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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #14805 on: 30-11-2017, 14:11:53 »
You are bathing in misery and hope, waiting for someone to come and pull the plug.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #14806 on: 30-11-2017, 19:11:07 »

USS Minneapolis at Tulagi with torpedo damage a few hours after the battle of Tassafaronga, on December 1, 1942
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #14807 on: 30-11-2017, 20:11:26 »

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #14808 on: 30-11-2017, 22:11:25 »
Wow, what's on that truck?

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #14809 on: 30-11-2017, 22:11:55 »
is that a captured M3 75mm?



Looks like it;
http://www.kfzderwehrmacht.de/Homepage_english/Motor_Vehicles/USA/White/M2_-_M3_Half_Track/m2_-_m3_half_track.html

I would've never pegged that photo for Tunisia :P
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Re: Picture of the Day
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #14811 on: 01-12-2017, 18:12:06 »
is that a captured M3 75mm?
it is a T30 75 mm HMC:


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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #14812 on: 02-12-2017, 11:12:28 »
Looks like it;
http://www.kfzderwehrmacht.de/Homepage_english/Motor_Vehicles/USA/White/M2_-_M3_Half_Track/m2_-_m3_half_track.html

I would've never pegged that photo for Tunisia :P

Caption says it was captured in Tunisia, I think the photo was taken somewhere in Europe (based on their clothing). Perhaps they shipped it back after their retreat from Africa.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #14813 on: 02-12-2017, 11:12:31 »
Maybe Italy?

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #14814 on: 02-12-2017, 12:12:31 »
No it is tunisia,  ;) it is even writing in the picture :

Sidi Nsir

Enven more information about the encounter:

http://ww2today.com/26th-february-1943-155th-battery-r-a-hold-german-attack-at-sidi-nsir

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #14815 on: 02-12-2017, 16:12:59 »
Yes, it's very muddy, which throws me off at first. I never really think about mud when I think about North Africa, even though it played a large factor in that theater.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #14816 on: 03-12-2017, 11:12:41 »

More Tunisia
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Re: Picture of the Day
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Re: Picture of the Day
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #14819 on: 04-12-2017, 22:12:01 »


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Bristol Bisleys... attack[ed] a Junkers Ju 52 with bombs and machine gun fire after forcing it down in the Western Desert. The Bisleys... intercepted the German transport aircraft while returning from a strike on an enemy train.

Cannon shells explode around the tail... The starboard engine is already on fire, and a member of the crew can be seen lying face down on the ground beneath it.

WW2 Today has some amazing stories. This Ju-52 made a '"successful" landing in the desert only to be strafed by the same planes that brought it down.