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Posted: 1/1/2021 9:45:15 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Dog1]
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That top one definitely was built up so they could stand instead of being hunched over or squatting or maybe even sitting on a makeshift chair.
I could definitely seeing a circular skate ring for the mg taking off something like a destroyed Greyhound Scout car or even cobbled together in a maintenance shop. That gives me an idea I might buy a Stuart kit and build me a replica of that. I just noticed that the skate ring on this one has a canvas skirt around the bottom of it 
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Posted: 1/2/2021 8:42:43 AM EDT
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Never knew that was a thing, this is a great thread !!
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Posted: 1/2/2021 8:56:45 AM EDT
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TN, USA
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Posted: 1/2/2021 9:00:08 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/Bp2BAMT.jpg Koryu midget submarines in drydock at Kure Japan before and after allied bombing I would love to have one of those. Always wanted a mini sub. |
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Posted: 1/2/2021 12:39:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By CRSinTN: I would love to have one of those. Always wanted a mini sub. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By CRSinTN: Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/Bp2BAMT.jpg Koryu midget submarines in drydock at Kure Japan before and after allied bombing I would love to have one of those. Always wanted a mini sub. I'm not sure I'd want a late war submarine built by the Japanese. I never read about the Japanese using mini-subs to attack Sydney. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/world-war-ii-terror-weapons-how-imperial-japan-used-mini-submarines-89006 |
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Posted: 1/2/2021 12:42:48 PM EDT
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The Stalingrad Madonna, "light, life, love, Christmas in the cauldron 1942. Fortress Stalingrad":
 Attached FileCharcoal sketch on the back of a Russian military map by Dr Kurt Reuber, in peace time a Lutheran priest, then a doctor with the 16th Panzer Div of the starving 6th Army, trapped outside Stalingrad. Reuber's bunker became a sort of shrine as men came to see the Madonna, and Reuber then took it on tour to other bunkers. Many men broke down and wept. It was carried out by his battalion commander on the very last transport plane to escape the encirclement. The Prisoner's Madonna:  Attached FileReuber drew a second Madonna in Christmas 1943 in a Soviet POW camp. He fell ill and died a few weeks later. Of 91,000 men captured from the 6th Army just 5,000 would live to see Germany again. |
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Posted: 1/2/2021 3:07:59 PM EDT
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I saw the modified Stuart somewhere, modified like that for the British, called the Kangaroo APC.
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Posted: 1/2/2021 4:35:16 PM EDT
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Wasn't the Kangaroo a Sherman or Ram without a turret and slightly modified to be open top?
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Posted: 1/2/2021 4:42:33 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Dog1]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By luv_the_huskers: Wasn't the Kangaroo a Sherman or Ram without a turret and slightly modified to be open top? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By luv_the_huskers: Wasn't the Kangaroo a Sherman or Ram without a turret and slightly modified to be open top? They started out as the Stuart light tank and then they progressively went through the Sherman, Ram and the Churchill. The first ones were retired M7 Priest SPG.   The original Kangaroos were converted from 72 M7 Priest self-propelled guns of three field artillery regiments of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division. The Priests were "defrocked" at the Advanced Workshop Depot under the codename "Kangeroo", removing their 105mm guns and ammunition stowage, and separating the driver's compartment from the rest of the vehicle. Priests with machine gun turrets retained them, and some that did not already have machine gun mounts had improvised ones fitted. When the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division was re-equipped with towed Ordnance QF 25-pounder gun-howitzers in late July, the rest of their self-propelled tracked vehicles were stripped of their 105mm guns and converted to Kangaroos. Later Kangaroos were based on Sherman, Churchill, and obsolete Canadian Ram tanks. |
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Posted: 1/3/2021 9:51:29 AM EDT
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 Bison concrete armored lorry  Spanish "Altavoz del frente" propaganda vehicle Spanish Civil War 1938  Last-ditch anti-tank technical - Panzer I hull mounting a 7.5 cm KwK-40 cannon, Berlin, 1945  A cut-away of a V-2 rocket engine, part of the collection of the National Military Museum in Soesterberg, the Netherlands.  
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Posted: 1/3/2021 11:35:14 AM EDT
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   This is cool. Monument in Prague celebrating the fall of the Sovjet Union.  |
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Posted: 1/3/2021 1:03:09 PM EDT
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 ADMK Mulus  ? Solothurn Anti Tank Rifle, but the rest? |
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Posted: 1/3/2021 2:18:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/sxSNrVH.jpg ADMK Mulus https://i.imgur.com/s0g23Gy.jpg ? Solothurn Anti Tank Rifle, but the rest? 
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Posted: 1/3/2021 2:24:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryMakes me wonder if those were some intentional shots to the rear drive sprocket in an attempt to get a mobility kill. Looks like another chunk missing out of a track a few links below it. Probably one of the few things many of the smaller tank guns could do at range. |
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Posted: 1/3/2021 2:39:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: This is cool. Monument in Prague celebrating the fall of the Sovjet Union. I really like this  |
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Posted: 1/3/2021 3:58:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/sxSNrVH.jpg ADMK Mulus https://i.imgur.com/s0g23Gy.jpg ? Solothurn Anti Tank Rifle, but the rest? Looks like too much gun for the vehicle. |
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Posted: 1/3/2021 4:15:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/OlJkNc2.jpg Spanish "Altavoz del frente" propaganda vehicle Interesting that looks similar to a Danley Synergy horn with the multiple speaker inputs |
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Posted: 1/4/2021 7:06:26 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By jblomenberg16: Makes me wonder if those were some intentional shots to the rear drive sprocket in an attempt to get a mobility kill. Looks like another chunk missing out of a track a few links below it. Probably one of the few things many of the smaller tank guns could do at range. That's the front side of a Tiger tank, in North Africa. The 75mm rounds the Brits were using with the M3 tanks had unreliable fuzes, as shown. |
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Posted: 1/4/2021 12:29:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Darkstar117: That's the front side of a Tiger tank, in North Africa. The 75mm rounds the Brits were using with the M3 tanks had unreliable fuzes, as shown. Yes, you are right, I see it now...was thinking that was the rear but definitely the front. I can see the small slit opening on the front glacis just at the edge of the photo. Evidently the did get the tank knocked out some how if they got that picture. I'm assuming it was part of a battle damage assessment. |
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Posted: 1/4/2021 1:31:32 PM EDT
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Crosspost from a light tanks thread: Standard Oil E9-9 armored flamethrower trailer prototype (more ambitious cousin to Churchill "crocodiles"). Enormous trailer fed the fire hose-like nozzle in the bow with a goal of a 200 yard range. Development ended in tragedy when the 1200 gallon tank exploded at 800 psi during trials and incinerated the tank crew:
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Posted: 1/4/2021 1:44:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Darkstar117: That's the front side of a Tiger tank, in North Africa. The 75mm rounds the Brits were using with the M3 tanks had unreliable fuzes, as shown. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Darkstar117: Originally Posted By jblomenberg16: Makes me wonder if those were some intentional shots to the rear drive sprocket in an attempt to get a mobility kill. Looks like another chunk missing out of a track a few links below it. Probably one of the few things many of the smaller tank guns could do at range. That's the front side of a Tiger tank, in North Africa. The 75mm rounds the Brits were using with the M3 tanks had unreliable fuzes, as shown. I had assumed it was solid shot, AP ammo. |
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Posted: 1/4/2021 1:46:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/E3UnxxH.jpg https://i.imgur.com/sxVZ8D9.jpg VOMAG 7 OR 660 https://i.imgur.com/74oRS41.jpg https://i.imgur.com/iimbvnk.jpg https://i.imgur.com/leFn3wk.jpg https://i.imgur.com/7UJ4ebn.jpg https://i.imgur.com/HLxZtFt.jpg Selbstfahrlafette auf Fahrgestell VOMAG 7 or 660 mit 8,8 cm Flak True "Flak Bus"... |
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Posted: 1/4/2021 3:03:19 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Darkstar117: That's the front side of a Tiger tank, in North Africa. The 75mm rounds the Brits were using with the M3 tanks had unreliable fuzes, as shown. Negative, this Tiger was never in Africa.  |
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Posted: 1/4/2021 7:07:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: Negative, this Tiger was never in Africa. Good observation, care to explain to those who don't know?..........hint: starts with letter z |
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Posted: 1/4/2021 7:55:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 762xIAN: Good observation, care to explain to those who don't know?..........hint: starts with letter z Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 762xIAN: Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: Negative, this Tiger was never in Africa. Good observation, care to explain to those who don't know?..........hint: starts with letter z Tiggers in Africa didn't have zimmerit? No crazy Russkies running up and planting magnetic mines, or zimmerit wasn't a thing that early in the war? |
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Posted: 1/4/2021 7:56:42 PM EDT
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Zimmerit.
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Posted: 1/4/2021 8:03:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 762xIAN: Good observation, care to explain to those who don't know?..........hint: starts with letter z Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 762xIAN: Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: Negative, this Tiger was never in Africa. Good observation, care to explain to those who don't know?..........hint: starts with letter z Also looks to have later style road wheels. |
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Posted: 1/4/2021 8:05:21 PM EDT
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I read a book about the fall of stalingrad. As the 6th army was being surrounded the last transport planes taking off were chased by men on foot. They would cling by the dozens to the wings as the planes lifted off and fall to their deaths one by one as the planes picked up altitude and speed. The men were that desperate to escape.
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Posted: 1/4/2021 11:53:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By armoredman: Zimmerit. |
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Posted: 1/5/2021 2:23:37 PM EDT
[Last Edit: 4xGM300m]
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Posted: 1/6/2021 8:53:48 AM EDT
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Posted: 1/6/2021 11:25:31 AM EDT
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 Allison 3420 |
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Posted: 1/6/2021 12:43:51 PM EDT
[Last Edit: 4xGM300m]
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 Skoda PA II Zelva, Vienna, 1934  Char B1 bis, “Le Fantasque”, with experimental camouflage  Soviet NKL-16S ambulance aerosani |
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Posted: 1/6/2021 2:41:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/RT5ugu9.jpg Char B1 bis, “Le Fantasque”, with experimental camouflage That Char B1 bis is rocking Realtree Word. |
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Posted: 1/7/2021 4:46:28 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Dominion21]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Mal_means_bad: 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: https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/172926/T55_jpg-1759499.JPG Weather tarp: https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/172926/stuartreccehood_jpg-1759512.JPG Here is a link (if it has not been posted here yet) to tons of photos of Stuart light tanks and other US light tanks in WWII: https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/ITT-We-discuss-the-M5-Stuart-and-other-light-tanks-/5-2409099/?page=1 Here is one photo from that thread, for example (there are many more ): 
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Posted: 1/7/2021 5:06:35 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Mal_means_bad]
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"Don't cannibalize, for Okh-Wa.Pru, captured by I/Pz.Rgt.5."
 Attached FileGermans test their first complete Sherman, War Daddy II, captured February 22, 1943 in Tunisia. Armor thickness and slope angle is painted on the exterior. Lee in the background  Attached FileAlbert Speer himself takes her for a spin  Attached FileCaptured 76mm Sherman with hastily applied German markings knocked out in Aschaffenburg, Germany, driver killed while bailing out  Attached File |
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Posted: 1/7/2021 6:36:06 PM EDT
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I always thought the Puma armored car was pretty cool
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Posted: 1/7/2021 8:40:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Dog1: I always thought the Puma armored car was pretty cool https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/9749/406c84f3e540e2d090080a7faaed98ab-1768863.jpg Looks like four types of tire tread on it? |
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Posted: 1/7/2021 8:52:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 13starsinax: Looks like four types of tire tread on it? Yeah I noticed that after I posted the picture. I guess they were hard up for tires... |
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Posted: 1/8/2021 9:45:57 PM EDT
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Probably lucky to find all same size, lol !!
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Posted: 1/9/2021 10:23:50 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Bigger_Hammer]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Mal_means_bad: Crosspost from a light tanks thread: Standard Oil E9-9 armored flamethrower trailer prototype (more ambitious cousin to Churchill "crocodiles"). Enormous trailer fed the fire hose-like nozzle in the bow with a goal of a 200 yard range. Development ended in tragedy when the 1200 gallon tank exploded at 800 psi during trials and incinerated the tank crew: https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/172926/10Indiana_jpg-1763065.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/172926/qSAOzzN_png-1763067.JPG that would suck to be the unlucky test operators when that let go & went up...   I was amazed at the USMC "Satan" M-3 light tank flamethrowers and that they could fit fuel & pressure inside a M-3 tank (Cramped little bugger as it is).  
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Posted: 1/10/2021 6:44:56 PM EDT
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 Panzer III Ausf. N |
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Posted: 1/10/2021 10:59:01 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Gopher]
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Posted: 1/11/2021 9:30:02 AM EDT
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Posted: 1/11/2021 12:25:55 PM EDT
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 US Soldiers inspecting a German FT-31 which was recaptured by Allied forces in France. |
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Posted: 1/11/2021 8:35:22 PM EDT
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Terrifying Sanger ramjet test rig on an Opel Blitz
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Posted: 1/12/2021 5:56:01 AM EDT
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 British M4 with Zimmerit, colorized. |
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Posted: 1/12/2021 1:52:57 PM EDT
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Improvised Panzer III/15cm howitzer SPG cobbled together on Rommel's orders, fought in North Africa:
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Posted: 1/12/2021 7:56:45 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/12/2021 9:38:48 PM EDT
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