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Posted: 12/15/2020 8:19:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4v50: https://germanwarmachine.com/images/made/images/uploads/weapons/aircraft/Fw_189_420_293_80.jpg Kurt Tank was a genius. |
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Posted: 12/15/2020 9:34:59 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Riter]
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Something different:
 
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Posted: 12/17/2020 11:24:21 AM EDT
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 Attached FileSanta Claus was too popular to kill off at this Christmas party in 1941, but Hitler would soon recast him as Odin. Christmas was ideologically unacceptable to Hitler for obvious reasons, so the Nazis first tried replacing the Christian symbolism with Nazi propaganda to mixed results, then resurrected the Germanic pagan winter festival of Yule, on which many Christmas traditions are based. Stars were replaced with swastikas, trees were decorated with hand grenade ornaments, Silent Night was rewritten to praise Hitler.  Attached File Attached FileChristmas became a day of remembrance for the dead and suffering fighting men as the war turned sour  Attached FileAuschwitz operations manager/adjutant to the commandant SS Obersturmfurher Karl-Friedrich Hoecker lights a candle on a Yule tree in December 1944, shortly before the camp was liberated, probably in the hall at a nearby recreational camp built for Auschwitz staff  Attached File |
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Posted: 12/17/2020 11:40:36 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Dominion21]
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A Wermacht Christmas card I saw in a Volksmuseum really put the war in a different light for me.
Growing up in the 1970s US we saw tons of WW2 movies - all depicting every German as a Nazi and an enemy. Fact is: most Wehrmacht soldiers were not party members; propaganda was pervasive, effective, and without available alternatives for most Germans. Today: wife & kids are Germans (though US citizens). I’ve taught my kids that it’s crucial for them to learn WW2 history, since their ancestors were active on both sides of the war. This was not the exact Christmas card, but it expresses the idea: most of these guys were simply soldiers. 
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Posted: 12/17/2020 1:23:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Dominion21: A Wermacht Christmas card I saw in a Volksmuseum really put the war in a different light for me. Growing up in the 1970s US we saw tons of WW2 movies - all depicting every German as a Nazi and an enemy. Fact is: most Wehrmacht soldiers were not party members; propaganda was pervasive, effective, and without available alternatives for most Germans. Today: wife & kids are Germans (though US citizens). I’ve taught my kids that it’s crucial for them to learn WW2 history, since their ancestors were active on both sides of the war. This was not the exact Christmas card, but it expresses the idea: most of these guys were simply soldiers. https://usmbooks.com/images/AK/AK283.jpg My family is of 100% German heritage. My grandfather fought in WWII and they spoke German in the home in the 1920's and 30's still. In his memoirs he talked about the fact that it was difficult knowing it was very likely he was fighting against cousins. I've mentioned this earlier in this thread, he had several German POWs that worked for him that were great workers, farm kids just like him that in other circumstances would have been friends. |
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Posted: 12/17/2020 5:21:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By jblomenberg16: My family is of 100% German heritage. My grandfather fought in WWII and they spoke German in the home in the 1920's and 30's still. In his memoirs he talked about the fact that it was difficult knowing it was very likely he was fighting against cousins. I've mentioned this earlier in this thread, he had several German POWs that worked for him that were great workers, farm kids just like him that in other circumstances would have been friends. @jblomenberg16 - Have his memoirs been published? Where can it be purchased? Did your GF serve in intelligence or called upon to be an interpreter? Chinese with Pak 37 
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Posted: 12/18/2020 11:47:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4v50: Vanquished https://49fe30bb3aa7406c16dc-5c968119d095dc32d807923c59347cc2.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/2009.131.094_1.jpg Victor Very rare image only 18 produced total! |
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Posted: 12/19/2020 12:04:53 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By osprey21: https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/766/o6FWGlL-1560523.jpg Poor bastard. Probably frozen solid and thrown there by artillery I am guessing? |
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Posted: 12/19/2020 12:23:58 PM EDT
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Berlin 1945. payback for Stalingrad I suppose.
  
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Posted: 12/19/2020 12:43:44 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Deere_John_16]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4v50: @jblomenberg16 - Have his memoirs been published? Where can it be purchased? Did your GF serve in intelligence or called upon to be an interpreter? Chinese with Pak 37 https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a3/d2/5f/a3d25f549f7b72d133cf83b8338a5855.jpg @4v50 Thanks for asking. They haven't been published, but we did transfer them from hand written pages into a word document a few years before he died. The first few pages were his handwriting, and then as he got older and his handwriting was a challenge (70 years of farming and carpentry caught up with him) my grandmother wrote the remaining pages. They take us from his initial entry into the Army, to testing for flight school (highest score in the room, but failed admission because he only had and 8th grade education). He was in the 2nd service command and helped build up for the D-day invasions, went in D+3 to start to help establish the beach head logistics. He eventually worked to open up the port a LeHavre, and spend a little time in Belgium. I've been working on a project to put together a bit more of a history book for our family. He's been gone about 5 years now , and grandma is in her 90s, so there won't be much oral history left. We spent a day with her this summer going through Grandpas war stuff, and found his original haversack, including his M1 Carbine cleaning kit (he LOVED the Carbine).  Attached File |
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Posted: 12/19/2020 5:17:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By birdbarian: I'll bet the people in Germany and Japan felt like that's what the sky looked like late in the war. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By birdbarian: Originally Posted By Mal_means_bad: 4,500 model airplanes hung from the ceiling of Union Station, 1943 https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/172926/8132_chicago_union_station_concourse_int-1722225.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/172926/Model-Planes-on-the-Ceiling_jpg-1722224.JPG "In 1942, shortly after Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt committed the U.S. economy to the production of 60,000 warplanes that year, and suggested that as many as 185,000 aircraft might be produced by the end of 1943. He turned out to be almost correct. In June 1944, TIME reported 171,257 aircraft produced since Pearl Harbor. In 1942, however, those were Herculean goals, yet to be achieved, and as part of an effort to help Americans understand the task before them, a fleet of 4,500 model airplanes was suspended from the ceiling of Chicago's Union Station. Once you absorb the spectacle of 4,500 planes, of course, then comes the whammy: That's only 1/48th of the production goal. The image above is 600 pixels wide. At that scale, if your monitor's pitch is 72 dpi, an image of all 185,000 planes would be 33 feet wide." I'll bet the people in Germany and Japan felt like that's what the sky looked like late in the war. Yeah. And by that time we owned the air. IIRC there were thousand plane raids at one point. |
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Posted: 12/19/2020 6:15:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Dominion21: A Wermacht Christmas card I saw in a Volksmuseum really put the war in a different light for me. Growing up in the 1970s US we saw tons of WW2 movies - all depicting every German as a Nazi and an enemy. Fact is: most Wehrmacht soldiers were not party members; propaganda was pervasive, effective, and without available alternatives for most Germans. Today: wife & kids are Germans (though US citizens). I’ve taught my kids that it’s crucial for them to learn WW2 history, since their ancestors were active on both sides of the war. This was not the exact Christmas card, but it expresses the idea: most of these guys were simply soldiers. https://usmbooks.com/images/AK/AK283.jpg We briefly has a neighbor that has served in the Wehrmacht during WW2. He has studied in the States prewar and returned home and got drafted. Because he had been in the States he knew just what he was in for when war broke out and wisely threw in the towel the first chance he got. He spent his war in the south somewhere working on a farm. I was a small boy at the time and referred to him as a Nazi once. Big mistake. Both my father and my uncle went off on me something fierce. I got told he was not a Nazi but some poor bastard of a draftee that found his pecker in a wringer. I think it was a good lesson learned early. Wars are generally fought by people that don't want to be there. |
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Posted: 12/20/2020 8:45:44 AM EDT
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Posted: 12/21/2020 4:47:37 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/21/2020 4:59:23 PM EDT
[Last Edit: 4xGM300m]
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  VOMAG 7 OR 660      Selbstfahrlafette auf Fahrgestell VOMAG 7 or 660 mit 8,8 cm Flak |
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Posted: 12/21/2020 5:00:18 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryThat thing may be bristling but as a boat it does not inspire confidence. They would have needed the calmest weather ever. Operation Sea Lion would not have ended well for them IMO. 18 year old USCG Seaman John J. Kelley shows his helmet hit by a German bullet on D-Day  Attached File |
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Posted: 12/22/2020 3:42:44 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DT120: Poor bastard. Probably frozen solid and thrown there by artillery I am guessing? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DT120: Originally Posted By osprey21: https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/766/o6FWGlL-1560523.jpg Poor bastard. Probably frozen solid and thrown there by artillery I am guessing? The Finns were known to do that to Soviet corpses as a way to incite fear. @DT120. |
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Posted: 12/22/2020 7:50:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Dave_Markowitz: The Finns were known to do that to Soviet corpses as a way to incite fear. @DT120. Interesting. Was not aware. |
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Posted: 12/23/2020 10:16:20 AM EDT
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Posted: 12/24/2020 12:58:50 PM EDT
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Hungarians
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Posted: 12/24/2020 4:52:12 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/24/2020 5:10:40 PM EDT
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Whoops. Reminds me of Italian tanks...
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Posted: 12/24/2020 9:50:35 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/24/2020 10:05:44 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Colt_sporter: https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/24640/8CA4CF23-1B73-4AB6-82AC-EFA08C4C3197_jpe-1747019.JPG Typhoon? Dutch kids? |
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Posted: 12/24/2020 10:34:52 PM EDT
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Id say yes, the wooden clogs.
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Posted: 12/26/2020 8:25:26 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/26/2020 9:07:44 PM EDT
[Last Edit: hdhogman]
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LOL! Just saw this today.......
 Santa is Captured by the Russians |
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Posted: 12/26/2020 9:10:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryNow Nashorn! Now Hummel! Now Luchs and Hetzer! |
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Posted: 12/26/2020 10:00:05 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By distrflman: Typhoon? Dutch kids? Originally Posted By hdhogman: Id say yes, the wooden clogs. I was more interested in the bullet hole in the fuselage. Tough commute for Santa. |
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Posted: 12/26/2020 11:37:46 PM EDT
[Last Edit: hdhogman]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Colt_sporter: I was more interested in the bullet hole in the fuselage. Tough commute for Santa. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Colt_sporter: Originally Posted By distrflman: Typhoon? Dutch kids? Originally Posted By hdhogman: Id say yes, the wooden clogs. I was more interested in the bullet hole in the fuselage. Tough commute for Santa. Yep. Never understood the markings, looks like a nice target to get a fix on. Looks like something is protruding out. |
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Posted: 12/27/2020 12:18:59 AM EDT
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Some smaller aircraft/helicopters I’ve been around have ground handling devices attached. Some recess into the skin.
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Posted: 12/27/2020 12:38:07 AM EDT
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Is the posting of casualty pictures permitted in this thread?
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Posted: 12/27/2020 12:43:08 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By doc540: Is the posting of casualty pictures permitted in this thread? As long as it doesn't show any tits. |
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Posted: 12/27/2020 6:28:07 PM EDT
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Somebody explain the barrel on the M4A3 to me? (Norw, hatch appears opened) Hidden? Bent? Damaged?
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Posted: 12/27/2020 6:29:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By hdhogman: Yep. Never understood the markings, looks like a nice target to get a fix on. Looks like something is protruding out. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By hdhogman: Originally Posted By Colt_sporter: Originally Posted By distrflman: Typhoon? Dutch kids? Originally Posted By hdhogman: Id say yes, the wooden clogs. I was more interested in the bullet hole in the fuselage. Tough commute for Santa. Yep. Never understood the markings, looks like a nice target to get a fix on. Looks like something is protruding out. |
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Posted: 12/27/2020 6:33:07 PM EDT
[Last Edit: piccolo]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By doc540: Is the posting of casualty pictures permitted in this thread? Yes. |
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Posted: 12/27/2020 6:42:31 PM EDT
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GI's lifting a wounded German atop of a M20 scout car:
 Soviets and Panther  Hande hoch Heine!  Soviet anti-tank rifleman: 
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Posted: 12/27/2020 6:45:31 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Bigger_Hammer]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By hdhogman: Yep. Never understood the markings, looks like a nice target to get a fix on. Looks like something is protruding out. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By hdhogman: Originally Posted By Colt_sporter: Originally Posted By distrflman: Typhoon? Dutch kids? Originally Posted By hdhogman: Id say yes, the wooden clogs. I was more interested in the bullet hole in the fuselage. Tough commute for Santa. Yep. Never understood the markings, looks like a nice target to get a fix on. Looks like something is protruding out.  Attached FileNote the square patch (repaired battle damage) in the bottom left of the "A" and another patch (the oval plate) in the RAF Roundel. That Typhoon has been IN the fighting... |
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Posted: 12/27/2020 7:12:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4v50: Somebody explain the barrel on the M4A3 to me? (Norw, hatch appears opened) Hidden? Bent? Damaged? https://i.redd.it/200yi3wltls41.jpg M3 Grant command tank, Italy, 6th South African Armoured Division. The 75mm hull mount has been removed and replaced with a radio judging from the antenna sticking out of the hatch, a wooden dummy 75mm gun has been mounted on the 37mm turret which has apparently been gutted to make room for two more radios, and a daringly exposed chair has been mounted right in front of the turret.  Attached File Attached FileOther Grants converted to command tanks made a more elaborate effort to pass as Shermans at a distance, with a dummy gun and sloped hull that eliminated the sponson and clipped corners.  Attached File Attached File |
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Posted: 12/27/2020 7:22:47 PM EDT
[Last Edit: doc540]
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Just a few months before war's end, the fast carrier USS Bunker Hill was the Task Force flagship of Vice-Admiral Mitscher with Arleigh Burke as his Chief of Staff.
On May 11, 1945 it was surprised by two lone kamikaze planes both of which made well aimed hits within 30 seconds of each other. The second bomb exploded near the pilots' ready room and killed 22 pilots, many who weren't killed by the bomb blast tried to escape the suffocating inferno to no avail. The Bunker Hill didn't sink or blow up but survived due to the heroic efforts of her crew who died at their posts fighting to save the ship. 352 dead, 264 injured, 41 missing These pictures of the ready room inferno and trapped pilots just haunt me. :(  Attached File Attached File |
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Posted: 12/27/2020 9:06:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By doc540: Just a few months before war's end, the fast carrier USS Bunker Hill was the Task Force flagship of Vice-Admiral Mitscher with Arleigh Burke as his Chief of Staff. On May 11, 1945 it was surprised by two lone kamikaze planes both of which made well aimed hits within 30 seconds of each other. The second bomb exploded near the pilots' ready room and killed 22 pilots, many who weren't killed by the bomb blast tried to escape the suffocating inferno to no avail. The Bunker Hill didn't sink or blow up but survived due to the heroic efforts of her crew who died at their posts fighting to save the ship. 352 dead, 264 injured, 41 missing These pictures of the ready room inferno and trapped pilots just haunt me. :( https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/183309/bunkerhill1_jpg-1751221.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/183309/bunkerhill2_jpg-1751228.JPG 
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Posted: 12/28/2020 12:47:04 AM EDT
[Last Edit: birdbarian]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By doc540: Just a few months before war's end, the fast carrier USS Bunker Hill was the Task Force flagship of Vice-Admiral Mitscher with Arleigh Burke as his Chief of Staff. On May 11, 1945 it was surprised by two lone kamikaze planes both of which made well aimed hits within 30 seconds of each other. The second bomb exploded near the pilots' ready room and killed 22 pilots, many who weren't killed by the bomb blast tried to escape the suffocating inferno to no avail. The Bunker Hill didn't sink or blow up but survived due to the heroic efforts of her crew who died at their posts fighting to save the ship. 352 dead, 264 injured, 41 missing These pictures of the ready room inferno and trapped pilots just haunt me. :( https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/183309/bunkerhill1_jpg-1751221.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/183309/bunkerhill2_jpg-1751228.JPG Rest in peace shipmates. Fire never scared me until I went into the Navy. I know what it can do now, and it scares the shit outta me now. |
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Posted: 12/28/2020 9:54:50 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Mal_means_bad]
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Soviet aerosans
 Attached File Attached File Attached File1942 German (Czech) prototype, Tatra V855  Attached File Attached File Attached File |
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Posted: 12/30/2020 3:04:28 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/30/2020 9:08:05 PM EDT
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Dreamboat B-17E with B-24 turrets and some other modifications.
From a Reddit post. The Dreamboat replaced the standard B-17E nose and tail turrets with the powered B-24 positions, swapped dorsal turrets, removed the waist positions in exchange for a powered twin .50cal position in the radio room, modified the bomb bay doors, and strengthened the oxygen system. The crew was reduced to 8 and the flying characteristics improved, and while popular with the test crews the modifications were too extensive to be implemented and thus passed over in order to not disrupt production numbers.  Attached File |
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Posted: 12/31/2020 6:53:54 AM EDT
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Posted: 1/1/2021 4:07:54 PM EDT
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 Koryu midget submarines in drydock at Kure Japan before and after allied bombing |
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Posted: 1/1/2021 8:11:34 PM EDT
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T8 "limited standard" recce:
 Attached File Attached File Attached FileThe 37mm gun on Stuarts wasn't enough to duke it out with most German tanks by the time any were encountered, so a number of them were field modified for the reconnaissance role by Allied forces by lifting off the turret and substituting a machine gun ring with a .50, sometimes with a gun shield. Removing the turret made them better reconnaissance vehicles by lowering the profile and the reduced weight increased speed, reduced ground pressure, and reduced wear on the drive train. Not sure exactly what's going on with this one, they may have built a fixed shield at the sides and rear to stop rifle caliber fire and splinters at the expense of limiting gun traverse:  Attached File |
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Posted: 1/1/2021 8:35:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Mal_means_bad: T8 "limited standard" recce: https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/172926/stuart-recce_jpg-1759342.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/172926/Tr51680-1_jpg-1759349.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/172926/stuart_v_jpg-1759348.JPG The 37mm gun on Stuarts wasn't enough to duke it out with most German tanks by the time any were encountered, so a number of them were field modified for the reconnaissance role by Allied forces by lifting off the turret and substituting a machine gun ring with a .50, sometimes with a gun shield. Removing the turret made them better reconnaissance vehicles by lowering the profile and the reduced weight increased speed, reduced ground pressure, and reduced wear on the drive train. Not sure exactly what's going on with this one, they may have built a fixed shield at the sides and rear to stop rifle caliber fire and splinters at the expense of limiting gun traverse: https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/172926/stuart-recce-2_jpg-1759344.JPG Thats pretty cool... I never knew they did that. Was the Browning on a skate ring around the turret opening? It's kind of hard to tell |
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Posted: 1/1/2021 9:31:45 PM EDT
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They're field mods, so probably every which way. Some sources say they were M49 ring mounts normally used on trucks and halftracks, and I'm pretty sure that's what we're seeing in the top down photo, but it wouldn't shock me if some were simple pedestal mounts.
Built up lip around the fighting compartment and a higher gun mount, modified for the crew to work in a standing position? Apparently a brigadier general's command vehicle:  Attached FileWeather tarp:  Attached File |
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