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Originally Posted By 13starsinax: https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/303716/b7ded37ca364c311592baa39262b7d81_jpg-1432091.JPG View Quote @aimless ![]() |
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LIFE'S JOURNEY IS NOT TO ARRIVE AT THE GRAVE SAFELY IN A WELL PRESERVED BODY,
BUT RATHER TO SKID IN SIDEWAYS, TOTALLY WORN OUT SHOUTING "HOLY $H!T...WHAT A RIDE"!! |
#53 says, "Take 22 mg absorbed Vit C per lb plus 1 gram Chaga daily. Don't forget 2000 mg Vit D-3, 30 mg Zinc and 2 mg Cu."
Unfettered with the formalities of an economics education but well read in monetary history. |
German Officers served in Nationalist China to build their army & Air forces,
K-98 8mm Mauser C-96 Mauser Stahlhelms He-111s until the Germans & Japanese became buddies... |
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LIFE'S JOURNEY IS NOT TO ARRIVE AT THE GRAVE SAFELY IN A WELL PRESERVED BODY,
BUT RATHER TO SKID IN SIDEWAYS, TOTALLY WORN OUT SHOUTING "HOLY $H!T...WHAT A RIDE"!! |
Originally Posted By Bigger_Hammer: German Officers served in Nationalist China to build their army & Air forces, K-98 8mm Mauser C-96 Mauser Stahlhelms He-111s until the Germans & Japanese became buddies... View Quote Skoda, Krupp, and Austrian bank loans propped up China after the fall of the Manchu government. edit: BUT, Japan bought more from Krupp, and Steyr. |
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Originally Posted By mizzarley
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Originally Posted By mizzarley
Can we all agree now that the D's and R's are the same fucks who are just pimping for control and tax dollars? |
Originally Posted By Miami_JBT: Chiang Kai-shek's son; Chiang Wei-kuo served in the Wehrmacht and almost took part in the invasion of Poland. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Chiang_Wei-kuo_Nazi_1.jpg Chiang sent Wei-kuo to Nazi Germany for a military education at the Kriegsschule in Munich. Here, he would learn the most up to date German military tactical doctrines, organization, and use of weaponry on the modern battlefield such as the German-inspired theory of the Maschinengewehr (Medium machine gun, at this time, the MG-34) led squad, incorporation of Air and Armored branches into infantry attack, etc. After completing this training, Wei-kuo completed specialized Alpine warfare training, thus earning him the coveted Gebirgsjger Edelweiss sleeve insignia. Wei-kuo was promoted to Fahnenjunker, or Officer Candidate, and received a Schützenschnur lanyard. Wei-kuo commanded a Panzer unit during the 1938 Austrian Anschluss as a Fhnrich, or sergeant officer-candidate, leading a tank into that country; subsequently, he was promoted to Lieutenant of a Panzer unit awaiting to be sent into Poland. Before he was given the mobilization order, he was recalled to China. Upon being recalled from Germany, Chiang Wei-kuo visited the United States as a distinguished guest of the US Army. He gave lectures detailing on German army organizations and tactics. View Quote That man lived a full life. Thanks for posting. Edit: How did the Sherman tanks get sold to China? |
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Originally Posted By mizzarley
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Originally Posted By 13starsinax: Everyone stages photos, but the Russians did it A LOT. These poor bastards had to do this scene 87 times ![]() https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/303716/image-placeholder-title_jpg-1434055.JPG We redid the Iwo flag raising more than a few times too. View Quote That may be the original picture. The one released at the time was retouched to remove the many "liberated" watches on the men's wrists. |
" If govt parsimony is economic madness, and debt-fuelled govt spending a recipe for riches, why aren't the Greeks bailing out the Germans?"
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Originally Posted By 13starsinax: That man lived a full life. Thanks for posting. Edit: How did the Sherman tanks get sold to China? View Quote USMC repatriation assistance: ![]() Mystery PLA Sherman on parade 1949, with a replacement or dummy gun: ![]() Beijing tank museum; USMC, Russian Lend-Lease, or ?: ![]() |
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Originally Posted By Mal_means_bad: I don't see where Shermans were mentioned, but the US assisted the Chiang government with the repatriation of Japanese citizens after the war, including a USMC tank battalion which handed over a few worn out M4A2's when they departed: Link No Shermans were provided under lend lease or exported to the Nationalists. There is a mystery Sherman that ended up in Communist hands which is still in their tank museum. USMC repatriation assistance: https://i.imgur.com/mWqCEa9.jpg Mystery PLA Sherman on parade 1949, with a replacement or dummy gun: https://i.imgur.com/mHe94xh.jpg Beijing tank museum; USMC, Russian Lend-Lease, or ?: https://i.imgur.com/cxxcMVr.jpg View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Mal_means_bad: I don't see where Shermans were mentioned, but the US assisted the Chiang government with the repatriation of Japanese citizens after the war, including a USMC tank battalion which handed over a few worn out M4A2's when they departed: Link No Shermans were provided under lend lease or exported to the Nationalists. There is a mystery Sherman that ended up in Communist hands which is still in their tank museum. USMC repatriation assistance: https://i.imgur.com/mWqCEa9.jpg Mystery PLA Sherman on parade 1949, with a replacement or dummy gun: https://i.imgur.com/mHe94xh.jpg Beijing tank museum; USMC, Russian Lend-Lease, or ?: https://i.imgur.com/cxxcMVr.jpg Thank you. Here is the quote from his wiki page, I followed links about him and eventually got to this. He also commanded tanks in India I think. During the Chinese Civil War, Chiang Wei-kuo employed tactics he had learned whilst studying in the German Wehrmacht. He was in charge of a M4 Sherman tank battalion during the Huaihai Campaign against Mao Zedong's troops, scoring some early victories. ![]() This is slightly out of WW2, and I do not want to de-rail. Very interesting though. |
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Originally Posted By mizzarley
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http://gasmasklexikon.com/Page/USA-Mil-Mikey.htm
![]() ![]() ![]() Walt Disney, center, shows off his studio’s proposed design of the Mickey Mouse gas mask in January 1942 to Col. George Fisher, left, chief of the Civil Defense Division,Walt Disney, center, and Maj. Gen. William Porter, right, chief of the Chemical Warfare Service. (Courtesy of U.S. Army Chemical Corps Museum, Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. /Courtesy of he U.S. Army Chemical Corps Museum, Ft. Leonard Wood, MO ) View Quote |
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Originally Posted By mizzarley
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At the end of the war 6 million Japanese were scattered across Asia and the Pacific and 1 million non-Japanese were in Japan, many against their will. 191 USN ships and 188 Japanese ships including much of what was left of the IJN converted into transports executed a huge repatriation operation in 1945-1946 that trailed off into 1949: Asian Repatriation
Hosho, the world's first purpose built aircraft carrier (1922), which escorted battleships standing by to support the carrier fleet at Pearl Harbor and Midway, about to depart on her first repatriation mission. She made 9 trips and carried 40,000 passengers: ![]() Hosho's hangar modified with additional decks to increase berths 1945: ![]() The hangar looks awful small, doesn't it? Hosho was tiny by WWII carrier standards: ![]() IJN cruiser Yakumo and aircraft carrier Katsuragi repatriate Japanese troops. Yakumo was launched in 1899 and fought in the Russo-Japanese war at the Battle of the Yellow Sea (1904) and Tsushima (1905), and served as an armed training ship during WWII. Katsuragi was a potentially powerful Unryo class launched in early 1945, but her intended flight group was wiped out at Iwo Jima and never replaced, so she spent the last months of the war disguised as an island. Both were scrapped in 1946. ![]() Carrier Katsuragi and cruiser Yakumo transport troops back to Japan "On the evening of 30 January 1946, a Japanese 22,000 ton aircraft carrier Katsuragi carrying 5,000 Japanese troops from Fauro to Japan, called at Rabaul for fuel and water. Most of the troops were in very bad health and conditions on the carrier very crowded." The deck is still buckled from a 2,000lb bomb hit to the hangar during the war, when US bombers saw through the island disguise: ![]() Japanese aircraft carrier Katsuragi at Rabaul Katsuragi's buckled deck: ![]() IJN destroyer Yoizuki was commissioned too late to see action. Her unfired guns were stripped and she went on a controversially overcrowded repatriation mission to Australia to pick up Japanese and Taiwanese internees (Taiwan was ruled by Japan from 1895-1945). Australia interned about a thousand Japanese living there at the outbreak of war (mostly pearl divers) and acquired another 3,000 Japanese and Taiwanese civilians arrested in other Allied controlled territories. Arriving Sydney: ![]() Forced aboard by MP's: ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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#53 says, "Take 22 mg absorbed Vit C per lb plus 1 gram Chaga daily. Don't forget 2000 mg Vit D-3, 30 mg Zinc and 2 mg Cu."
Unfettered with the formalities of an economics education but well read in monetary history. |
#53 says, "Take 22 mg absorbed Vit C per lb plus 1 gram Chaga daily. Don't forget 2000 mg Vit D-3, 30 mg Zinc and 2 mg Cu."
Unfettered with the formalities of an economics education but well read in monetary history. |
Originally Posted By 4v50: https://i1.wp.com/historicalsocietyofgermanmilitaryhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/NRA_37mm_PaK.jpg https://i.imgur.com/iLXyxri.jpg View Quote What year is the bottom picture? |
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Originally Posted By mizzarley
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Looking back at 90 pages of pictures, I have made some observations.
Yes its nice to admire the hardware, courage, dramatic moments and even the occasional light hearted moments caught on camera. But there is no denying that all the people seen in those photos, no matter who they were, deep down were living in a daily fear of death or dismemberment, while living under what we would consider difficult and arduous conditions. Just in passing the only fatty I ever saw in any of those photos was Goering, and I would politely include Churchill who had been well fed far for years ![]() When the greatest generation is mention, I have become a believer. I honestly ask, if the people of today were asked to perform the same, would most of us be capable? ![]() |
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It will be Yuge! I will sh*t fury all over you and you will drown in it. |
10 days from keel to floating. I do not think we could do it right now.
![]() ![]() Henry J. Kaiser's shipbuilders begin the 10-day construction of the Joseph N. Teal ship in September 1942 in Portland, Ore. View Quote |
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Originally Posted By mizzarley
Can we all agree now that the D's and R's are the same fucks who are just pimping for control and tax dollars? |
Originally Posted By 13starsinax: 10 days from keel to floating. I do not think we could do it right now. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/303716/american-war-mobilization-industrial_jpg-1435279.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/303716/1457073888081_jpg-1435283.JPG View Quote It would not. Ship construction today is composed of welded segments. Actually similar to what your seeing in the photos. However, today the same techniques are far more sophisticated, but are done more slowly over time with a fraction of the people, and delayed deliveries from off site deliveries and overseas suppliers. |
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On my right butt cheek is your name
It will be Yuge! I will sh*t fury all over you and you will drown in it. |
Originally Posted By Meadowmuffin: It would not. Ship construction today is composed of welded segments. Actually similar to what your seeing in the photos. However, today the same techniques are far more sophisticated, but are done more slowly over time with a fraction of the people, and delayed deliveries from off site deliveries and overseas suppliers. View Quote I appreciate your post. This past week I lost the last tie to WW2 in my family. It made me sad, but time comes for all of us to go. ![]() |
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Originally Posted By mizzarley
Can we all agree now that the D's and R's are the same fucks who are just pimping for control and tax dollars? |
Originally Posted By 13starsinax: I appreciate your post. This past week I lost the last tie to WW2 in my family. It made me sad, but time comes for all of us to go. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/303716/wwii-normandy-american_jpg-1435305.JPG View Quote Sorry for your loss. ![]() |
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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." |
Originally Posted By mizzarley
Can we all agree now that the D's and R's are the same fucks who are just pimping for control and tax dollars? |
Originally Posted By Bigger_Hammer: @aimless https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/303716/b7ded37ca364c311592baa39262b7d81_jpg-1432091.JPG View Quote Close, but not a penguin. |
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Originally Posted By mizzarley
Can we all agree now that the D's and R's are the same fucks who are just pimping for control and tax dollars? |
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Originally Posted By mizzarley
Can we all agree now that the D's and R's are the same fucks who are just pimping for control and tax dollars? |
![]() ![]() B-24 Liberator #41-24023 'Fertile Myrtle' 415th BS, 98th BG, 9th AF, flew on 1st Aug 43 Ploesti raid, piloted by Herbert I Shingler, returning safely to Libya. 19th Aug 43. En route to the target, the plane began smoking from the engines, after which it went into a dive and crashed into the ground and exploded. Pilot Ralph F. Wiesenberg. Italy. 10 KIA. MACR 325. Crew: 2nd/Lt Joseph M. Gares Nav, 2nd/Lt James R. Curtis Bombardier, 2nd/Lt James H. Devers, Jr Co Pilot 2nd/Lt Ralph F. Wiesenberg Pilot, T/Sgt Orville K. Nicholson, T/Sgt Cedric J. Rougier, S/Sgt Harry L. Fischer Gunner, S/Sgt Marcel G. Parker Gunner, S/Sgt John A. Summers Gunner, S/Sgt Patrick L. Burke Gunner. View Quote |
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Originally Posted By mizzarley
Can we all agree now that the D's and R's are the same fucks who are just pimping for control and tax dollars? |
Originally Posted By 13starsinax: I appreciate your post. This past week I lost the last tie to WW2 in my family. It made me sad, but time comes for all of us to go. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/303716/wwii-normandy-american_jpg-1435305.JPG View Quote ![]() |
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#53 says, "Take 22 mg absorbed Vit C per lb plus 1 gram Chaga daily. Don't forget 2000 mg Vit D-3, 30 mg Zinc and 2 mg Cu."
Unfettered with the formalities of an economics education but well read in monetary history. |
#53 says, "Take 22 mg absorbed Vit C per lb plus 1 gram Chaga daily. Don't forget 2000 mg Vit D-3, 30 mg Zinc and 2 mg Cu."
Unfettered with the formalities of an economics education but well read in monetary history. |
A step grandad of mine was a Marine combat photographer in WWII and I inherited all the photos he took in the Pacific. I’ve been wanting to post them but it’s a pile of them. Any ideas on maybe the best way to share besides making a shit load of pics and posts? I have to find the main collection still but I’ll upload a few as soon as I can, only way I know is to take a pic with my iPhone and post that. Scanning them in would take a long time but the photos are awesome.
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Originally Posted By 4v50: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*fAUe0YDiLBG9obM3IYxDew.jpeg View Quote Now that is a hell of a flak tower |
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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." |
Originally Posted By mhode: A step grandad of mine was a Marine combat photographer in WWII and I inherited all the photos he took in the Pacific. I’ve been wanting to post them but it’s a pile of them. Any ideas on maybe the best way to share besides making a shit load of pics and posts? I have to find the main collection still but I’ll upload a few as soon as I can, only way I know is to take a pic with my iPhone and post that. Scanning them in would take a long time but the photos are awesome. View Quote Oh my. Take a pic with your iphone, post it, and we will give advice. How many pics you figure? Can't wait! ![]() |
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"...Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christian...." - Thomas Jefferson
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#53 says, "Take 22 mg absorbed Vit C per lb plus 1 gram Chaga daily. Don't forget 2000 mg Vit D-3, 30 mg Zinc and 2 mg Cu."
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Originally Posted By Dog1: Now that is a hell of a flak tower View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Dog1: Originally Posted By 4v50: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*fAUe0YDiLBG9obM3IYxDew.jpeg Now that is a hell of a flak tower FlakTurm IV St. Pauli in Hamburg. It's apartments and shops now. ![]() |
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![]() HITLERS TERRIBLE TOWER - Giant World War 2 Anti Aircraft Flak Tower Weird to see them in modern context. |
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Originally Posted By mizzarley
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Small sample I have hundreds more.
Tinian ![]() ![]() Peleliu ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Originally Posted By mhode: A step grandad of mine was a Marine combat photographer in WWII and I inherited all the photos he took in the Pacific. I’ve been wanting to post them but it’s a pile of them. Any ideas on maybe the best way to share besides making a shit load of pics and posts? I have to find the main collection still but I’ll upload a few as soon as I can, only way I know is to take a pic with my iPhone and post that. Scanning them in would take a long time but the photos are awesome. View Quote Let them scan by a professional photo scanning service. |
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Sorry for the earlier sideways pics that shit is getting old.
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**WARNING**
Maybe NSFW dead Japanese and a few Marines Saipan ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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I have to find the rest of the collection.
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75 years ago the first combat evaluation missions were flown in the Philippines by the B-32. It was a backup design to the B-29. A total of 118 were built and all were destroyed or scrapped after the war.
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Originally Posted By 4v50: Hans von Seeckt, creator of the 100,000 man Reichswehr was the primary advisor to the KMT. He and other advisors urged Hitler to make an alliance with the Japanese. It's all history now. https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Hans_von_Seeckt?file=Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-10883%2C_Hans_von_Seeckt_und_Otto_Ge%C3%9Fler.jpg View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By 4v50: Originally Posted By Bigger_Hammer: German Officers served in Nationalist China to build their army & Air forces, K-98 8mm Mauser C-96 Mauser Stahlhelms He-111s until the Germans & Japanese became buddies... Hans von Seeckt, creator of the 100,000 man Reichswehr was the primary advisor to the KMT. He and other advisors urged Hitler to make an alliance with the Japanese. It's all history now. https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Hans_von_Seeckt?file=Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-10883%2C_Hans_von_Seeckt_und_Otto_Ge%C3%9Fler.jpg ![]() ![]() Commissioned in 1888 into the Prussian Army. In 1902 he served as captain of the Generalstab and later commanded a regiment on the Russian Front. But prior to that, Kundt arrived in Bolivia in 1908, as head of a German military training mission. He enjoyed an excellent relationship with the Bolivians and acquired a reputation as a competent peacetime administrator and troop trainer. In 1911, he began the reorganisation of the Bolivian Army, following the pattern of the Prussian Army. At the start of First World War, Kundt returned to Germany. In 1914 he was commander of a regiment on the Eastern Front and achieved the rank of Generalleutnant. He served as chief of staff on the corps level, and as a brigade commander. After the First World War, Kundt retired at the rank of colonel, although he was conferred the rank of general upon retiring. Following the First World War, Kundt again returned to Bolivia. There he was offered the posts of Chief of Staff of the Army, and of Minister of War, with the rank of general. Kundt accepted the posts and headed the program of rearming Bolivia during the 1920s, and the planning to occupy the Chaco. He adopted Bolivian citizenship and entered the army as a general. In this post he continued the reorganisation he had begun in 1911, and became very popular as – unlike much of the Bolivian officer corps – he was concerned with the well-being of the troops. In 1923 he was named Minister of War. After the fall of president Hernando Siles Reyes in a coup in 1930, Kundt was exiled for having collaborated with that administration. Only two years later, Kundt was brought back to direct the Bolivian Army against Paraguay in the Chaco War, and was appointed both Commander in Chief and Minister of War. In that role, Kundt was instrumental in Bolivia's purchase of a large amount of modern arms and equipment, including an insistence that Bolivia include a quantity of light tanks and armored vehicles in the order. Kundt later boasted to an American reporter that 'if the Paraguayans ever dare to take up the Chaco issue again, I shall make a military walkover right over to their capital of Asunción, and settle the matter once and for all'. However, Kundt's directing of the Bolivian military campaign was problematic. Bolivia's tanks and tankettes proved almost useless in navigating the thick scrub and quebracho of the Gran Chaco, and were easily isolated and destroyed or seized by Paraguyan infantry using grenades and mortars. By 1934, Paraguay was employing a large number of captured Bolivian Army automatic weapons and trucks against their former owners. The loss of the tanks forced the Bolivian government to purchase a quantity of bipod-mounted Oerlikon SSG36 anti-tank rifles to deal with their potential recovery and use by the Paraguayan army. The valuable aerial reconnaissance produced by Bolivia's superior air force (Bolivian pilots spotted several approaching Paraguayan encirclements of Bolivian forces) was largely ignored by Kundt, who dismissed the reports as exaggerations by overzealous airmen. Kundt repeatedly eschewed flanking maneuvers for futile frontal infantry assaults against well-defended Paraguayan positions using machine guns with interlocking fire zones. Kundt also proved a failure at logistics, and large Bolivian forces were regularly forced to surrender for lack of water to their opponents. His refusal to develop an effective intelligence service meant that the Bolivian Army could not track enemy movements. Unit after unit of the Bolivian army were surrounded and destroyed. After Bolivia's defeat in Campo Vía, Kundt was relieved of command on December 12, 1933 as Chief of Staff by Bolivian President Daniel Salamanca. Kundt left Bolivia and returned to Germany. Retiring to Switzerland in 1936, Kundt died in Lugano (Switzerland) on August 30, 1939 at age 70. |
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Originally Posted By Gopher: 75 years ago the first combat evaluation missions were flown in the Philippines by the B-32. It was a backup design to the B-29. A total of 118 were built and all were destroyed or scrapped after the war. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/1670/b-32_natural_finish_jpg-1438038.JPG View Quote ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Originally Posted By Gopher: 75 years ago the first combat evaluation missions were flown in the Philippines by the B-32. It was a backup design to the B-29. A total of 118 were built and all were destroyed or scrapped after the war. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/1670/b-32_natural_finish_jpg-1438038.JPG View Quote It's a pretty interesting plane. We really could build things in the 40's. |
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Originally Posted By mizzarley
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Originally Posted By Mal_means_bad: XB-38, Allison powered Flying Fortress developed in case Wright radial production fell behind. First flight May 1943. Top speed was higher but ceiling was lower. The only prototype was destroyed by in flight fire June 1943, crew bailed out. Radial production remained adequate and the Allisons were needed elsewhere, so the project was dropped. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/XB-38.jpg/1200px-XB-38.jpg https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/wj3pugpwtck1fnjbmjn9.jpg https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_1600/uzwslq5rpt64xkx36qzp.jpg https://www.worldwarphotos.info/wp-content/gallery/usa/aircrafts/xb-38/XB-38_front.jpg https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/attachments/xb-38_engines-jpg.354874/ View Quote That is really awesome! Has a similar elegant nacelle look as the Lancs did. Really interesting how many contingency plans we put into place during the war. Were the engines also turbo supercharged? |
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Originally Posted By mhode: **WARNING** Maybe NSFW dead Japanese and a few Marines Saipan https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/253119/8A9F73FB-482D-43A5-A85D-FB3CC6E6CDAE_jpe-1437997.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/253119/5367C262-3215-4BE7-9118-C68EF14CC43F_jpe-1437999.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/253119/61D52630-C1A3-4D19-8939-7108A47DA4EE_jpe-1437995.JPG View Quote I've posted some of those in this thread. I think you should try to scan a small batch to test. You won't have to deal with lighting issues such as glare, and they'll lay flat. |
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Originally Posted By Mal_means_bad: XB-38, Allison powered Flying Fortress developed in case Wright radial production fell behind. First flight May 1943. Top speed was higher but ceiling was lower. The only prototype was destroyed by in flight fire June 1943, crew bailed out. Radial production remained adequate and the Allisons were needed elsewhere, so the project was dropped. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/XB-38.jpg/1200px-XB-38.jpg https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/wj3pugpwtck1fnjbmjn9.jpg https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_1600/uzwslq5rpt64xkx36qzp.jpg https://www.worldwarphotos.info/wp-content/gallery/usa/aircrafts/xb-38/XB-38_front.jpg https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/attachments/xb-38_engines-jpg.354874/ View Quote ![]() The XB-39, essentially powered by 8 allisons, (two engines were coupled to drive a single propeller a la the HE-177. |
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