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Room101 Joined Nov 2008 Posts 4894 EE 0% (0) UT, USA	Posted: 5/8/2017 8:37:44 PM EDT [#1] Beautiful pictures but tragic waste of western life. And all for nothing with the Muslims being the final victor.

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Posted: 5/8/2017 8:57:12 PM EDT

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TBF hit by AAA on a mission to attack Japanese ships in Manila Bay.

http://www.loyceedeen.org/uploads/Snapshot_-_6.jpg

http://www.loyceedeen.org/uploads/Afer_the_battle.jpg

Due to severity of damage,it was decided to give the gunner,Loyce Deen, a burial at sea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMWz10jaK0g

I read a book about an Avenger crew in WWII when I was a teenager and asked about it here even. I had misremembered the name for decades but finally found it Raspberry One Wrong fruit,wrong number but I got absorbed into reading all about TBF/TBMs again and found his story http://www.loyceedeen.org I'm glad someone made this effort to honor him.

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I had never seen that before.

God Bless Loyce Deen.

Thank You for everything we hold dear.

JQ66 Member Joined Nov 2012 Posts 7789 EE 100% (4) PA, USA	Posted: 5/8/2017 9:17:59 PM EDT [#3] It wasn't the damage to the Avenger that prmpted them to do the entire plane burial at sea, it was that the gunner was decapitated.

Colt_sporter Carrot Military Service Joined Aug 2002 Posts 15471 EE 100% (134) NH, USA	Posted: 5/9/2017 12:19:24 AM EDT [#4] Attached File
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LawyerUp Be Loyal. Lift Heavy Weights. Drink Good Beer. Joined Jul 2011 Posts 9215 EE 100% (21) VA, USA	Posted: 5/9/2017 4:15:43 PM EDT [#6] This is WW1 stuff, though it may have been used in WWII as well. Here are a couple photos I took this weekend of a German field gun (see bullet holes) and a German tankgewehr rifle. This guy also had a FA thompson and BAR. Attached File Attached File Attached File Attached File
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somedude Member Joined Feb 2006 Posts 5797 EE 100% (35) FL, USA	Posted: 5/9/2017 6:44:02 PM EDT [#7] a a guy on mislurp group on facebook has a working sherman with a 76. Attached File
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Posted: 5/9/2017 9:47:10 PM EDT

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I worked with a guy (in the mid 70's) who's father (German) was on the Eastern Front. I remember he told me his father said that the Russians had a MG that you could just dump bullets in and it would feed automatically. Is that these weapons?

Putting your hands in the fieldgoal position isn't the defining characteristic.
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Posted: 5/9/2017 10:12:34 PM EDT

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Originally Posted By usp45c:
I worked with a guy (in the mid 70's) who's father (German) was on the Eastern Front. I remember he told me his father said that the Russians had a MG that you could just dump bullets in and it would feed automatically. Is that these weapons?

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No

DP28 magazine charging

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VPSZ9ERoeE

m35ben Deuce Joined Mar 2014 Posts 31767 EE 0% (0) TX, USA	Posted: 5/9/2017 10:15:02 PM EDT [#10] Quote History Originally Posted By somedude: a a guy on mislurp group on facebook has a working sherman with a 76. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/91913/76mm-205099.JPG View Quote
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Gopher Member Joined Feb 2001 Posts 18276 EE 0% (0) TX, USA	Posted: 5/9/2017 10:59:34 PM EDT [#11] Colorized black and whites photos are usually hit or miss. This is a collection of some good ones. Especially read the one for the B-17 ball turret gunner. https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/32-sad-tragic-but-fasinating-colourised-images-of-wwii.html/5
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EMSflyer Member Joined Oct 2003 Posts 5250 EE 100% (18) TX, USA	Posted: 5/11/2017 7:14:42 PM EDT [#13] Attached File My Grand Father, Captain R. P. McElroy. 393 Inf Regiment XO, 99 Infantry Division. Pic taken in Landshut Germany April 1945 He was CO of L Co. while they trained up in the States then was Reg S2 and later XO. In constant combat from just prior to the Battle of the Bulge until VE day.

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FRENCH RESISTANCE 1944: A member of the French Forces of the Interior (FFI) armed with a Sten gun, uses a truck for cover during gun battles with German snipers in Dreux

A group of Curtiss P-40 Warhawks escorted a pair of Consolidated B-24D Liberators on a flight near the Aleutian islands, Alaska, 1944.

HM Submarine Sceptre Comes Home November 1944 Holy Loch Gourock Scotland the Return of HMS Sceptre After An Exploit Against German Convoy Off Norway While on Night Patrol They Destroyed One Large Enemy Supply 330

HMS Unbroken navigates a minefield July 1942

ON BOARD HMS ACTIVITY, ESCORT CARRIER, COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN GUY WILLOUGHBY, RN. 20 TO 23 JULY 1943, AT SEA.

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Commas, because your poor grandmother shouldn't be cannibalized." -Chapman

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Posted: 5/13/2017 4:41:20 PM EDT

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Originally Posted By usp45c:

I worked with a guy (in the mid 70's) who's father (German) was on the Eastern Front. I remember he told me his father said that the Russians had a MG that you could just dump bullets in and it would feed automatically. Is that these weapons?

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The Japanese had one that feeds from a hopper, ammo had to be on the same stripper clips as used for rifles, which made it easy for any infantryman to feed the MG:

Japanese Type 11 LMG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwi-3pSFKGc

The Russians captured a number of them after kicking Japan's ass in '39 and made a prototype copy that they did not field, but I could imagine them issuing captured Type 11's to a few cannon fodder units in the darkest "one rifle and five rounds for two men" days of the war, better than sharp sticks and foul language.

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Posted: 5/15/2017 8:19:41 PM EDT

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Originally Posted By Mal_means_bad:
The Japanese had one that feeds from a hopper, ammo had to be on the same stripper clips as used for rifles, which made it easy for any infantryman to feed the MG:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwi-3pSFKGc

The Russians captured a number of them after kicking Japan's ass in '39 and made a prototype copy that they did not field, but I could imagine them issuing captured Type 11's to a few cannon fodder units in the darkest "one rifle and five rounds for two men" days of the war, better than sharp sticks and foul language.

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Thanks. (where did the beer toast emotes go?)

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ACDer UnSafe at any speed Joined Mar 2005 Posts 3062 EE 100% (7) NY, USA	Posted: 5/15/2017 8:35:09 PM EDT [#21] Patton going ashore during operation Torch.

MattR C12H18O Joined Jul 2011 Posts 2598 EE 100% (20) USA	Posted: 5/15/2017 10:09:26 PM EDT [#22] Quote History Originally Posted By swingset: Been this way since I was a kid, but I can't look at WWII pictures without feeling envy. Granted, the sane, rational person in me wants no part of war - but I still envy the guys who fought in it. Great pics, thanks for sharing. View Quote Read Liberator and you will lose that feeling

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Posted: 5/15/2017 10:18:09 PM EDT

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Originally Posted By somedude:

HM Submarine Sceptre Comes Home November 1944 Holy Loch Gourock Scotland the Return of HMS Sceptre After An Exploit Against German Convoy Off Norway While on Night Patrol They Destroyed One Large Enemy Supply 330

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Scepter was an S-class submarine that was refitted with special towing gear and used as a sort of midget submarine tow-horse. Yet her roles were important. She was involved in the midget sub missions that put the Tirpitz out of action in port at Kafjord, and in sinking of the Baerenfels while she was in harbor at Bergen.

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somedude Member Joined Feb 2006 Posts 5837 EE 100% (35) FL, USA	Posted: 5/16/2017 12:08:10 AM EDT [#24] I knew of the midget sub missions on Tirpitz just not the name of the sub that brought them. Attached File
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kar98k My Avatar is Staring at You. Joined Sep 2005 Posts 15842 EE 100% (47) TX, USA	Posted: 5/16/2017 12:33:05 AM EDT [#25] . IIRC it was the X10 midget sub that got the credit. But I could easily be wrong.
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Colt_sporter Carrot Military Service Joined Aug 2002 Posts 15490 EE 100% (134) NH, USA	Posted: 5/16/2017 4:20:48 AM EDT [#26] Attached File
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4xGM300m °°° °°° °°° °°° °°° °°° Joined Mar 2009 Posts 1385 EE 0% (0) USA	Posted: 5/16/2017 2:47:38 PM EDT [#27] Okinawa.
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somedude Member Joined Feb 2006 Posts 5839 EE 100% (35) FL, USA	Posted: 5/16/2017 6:19:52 PM EDT [Last Edit: somedude] [#28] view from the nose of a He-111 Iowa Attached File para loadout Attached File aww shit Attached File Uboat under air attack Attached File
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4xGM300m °°° °°° °°° °°° °°° °°° Joined Mar 2009 Posts 1387 EE 0% (0) USA	Posted: 5/17/2017 1:26:38 PM EDT [#29] Sherman in France.
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Gopher Member Joined Feb 2001 Posts 18315 EE 0% (0) TX, USA	Posted: 5/17/2017 2:04:29 PM EDT [#30] Attached File Love the big spoon.
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RakkinBaggyPants Member Joined Apr 2008 Posts 570 EE 100% (4) TX, USA	Posted: 5/17/2017 2:35:12 PM EDT [#31] Quote History Originally Posted By Gopher: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/91913/soldier15-vi-209981.JPG Love the big spoon. View Quote What are those Garand Ammo pouches on the belt?

somedude Member Joined Feb 2006 Posts 5841 EE 100% (35) FL, USA	Posted: 5/17/2017 2:43:26 PM EDT [#32] Not sure . I know some made their own setups or had seamstress sew double pouches for some of them.
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lew Trigger happy thoughts. Joined Sep 2005 Posts 9582 EE 100% (16) AZ, USA	Posted: 5/17/2017 2:47:01 PM EDT [#33] Quote History Originally Posted By RakkinBaggyPants: What are those Garand Ammo pouches on the belt? View Quote Rigger-made pouches. That kit assemblage is delightfully minimalist.
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InternationalM Member Joined Dec 2013 Posts 2232 EE 98% (51) WV, USA	Posted: 5/22/2017 7:02:52 PM EDT [#39] Quote History Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: http://img.imagesia.com/fichiers/bn/destr-sherman_imagesia-com_bnfs_large.jpg View Quote Wtf happened to the Sherman? Looks like a perfect cut upfront

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Posted: 5/22/2017 8:43:44 PM EDT

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Wtf happened to the Sherman? Looks like a perfect cut upfront

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seen some similar ones that were done by a AT mine,

German troops at the Belgian fort of Boncelles after its capitulation

France

Testing the Schneider Mle 1936 7,5 cm AA gun - may 1940

Arisaka Type 4 / Type 5 (Japanese Garand)

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M4 Sherman Tank Overturned after Hitting Mine on Okinawa 1945

Flail tank

after hitting a mine

An M4A3 (76)W with horizontal volute spring suspension of the 41st Tank Battalion, 11th Armored Division. Named Flat-Foot-Floogie, it was the first tank from Patton’s Third Army to reach the Rhine

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Commas, because your poor grandmother shouldn't be cannibalized." -Chapman

InternationalM Member Joined Dec 2013 Posts 2233 EE 98% (51) WV, USA	Posted: 5/22/2017 10:06:53 PM EDT [Last Edit: InternationalM] [#42] late double tap lol.....

Riter Member Joined Nov 2000 Posts 97100 EE 100% (6) CO, USA	Posted: 5/22/2017 10:11:33 PM EDT [#43] Mine damage.

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1 German 2 Romanian Messerschmidt

Polish medium bomber P-30 (LWS-6) Zubr , all were destroyed or captured at the beginning of the war. One was used to train Luftwaffe bomber pilots as it had good visibility and was said to be easy to fly. did have some crashes during development. Originally passenger plane turned into reserve bombers.

IL-4

Il-2 on skis

LaGG-1 with Ilyushin Il-4 behind, August 1943, Finnish Air Force

Seabees repairing Piva bomber strip with Marston matting

airfield in Amchitka, Alaska

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

somedude Member Joined Feb 2006 Posts 5866 EE 100% (35) FL, USA	Posted: 5/25/2017 8:48:35 PM EDT [#46] not sure if it was a crash or shot up on the ground. Attached File
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Gopher Member Joined Feb 2001 Posts 18384 EE 0% (0) TX, USA	Posted: 5/26/2017 7:04:52 PM EDT [#48] Brit gunners in their high altitude gear. Attached File
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during occupation of Paris

US Army WWII Series M3 Stuart light tanks support Britsh Army infantry Tunisia

M4 Sherman tank Matain River bridge 30 January 1945 Battle of Luzon Philippines

Infantrymen of the 22nd Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, move across a tread way bridge near Scheuren, Germany. March 6, 1945

Sicily

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Commas, because your poor grandmother shouldn't be cannibalized." -Chapman

4xGM300m °°° °°° °°° °°° °°° °°° Joined Mar 2009 Posts 1416 EE 0% (0) USA	Posted: 5/29/2017 3:09:38 AM EDT [#50] Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6 White 2+I, piloted by Oberleutnant Emil Clade (27 kills), Staffelkapitan 7.JG 27 ‘Afrika’, photographed from a He 111 over Crete. 1 December 1943. View Quote
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