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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1410 on: 06-11-2009, 13:11:50 »
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1411 on: 06-11-2009, 15:11:55 »
japanese panzer I ?
i must admit i m not very good on early war pacific japanese stuff

but when when did japs get german tanks, this must have been before some major stuff i guess ?

well here my contribution for today

for me not really identifiable german airplane ( i guess bf109) gets restocked on ammo
you can clearly see 3 different ammo types.
i guess 20mm Tracer, AP and HE


Looks like a painted B&W photo.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1412 on: 06-11-2009, 17:11:34 »


Four Grumman Avengers unload their bombs in Iwo Jima
"If a Tiger appears, send out a troop of four Sherman to destroy the panzer and expect only one to come home"

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1413 on: 06-11-2009, 18:11:13 »

I usually imagine my own sounds with it, like `tjunk, tupdieyupdiedee` aaa enemy spotted, ratatatataboom

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1414 on: 06-11-2009, 19:11:21 »
I don't quite understand the text on the photo...it says its from an album from PzRgt. 33, but then says it can't be from the regiment?  Its a photo of a destroyed tank of theirs...so I don't really see why it couldn't be =/

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1415 on: 06-11-2009, 19:11:53 »
Probably means that the photo was taken by a member of PzRgt 33, but the destroyed tank belonged to another regiment.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1416 on: 06-11-2009, 19:11:38 »
My interpretation is, that the photo was made by elements of the Pz.Rgt. 33, showing a destroyed dive-tank which the regiment verifyable was not equiped with. Thus the tank has been lost by another unit, only the photo remained with the documentary of the Pz.Rgt. 33. I think this is a question of filing in an army archive.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1417 on: 06-11-2009, 20:11:39 »
Oohh, oki, that would do it.  Seems kinda obvious now o_O  I shouldn't do these things when I just wake up xD

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1418 on: 06-11-2009, 20:11:13 »
I'd even dare to say it must be march or april in 1942 or 1943. Russian front.
After the cancelled invasion of Britain these units were ordered to the eastern front.
The tank then was most likely lost during the russian winter offensives.
Then the snow melted and the roads became clear for the 33 Pz. Rgt. to advance and the picture was taken.
Note that there is no snow, but still no leaves on the trees.
Tank must have been rotting there for about a few month.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1419 on: 07-11-2009, 08:11:32 »
Destroyed French Bloch MB-152, France, 1940.



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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1420 on: 07-11-2009, 09:11:13 »
Looks like the pilot is still in the cockpit, or there's a german sitting there o_O

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1421 on: 07-11-2009, 10:11:51 »

A machine gun crew sit among a pile of spent ammunition somewhere just south of Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima 1945.
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1422 on: 07-11-2009, 11:11:20 »
Looks like the pilot is still in the cockpit, or there's a german sitting there o_O
probaly a german. Looks like it landed pretty intact and the cockpit glass aint broken.  I bet the pilot escaped before the germans came. MB150's where very though planes, as did crash landing can show us



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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1423 on: 07-11-2009, 14:11:03 »
It crash landed pretty weird too. (from pilot's point of view:) I think he was going a bit slow already, probably searching for a good place to crash land and then landed with his left wing on the fence/bushes/small wall and then smacked towards the right into the building as theres only 1 small hole it means the wing came in from the side..
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1424 on: 07-11-2009, 14:11:22 »
It crash landed pretty weird too. (from pilot's point of view:) I think he was going a bit slow already, probably searching for a good place to crash land and then landed with his left wing on the fence/bushes/small wall and then smacked towards the right into the building as theres only 1 small hole it means the wing came in from the side..

I noticed that too, but figured something along those lines.