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Originally Posted By Gopher:
The article didn't say. Maybe a lend/lease B-25? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Gopher:
Originally Posted By wayfaerer320:
What VVS aircraft is that? https://m.warhistoryonline.com/featured/innovative-flawed-fire-hedgehog.html |
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Originally Posted By Clockwork138:
It's a Tu-2. https://m.warhistoryonline.com/featured/innovative-flawed-fire-hedgehog.html View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Clockwork138:
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Originally Posted By wayfaerer320:
What VVS aircraft is that? https://m.warhistoryonline.com/featured/innovative-flawed-fire-hedgehog.html This battery, oriented to fire down, was comprised of 11 rows of 8 PPSh-41s and occupied the space previously utilized to hold up to 3,300 lbs. of bombs. While it increased the Tu-2’s abilities in theory, only one plane, designated the Tu-2Sh, was ever fitted with the battery that could be fully equipped in a workshop, hoisted onto the plane by ropes, aimed through a specially designed sight, and fired by a solenoid which activated all 88 guns at one time.
With a 900 round per minute firing rate, round per gun capacity, and 88 PPSh-41s, the Tu-2Sh could expend 6,248 steel-cored incendiary rounds over a 1,800 long and 4-foot wide area in 4 seconds, with all weapons working perfectly. While devastating, the battery was never employed in combat due to several limiting factors. Specifically, the battery required 100 man-hours to be fully loaded, there was a high chance of weapon malfunction, and the effective range of the PPSh-41 required Soviet pilots to fly under 800 feet, well within the range of most German anti-aircraft weaponry. They were then very vulnerable to being shot down. In the end, the PPSh battery was an interesting experiment, but was ultimately a failure. |
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" 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 fike:
88 rounds per man hour? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By fike:
Originally Posted By Gopher:
Prototype Russian close air support attempt. It took 100 man hours to reload the guns. https://i.redd.it/cjgy3737cgq11.jpg |
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Originally Posted By Gopher:
The article didn't say. Maybe a lend/lease B-25? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes |
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„From a place you will not see, comes a sound you will not hear.“
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Stumbling on the stepstool of mediocracy...
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First time seeing an actual pic of the late war “dot camo.”
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Not a "Grizzly", a "Brummbär", Sturmpanzer 43.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brummbär StuG IV with dot camo: Attached File |
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Originally Posted By 4xGM300m:
Not a "Grizzly", a "Brummbär", Sturmpanzer 43. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brummbär StuG IV with dot camo: https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/201300/sttzg4_png-703657.JPG View Quote Pics added so I’m not a dirty freeloader. Attached File Attached File Attached File Attached File |
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Originally Posted By 4v50:
Dutch cruiser De Ruyter. https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.cnn.com%2Fcnnnext%2Fdam%2Fassets%2F161206110632-04-warships-java-super-169.jpg&f=1 British built cruiser Exeter: https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.cnn.com%2Fcnnnext%2Fdam%2Fassets%2F161206095627-01-warships-java-super-169.jpg&f=1 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/The_Royal_Navy_during_the_Second_World_War_A11792.jpg/1200px-The_Royal_Navy_during_the_Second_World_War_A11792.jpg View Quote |
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B-17F Delivered April of 1943 used by 388th Bomb Group Great shot of depot or field mod extra .50 in the nose. |
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Some of the unsung heros of the Pacific War, the Navy Patrol Bombers.
Most often going on long patrols alone or in two ship flights. Made a significant impact on Japanese shipping, communications and accounted for a lot of destroyed enemy aircraft. Could out run and out gun enemy patrol bombers and flying boats. Many departed never to be seen again due to enemy activity or bad weather. Crews endured poor living conditions at their bases too. This one is a PB4Y-2, a highly modified B-24 made specifically for Navy use. Attached File |
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Originally Posted By EMSflyer:
Some of the unsung heros of the Pacific War, the Navy Patrol Bombers. Most often going on long patrols alone or in two ship flights. Made a significant impact on Japanese shipping, communications and accounted for a lot of destroyed enemy aircraft. Could out run and out gun enemy patrol bombers and flying boats. Many departed never to be seen again due to enemy activity or bad weather. Crews endured poor living conditions at their bases too. This one is a PB4Y-2, a highly modified B-24 made specifically for Navy use. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/46283/D349907D-FD39-4ADE-BB29-F70DD50BE90D-459-000000C795B114FE_jpeg-725224.JPG View Quote |
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Originally Posted By EMSflyer:
https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/46283/IMG_1221_JPG-722261.JPG B-17F Delivered April of 1943 used by 388th Bomb Group Great shot of depot or field mod extra .50 in the nose. View Quote |
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This guy does a lot of WWII history on his channel, check it out.
I did not know about the D-Day on France's southern coast: The Beach Jumpers and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. |
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Originally Posted By 4xGM300m:
https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/201300/ban-697076.JPG "Scheisse!" View Quote I'm guessing the Germans didn't realize the weight of that thing and tried to drive it over a bridge that had previously supported German light tanks. Oops. |
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Originally Posted By EMSflyer:
Some of the unsung heros of the Pacific War, the Navy Patrol Bombers. Most often going on long patrols alone or in two ship flights. Made a significant impact on Japanese shipping, communications and accounted for a lot of destroyed enemy aircraft. Could out run and out gun enemy patrol bombers and flying boats. Many departed never to be seen again due to enemy activity or bad weather. Crews endured poor living conditions at their bases too. This one is a PB4Y-2, a highly modified B-24 made specifically for Navy use. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/46283/D349907D-FD39-4ADE-BB29-F70DD50BE90D-459-000000C795B114FE_jpeg-725224.JPG View Quote PB4Y-2 with Bat radar guided bomb as deployed in the Pacific theater. Radar Guided Bat Bomb (1946) |
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Such a cool picture. The crew of Pappy's Pram a B-26 Marauder bomber from the 322nd BG 1943.(rudeerude)
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Originally Posted By 4v50:
Is that the old battleship USS Arkansas? It appears she has casemate guns. This is post WW I and pre WW II, but they're in the Canal Locks and the USS Texas, the larger of the two (Texas and Arkansas), appears smaller. Note the difference in water level in the locks. https://s14-eu5.startpage.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http:%2F%2F4.bp.blogspot.com%2F-ITK2bIckQeA%2FUZtgEOGo7lI%2FAAAAAAAAHR8%2FhV3zf1gX2A4%2Fs1600%2FUSS%2BArkansas.jpg&sp=e0a9e2715731ff8e8e2ef736952e03cb View Quote "Sailors aboard the battleship USS Arkansas in the North Atlantic, 1944. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES" |
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Let's eat, Grandma! Commas, because your poor grandmother shouldn't be cannibalized." -Chapman |
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That hair caught in a drill is either for safety training or humor.
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Originally Posted By jblomenberg16: Clearly the Nazi party had some serious issues in terms of social agendas. But the focus on technology development was world class at the time and without question influenced the tech advancements noted in the next 20 or so years of powered flight, both in rockets and in conventional aircraft. I've always wondered just how much would have come out of those engineers if they were on the allied side vs. the axis side and always dealing with shrinking resources and always being on the run. View Quote |
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Russkies captured some to. Was a race at the end to capture any tech and scientists that they could.
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Let's eat, Grandma! Commas, because your poor grandmother shouldn't be cannibalized." -Chapman |
Another Navy Patrol Bomber.
Lockheed PV-1 Ventura This one, 48934, went missing in action 13 May 1944. Probably shot down by Japanese night fighters over or near the target of Shimushu. Aircraft was based at Attu Airfield in the Aleutian Islands Alaska. And I believe this is where the photo was taken. Crew: Logan, Jeppesen, Langton, Beaulieu, Copeland & Ferrell Attached File Never forget the sacrifices of these brave aviators!! |
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Originally Posted By somedude:
air raid in house shelter, morrison shelter doubles as a dining room table 1941 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/A_Morrison_shelter_set_up_in_a_diningroom%2C_1941._D2053.jpg https://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/173/817/large_000000.jpg https://i2-prod.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/incoming/article10638476.ece/ALTERNATES/s1227b/webmedia-17.jpg View Quote |
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Originally Posted By InternationalM: I don't see that being very useful.... House gets hit with you in it, rubble pinning you in and remnants of the house on fire... Doesn't look like a fun way to go.... View Quote |
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Originally Posted By EMSflyer:
Thanksgiving https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/46283/93770D7C-2BA8-49BF-A1A7-325F6BE3887E-1122-00000276629A5574_jpeg-747188.JPGhttps://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/46283/0E553BA2-45B0-4B87-B19C-62348CD189CB-1122-00000276EC734513_jpeg-747189.JPG View Quote ETA Mickey Mouse boots - definitely Korea. |
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"Panic sweeps my men when they are facing the AMERICAN MARINES."
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"Let's eat Grandma!
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A nice collection from the African campaign. We have seen some of these but there are a few new ones.
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/north-african-campaign-1940-1943/ |
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