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Posted: 10/9/2017 2:29:29 AM EST
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Posted: 10/9/2017 6:44:34 PM EST
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Quote HistoryThe Deutsche Reichsbahn needed powerful steam locomotives with a top speed of 150 km/h and the ability to haul trains of 500 tonnes at 120 km/h, as well as trains of 350 tonnes at 100 km/h up ramps with a 5 ‰ incline, for its network of fast D and FD trains. This was more than the existing Class 01 and 03 engines were able to cope with because their two-cylinder driving gear did not have sufficient reserves of power, the 01.10 had three cylinders. To reduce air resistance, the new vehicles were equipped with a streamlined body shell that reached down to 400 mm above the top of the rails, and to reduce frictional losses they were equipped with roller bearings on the drive and coupling rods.
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Posted: 10/9/2017 7:02:14 PM EST
[Last Edit: somedude]
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Russian armored train with t-34 turrets. Near Warsaw 1944
Japanese Armored Train in Manchuria 
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Posted: 10/11/2017 3:12:17 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RakkinBaggyPants:
The Deutsche Reichsbahn needed powerful steam locomotives with a top speed of 150 km/h and the ability to haul trains of 500 tonnes at 120 km/h, as well as trains of 350 tonnes at 100 km/h up ramps with a 5 ‰ incline, for its network of fast D and FD trains. This was more than the existing Class 01 and 03 engines were able to cope with because their two-cylinder driving gear did not have sufficient reserves of power, the 01.10 had three cylinders. To reduce air resistance, the new vehicles were equipped with a streamlined body shell that reached down to 400 mm above the top of the rails, and to reduce frictional losses they were equipped with roller bearings on the drive and coupling rods. |
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Posted: 10/12/2017 3:14:01 AM EST
[Last Edit: 4xGM300m]
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Posted: 10/12/2017 5:04:16 AM EST
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Posted: 10/12/2017 12:10:54 PM EST
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Posted: 10/13/2017 3:35:48 AM EST
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Posted: 10/13/2017 2:49:48 PM EST
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Posted: 10/13/2017 2:50:21 PM EST
[Last Edit: Troll_toes]
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Posted: 10/13/2017 9:55:40 PM EST
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Posted: 10/14/2017 8:13:27 PM EST
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Posted: 10/14/2017 8:14:23 PM EST
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Posted: 10/15/2017 9:57:02 AM EST
[Last Edit: somedude]
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Burma
Sherman crossing Suicide Creek 
Aleutian Islands Campaign, Alaska, 1943. 
Aleutian Dentist office 
building the Burma Road 
Gun crew on the USS West Virginia /https://public-media.smithsonianmag.com/filer/Presence-Battle-Pacific-ships-631.jpg)
u-218 
Elephant loading supplies in C-46 planes during Second World War in India – Us Army Photograph, ca. 1940. 
Dive bombers just missing carrier 
think this a kamikaze aftermath 
Bunker Hill 
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Posted: 10/15/2017 1:19:44 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Lead-slinger:
I took this in 2016. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/225920/IMG_0001-316445.JPG Taken during WW2 https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/225920/IMG_0002-316446.JPG 
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Posted: 10/15/2017 4:12:42 PM EST
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fokker G1 reaper heavy fighter, purchased by spain during the civil war but not allowed to be delivered due to the war, delivered in two models the the Dutch air force and were present when WWII started.
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Posted: 10/15/2017 6:54:53 PM EST
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Posted: 10/16/2017 3:15:37 AM EST
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Inside view. |
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Posted: 10/16/2017 1:52:24 PM EST
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Armed merchant ships. Generally against the law, a naval crew under an ensign was placed aboard American ships. They were called the Armed Guard.
Liberty ship. There's one on the East Coast and the West Coast (Jeremiah O'Brien). 
The Merchant Marine made victory possible. |
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Posted: 10/16/2017 4:26:10 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4v50:
Armed merchant ships. Generally against the law, a naval crew under an ensign was placed aboard American ships. They were called the Armed Guard. https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.39-45war.com%2Fmnavypics%2Fdemsgun.jpg&f=1 Liberty ship. There's one on the East Coast and the West Coast (Jeremiah O'Brien). https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fgunsmokeandknitting.files.wordpress.com%2F2012%2F05%2Fmerchant-marine-liberty-ship.jpg&f=1 The Merchant Marine made victory possible. |
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Posted: 10/16/2017 5:18:42 PM EST
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they have a museum of a Victory ship in Tampa. not been in but drove past last time I was there. I know its a different class but similar.
American Victory ship |
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Posted: 10/16/2017 8:38:09 PM EST
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Posted: 10/16/2017 8:50:23 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By entropy:
My dad was a Liberty ship captain. Had some good stories. Took code books out of the safe so he could put his liquor bottles in there.... |
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Posted: 10/16/2017 8:51:57 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By somedude:
they have a museum of a Victory ship in Tampa. not been in but drove past last time I was there. I know its a different class but similar. American Victory ship Note the hull lines are different from the flush deck Liberty: 
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Posted: 10/16/2017 8:52:39 PM EST
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Posted: 10/16/2017 9:02:30 PM EST
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Posted: 10/17/2017 5:26:04 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4v50:
What ship? Stories! Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4v50:
Originally Posted By entropy:
My dad was a Liberty ship captain. Had some good stories. Took code books out of the safe so he could put his liquor bottles in there.... |
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Posted: 10/18/2017 10:55:42 AM EST
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Posted: 10/18/2017 10:57:38 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By entropy:
I wish I knew the ship names. Never found any log books or service records. I think he was issued a DD214 later. Convoys to England? Murmansk, Russia? Persia (alternate supply route to Russia for Lend Lease)? Malta? |
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Posted: 10/18/2017 12:07:07 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4v50:
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Posted: 10/18/2017 1:20:36 PM EST
[Last Edit: Riter]
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There was an Italian fighter pilot who flew out of range of a formation of American bombers. Apparently he was eyeing the nose art.
 . Today's environment is too PC and I wish we could have them back. In the interest of equal opportunity and fair play, female pilots can have hunks on theirs if they want.
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Posted: 10/18/2017 4:53:27 PM EST
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The original nose art on my grandfather's B24 showed a cartoon character blasting a Nazi officer in the chest with a pistol. The brass made them paint over the Nazi getting shot for fear of reprisals if the plane ever went down.
Ironically the plane ended up being blown to absolute smithereens (with a different crew on board) over the Brenner pass destroying the noseart and everything else; and double ironically the original crew that had to paint over the Nazi getting shot were all but one murdered after bailing out over Hungry. |
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Posted: 10/19/2017 7:43:28 AM EST
[Last Edit: Riter]
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Red Army marches into Ukraine:
Rumanians and Germans enter Bessarabia 
Muscovites flee their city 
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Posted: 10/19/2017 7:06:15 PM EST
[Last Edit: somedude]
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Severe bomb damage to the stern of HMS Delhi.
torpedo damage on HMS Eskimo 1940 
Kamikaze damage 
HE-111 shot down over England. 
spitfire stationed in Gibraltar 
The New Orleans in Tulagi 
Minneapolis 
Maryland with kamikaze damage 
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Posted: 10/19/2017 8:05:59 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ACDer:
Captured JU-290 on display at Freeman Field . Flown across the Atlantic by "Watsons Whizzers", a special group tasked with recovering captured german jets and advanced aircraft. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MKhUdab8vNY/TWKbq8lnBOI/AAAAAAAACWs/9FktBiFkOoA/s1600/JUCOL.jpg |
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Posted: 10/19/2017 8:25:23 PM EST
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Posted: 10/19/2017 9:48:24 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By somedude:
if just replaced the road wheel, dig out under the one wheel if possible, rocky or frozen terrain makes it tough. otherwise they would tow it with other vehicles if possible to field repair shop. If they could not repair or retrieve they often blew them up. during battle of Midway https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/91913/Midway-guns-179635.JPG Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By somedude:
Originally Posted By mcgredo:
How do you replace a destroyed tank road wheel? Jacking up a tank seems impractical. during battle of Midway https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/91913/Midway-guns-179635.JPG The trouble with the German designs was that the roadwheels were often depot level issues. |
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Posted: 10/20/2017 5:49:19 AM EST
[Last Edit: Riter]
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The HMS Delhi was a D class cruiser left over from the early '20s. Originally armed with 6" guns, she was refitted in America with the 5"/38 DP gun. The RN was so pleased with the conversion that it was planned to convert her seven sisters in a similar matter but the U.S. became involved in the war and needed all the 5"/38 DP guns it could get.
Even the fat one couldn't handle a Mosquito. 
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Posted: 10/20/2017 9:01:57 AM EST
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Couldn't post the picture, so I posted a link. LCI with foilage pattern camouflage.
interesting camouflage |
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Posted: 10/20/2017 11:33:42 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4v50:
Couldn't post the picture, so I posted a link. LCI with foilage pattern camouflage. interesting camouflage 
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Posted: 10/21/2017 7:09:18 PM EST
[Last Edit: somedude]
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female sniper, the Russians deployed more than a few of them.
British Auxillary unit, last line of defense for Churchill as resistance fighters trained at home. 
Japanese 25mm AA 
Vella Lavella airfield 1943 
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Posted: 10/21/2017 7:19:45 PM EST
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During the Great Patriotic War (as they called WW II), the Soviet Union fielded platoons of women snipers.
This is Rosa Shanina: 
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Posted: 10/21/2017 7:48:29 PM EST
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Posted: 10/21/2017 9:48:49 PM EST
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Posted: 10/21/2017 9:55:18 PM EST
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Posted: 10/21/2017 9:56:57 PM EST
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Posted: 10/21/2017 10:04:08 PM EST
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Posted: 10/22/2017 11:04:07 AM EST
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Posted: 10/22/2017 4:51:42 PM EST
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 Attached FileI could not get a picture from below as the trail was closed in the winter.  Attached File |
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Posted: 10/22/2017 7:46:10 PM EST
[Last Edit: Riter]
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I see your Cromwell and raise you a Grant.
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