Welcome to Von Ryan's Express. Many of the items seen on this website are unique to World War II or related to that period. Take as much time to browse through the categories as you wish. Please check back frequently to find updated categories and added items for sale.

War-Stories.com is a voluntary contributions assisted web site, and a affiliation of Vietnam War Veterans, visitors, and friends uniting in purpose to educate and inform veterans, public, educators and researchers regarding the Vietnam War, so that our stories, lessons, and the true costs for continued freedom, will never fade away. We will tell our stories for each other, and in hope the future generations will remember our service.

Mondo Porras, owner of Denver’s Choppers, started building custom bikes with his partner Denver Mullins in San Bernardino, CA in 1967. Denver’s Choppers was instrumental in starting the after market industry that is flourishing today with custom parts including; frames, custom choppers and especially our custom springer front ends. Denver’s Choppers started manufacturing parts for their own custom motorcycles and designing the stretch bikes which are in vogue today. Denver’s Choppers was the first company to manufacture the long down tube stretch frames, or the Swedish style as they became known, which was actually Denver’s style (there’s even a motorcycle club in Sweden called Denver’s Choppers, so named after the long stretch bikes.)

Five Civilized Tribes Online offers access to view, search, or print all 1,375 pages of the major rolls, just as if you were at the National Archives. Documents are not a retyped edited version, but scanned images of the original rolls: errors & all!
Five Civilized Tribes Online features user-friendly navigation and colorful entertaining research. Discover why genealogy sources refer to these century old original documents. Read Agents actual handwritten comments, margin-notations, opinions, and remarks. See their scribbled conclusions on the back of a page so flimsy you can see printed text (in reverse) on the opposite side of the paper! Find checkmarks by names and follow arrows drawn from one name to another. Use your word processor to print, or mouse magnifier to enlarge faded names scrawled between lines.

Like most people, I always thought I had a novel or two in me. But I never got a chance until my mid-forties. By that time, I had spent more than two decades in the ad biz, writing every imaginable type of promotional material: TV and radio commercials, brochures, press releases, newsletters, you name it. It paid the bills but none of it was for me. Excellent training, though. It teaches you how to get to the point fast.