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"I'll come for the killing and stay for the cheesecake" SSgt Jason A Decker. 11/6/09 |
KF7WNX If you want a picture of the future, imagine Clownshoes stomping on a human face—for ever.
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"I'll come for the killing and stay for the cheesecake" SSgt Jason A Decker. 11/6/09 |
I can't remember the Italian doctors' name either, but I still have a link to his thread:
https://www.ar15.com/forums/general/Pictures-of-my-WW1-findings-in-the-alps--a-little-historic-introduction-and-some-other--hopefully--i/5-2142286/ |
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Originally Posted By 1srelluc: @Miami_JBT Does the Official police have a Woolwich proof on it? Here's one on one of my pre-LL Mossberg 42 MBs. https://www.milsurps.com/images/imported/2012/09/5nj2xi-1.jpg Another on a M1928 Thompson. http://www.milsurps.com/images/imported/2009/09/standard-4.jpg They set-up a proofing facility in NYC and proofed the pre-LL arms before they shipped....They were just going around and buying guns off the shelf as well as from the manufactures that would sell to them. Many were lost to U-Boat action so a Woolwich proofed US manufactured firearm is sorta rare. From what I understand they paid in gold. View Quote Correct and the reason I will never have a 1917 Sovereign in my collection. Almost all were used to pay us for ammo and FDR melted them all. The 1916 as well, just less were lost, so I was still able to find 2. |
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"Anytime a liberal mentions fairness, you can be assured they want something that belongs to someone else." Calgood
Proud member of the anti russian coalition |
Originally Posted By jagdterrier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNzMquTIPWA View Quote @jagdterrier Amazing |
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KF7WNX If you want a picture of the future, imagine Clownshoes stomping on a human face—for ever.
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Video of dragging the cannons up the mountains
LA GUERRA BIANCA |
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Originally Posted By TangoFoxtrot: Video of dragging the cannons up the mountains https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=536S8RZSImg View Quote That was awesome, thanks for posting it! It's the constant refrain of any good ww1 discussion but, "those guys were fuckin nuts." |
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Here are a couple of Facebook groups on the war in Italy:
Trenches and Forts https://www.facebook.com/groups/517941078342221/ The Great War 1915-1918 https://www.facebook.com/groups/60371965880/ |
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German sub UB-88. Sank 16 ships before being surrendered at the end of the war. Was brought to the US to be studied and then used for a bonds tour. Sailed from NY through the Panama canal and ended up at the submarine base in San Pedro, CA. Her bronze fittings were melted down and turned into little paperweights. She was taken off the coast and sunk in 1921.
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„From a place you will not see, comes a sound you will not hear.“
Thanks for the membership @ toaster |
WW1 brought to life in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added |
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This is Just prior to WW1 I believe, but it is German troops arriving to train in Wetzlar.
Germany 1914 // HD Colorization — Corporals in Training Arrive at Wetzlar |
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Originally Posted By Daniel76: This is Just prior to WW1 I believe, but it is German troops arriving to train in Wetzlar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6ZmevfcGwA View Quote I imagine they looked a lot like that when they marched through Belgium Attached File Attached File |
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That's like a million bucks worth of pickelhaube.
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„From a place you will not see, comes a sound you will not hear.“
Thanks for the membership @ toaster |
Originally Posted By WinstonSmith: That's like a million bucks worth of pickelhaube. View Quote Not photos, but Mark Felton has recently received access to Kaiser Wilhelm's closet. Plenty of pickelhaube's that are worth quite a bit. Stunning German Uniform Collection! Amazing Royal Helmet Collection! |
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Originally Posted By birdbarian: Not photos, but Mark Felton has recently received access to Kaiser Wilhelm's closet. Plenty of pickelhaube's that are worth quite a bit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZQScvT6geo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbAwtDhy2YM View Quote Wow, that is an incredible private collection. Mark Felton really puts out some great videos. |
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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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Originally Posted By Miami_JBT: I believe it is state owned by the Netherlands. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Miami_JBT: Originally Posted By Deere_John_16: Wow, that is an incredible private collection. Mark Felton really puts out some great videos. Yes, it is. They own the estate and the Kaiser's belongings therein. The Hohenzollern family owns the mausoleum/crypt, though. |
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"What is socialism? The most difficult and tortuous way to progress from capitalism to capitalism." -Stated at an intel conference, East Berlin, Oct. 1988
"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." -H.L. Mencken |
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing."
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Originally Posted By RobertL: @Colt653 I have 2 large format photo histories of World War 1 that were my great grandfather’s. I would like someone to have them who would appreciate them and possible digitize the photos. They aren’t in great shape but they are full of some great images. If you or someone else in the thread would like to have them, IM me and I’ll send them to you. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/67156/IMG_5899-2982719.jpg https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/67156/IMG_5901-2982717.jpg https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/67156/IMG_5900-2982718.jpg https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/67156/IMG_5902-2982727.jpg View Quote @RobertL Very cool. I don't have the means to copy them. My printer/scanner/copier died about a month ago, and I doubt I buy another anytime soon. I would love to see another ARFCOM'er offer to maybe scan and post them. thanks HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND |
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Originally Posted By Colt653: @RobertL Very cool. I don't have the means to copy them. My printer/scanner/copier died about a month ago, and I doubt I buy another anytime soon. I would love to see another ARFCOM'er offer to maybe scan and post them. thanks HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND View Quote Offer stands for anyone who will use them. There are hundred of images in these books. |
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SAF Life Member-GOA Life Member-JPFO Charter Member-MSF Life Member
FPC Member-VCDL Member-BFA Member-NRA Benefactor Life Member Sir RobertL, Charter Member of the Knights of Wonder |
Morning Robert,
I'll take them. I'll PM you with the details. I'll post a few pictures a week to keep this thread alive for one. It's not that hard, and I really enjoy books of the period. |
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SAF Life Member-GOA Life Member-JPFO Charter Member-MSF Life Member
FPC Member-VCDL Member-BFA Member-NRA Benefactor Life Member Sir RobertL, Charter Member of the Knights of Wonder |
Just a stranger on the bus trying to find his way home.
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„From a place you will not see, comes a sound you will not hear.“
Thanks for the membership @ toaster |
These are pictures from a couple of period books that I was sent by member RobertL. I'll try to post a few pics each week from them. If you've looked at books like this before, they are mostly pretty mundane (to you and I), although at the time I'm sure there wwas tremendous interest in them, since cameras weren't in widespread use, and photographs were expensive to reproduce for the average citizen.
Attached File I'm not sure I'd wanna be hanging out on the wing of a zeppelin with a machine gun shooting at U-boats. Attached File Some of the pics or drawings will be too large for the scanner, so I will attempt to photograph them, crop them and make them as readable as possible. BTW, I didn't know the US was operating subs in WW1. Attached File |
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Russian soldiers fighting with their Winchester 1895 carbines, eastern front, aproximately 1916ish View Quote |
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„From a place you will not see, comes a sound you will not hear.“
Thanks for the membership @ toaster |
A French gunner of the 53rd Infantry Regiment (Tenth Army) with his Chauchat machine gun in the Somme area, 25 August 1916.
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Looking for Colt AR-15 Serial # SP154280 My first AR
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"Russian soldiers fighting with their Winchester 1895 carbines, eastern front, approximately 1916ish."
Actually, full length "muskets" in 7.62x54. Fun fact, Stalin unloaded a bunch of these on the Spanish commies during the SCW at inflated prices payable only in gold. Some were later imported by Sam Cummings at INTERARMS after he bought a huge quantity of obsolete arms from Spain. |
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"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." - Winston Churchill
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Defeatism only leads to defeat.
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This is one of my favorite threads on the site.
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“A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams.” -- Tsunetomo Yamamoto
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The Battle of Mons at Nimy Bridge & The First Victoria Cross of WW1 |
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These are photos from the books above that were sent to me by RobertL. Unfortunately, my scanner is not big enough to scan such large photos. Most of them are quite mundane, so I tried to pick out the ones that would be of interest. There is a lot of great information in them, to include large, hand-drawn maps of various events. It is interesting reading, and quite an accomplishment for the times.
Attached File Attached File Attached File Map of the German ships scuttled during surrender to the Brits... Attached File Surrendering German submarines... Attached File |
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View Quote WHAT?!? |
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Grandfathering weapons only puts off until tomorrow what tyranny cannot accomplish today.
The only people made safer by gun control are criminals and tyrants. |
Originally Posted By Wobblin-Goblin: WHAT?!? View Quote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Chamond_(tank) French Tanks Attack German Trenches | All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) Scene |
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Chris
11M 84-87 Dare to be different - Arrogance Diminishes Wisdom Oh cruel fate, to be thusly boned. Ask not for whom the bone bones, it bones for thee. The answer to 2023's leftist problem is 1973. |
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„From a place you will not see, comes a sound you will not hear.“
Thanks for the membership @ toaster |
Originally Posted By Mal_means_bad: ANZACs in the village of Surafand, Palestine https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/172926/Sarafand1_jpg-1986414.JPG Arab tribesmen had a black reputation for theft, grave robbery, and murder of the occasional isolated soldier, and the British occupational authority found them to be nigh ungovernable, so they went out of their way to ignore what the locals were up to. With the war just over the ANZACS were waiting around waiting to ship for home when a New Zealander soldier was murdered while chasing a thief carrying off his pack. The thief dropped a native hat and his tracks ran into the village of Surafend, an official investigation entering the village the next day received no local cooperation and appeared to be impotent. That night about 200 of the New Zealanders, with some minority Australian participation, cordoned off the village and adjacent Bedouin camp, set aside the women and children, then killed with bayonets and clubs every adult male they found and burned the village to make sure they got them all. This happened within sight and sound of divisional headquarters, which apparently failed to intervene, and hundreds of Australian soldiers turned out to watch. Death estimates vary from 40 to 120. In the following investigation not a single man admitted to it or identified a participant, the surviving Arabs declined to cooperate, and no charges were brought. The Surafend Massacre NZ .gov View Quote ... and people say that violence doesn't solve anything... |
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Breaker Morant Excerpt |
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Harley owner in the Church of J. M. Browning
FL, USA
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View Quote Great movie |
Taxation is Theft
Government is Slavery |
Vlissingen, The Netherlands - Terrific mine explosion - Panorama - 1919
Terrific mine explosion in Vlissingen. Due to the storm a few days ago, several mines were washed ashore in Vlissingen. One of them was knocked into the boulevard. The explosion shattered several windows of surrounding houses and destroyed roofs and ceilings. Not a window of the public school on the Groote Markt (see our photo on the left) has remained intact. The right photo shows a mine that was struck by the high seas on top of the Loodsenpier, but fortunately did not explode. Attached File |
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