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Beautiful pictures but tragic waste of western life. And all for nothing with the Muslims being the final victor.
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Originally Posted By outofbattery:
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. View Quote God Bless Loyce Deen. Thank You for everything we hold dear. |
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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.
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Stumbling on the stepstool of mediocracy...
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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.
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Originally Posted By Troll_toes:
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Putting your hands in the fieldgoal position isn't the defining characteristic.
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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? View Quote DP28 magazine charging |
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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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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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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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Stumbling on the stepstool of mediocracy...
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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? View Quote Japanese Type 11 LMG 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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„The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing“
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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. View Quote |
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Putting your hands in the fieldgoal position isn't the defining characteristic.
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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 |
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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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I knew of the midget sub missions on Tirpitz just not the name of the sub that brought them.
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IIRC it was the X10 midget sub that got the credit. But I could easily be wrong. |
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view from the nose of a He-111
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Originally Posted By Gopher:
https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/91913/soldier15-vi-209981.JPG Love the big spoon. View Quote |
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Not sure . I know some made their own setups or had seamstress sew double pouches for some of them.
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Originally Posted By Gopher:
https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/91913/soldier15-vi-209981.JPG Love the big spoon. View Quote |
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Originally Posted By 4xGM300m:
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Originally Posted By InternationalM:
Wtf happened to the Sherman? Looks like a perfect cut upfront View Quote |
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Originally Posted By InternationalM:
Wtf happened to the Sherman? Looks like a perfect cut upfront View Quote 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) Attached File 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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"Let's eat Grandma!
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late double tap lol.....
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Mine damage.
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Politicians Prefer Unarmed Peasants
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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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