Picture of the Day

[TASSER]

Last bit of Dutch naval pride, getting unseen to Australia. Heh.

Heh funny But still an incredibly badass example of innovation and seamanship.

[Born2Kill 007]

posted that one before years ago 

still the most bad-ass ship of WW2

Like a spy

Searched it and yes, you posted it in 2010, sorry for the repost

I thought of it after i thought of an anecdote a veteran told me on the ship. When he was describing the mine sweeping he ended with "and after the bang, you would soon see all kinds of fish comming up. That was very fun because they tasted way better than the food we got on the ship normally, but by the third day we had to eat the fish, we really had enough of it. The worst thing that could than happen is that we encountered a new mine and had to eat again fish for some days. We once had to eat fish for weeks because we kept encountering mines every few days. The only good part was that the fish was fresh every few days"

Anyway, new day new picture 

An undated picture of U- 203. She was on her seventh war patrol in June 1942 and was to have a lucky escape when she was depth charged repeatedly.

[CHRISTIEFRONTDRIVE]

[RonidLanis]

Eastern Front, Germany, March 1945.

[Paythoss]

Totally unlucky Panther Ausf A ...

[Born2Kill 007]

[THeTA0123]

Totally unlucky Panther Ausf A ...

500 meters, it was easy to penetrate the glacis but beyond that range, richochets happend alot

[Born2Kill 007]

Treblinka 1945

It was a hot day. Several staff members had returned to the camp who had gone on leave a fortnight earlier, though every one of these bandits receives twenty-four days of leave every six weeks because of their strenuous “work”. While on leave, they had dressed in civilian clothes and left their sacred uniforms in the camp. When they came back from their Erholung (recuperation) they were constantly in a bad mood.
We once overheard a conversation in which one of them told the other that the city he comes from was being bombed day and night and that there were many casualties from air raids. We also notice that the murderers, coming back from leave, don’t look good. It appears that the care they get at home is not as good as what they get in Treblinka. Here, in Treblinka, they can afford everything, since there is no lack of money. After all, every victim that arrives in Treblinka has managed to bring something with them.
It is a very difficult day today. S.S. Unterscharfuhrer Chanke — we call him “The Whip” because he is a specialist in beating — is in a bad mood. His comrade Unterscharfuhrer Loefer is no small sadist himself. He has terrifying eyes, and all of us are afraid that his glance will fall on us because in that case we are done for. Despite the fact that they are tired from their journey, they beat us mercilessly.
I remember a case in which two workers forgot themselves and placed the corpses of three small children on the litter instead of one adult corpse. Unterscharfuhrer Loefer detained them, raining blows down on them from his whip and screamed: — You dogs, why are you carrying trinkets? (“Trinkets” is what they called little children.)
The “trinket”-bearers had to run back and collect an adult corpse.
On such a hot day the Ukrainian henchmen feel very good. They work left and right with their whips. Mikolai and Ivan, who work as mechanics on the motor that sends the gas into the chambers and also work on the generator that provides electric lighting for Treblinka, feel happy and in splendid shape in such weather.
Ivan is about twenty years old and looks like a giant healthy horse. He is pleased when he has an opportunity to let off his energy on the workers. From time to time he feels the urge to take a sharp knife, detain a worker who is running past and cut off his ear. The blood spurts, the worker screams, but he must keep running with his litter. Ivan waits calmly until the worker runs back and orders him to put the litter down. He then tells him to strip and go over to the pit, where he shoots him.
Ivan once came over to the well where I and another dentist called Finkelstein were washing teeth. Ivan was carrying an auger. He ordered Finkelstein to lie down on the ground and drilled the iron tool into his buttocks. That was meant to be a joke. The wretched victim did not even scream, only groaned. Ivan laughed and shouted repeatedly: — Lie still, otherwise I’ll shoot you!
…
After the episode with Loefer, Finkelstein had to get up and go back to work. He was a healthy young man. At the first opportunity Dr Zimmermann took him into his room and washed and bandaged his wound. The wound healed; Finkelstein survived till the revolt.

[Paythoss]

Coming soon ...

[Born2Kill 007]

The destroyer USS Wainwright DD419 refuelling from the cruiser HMS Norfolk

[PanzerKnacker]

70 Years since Kursk

[Captain Pyjama Shark]

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[VonMudra]

^^ Modified Panzer 1 with 20mm cannon, from Spanish Civil War.  Was an attempt to upgun it for facing T-26 tanks, but was unsatisfactory as a gap was left in the mantlet to aim through.

[CHRISTIEFRONTDRIVE]

Yeah, read about them in Osprey's book on Spanish Civil War tanks. To be fair, I reckon I'll take something with tank killing potential (however little) over something with none.