over it and wondering how nobody was ever killed on one of those before.

I think those are Rangerettes. If it is them, they are a brand new phenonomenon at the time, having only been established in 1940. It would've been quite a novelty seeing an all-female drill team (the first in the nation by the way) on the floor of Kyle Field.

Still researching some of the events around these pics. But once again, I humbly thank aggie1944 for posting them. What a remarkable journey into our nation's past.

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Wow aggie1944! Incredible pics. Thank you so much for posting!

WHOOP!! Did you know an Ag '44 named Rob Cox from NM? Great pictures - this old Colonel loved the war pics too.

Fantastic stuff 44, thank you for sharing hte pictures and thank you for your service.

Thank you very much for posting these

Awesome stuff! Thanks for taking the time to post this!!!

Awesome stuff, thanks!

These are incredible! Thank you so much for sharing them with us!

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Also notice .. bleachers .. were wood back then

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Predates these photos, but still interesting:
Edwin Jackson Kyle, Class of 1899 and the namesake of Kyle Field, used his own money to buy wooden bleachers prior to the first game played on the field, on Oct. 7, 1905. Two years later, he purchased a covered stadium from the old Bryan fairgrounds.

Great Photos

shame the facade of the Campus Theater had to be ruined.

This. Is. Awesome.

Thanks for sharing 44! This thread makes me want to book a flight and just spend a week talking with my grandpa.

Fantastic pictures, thank you for sharing!!!

Absolutely incredible pictures! Thank you so much for sharing! This may be the best thing I have ever seen on texags!

great pics!

All good fish need a bucket on their head and a mop in their hand.

I wonder what year the world finally turned into color?

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While I'm happy to share some pictures from the war, I simply ask that you respect my request to not ask me any stories regarding them.

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You've certainly earned the right to that request. I would just like to point out to members of my generation and to those after that- its been 66 years since those pictures were taken and the memories are still strong enough to elicit that kind of request. That should be an indication of the significance of the sacrifice that was made by this man and many others. Let it never be forgotten!!

Thank you for sharing.

Gil '91