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WildBoar Always With the Negative Waves Joined Oct 2004 Posts 46247 EE 100% (4) BHS	Posted: 11/3/2017 3:33:18 PM EDT [#1] Quote History Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/201300/T30_Heavy_Tank-332149.JPG T30 View Quote Isn't that after WWII?

somedude Member Joined Feb 2006 Posts 6691 EE 100% (36) FL, USA	Posted: 11/3/2017 5:21:32 PM EDT [#2] Quote History Originally Posted By WildBoar: Isn't that after WWII? View Quote started prototype testing in april 1945
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Deere_John_16 Timmy Tacticool Joined Nov 2008 Posts 8271 EE 100% (91) IN, USA	Posted: 11/3/2017 5:43:24 PM EDT [#3] Quote History Originally Posted By Dracster: Per Google: captured German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter tested by the U.S. Navy Naval Air Test Center Patuxent River, Maryland (USA) in March 1944 View Quote Thanks! Didn't realize they did testing there. Learn something new every day!
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somedude Member Joined Feb 2006 Posts 6739 EE 100% (36) FL, USA	Posted: 11/6/2017 11:10:32 PM EDT [Last Edit: somedude] [#6] Attached File Attached File Attached File these two are from Korea, but imagine was a common scene in WWI, WWII and Vietnam Attached File Battle of Triangle Hill Attached File
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4xGM300m Member Joined Mar 2009 Posts 1880 EE 0% (0) USA	Posted: 11/16/2017 5:31:46 PM EDT [#7] Attached File
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somedude Member Joined Feb 2006 Posts 6834 EE 100% (36) FL, USA	Posted: 11/16/2017 7:22:06 PM EDT [Last Edit: somedude] [#8] room for more Poland 1939 tankette next to a Panzer Free French Armor knocked out king tiger with porsche turret. Normandy ROME, Castle of Sant'angelo, 1944
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Riter Member Joined Nov 2000 Posts 107738 EE 100% (6) CO, USA	Posted: 11/17/2017 12:14:37 PM EDT [#9] "Lorry" being loaded onto a transport lorry. Victor and the vanquished. Tank recovery under combat. Balls. Tank depot. Crusader, A 13 MK II, looks like a Cruiser, MK II

Gopher Member Joined Feb 2001 Posts 19377 EE 0% (0) TX, USA	Posted: 11/19/2017 3:51:37 PM EDT [#10] 4-30-1944 There were 16 B-17 produced in one 24 hour period on this day.
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Posted: 11/19/2017 8:32:56 PM EDT

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B-17 Hang the Expense of the 100th Bomber Squadron of the USAAF rests in an English airfield after being severely damaged by flak over Ostend on an aborted mission to Frankfurt Germany 24 January 1944. The tail gunner Roy Urick was blown out - but survived and was taken prisoner. Pilot Frank Valesh and co-pilot John Booth miraculously flew the badly damaged B-17 back to England and put down safely at Eastchurch.

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Riter Member Joined Nov 2000 Posts 107902 EE 100% (6) CO, USA	Posted: 11/20/2017 11:23:56 AM EDT [#12] That poor tailgunner. Amazing he survived. Germany's four engine bomber, the FW-200 Kondor. Used mainly for naval reconnaissance: Here is a FW-200 being restored:

4xGM300m Member Joined Mar 2009 Posts 1885 EE 0% (0) USA	Posted: 11/20/2017 11:40:20 AM EDT [#13] This is a CGI.
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Colt653 Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas Joined Feb 2001 Posts 19248 EE 100% (24) USA	Posted: 11/20/2017 12:36:07 PM EDT [#15] Notice the hole punched in the side I bet the insides are a mess suspension bogies look like they have melted rubber or something on them ???
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Posted: 11/20/2017 12:58:12 PM EDT

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Originally Posted By 4v50:
That poor tailgunner. Amazing he survived.

Germany's four engine bomber, the FW-200 Kondor. Used mainly for naval reconnaissance:

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.avionslegendaires.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Fdossier%2FFocke-Wulf-Fw200-Condor.jpg&f=1

Here is a FW-200 being restored:

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.klassiker-der-luftfahrt.de%2Fsixcms%2Fmedia.php%2F11%2Fthumbnails%2F02-fw-200-werftszene.jpg.3550260.jpg&f=1

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Article on Condor restoration. The photo above is indeed CGI however.

Restoring the Condor

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Posted: 11/20/2017 2:35:41 PM EDT

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Originally Posted By 4v50:
That poor tailgunner. Amazing he survived.

Germany's four engine bomber, the FW-200 Kondor. Used mainly for naval reconnaissance:

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.avionslegendaires.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Fdossier%2FFocke-Wulf-Fw200-Condor.jpg&f=1

Here is a FW-200 being restored:

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.klassiker-der-luftfahrt.de%2Fsixcms%2Fmedia.php%2F11%2Fthumbnails%2F02-fw-200-werftszene.jpg.3550260.jpg&f=1

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Unfortunately it's being restored as a civilian airliner rather than how it served as an MPA but political decisions are what they are and Airbus and Lufthansa wouldn't be up for restoring a bomber.

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Riter Member Joined Nov 2000 Posts 107911 EE 100% (6) CO, USA	Posted: 11/20/2017 3:06:12 PM EDT [#18] I'm going blind. Nationalist Chinese soldiers. After being removed as commander of the 100k strong Reichwehr, Hans von Seeckt went and trained the Chinese Army.

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Posted: 11/20/2017 3:09:02 PM EDT

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Originally Posted By 4v50:
That poor tailgunner. Amazing he survived.

Germany's four engine bomber, the FW-200 Kondor. Used mainly for naval reconnaissance:

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.avionslegendaires.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Fdossier%2FFocke-Wulf-Fw200-Condor.jpg&f=1

Here is a FW-200 being restored:

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.klassiker-der-luftfahrt.de%2Fsixcms%2Fmedia.php%2F11%2Fthumbnails%2F02-fw-200-werftszene.jpg.3550260.jpg&f=1

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They look easy to shoot down.

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Posted: 11/20/2017 3:33:15 PM EDT

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Originally Posted By GunLvrPHD:

They look easy to shoot down.

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They were. Being based on a civilian airliner, the airframe could not take much punishment. Once escort carriers began accompanying the atlantic convoys, they were done for.

Before the escort carriers, huuricanes were shot off of merchant ship by catapult to attack the Kondors. The pilots had to bail out or ditch after their sortie and hope to be picked up.

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Posted: 11/20/2017 9:56:48 PM EDT

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Originally Posted By GunLvrPHD:

They look easy to shoot down.

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they had long legs, and used a lot for anti-shipping operations for spotting or using torpedoes or few bombs. many were destroyed on landing the fuselage would crack. The note about airliners as most of the bombers or transports served as airliners before the war, some served as bombers in the spanish civil war. Some of the various planes went back to airliners.

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Let's eat, Grandma!
Commas, because your poor grandmother shouldn't be cannibalized." -Chapman

somedude Member Joined Feb 2006 Posts 6877 EE 100% (36) FL, USA	Posted: 11/23/2017 1:34:50 AM EDT [Last Edit: somedude] [#22] Hastings St leonards gun of Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery, Hastings, Sussex, May 1940 Normandy1944
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Colt_sporter Carrot Military Service Joined Aug 2002 Posts 15799 EE 100% (134) NH, USA	Posted: 11/23/2017 11:38:22 AM EDT [#23] Attached File Attached File Attached File
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Riter Member Joined Nov 2000 Posts 108198 EE 100% (6) CO, USA	Posted: 11/23/2017 3:51:17 PM EDT [#24] Soldiers' Thanksgiving 1944 Camp Crowder (1944): Another image (year unknown): Korean War (note the Korean War era bayonet lug on the M-1 Carbine): Coasties in WW II:

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Posted: 11/23/2017 6:55:06 PM EDT

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Originally Posted By 4v50:
Soldiers' Thanksgiving 1944

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.milsurps.com%2Fimages%2Fimported%2F2011%2F11%2F26998-1.jpg&f=1

Camp Crowder (1944):

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi1.wp.com%2Fwww.historybyzim.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F05%2F8203215349_5529375604_o.jpg&f=1

Another image (year unknown):

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fs-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com%2Foriginals%2F2c%2F03%2F1b%2F2c031b2b7e62c4c2637c8796e8fe6b40.jpg&f=1

Korean War (note the Korean War era bayonet lug on the M-1 Carbine):

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftheunwrittenrecord.files.wordpress.com%2F2013%2F11%2F111-sc-385319.jpg&f=1

Coasties in WW II:

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2F40.media.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_ljrtgufB7V1qi1raio1_1280.jpg&f=1

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I bet that was some good chow, and those men and women were very thankful for it!

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somedude Member Joined Feb 2006 Posts 6904 EE 100% (36) FL, USA	Posted: 11/24/2017 9:52:38 PM EDT [Last Edit: somedude] [#26] Attached File Attached File Attached File
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Riter Member Joined Nov 2000 Posts 108433 EE 100% (6) CO, USA	Posted: 11/26/2017 7:33:54 PM EDT [#27]

Riter Member Joined Nov 2000 Posts 108434 EE 100% (6) CO, USA	Posted: 11/26/2017 7:35:56 PM EDT [#28] Chinese Japanese

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Posted: 11/27/2017 2:37:51 AM EDT

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Originally Posted By 4v50:
Chinese

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.china.cn%2Fattachement%2Fjpg%2Fsite1000%2F20150805%2Fc03fd5e7be10172c174f36.jpg&f=1

Japanese

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fs-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com%2F564x%2F02%2Ff2%2Fee%2F02f2eed64f00184c2a091c0bd9439b2c.jpg&f=1

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the horse hats or helmets are interesting. seen armor for horses but nothing like that. was it just for shade?

"Let's eat Grandma!
Let's eat, Grandma!
Commas, because your poor grandmother shouldn't be cannibalized." -Chapman

Riter Member Joined Nov 2000 Posts 108469 EE 100% (6) CO, USA	Posted: 11/27/2017 9:11:30 PM EDT [#30] Dunno about those funny hats on the horses. Looks like some Pzkw Is were sent to China.

4xGM300m Member Joined Mar 2009 Posts 1887 EE 0% (0) USA	Posted: 11/28/2017 4:51:09 AM EDT [#31] Panzer I Ausf. A (Chinese Service) - TANK ENCYCLOPEDIA
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ConKeeper Member Joined Mar 2012 Posts 1748 EE 100% (31) DE, USA	Posted: 11/28/2017 1:31:43 PM EDT [#32] Nose art Funny that this was the first album when I opened the Chive app.
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Posted: 11/29/2017 6:52:41 PM EDT

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Originally Posted By 4xGM300m:
It's a Tiger, not a Ferdinand.

Ferdinand was the tank destroyer built on the tiger chassis.

Tiger Command Tank:

https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/201300/pt1-343456.JPG

Built from a Porsche Tiger Prototype:

https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/201300/pt2-343454.JPG

Ferdinand:

https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/201300/ferdinand-343458.JPG

Elefant:

https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/201300/elefant-343459.JPG

Thicker frontal armor, Zimmerit, a ball mounted MG34 and a commander cupola were added.

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Originally Posted By 4xGM300m:

Originally Posted By 4v50:

I notice there is a Ferdinand command Tiger tank there.

It's a Tiger, not a Ferdinand.

Ferdinand was the tank destroyer built on the tiger chassis.

Tiger Command Tank:

https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/201300/pt1-343456.JPG

Built from a Porsche Tiger Prototype:

https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/201300/pt2-343454.JPG

Ferdinand:

https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/201300/ferdinand-343458.JPG

Elefant:

https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/201300/elefant-343459.JPG

Thicker frontal armor, Zimmerit, a ball mounted MG34 and a commander cupola were added.

If you want to get technical: It is a Tiger 1(P).

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Riter Member Joined Nov 2000 Posts 108668 EE 100% (6) CO, USA	Posted: 11/29/2017 7:23:16 PM EDT [#36] Victory was not possible without the Merchant Marine

Riter Member Joined Nov 2000 Posts 108684 EE 100% (6) CO, USA	Posted: 11/29/2017 9:26:46 PM EDT [#37] Stalingrad. Is this some type of body armor?

4xGM300m Member Joined Mar 2009 Posts 1891 EE 0% (0) USA	Posted: 11/30/2017 5:35:52 AM EDT [#38] Quote History Originally Posted By SatelliteMan: If you want to get technical: It is a Tiger 1(P). View Quote The official designation was VK 45.01(P)
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Posted: 11/30/2017 6:14:22 AM EDT

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Originally Posted By jwalk138:
https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/417286/1511958510812-375839.JPG

https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/417286/1511958595107-375840.JPG

https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/417286/1511958629112-375841.JPG

https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/417286/1511959673394-375842.JPG

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The reindeer picture is a fake-the russian photographer added in the planes and bombs for dramatic effect afterwards.

Riter Member Joined Nov 2000 Posts 108757 EE 100% (6) CO, USA	Posted: 11/30/2017 5:45:58 PM EDT [#40] Hilfskreuzer Atlantis and not some innocent appearing merchantman: Camouflaged raised and she's baring her teeth (two of her 5.9" guns and her torpedoes): Hilfskreuzer Michel:

4xGM300m Member Joined Mar 2009 Posts 1894 EE 0% (0) USA	Posted: 12/3/2017 4:17:26 PM EDT [#41] Attached File
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Riter Member Joined Nov 2000 Posts 109123 EE 100% (6) CO, USA	Posted: 12/4/2017 10:56:33 PM EDT [#42] Canadian Sniper Russian women snipers

somedude Member Joined Feb 2006 Posts 6975 EE 100% (36) FL, USA	Posted: 12/5/2017 12:03:07 AM EDT [Last Edit: somedude] [#43] Pilot Lt Bruce Ward Carr of the 354th FG With P-51 Sergei SMOLYANNIKOV: LRDG
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Posted: 12/6/2017 5:55:25 PM EDT

[#44]

The center soldier is Larry Thorne... fought for Finland, Germany and the United States.

He was a US Army Green Beret that disappeared in Vietnam 1965, when the CH 35 helicopter that he was in crash in a mountainous region in Vietnam. A search for the crash site shortly after the helicopters disappearance yielded no results.

In 1999 the crash site was discovered in his remains were repatriated to the United States where he is now buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

Hansan: "This is a .30 caliber, gas operated, clip fed, semi-automatic rifle....."
Soldier: "Look, you ain't sellin it to me, you're only showing me how it works."

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Posted: 12/6/2017 10:59:59 PM EDT

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Originally Posted By Dog1:
https://a2-images.myspacecdn.com/images04/9/46c5cc6a9cbe46cbbbaaba027a175103/full.jpg

The center soldier is Larry Thorne... fought for Finland, Germany and the United States.

He was a US Army Green Beret that disappeared in Vietnam 1965, when the CH 35 helicopter that he was in crash in a mountainous region in Vietnam. A search for the crash site shortly after the helicopters disappearance yielded no results.

In 1999 the crash site was discovered in his remains were repatriated to the United States where he is now buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

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That’s a man who hated communists

You're gonna shoot what with what?

Riter Member Joined Nov 2000 Posts 109208 EE 100% (6) CO, USA	Posted: 12/6/2017 11:15:42 PM EDT [#46] Oklahoma's own Bill Mauldin: America's first carrier, the USS Langley in prewar aircraft carrier configuration. She was nicknamed The Covered Wagon. This is the Langley with her cut down flight deck. She looked like this when she was sunk while transporting P40s:

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Posted: 12/7/2017 10:33:14 AM EDT

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Originally Posted By GlockLuvinRedleg:
That’s a man who hated communists

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Originally Posted By GlockLuvinRedleg:

Originally Posted By Dog1:
https://a2-images.myspacecdn.com/images04/9/46c5cc6a9cbe46cbbbaaba027a175103/full.jpg

The center soldier is Larry Thorne... fought for Finland, Germany and the United States.

He was a US Army Green Beret that disappeared in Vietnam 1965, when the CH 35 helicopter that he was in crash in a mountainous region in Vietnam. A search for the crash site shortly after the helicopters disappearance yielded no results.

In 1999 the crash site was discovered in his remains were repatriated to the United States where he is now buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

That’s a man who hated communists

Yep.

Hansan: "This is a .30 caliber, gas operated, clip fed, semi-automatic rifle....."
Soldier: "Look, you ain't sellin it to me, you're only showing me how it works."

injun-ear Large-Brained, Ape-Like Creature Joined Jun 2001 Posts 9531 EE 0% (0) GA, USA	Posted: 12/7/2017 10:41:58 AM EDT [#48] The one wearing glasses: ain't that Private Cowboy?
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Riter Member Joined Nov 2000 Posts 109262 EE 100% (6) CO, USA	Posted: 12/7/2017 5:57:02 PM EDT [#49] Me-323 Gigant transport aircraft. The C-130 of its day.

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Posted: 12/8/2017 2:28:20 PM EDT

[#50]

On December 7, 1944, three years to the day of firing the first American shot in WWII, the USS Ward was patrolling Ormoc Bay, Leyte, and came under attack and struck by a single kamikaze.

USS Ward, after being hit by a kamikaze, on 7 December 1944.

A direct hit to her hull caused fires that could not be contained, and the crew was ordered to abandon ship. The USS Ward was sunk by gunfire from the USS O’Brien, whose commanding officer, LT William Outerbridge, had been in command of the Ward during her action off Pearl Harbor three years earlier.

Hansan: "This is a .30 caliber, gas operated, clip fed, semi-automatic rifle....."
Soldier: "Look, you ain't sellin it to me, you're only showing me how it works."

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