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Never knew that was a thing, this is a great thread !!
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Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/Bp2BAMT.jpg Koryu midget submarines in drydock at Kure Japan before and after allied bombing View Quote I would love to have one of those. Always wanted a mini sub. |
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Originally Posted By CRSinTN: I would love to have one of those. Always wanted a mini sub. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By CRSinTN: Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/Bp2BAMT.jpg Koryu midget submarines in drydock at Kure Japan before and after allied bombing I would love to have one of those. Always wanted a mini sub. I'm not sure I'd want a late war submarine built by the Japanese. I never read about the Japanese using mini-subs to attack Sydney. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/world-war-ii-terror-weapons-how-imperial-japan-used-mini-submarines-89006 |
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The Stalingrad Madonna, "light, life, love, Christmas in the cauldron 1942. Fortress Stalingrad":
Attached File Charcoal sketch on the back of a Russian military map by Dr Kurt Reuber, in peace time a Lutheran priest, then a doctor with the 16th Panzer Div of the starving 6th Army, trapped outside Stalingrad. Reuber's bunker became a sort of shrine as men came to see the Madonna, and Reuber then took it on tour to other bunkers. Many men broke down and wept. It was carried out by his battalion commander on the very last transport plane to escape the encirclement. The Prisoner's Madonna: Attached File Reuber drew a second Madonna in Christmas 1943 in a Soviet POW camp. He fell ill and died a few weeks later. Of 91,000 men captured from the 6th Army just 5,000 would live to see Germany again. |
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I saw the modified Stuart somewhere, modified like that for the British, called the Kangaroo APC.
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Harley owner in the Church of J. M. Browning
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Wasn't the Kangaroo a Sherman or Ram without a turret and slightly modified to be open top?
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The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government - T. Jefferson
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Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/sxSNrVH.jpg ADMK Mulus https://i.imgur.com/s0g23Gy.jpg ? Solothurn Anti Tank Rifle, but the rest? View Quote |
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View Quote Makes me wonder if those were some intentional shots to the rear drive sprocket in an attempt to get a mobility kill. Looks like another chunk missing out of a track a few links below it. Probably one of the few things many of the smaller tank guns could do at range. |
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Do kids still play Cops and Robbers, or are they just taught both are equally bad and given a participation ribbon after a rousing game of scoreless Everyone's a Winner Ball? - BehindBlueI's
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USPSA-IPSC Phuc cancer Please use email, instead of PM's I liked this place a lot better when it was a gun forum. |
Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/sxSNrVH.jpg ADMK Mulus https://i.imgur.com/s0g23Gy.jpg ? Solothurn Anti Tank Rifle, but the rest? View Quote Looks like too much gun for the vehicle. |
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Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/OlJkNc2.jpg Spanish "Altavoz del frente" propaganda vehicle View Quote Interesting that looks similar to a Danley Synergy horn with the multiple speaker inputs |
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Originally Posted By jblomenberg16: Makes me wonder if those were some intentional shots to the rear drive sprocket in an attempt to get a mobility kill. Looks like another chunk missing out of a track a few links below it. Probably one of the few things many of the smaller tank guns could do at range. View Quote That's the front side of a Tiger tank, in North Africa. The 75mm rounds the Brits were using with the M3 tanks had unreliable fuzes, as shown. |
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Originally Posted By Darkstar117: That's the front side of a Tiger tank, in North Africa. The 75mm rounds the Brits were using with the M3 tanks had unreliable fuzes, as shown. View Quote Yes, you are right, I see it now...was thinking that was the rear but definitely the front. I can see the small slit opening on the front glacis just at the edge of the photo. Evidently the did get the tank knocked out some how if they got that picture. I'm assuming it was part of a battle damage assessment. |
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Do kids still play Cops and Robbers, or are they just taught both are equally bad and given a participation ribbon after a rousing game of scoreless Everyone's a Winner Ball? - BehindBlueI's
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Crosspost from a light tanks thread: Standard Oil E9-9 armored flamethrower trailer prototype (more ambitious cousin to Churchill "crocodiles"). Enormous trailer fed the fire hose-like nozzle in the bow with a goal of a 200 yard range. Development ended in tragedy when the 1200 gallon tank exploded at 800 psi during trials and incinerated the tank crew:
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Originally Posted By Darkstar117: That's the front side of a Tiger tank, in North Africa. The 75mm rounds the Brits were using with the M3 tanks had unreliable fuzes, as shown. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Darkstar117: Originally Posted By jblomenberg16: Makes me wonder if those were some intentional shots to the rear drive sprocket in an attempt to get a mobility kill. Looks like another chunk missing out of a track a few links below it. Probably one of the few things many of the smaller tank guns could do at range. That's the front side of a Tiger tank, in North Africa. The 75mm rounds the Brits were using with the M3 tanks had unreliable fuzes, as shown. I had assumed it was solid shot, AP ammo. |
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RIP Ed Avila
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Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/E3UnxxH.jpg https://i.imgur.com/sxVZ8D9.jpg VOMAG 7 OR 660 https://i.imgur.com/74oRS41.jpg https://i.imgur.com/iimbvnk.jpg https://i.imgur.com/leFn3wk.jpg https://i.imgur.com/7UJ4ebn.jpg https://i.imgur.com/HLxZtFt.jpg Selbstfahrlafette auf Fahrgestell VOMAG 7 or 660 mit 8,8 cm Flak View Quote True "Flak Bus"... |
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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"!! |
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"Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things" Marvin Heemeyer
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Originally Posted By 762xIAN: Good observation, care to explain to those who don't know?..........hint: starts with letter z View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By 762xIAN: Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: Negative, this Tiger was never in Africa. Good observation, care to explain to those who don't know?..........hint: starts with letter z Tiggers in Africa didn't have zimmerit? No crazy Russkies running up and planting magnetic mines, or zimmerit wasn't a thing that early in the war? |
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Zimmerit.
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Potentate plenipotentiary sans portfolio
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Originally Posted By 762xIAN: Good observation, care to explain to those who don't know?..........hint: starts with letter z View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By 762xIAN: Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: Negative, this Tiger was never in Africa. Good observation, care to explain to those who don't know?..........hint: starts with letter z Also looks to have later style road wheels. |
" 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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I read a book about the fall of stalingrad. As the 6th army was being surrounded the last transport planes taking off were chased by men on foot. They would cling by the dozens to the wings as the planes lifted off and fall to their deaths one by one as the planes picked up altitude and speed. The men were that desperate to escape.
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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. |
"At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path."
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Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/RT5ugu9.jpg Char B1 bis, “Le Fantasque”, with experimental camouflage View Quote That Char B1 bis is rocking Realtree Word. |
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Originally Posted By Mal_means_bad: They're field mods, so probably every which way. Some sources say they were M49 ring mounts normally used on trucks and halftracks, and I'm pretty sure that's what we're seeing in the top down photo, but it wouldn't shock me if some were simple pedestal mounts. Built up lip around the fighting compartment and a higher gun mount, modified for the crew to work in a standing position? Apparently a brigadier general's command vehicle: https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/172926/T55_jpg-1759499.JPG Weather tarp: https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/172926/stuartreccehood_jpg-1759512.JPG View Quote Here is a link (if it has not been posted here yet) to tons of photos of Stuart light tanks and other US light tanks in WWII: https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/ITT-We-discuss-the-M5-Stuart-and-other-light-tanks-/5-2409099/?page=1 Here is one photo from that thread, for example (there are many more ): |
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"Don't cannibalize, for Okh-Wa.Pru, captured by I/Pz.Rgt.5."
Attached File Germans test their first complete Sherman, War Daddy II, captured February 22, 1943 in Tunisia. Armor thickness and slope angle is painted on the exterior. Lee in the background Attached File Albert Speer himself takes her for a spin Attached File Captured 76mm Sherman with hastily applied German markings knocked out in Aschaffenburg, Germany, driver killed while bailing out Attached File |
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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 Dog1: I always thought the Puma armored car was pretty cool https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/9749/406c84f3e540e2d090080a7faaed98ab-1768863.jpg View Quote Looks like four types of tire tread on it? |
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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? |
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." |
Probably lucky to find all same size, lol !!
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Originally Posted By Mal_means_bad: Crosspost from a light tanks thread: Standard Oil E9-9 armored flamethrower trailer prototype (more ambitious cousin to Churchill "crocodiles"). Enormous trailer fed the fire hose-like nozzle in the bow with a goal of a 200 yard range. Development ended in tragedy when the 1200 gallon tank exploded at 800 psi during trials and incinerated the tank crew: https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/172926/10Indiana_jpg-1763065.JPG https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/172926/qSAOzzN_png-1763067.JPG View Quote that would suck to be the unlucky test operators when that let go & went up... I was amazed at the USMC "Satan" M-3 light tank flamethrowers and that they could fit fuel & pressure inside a M-3 tank (Cramped little bugger as it is). |
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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"!! |
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Politicians Prefer Unarmed Peasants
Caddyshack Some men are morally opposed to violence. They are protected by those who are not. |
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Improvised Panzer III/15cm howitzer SPG cobbled together on Rommel's orders, fought in North Africa:
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Politicians Prefer Unarmed Peasants
Caddyshack Some men are morally opposed to violence. They are protected by those who are not. |
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