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I think I will post pics and write a little snippet about what you see in the pic. I encourage anyone else who is interested in WW II history to do the same.
I'll start off with this pic.
This small tank appears to be an Italian manufactured L6-40 Light tank. By the time it entered service in 1940 it wasn't even adequate for the light tank or recon roll. Lightly armed and armored it was barely suitable for use against infantry.
This pic appears to have been taken in 1944 or 45, very late in the war. It is not clear if this tank was being operated by the Germans or Hungarians. Captured or confiscated L6 tanks were used by the 22nd SS Cavalry Division. Which was composed of mostly Hungarians of German extraction.
Both countries used the Balkan Kreuz as insignia with the only difference being the color.
This example is either knocked out or abandoned. It is being inspected by a Soviet Soldier.
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I think I will post pics and write a little snippet about what you see in the pic. I encourage anyone else who is interested in WW II history to do the same.
I'll start off with this pic.
This small tank appears to be an Italian manufactured L6-40 Light tank. By the time it entered service in 1940 it wasn't even adequate for the light tank or recon roll. Lightly armed and armored it was barely suitable for use against infantry.
This pic appears to have been taken in 1944 or 45, very late in the war. It is not clear if this tank was being operated by the Germans or Hungarians. Captured or confiscated L6 tanks were used by the 22nd SS Cavalry Division. Which was composed of mostly Hungarians of German extraction.
Both countries used the Balkan Kreuz as insignia with the only difference being the color.
This example is either knocked out or abandoned. It is being inspected by a Soviet Soldier.
Or Croatians?
I wouldn't trust Italian tanks, especially when modified for flame-throwers! Ha. They make beautiful cars and can race but safety and such, not so much.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_L6/40
The redirections and threads boogles the mind. The Balkans are so crazy but I learn things every time going down that rabbit warren. What a screwed up place due to position between powers and due to the ethnic, religious, political stuff. And just personal, with blood feuds, etc. Amazing. I'm prone to throw-out the term "balkanization" when I mention desire of some international, and external, enemies of our country to turn us into it, but always amazed, in doing so, how the real area was/is so much more complex and, frankly, crazy.
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Or Croatians?
I wouldn't trust Italian tanks, especially when modified for flame-throwers! Ha. They make beautiful cars and can race but safety and such, not so much.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_L6/40
The redirections and threads boogles the mind. The Balkans are so crazy but I learn things every time going down that rabbit warren. What a screwed up place due to position between powers and due to the ethnic, religious, political stuff. And just personal, with blood feuds, etc. Amazing. I'm prone to throw-out the term "balkanization" when I mention desire of some international, and external, enemies of our country to turn us into it, but always amazed, in doing so, how the real area was/is so much more complex and, frankly, crazy.
To my knowledge, the Croatians did not possess any of these scrap piles. I do know they had a few CV-33 or CV-35 Italian tankettes and apparently they also had at least on example of a French produced H-39 light tank.
Note the Insignia on the tank.
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Men and equipment huh? I do believe that I'll have fun in here.
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Men and equipment huh? I do believe that I'll have fun in here.
Oh my!
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The Germans said the Fiat tanks had one forward speed and three reverse.
I’ve known several hot women from the Balkans.
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Oh my!
I guess I walked straight into that one......................
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I guess I walked straight into that one......................
Well, I don't know if I would say "straight"..................... :o
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I think I will post pics and write a little snippet about what you see in the pic...
I recently learned the allies used a considerable number of gliders in WWII. The US built 13,000 Waco CG-4As - most were used in airborne troop landings and were abandoned after their flight.
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This thread has inspired me to dig out some of my father's WWII details.
He was in the Army Air Corps during WWII and was shot down over Germany and was a prisoner of war. He was a bombardier and flew missions in the B-26. The photo in the attachment below is identified as the "Martin B-26B Marauder".
I think this is a photo card he had of a restored B-26.
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This is his last mission sheet showing when he went MIA and was captured:
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This thread has inspired me to dig out some of my father's WWII details.
He was in the Army Air Corps during WWII and was shot down over Germany and was a prisoner of war. He was a bombardier and flew missions in the B-26. The photo in the attachment below is identified as the "Martin B-26B Marauder".
I think this is a photo card he had of a restored B-26.
That is really interesting MaxPower. Thank Heavens your Father survived being shot down and his imprisonment. My Dad and all of my Uncles were WWII veterans as well and I'll post about their experiences as time allows.
The B-26 was a wonderful airplane. In case you have missed it, there has been some recent B-26 Marauder posts on the site:
http://ellgab.com/index.php?topic=91.msg71762#msg71762
http://ellgab.com/index.php?topic=34.msg71933#msg71933
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That is really interesting MaxPower. Thank Heavens your Father survived being shot down and his imprisonment. My Dad and all of my Uncles were WWII veterans as well and I'll post about their experiences as time allows.
The B-26 was a wonderful airplane. In case you have missed it, there has been some recent B-26 Marauder posts on the site:
http://ellgab.com/index.php?topic=91.msg71762#msg71762
http://ellgab.com/index.php?topic=34.msg71933#msg71933
Thanks for the links, I will check them out. It would be interesting to hear about your Father's and Uncle's WWII experiences. Post some of the details when you can.
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Thanks for the links, I will check them out. It would be interesting to hear about your Father's and Uncle's WWII experiences. Post some of the details when you can.
I definitely will.
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This is a map of German prison camps my father had in his papers. I think he got it at one of the WWII POW reunions:
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An Interesting pic here. This is a early model T-34/76 M1940. It can be identified by the small hexagonal turret and the large single piece top hatch that was by both the tank commander and gunner.
These tanks had a decent gun and decent armor for this time period. Their main problem is they spend more time being broke down and under repair. It was quiet common to see tanks carrying at least one spare transmission chained to its deck plating. They broke down every 6-8 hours on average.
Compare this to a American M4 Sherman where 30 hours of constant operation was the norm.
This example was captured by and is being used by Italian troops of the Savoia Cavalry Regiment which was part of the CSIR which Mussolini sent to Russia to fight along side the Germans.
Along with capturing the tank, it looks a nice supply of shells came along with it.
This is one of three documented T-34s captured by the Italians and used against their former owners. Claims that can't be proven have up to twenty of these tanks were used after being captured.
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We've seen some equipment, so let's see some men.
Here is a picture of my Father, Walks_At_Night Sr. upon graduation from Naval Training School (Torpedo) at Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, R.I.
The picture was taken in Mid-1942. His rating in the picture is Torpedoman's Mate 3rd class. Dad volunteered for the Navy as soon as he could
after Pearl Harbor. Not so much out of patriotic fervor, although he wanted a crack at the Japanese as did most guys, but out of fear of being
drafted by the Army or Marines. After high school he had did a stint in the CCC's and ended up with a bad draw - he was sent to Seney way up in
Michigan's upper peninsula. Their mission was to revive marsh land that had been drained in the 1800's back to it's natural state. He worked in
mud and water day in and day out for 18 months. So he figured if you are going to war at least have good hot food, clean clothes and dry place to
sleep. He took a leave of absence from his employer (who held his job for him) and went off to Great Lakes, Ill for his recruit training. Then
he went to Torpedo school for 16 weeks - from what I see in his papers finished 30th in a class of about 180. Soon after the picture was taken, he
headed out to the fleet and his war began. The Navy asked him to serve on Submarines but he wanted to be able to see the sky all the time. He
wanted PT Boats because they were fast and fun. I guess they compromised because he ended up on Destroyers for the duration of the war.
Walks_At_Night Sr.
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I don't have a great many artifacts from his time in the Navy but I do have his note book from Torpedo school - it is pretty interesting.
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My parents were out of their minds. They had kids in the 40's, 50's and me during the 60's so my Dad was no kid when I was born.
Fortunately he lived well into his 90's so I got to spend lot and lots of time with him. He passed away a few years ago. Per his request
he was buried at sea - from a fast ship built to go in harm's way - the destroyer USS Bainbridge. This occurred in the Mediterranean
off of the coast of Sicily where he tangled with Axis during the Invasion of Sicily some 70 years previously.
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We've seen some equipment, so let's see some men.
Here is a picture of my Father, Walks_At_Night Sr. upon graduation from Naval Training School (Torpedo) at Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, R.I.
The picture was taken in Mid-1942. His rating in the picture is Torpedoman's Mate 3rd class. Dad volunteered for the Navy as soon as he could
after Pearl Harbor. Not so much out of patriotic fervor, although he wanted a crack at the Japanese as did most guys, but out of fear of being
drafted by the Army or Marines. After high school he had did a stint in the CCC's and ended up with a bad draw - he was sent to Seney way up in
Michigan's upper peninsula. Their mission was to revive marsh land that had been drained in the 1800's back to it's natural state. He worked in
mud and water day in and day out for 18 months. So he figured if you are going to war at least have good hot food, clean clothes and dry place to
sleep. He took a leave of absence from his employer (who held his job for him) and went off to Great Lakes, Ill for his recruit training. Then
he went to Torpedo school for 16 weeks - from what I see in his papers finished 30th in a class of about 180. Soon after the picture was taken, he
headed out to the fleet and his war began. The Navy asked him to serve on Submarines but he wanted to be able to see the sky all the time. He
wanted PT Boats because they were fast and fun. I guess they compromised because he ended up on Destroyers for the duration of the war.
Walks_At_Night Sr.
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I don't have a great many artifacts from his time in the Navy but I do have his note book from Torpedo school - it is pretty interesting.
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My parents were out of their minds. They had kids in the 40's, 50's and me during the 60's so my Dad was no kid when I was born.
Fortunately he lived well into his 90's so I got to spend lot and lots of time with him. He passed away a few years ago. Per his request
he was buried at sea - from a fast ship built to go in harm's way - the destroyer USS Bainbridge. This occurred in the Mediterranean
off of the coast of Sicily where he tangled with Axis during the Invasion of Sicily some 70 years previously.
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Thanks for his service. I laughed about the CCC gig, that must have sucked in winter and in black fly, tick, and mosquito seasons. and the Naval Compromise. And your comments about your parents being out of their minds for having kids across the decades. Haha.
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Thanks for his service. I laughed about the CCC gig, that must have sucked in winter and in black fly, tick, and mosquito seasons. and the Naval Compromise. And your comments about your parents being out of their minds for having kids across the decades. Haha.
He would have appreciated your thanks but would have told you it isn't necessary. In later years he was always stoked that Golden Corral gave him a free buffet dinner on November 11th.
Yeah - he didn't have great time in the CCC's. The black flies are just horrific where he was and the winters would have been brutal. Even the town/camp was ugly - Germfask
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He would have appreciated your thanks but would have told you it isn't necessary. In later years he was always stoked that Golden Corral gave him a free buffet dinner on November 11th.
Yeah - he didn't have great time in the CCC's. The black flies are just horrific where he was and the winters would have been brutal. Even the town/camp was ugly - Germfask
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I was wondering about the awful name, figuring it was just foreign German deal or something. Or back in the days when folks didn't worry that their town names wouldn't be good for marketing, tourism, etc. But the name was taking the letters of each founding fathers of the town surname. This sounds like something figured out over some beers, late at night and drawn on a the back of cigarettes.
"John Grant, Matthew Edge, George Robinson, Thaddeus Mead, Dr. W. W. French, Ezekiel Ackley, Oscar (O.D.) Sheppard, and Hezekiah Knaggs"
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I was wondering about the awful name, figuring it was just foreign German deal or something. Or back in the days when folks didn't worry that their town names wouldn't be good for marketing, tourism, etc. But the name was taking the letters of each founding fathers of the town surname. This sounds like something figured out over some beers, late at night and drawn on a the back of cigarettes.
"John Grant, Matthew Edge, George Robinson, Thaddeus Mead, Dr. W. W. French, Ezekiel Ackley, Oscar (O.D.) Sheppard, and Hezekiah Knaggs"
Well how about that. A Texan just taught me something about the Great State of Michigan that I didn't know. There was a mad method behind the naming of the metropolis of Germfask, Mich. I've got some photo's somewhere from his time at Germfask and Seney but this is a WWII thread.............
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We've seen some equipment, so let's see some men.
Here is a picture of my Father, Walks_At_Night Sr. upon graduation from Naval Training School (Torpedo) at Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, R.I.
The picture was taken in Mid-1942. His rating in the picture is Torpedoman's Mate 3rd class. Dad volunteered for the Navy as soon as he could
after Pearl Harbor. Not so much out of patriotic fervor, although he wanted a crack at the Japanese as did most guys, but out of fear of being
drafted by the Army or Marines. After high school he had did a stint in the CCC's and ended up with a bad draw - he was sent to Seney way up in
Michigan's upper peninsula. Their mission was to revive marsh land that had been drained in the 1800's back to it's natural state. He worked in
mud and water day in and day out for 18 months. So he figured if you are going to war at least have good hot food, clean clothes and dry place to
sleep. He took a leave of absence from his employer (who held his job for him) and went off to Great Lakes, Ill for his recruit training. Then
he went to Torpedo school for 16 weeks - from what I see in his papers finished 30th in a class of about 180. Soon after the picture was taken, he
headed out to the fleet and his war began. The Navy asked him to serve on Submarines but he wanted to be able to see the sky all the time. He
wanted PT Boats because they were fast and fun. I guess they compromised because he ended up on Destroyers for the duration of the war.
Walks_At_Night Sr.
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I don't have a great many artifacts from his time in the Navy but I do have his note book from Torpedo school - it is pretty interesting.
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My parents were out of their minds. They had kids in the 40's, 50's and me during the 60's so my Dad was no kid when I was born.
Fortunately he lived well into his 90's so I got to spend lot and lots of time with him. He passed away a few years ago. Per his request
he was buried at sea - from a fast ship built to go in harm's way - the destroyer USS Bainbridge. This occurred in the Mediterranean
off of the coast of Sicily where he tangled with Axis during the Invasion of Sicily some 70 years previously.
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Interesting story about your father's Naval service. The record book in the photo looks like it has weathered the time well like my father's service folder. The pages have discolored a bit but everything is still readable after all these years. I can understand your father's desire to want to see the sky vs. submarine duty. I had a chance to tour a sub many years ago and they are a lot smaller and narrower that I thought they would be. Close quarters for sure. Is the USS Bainbridge still based out of Norfolk?
We are in a big Navy town here in Jacksonville, with two Navy bases, and also the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base about 45 minutes up the road to the north.
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When you think of tanks you usually think about larger German Panthers or Tigers on the Eastern Front. If mention is made of Poland at all it's usually insulting or derogatory.
Most of what passes for common knowledge is patently false like Polish Cavalry charging German tanks. Do you ever think of these?
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How would you like to fight with one of those little gnats? This guy did. Probably the first tank ace of WW II Roman Orlik.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Roman_Orlik (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Roman_Orlik)
A size comparison here. This is a TK3 which is the same basic chassis as TKZ sitting next to a twenty ton German Panzer IV. The TKZ weighed in at about 3 tons when fully loaded and crewed. The bravery of the men who went up against machines ten times their size cannot be denied.
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Interesting story about your father's Naval service. The record book in the photo looks like it has weathered the time well like my father's service folder. The pages have discolored a bit but everything is still readable after all these years. I can understand your father's desire to want to see the sky vs. submarine duty. I had a chance to tour a sub many years ago and they are a lot smaller and narrower that I thought they would be. Close quarters for sure. Is the USS Bainbridge still based out of Norfolk?
We are in a big Navy town here in Jacksonville, with two Navy bases, and also the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base about 45 minutes up the road to the north.
Thanks. Well life wasn't (and still isn't) a bed of roses on a Destroyer but definitely easier than on one of those fleet boats. Yes, the Bainbridge is home ported out of Norfolk.
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The U.S.S. Iowa in drydock. I have no notes as to when or why this BB was in drydock or even if it is a wartime photo or not.
Opinions?
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The U.S.S. Iowa in drydock. I have no notes as to when or why this BB was in drydock or even if it is a wartime photo or not.
Opinions?
Well all the 5" guns and the 40 MM's are still there so she hadn't been modernized at the time of the photo being taken.
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Looks like the picture was taken on December 28, 1944.
Here is a another angle
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She also sported a bath tub for a time, when FDR was a passenger
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Bummer.
Your pics are missing? Got another link or re upload please.
:)
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This is a Polish PZL-23 Karas Light Bomber. Poland had about 160 of these aircraft. Ground support was their main role and when they were properly protected by fighters were quite capable at this job.
This particular plane was not shot down but was cannibalized by ground crews to keep other planes flying before Poland surrendered in September of 1939.
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A pretty simple pic showing a French Built Somua S-35 medium tank and a German soldier running. The Germans used about 250 of these tanks after the French surrender.
Anyone care to take a guess at where and when this pic was taken?
Without doing an image search that is.
:P
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Time for another guess.
This image appears to be one thing but is actually another. Name these soldiers and what they are doing and I'll see if I can't get you half a Bart Buck.
Guess away!
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A pretty simple pic showing a French Built Somua S-35 medium tank and a German soldier running. The Germans used about 250 of these tanks after the French surrender.
Anyone care to take a guess at where and when this pic was taken?
Without doing an image search that is.
:P
I think I had a plastic soldier in that exact pose as a kid!
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A pretty simple pic showing a French Built Somua S-35 medium tank and a German soldier running. The Germans used about 250 of these tanks after the French surrender.
Anyone care to take a guess at where and when this pic was taken?
Without doing an image search that is.
:P
Somewhere in the East against the Russians, early 42?
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I binge watched the entire ten episode miniseries Friday night.
Top notch!
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Ok, I admit being from Louisiana I am very proud of our area’s contribution to WWII. The Higgins Boat has been called “the boat that won the Warâ€. I hope you will all enjoy this video on a very important part in our nation’s history. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Here is to finding old friends and resurrected threads.
Today in history.
May 10 1940. The knotz Germans begin their invasion of western Europe. Within 6 weeks, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France had all been soundly defeated and the BEF had been expelled from the continent with massive losses in equipment.
Here is a pic of a German mechanized column going through a captured French town. Leading is a Sturmgeshütz III B. To my knowledge only 6 of these type were available
for the invasion. IIRC this example was attached to Liebstandarte Regiment at this time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmgeschütz_III (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmgeschütz_III)
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The Matilda II, circa May 1940. AN armored behemoth for its time. Too bad the main gun was pretty useless against soft targets, being able to only fire armor piercing ammo.
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This pile of junk was heavily armored though that only reliable way to knock them was using a 88mm Flak gun.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_II (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_II)
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My Grand Father said he fought in the Battles of Khalkhyn Gol and killed many Japs (his words, not mine), he says that the Japs were like a bunch of pissed off fire ants spreading thru Asia and that they needed a good stomping.
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A bit off topic but I think it goes with the theme of this thread.
Memorial Day.
One of my Granddads was a 4-f for WW2. He had two missing fingers from workplace accidents. He was an electrician at a very large distillery, so he did not serve.
My other Granddad had been drafted 6 months prior to the end and was scheduled to go the Pacific for Operation Olympic. The invasion of Japan.
All I can say is, thank God, that did not happen as Japan surrendered before he could get to his assigned unit. Had he gone, well the expected casulties of fighting in Japan proper were expected to be horrendous.
No other relatives that I know of served in WW2.
My Dad was drafted and served during peace time from 54-56. One Uncle served for 4 years and spent the vast majority of that time in Korea from 50-54. He survived more than 2 years in combat there only to die going to his favorite bar to get liquored up. A car hit him while crossing the street and he died before he got to the hospital.
Another Uncle served in the navy for 24 years and retired in 1980.
I have read many of these testimonials today. Mostly by people that never served.
I served in the U.S. Army. Not gonna say when or where but here is the real deal. If you never serverd, thank God that you never had to.
May you have a blessed day and hopefully you get a nice deal on something you want today. Yes, men and women served and died so you could enjoy your freedoms and sales are part of that freedom.
May you all have a very Blessed Day, long life, health, and happiness.
:)
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interesting thread I had not seen it before.
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interesting thread I had not seen it before.
Slow going. I have a hard time thinking about what to post.
Most times.
The Tommy Gun
aka
M1928
aka
M1 submachine gun
aka
M1A1 submachine gun...pictured below, without tyhe muzzle baffles and a simpler rear sight.
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This is probably the most iconic submachine gun used during WW II. Used mainly by the U.S. Army with the Marines being the second largest users. Despite popular hollywierdo images of gangsters using them, relative few of them fell into their hands. They were just too darn expensive to buy and they had to depend on stolen examples.
This thing fired a .45acp and was effective to about 30 yards. After that, you beeded a bit of luck to hit your target. Another major drawback was the capaity magazine. You could go through 20 or 30 rounds quick in a fire fight. The 1928 model had a hundred round drum magazine but very few of those mags made it to front line usits because the M1 and M1A1 could not use them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson_submachine_gun (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson_submachine_gun)
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i don't have anything to add but i thank you for your efforts
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My Grand Father said he fought in the Battles of Khalkhyn Gol and killed many Japs (his words, not mine), he says that the Japs were like a bunch of pissed off fire ants spreading thru Asia and that they needed a good stomping.
Your grandfather was in the Red Army in the late 30s?
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This day in history. Two events took place.
June 4, 1942. The Battle of Midway. The Japanese lose 4 carriers sunk. The Kaga, Akagi, Hiryu, and Soryu, are all sent to the botom of the ocean for the loss of the carrier U.S.S. Yorktown, A couple of days later, the jap heavy crusier, Mikuma IIRC was also sent to the bottom by carrier based American Planes.
On June 4, 1944, Forces belonging General Marc Clark's 5th Army Group, depending on your point of view, either captured or liberated the capital of Italy, Rome. The first of the axis capital's to fall into Allied control. This event was completely forgotten 2 days later when the landings began in Normandy, France.
Such is Glory. Marc Clark got to bask in it for 2 whole days. Thats 2 more days than 99.999 of the population of the world will experience.
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Since my last post got so much attention, I'll post something that was just a bit more tragic in the failure.
The July 20, plot to assassinate der schikelgruber.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_July_plot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_July_plot)
The recent movie Valkryie was loosely based on this plot although the name Valkryie was not part of the actual assassination plot but the takeover of the knot-z command structure.
Please note. This has nothing to do with any other event that is dated July 20 at all. Past, present, or future.
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Today is VJ Day. Victory over Japan in 1945.
I have to thank God because had the war continued, I might never have been. One of my Grand Dads had been drafted and was scheduled to be included in the Invasion of the Japanese home Islands.
Casualties had been expected to be horrendous.
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My father was shot down over France, spent more than a year in a Nazi prison camp, upon being liberated was sent home on a month’s leave for his mother to fatten him up (he was six feet and got home weighing just over 100-pounds) then reported to Texas for training in newer aircraft to continue the war against Japan. He was pretty happy about VJ Day, too.
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My father was shot down over France, spent more than a year in a Nazi prison camp, upon being liberated was sent home on a month’s leave for his mother to fatten him up (he was six feet and got home weighing just over 100-pounds) then reported to Texas for training in newer aircraft to continue the war against Japan. He was pretty happy about VJ Day, too.
We're members of the Lucky VJ Club.
:)
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It’s interesting to me that we didn’t hear the usual anti-nuke hysteria on Hiroshima and Nagasaki days. I guess even that is fading from memory.
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August 23, 1939. The day in history when diplomats from the international socialists and diplomats from the national socialists decided to meet and and greet and divide Poland. By force of arms.
Murdering and conquering.
It's what any kind of socialist is best at. Don't believe me? Just look up the body counts from the Holodomor or the cultural revolution in chicommuna. Those are just a teaser. You can find more if you look.
https://spectator.org/eight-decades-on-lessons-from-perhaps-the-most-evil-diplomatic-triumph-in-history/ (https://spectator.org/eight-decades-on-lessons-from-perhaps-the-most-evil-diplomatic-triumph-in-history/)
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Secret WWII Jewish British military commandos finally come out of the shadows
87 members were mainly Jewish refugees from Germany, Austria
Declassifying records, author Leah Garrett uncovers amazing story of X Troop, a unit of German-speaking refugee volunteers determined to outwit and outfight the Nazis at all costs
https://www.timesofisrael.com/secret-wwii-jewish-british-military-commandos-finally-come-out-of-the-shadows/
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101-year-old returns to Pearl Harbor to remember those lost
https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-veterans-oklahoma-world-war-ii-d3db8d688fb1c8fcc2045c00266f3aff
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“At 1:23pm Zeros were approaching Pearl Harbor where it was 7:53am. At that moment the flight commander radioed Admiral Nagumo TORA, TORA, TORA@ The repeated code word, meaning "tiger," stood for 'We have succeeded in surprise attack'." Two minutes later torpedo bombers began diving on Battleship Row.â€
John Willard Toland, Infamy: Pearl Harbor and its Aftermath
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Many people have visited the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor but few have visited the USS Utah Memorial on the west side of Ford Island in Pearl Harbor - as it is not open to the general public. I took a boat tour that allowed tourists to see the remains of the USS Utah but that was pre-9/11. They don't allow that anymore.
The Utah was used as a target ship and the Japanese pilots were specifically told to leave it be but I guess it made for too tempting of a target and as it was berthed where an aircraft carrier usually was, it was hammered. After taking two aerial torpedo strikes the Utah began to list and settle. As the crew began to abandon the doomed ship, Chief Watertender Tomich stayed below, secured the boilers and ensure that all the firemen in the area got out. He was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously. A total 58 men were lost on the USS Utah and remain in the wreckage, while almost 500 were able to escape. After a failed attempt at salvage, the USS Utah was left as it was. Considered a war grave, survivors of the Utah are eligible to be interned with their shipmates on board (https://www.nps.gov/perl/learn/historyculture/uss-utah-interments.htm) - the Navy is happy to do so if that is their wish.
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The USS Utah Memorial today:
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