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Posted: 9/22/2020 7:35:06 AM EST
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Posted: 9/22/2020 8:34:21 AM EST
[Last Edit: Mal_means_bad]
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https://www.shorpy.com/node/10325
"This image was scanned from my grandfather John Baker's Warbook. In this photo, we have an unidentified soldier getting "bunny ears" from a French woman. Judging by her attire and the attire of the woman sitting down, it may be safe to say that this was taken at a brothel. Coincidentally, both the soldier and the woman sitting have wedding rings on. Although this image has no caption in the Warbook, it is signed by Dale Rooks and was probably taken in early September, 1944 while the USS Duane was in Southern France."  Attached File |
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Posted: 9/22/2020 9:24:08 AM EST
[Last Edit: Riter]
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Read an account of a German captain who refused to talk. He had on his person a photo of him and his wife and a photo of himself witth four nude French prostitutes. The Americans threatened him that they had his address from his soldbuch (soldier's book that had name, DoB, service record, home address) that they would send that photo of him and four prostitutes to his wife. Under this tthreat, he sang like a canary. All for the fatherland! but not today.
Honolulu. I don't think they're waiting for ice cream. Military operated brothels in Honolulu were guarded by MP/SP and civilian police could not enter.  Caption says this Paris synagogue was converted to a brothel  SS operated Kitty Salone  One soldier's account of the military brothels in Tunisia stated that he (a medic), designated brothels for the enlisted and the officers. The officers would get the brothel witth the ugliest whores. |
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Posted: 9/23/2020 6:19:35 AM EST
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My Dad was in North Africa with the Air Corps from 43 to 45. A short time at a small airfield at Tinduf, Algeria - the very definition of bumfuck- the rest of his time at a big field at Marrekesh, Morocco. He said guys would sneak off the base at night and avail themselves of the Arab whorehouses. And the next day, come down with quite impressive cases of the clap.
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Posted: 9/23/2020 6:51:54 AM EST
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 Attached FileNo details on this pic..... My wife had 2 uncle's in the AF......one was killed in a bombing run somewhere very Germany.. |
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Posted: 9/23/2020 7:09:31 AM EST
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Attached FileNo details on this pic..... My wife had 2 uncle's in the AF......one was killed in a bombing run somewhere over Germany..  Attached FileNothing known about this pic either...  Attached File |
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Posted: 9/23/2020 7:47:35 AM EST
[Last Edit: Mal_means_bad]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DanaHillen: https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/90540/Image4_jpg-1603642.JPG No details on this pic..... My wife had 2 uncle's in the AF......one was killed in a bombing run somewhere over Germany.. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/90540/scan0028_jpg-1603652.JPG Nothing known about this pic either... https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/90540/scan0007_jpg-1603661.JPG Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DanaHillen: https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/90540/Image4_jpg-1603642.JPG No details on this pic..... My wife had 2 uncle's in the AF......one was killed in a bombing run somewhere over Germany.. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/90540/scan0028_jpg-1603652.JPG Nothing known about this pic either... https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/90540/scan0007_jpg-1603661.JPG The plane is a  Attached File WWII pilot training The civilian primary schools used Stearman, Ryan and Fairchild trainers owned by the Army Air Force; their flight instructors were civilian employees. Each cadet was given 60 hours of flight training in nine weeks before moving on the basic flight school... During basic flight training, a cadet received approximately 70 hours in the air during a nine week period. The basic cadet made military pilots of those who had learned only the fundamentals of flight in primary school. In addition to operating an airplane of greater weight, horsepower, and speed such as the BT-9 or BT-13, the cadet was taught how to fly at night, by instruments, in formation, and on cross-country from one point to another. Also, for the first time, he was operating a plane equipped with a two-way radio and a two-pitch propeller. This was the point in his career where it was decided whether he would go to single-engine or twin-engine advanced flying school... Advanced flying school was to prepare a cadet for the kind of airplane he was to fly in combat, either single or multi-engine.Those who went to single-engine school flew AT-6s for the first 70 hours during a nine week period, learning aerial gunnery and combat maneuvers and incresing their skills in navigation, formation, and instrument flying.... The successful completion of pilot training was a difficult as well as a dangerous task. During the four-and-a-half year period of January 1941 - August 1945, there were 191,654 cadets who were awarded pilot wings. However, there were also 132,993 who "washed out" or were killed during training, a loss rate of approximately 40 percent due to accidents, academic or physical problems, and other causes. (15,000 aircrew were killed in training in the United States during WWII) Those who graduated from flying school were usually assigned to transition training in the type of plane they were to fly in combat. Some were assigned to specific squadrons already scheduled for overseas duty, while others were assigned to replacement training units for subsequent assignment to squadrons already overseas. Regardless, it required 2 months of additional training before a pilot was considered ready for combat. |
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Posted: 9/23/2020 7:57:29 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Mal_means_bad: The plane is a T-6 Texan, advanced trainer for pilots on track to fly single engine aircraft. Those look like Texans in the airfield photo (twin blade props), apparently one of the big US training bases. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/172926/IMG_7390_JPG-1603681.JPG https://warbirdheritagefoundation.org/images/ac_t6g-f.jpg WWII pilot training Wife's Uncle Casey was a B-17 pilot.After the war he returned to Oklahoma and ran a very successful business.He lived til nearly 90 years old. I liked him.... |
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Posted: 9/23/2020 2:26:47 PM EST
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Posted: 9/23/2020 4:05:06 PM EST
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Somebody told me a pretty wild story about GIs in Morroco.
A bunch of them were driving through the desert with jeeps and M3 armored half tracks and tanks. They came to a village and saw a cantina with a sign that said hamburgers. So they stopped and went inside and ordered a bunch of hamburgers. One of the guys went out back to relieve himself draining the lizard. Out back he saw racks of cat skins and bones. A light bulb dawned over his head. Those hamburgers were made from dead cats. He told the rest of the crew. They became so incensed the all got back into their vehicles and proceeded to roll over every building in the village completely flattening it. I dont know if it was a true story, but it was what I was told. |
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Posted: 9/23/2020 4:15:10 PM EST
[Last Edit: ACDer]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Mal_means_bad: The plane is a T-6 Texan, advanced trainer for pilots on track to fly single engine aircraft. Those look like Texans in the airfield photo (twin blade props), apparently one of the big US training bases. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/172926/IMG_7390_JPG-1603681.JPG https://warbirdheritagefoundation.org/images/ac_t6g-f.jpg WWII pilot training I Think that plane is a Vultee B-13 Valiant based on looking at the landing gear. The Texan's was retractable. The plane in the picture does not appear to have retractable gear. The main gear struts are a match to the Valiant's. 
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Posted: 9/24/2020 12:08:33 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ACDer: I Think that plane is a Vultee B-13 Valiant based on looking at the landing gear. The Texan's was retractable. The plane in the picture does not appear to have retractable gear. The main gear struts are a match to the Valiant's. https://commemorativeairforce.org/uploads/aircraft_type/silhouette/26/images_BT13_bt13_cl_00025.jpg THIS. That plane was NOT a T-6 Texan... |
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Posted: 9/24/2020 12:17:11 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 15ladder: My Dad was in North Africa with the Air Corps from 43 to 45. A short time at a small airfield at Tinduf, Algeria - the very definition of bumfuck- the rest of his time at a big field at Marrekesh, Morocco. He said guys would sneak off the base at night and avail themselves of the Arab whorehouses. And the next day, come down with quite impressive cases of the clap. During the war the services were brutal to anyone that picked up an STD. A few decades ago I read a short story about it. IIRC the title was VD and the poor bastards were sent to a camp of sorts and roused every 6 hours for another shot for a couple of weeks. They wore fatigues with VD stenciled on them. |
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Posted: 9/24/2020 12:29:24 PM EST
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Posted: 9/24/2020 12:30:01 PM EST
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Posted: 9/24/2020 12:32:15 PM EST
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Posted: 9/24/2020 1:01:54 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ACDer: I Think that plane is a Vultee B-13 Valiant based on looking at the landing gear. The Texan's was retractable. The plane in the picture does not appear to have retractable gear. The main gear struts are a match to the Valiant's. https://commemorativeairforce.org/uploads/aircraft_type/silhouette/26/images_BT13_bt13_cl_00025.jpg  Good call. Attached File |
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Posted: 9/24/2020 1:43:26 PM EST
[Last Edit: Bigger_Hammer]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Mal_means_bad: Good call.https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/172926/13557304823_cdb249d748_o_jpg-1605147.JPG Attached FileGREAT Story Behind that P-38 Actually an F-5E, the reconnaissance variant of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning. This particular aircraft, sporting Luftwaffe markings, was stolen by American pilot Martin James Monti when he defected to the German side during WWII. Monti left his base in Karachi, Pakistan on October 13, 1944, hitched a ride aboard a Curtiss C-46 Commando to Cairo, and from there he traveled to Italy via Tripoli. He stole the plane from the 354th Air Service Squadron and flew it to Milan, where he surrendered it to the Germans and defected. Monti became a member of the SS, achieved the rank of lieutenant, and participated in radio propaganda broadcasts to the United States and to American troops in Europe under the pseudonym Captain Martin Wiethaupt. After the German surrender, he returned to Italy and turned himself in at the Fifth Army Headquarters, still wearing his SS uniform. Monti was court-martialed and sentenced to 15 years in prison for stealing the plane and for desertion, but was pardoned after less than a year and allowed to rejoin the Army as a private. In 1948, having achieved the rank of sergeant, he was given a general discharge under honorable conditions, but was promptly arrested by the FBI, as his activities in Germany had become known. Ultimately, Monti was tried for treason and sentenced to 25 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. He was paroled in 1960, and died in 2000. from https://oppositelock.kinja.com/captured-p-38-lightning-479489908 |
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Posted: 9/24/2020 2:03:04 PM EST
[Last Edit: Mike_c130]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Mal_means_bad: The plane is a T-6 Texan, advanced trainer for pilots on track to fly single engine aircraft. Those look like Texans in the airfield photo (twin blade props), apparently one of the big US training bases. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Mal_means_bad: Originally Posted By DanaHillen: https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/90540/Image4_jpg-1603642.JPG No details on this pic..... My wife had 2 uncle's in the AF......one was killed in a bombing run somewhere over Germany.. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/90540/scan0028_jpg-1603652.JPG Nothing known about this pic either... https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/90540/scan0007_jpg-1603661.JPG The plane is a T-6 Texan, advanced trainer for pilots on track to fly single engine aircraft. Those look like Texans in the airfield photo (twin blade props), apparently one of the big US training bases. Edit - beating a dead BT-13. |
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Posted: 9/24/2020 2:03:35 PM EST
[Last Edit: Dog1]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By piccolo: During the war the services were brutal to anyone that picked up an STD. A few decades ago I read a short story about it. IIRC the title was VD and the poor bastards were sent to a camp of sorts and roused every 6 hours for another shot for a couple of weeks. They wore fatigues with VD stenciled on them. Yep... my grandfather told me stories of the VD camps. He was never a guest of one but he had quite a few friends who did. Grandpa in Belgium 
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Posted: 9/24/2020 2:21:48 PM EST
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Pray tell more about the VD camps. I know they treated men until they were recovered but that's all I know.
Anyone care to guess what post WW II tank this is:  My guess is a M41 Walker Bulldog. Coloured soldiers show a bobby a Thompson: 
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Posted: 9/24/2020 2:52:35 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By piccolo: During the war the services were brutal to anyone that picked up an STD. A few decades ago I read a short story about it. IIRC the title was VD and the poor bastards were sent to a camp of sorts and roused every 6 hours for another shot for a couple of weeks. They wore fatigues with VD stenciled on them. Read a story about German brothels in Russia, the use of condoms was mandatory, but after the visit a doctor prophylactically treated the soldiers for pubic lice and injected some sort of disinfectant into the urethra and bladder.  I don't know if this is true, but it seems plausible because the Germans used Sulfonamide and had no Penicillin. |
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Posted: 9/24/2020 3:18:10 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: Read a story about German brothels in Russia, the use of condoms was mandatory, but after the visit a doctor prophylactically treated the soldiers for pubic lice and injected some sort of disinfectant into the urethra and bladder. I don't know if this is true, but it seems plausible because the Germans used Sulfonamide and had no Penicillin. A lot of the women in German ran brothels were straight from the POW camp. They were promised for a term of sex work they would be released from custody. Ravensbruck provided a lot of them. Some of the women early war were picked up for being prostitutes, and asocial -the black triangle-, and the Madams that ran brothels were picked to be Kapos. They would run there dorm like a brothel, and would hustle the prostitutes with more food. Those Kapos would report to the Black Crows -female guards-which girls to select for the assignments. |
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Posted: 9/24/2020 4:27:24 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By piccolo: During the war the services were brutal to anyone that picked up an STD. A few decades ago I read a short story about it. IIRC the title was VD and the poor bastards were sent to a camp of sorts and roused every 6 hours for another shot for a couple of weeks. They wore fatigues with VD stenciled on them. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By piccolo: Originally Posted By 15ladder: My Dad was in North Africa with the Air Corps from 43 to 45. A short time at a small airfield at Tinduf, Algeria - the very definition of bumfuck- the rest of his time at a big field at Marrekesh, Morocco. He said guys would sneak off the base at night and avail themselves of the Arab whorehouses. And the next day, come down with quite impressive cases of the clap. During the war the services were brutal to anyone that picked up an STD. A few decades ago I read a short story about it. IIRC the title was VD and the poor bastards were sent to a camp of sorts and roused every 6 hours for another shot for a couple of weeks. They wore fatigues with VD stenciled on them. Don't use the red toilet seat. It's reserved. |
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Posted: 9/24/2020 6:05:05 PM EST
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North American O-47. Apparently so unloved the Army never bothered to name it. The radio operator/cameraman could climb down into the pregnant-looking observation station to get below the wing.
Wasn't awkward enough so the belly was enlarged: Wasn't slow enough so they added floats:  Attached FileCurtiss O-52 Owl 
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Posted: 9/24/2020 6:12:11 PM EST
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The Germans had special hospitals for soliders with VD. They made sure their stay was unpleasant and woke the men every six hours for treatment. Additionally, should a soldier catch it a second time, it was a court martial offense akin to injuring oneself in combat.
German sniper Sepp Allerberger had some interesting comments about whore houses and the medics who worked there. He and another sniper were considering visiting but then they met a sergeant who described his post-visit treatment at the hands of a sadistic medic. See page 80. 
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Posted: 9/24/2020 7:22:53 PM EST
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Quote Historyhis books are really good.  
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Posted: 9/25/2020 6:34:50 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4v50: The Germans had special hospitals for soliders with VD. They made sure their stay was unpleasant and woke the men every six hours for treatment. Additionally, should a soldier catch it a second time, it was a court martial offense akin to injuring oneself in combat. German sniper Sepp Allerberger had some interesting comments about whore houses and the medics who worked there. He and another sniper were considering visiting but then they met a sergeant who described his post-visit treatment at the hands of a sadistic medic. See page 80. https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3433/3753842750_2a36133110.jpg I have the story from that book. But there is a big problem with this book, the author is known as a pathological liar. He made up some shit in this book. |
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Posted: 9/25/2020 6:44:14 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Mal_means_bad: North American O-47. Apparently so unloved the Army never bothered to name it. The radio operator/cameraman could climb down into the pregnant-looking observation station to get below the wing. https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/attachments/north-american-o-47-a-jpg.282789/ Wasn't awkward enough so the belly was enlarged: https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/attachments/img193-jpg.285400/ Wasn't slow enough so they added floats: https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/172926/_222_floats1_jpg-1605509.JPG Curtiss O-52 Owl https://www.historynet.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/O-52-1200_480.jpg A bit off topic, but an 0-47 makes a brief appearance in the 1965 film Flight of the Phoenix. The Phoenix craft built for the movie crashed during filming killing the stunt pilot, so an O-47 was substituted in order to finish production. https://www.davidesteiner.com/flight-of-the-phoenix.html |
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Posted: 9/25/2020 11:53:54 AM EST
[Last Edit: Mal_means_bad]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ACDer: A bit off topic, but an 0-47 makes a brief appearance in the 1965 film Flight of the Phoenix. The Phoenix craft built for the movie crashed during filming killing the stunt pilot, so an O-47 was substituted in order to finish production. https://www.davidesteiner.com/flight-of-the-phoenix.html Also in Parachute Battalion (1941) |
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Posted: 9/25/2020 9:36:21 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuote HistoryOriginally Posted By Mal_means_bad: Originally Posted By ACDer: A bit off topic, but an 0-47 makes a brief appearance in the 1965 film Flight of the Phoenix. The Phoenix craft built for the movie crashed during filming killing the stunt pilot, so an O-47 was substituted in order to finish production. https://www.davidesteiner.com/flight-of-the-phoenix.html Also in Parachute Battalion (1941) Buddy Ebsen was in that movie, made in 1941 before Perl Haarbor. |
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Posted: 9/27/2020 7:38:54 AM EST
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looking at those flak towers around page 90, reminded me when i was stationed in Wildflecken (near Fulda Gap) there were alot
of collapsed bunkers in the hills outside the cantonment area; sure enough, 3' thick reinforced concrete. our S-3 officer told me we tried to blow them up after the war, but didn't work with conventional munitions; figured out the way to do it was fill them with water, then blow up from the inside; made the roof collapse anyway, making them unusable again. |
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Posted: 9/27/2020 7:56:16 AM EST
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Quote HistoryLol the guy smoking right before they jump |
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Posted: 9/27/2020 7:29:00 PM EST
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Not a photo, but a really well colourised film of the HMS Rodney in camouflage.
 AI Colorized | Rodney Shells Alderney (1944) - DeOldify |
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Posted: 9/27/2020 7:51:01 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Mal_means_bad: The plane is a T-6 Texan, advanced trainer for pilots on track to fly single engine aircraft. Those look like Texans in the airfield photo (twin blade props), apparently one of the big US training bases. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/172926/IMG_7390_JPG-1603681.JPG https://warbirdheritagefoundation.org/images/ac_t6g-f.jpg WWII pilot training |
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Posted: 9/27/2020 7:51:36 PM EST
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Posted: 9/27/2020 9:21:55 PM EST
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In that top image you can see a gun tub.
Note about the gun tub the cutout in the superstructure. That distinguishes the Rodney from the Nelson. |
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Posted: 9/29/2020 7:28:52 PM EST
[Last Edit: 13starsinax]
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Posted: 9/30/2020 2:53:04 PM EST
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Posted: 9/30/2020 3:22:01 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By s707bw: One of my aunt's first husband was killed in WWII. He made it all the through flight school and earned his wings as a fighter pilot. As he was landing at the new airfield he was assigned to his transport plane crashed and he and some other new pilots were killed they never saw one day of combat. Had a great uncle like that. My grandmothers only brother was on his last week of training to be a navigator and his training plane crashed killing everyone on board. Never found out what kind of plane it was. I believe it happened somewhere in New Mexico. |
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Posted: 9/30/2020 5:16:16 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By psp6785: Had a great uncle like that. My grandmothers only brother was on his last week of training to be a navigator and his training plane crashed killing everyone on board. Never found out what kind of plane it was. I believe it happened somewhere in New Mexico. The amount of deaths caused by training aviators was incredible. Then again you have to remember that they were taking high school kids straight from the block and running them through a crash course on flying with a sink or swim attitude. You have to also remember that a lot of people were flying as aircraft as aircraft commander on B-17s arrived in England with MAYBE 120 hours TOTAL time! 120 hours training to fly a very complex bomber! The amazing thing is that it actually worked. |
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Posted: 10/1/2020 11:35:21 AM EST
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A souvenir from my grandfather's visit to Europe. Found in a Belgian farmhouse, late December 1944.
  My piece of shit brother tried to steal it right before my grandfather died back in 2002. He actually managed to get it all the way back to California. When my grandfather passed away I realized that the sword was missing. Come to find out my brother told my mom that my grandpa had actually given it to him. That wasn't the case. Unbeknownst to me my mom paid my piece of shit brother $500 for the sword and one day it ended up on my front porch. I had no idea what was in the package there was no return address I opened up the box and there was the sword. I tried to pay my mom back she wouldn't take the money. I have not spoken to my brother in 18 years. |
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Posted: 10/2/2020 12:06:13 PM EST
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Posted: 10/2/2020 12:28:30 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Mal_means_bad: German POW returns home to his wife, 1945 https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/172926/VlwezNf_jpg-1616339.JPG Since he made it home in 1945 I would take it he did not surrender to the Russians. |
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Posted: 10/2/2020 12:31:07 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Dog1: Since he made it home in 1945 I would take it he did not surrender to the Russians. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Dog1: Originally Posted By Mal_means_bad: German POW returns home to his wife, 1945 https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/172926/VlwezNf_jpg-1616339.JPG Since he made it home in 1945 I would take it he did not surrender to the Russians. Definitely the Allied zone of occupation. |
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Posted: 10/2/2020 12:53:33 PM EST
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Normandy POW, Robert Capa photo:
 Normandy POW enjoys a cup of coffee on board a Coast Guard LCI:  |
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Posted: 10/2/2020 7:16:54 PM EST
[Last Edit: piccolo]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Mal_means_bad: Normandy POW, Robert Capa photo: https://i.redd.it/muejczvbdjlz.jpg Normandy POW enjoys a cup of coffee on board a Coast Guard LCI: https://i.redd.it/erxyzfz865q51.jpg Interestingly enough a LOT of D-Day POWs were very confused when they watched the supplies and men come ashore. Many of them asked "But where are your horses?" Then it dawned on them there were no horses because the Allies were fully mechanized. That's when they realized how lucky they were to have been taken prisoner. |
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Posted: 10/2/2020 8:29:45 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Dog1: A souvenir from my grandfather's visit to Europe. Found in a Belgian farmhouse, late December 1944. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/9749/20201001_122955-1614830.jpg https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/9749/20201001_123017-1614831.jpg My piece of shit brother tried to steal it right before my grandfather died back in 2002. He actually managed to get it all the way back to California. When my grandfather passed away I realized that the sword was missing. Come to find out my brother told my mom that my grandpa had actually given it to him. That wasn't the case. Unbeknownst to me my mom paid my piece of shit brother $500 for the sword and one day it ended up on my front porch. I had no idea what was in the package there was no return address I opened up the box and there was the sword. I tried to pay my mom back she wouldn't take the money. I have not spoken to my brother in 18 years. That's awesome |
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Posted: 10/2/2020 8:52:12 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Dog1: A souvenir from my grandfather's visit to Europe. Found in a Belgian farmhouse, late December 1944. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/9749/20201001_122955-1614830.jpg https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/9749/20201001_123017-1614831.jpg My piece of shit brother tried to steal it right before my grandfather died back in 2002. He actually managed to get it all the way back to California. When my grandfather passed away I realized that the sword was missing. Come to find out my brother told my mom that my grandpa had actually given it to him. That wasn't the case. Unbeknownst to me my mom paid my piece of shit brother $500 for the sword and one day it ended up on my front porch. I had no idea what was in the package there was no return address I opened up the box and there was the sword. I tried to pay my mom back she wouldn't take the money. I have not spoken to my brother in 18 years. Piece of shit family members will do that kind of thing from time to time. |
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Posted: 10/3/2020 3:10:17 AM EST
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Quote HistoryThe first squadron I was assigned to in the USAF was the 63rd Fighter Squadron, whose "aircraft marking" in WW2 was the UN code. Fun fact. The patch Clint Eastwood wore on the jacket in the movie "Space Cowboys" was the 63FS' patch. |
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