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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #255 on: 02-05-2009, 22:05:16 »
Sorry for posting 'your' images Seth but I found this one quite interesting:



One of the Autoblinda's in Berlin, May 1945. From Libya to Berlin, quite a drive.
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #256 on: 03-05-2009, 12:05:21 »

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #257 on: 03-05-2009, 12:05:53 »


Fixing up that radio.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #258 on: 03-05-2009, 15:05:18 »
The fearsome garrison of Normandy, preparing for a fierce fight (note the french volunteer, to the very left of the 2nd line!).


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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #259 on: 03-05-2009, 21:05:16 »
G98=Gewehr 98
K98k= Karabiner 98k
K98k has a longer barrel and a bent "Kammerstengel" (don´t know the English word for it..)

Anyway, new pic:



One of my favourites, the Sdkfz. 232 scout car, armed with a 2cm cannon and a MG34. The metal frame is a long-range antenna. Too abd we don´t see them in Africa theatre :/
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #260 on: 03-05-2009, 22:05:37 »
B-26 Marauder over Normandy


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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #261 on: 04-05-2009, 00:05:17 »

A Life Buoy flamethrower in action. This could produce a jet of flame up to 50 feet in length.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #262 on: 04-05-2009, 04:05:46 »


The M6 heavy tank. The Germans were reportedly quite worried about how to face it should America declare war early on. However, Tank design soon made its 3.25 inches (83mm) of 30deg armor and 3 inch gun obsolete in a heavy tank, and it was decided not to produce them and ship them overseas, due to the tonnage taken away from Medium tanks. Another factor in their reasoning was America's experience 100 Liberty Mark VIII tanks post WW1. Despite having the most powerful armored force in the world at the time, the reliability issues persuaded America that heavy tanks were a boondoggle, and (imo) their low speed helped define America's armored tactics, of tanks supporting infantry and avoiding tanks, and lightly armored and speedy tank destroyers engaging tanks.
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #263 on: 04-05-2009, 12:05:52 »


Germans in Lapland. We gotta have that car in FH2.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #264 on: 04-05-2009, 20:05:07 »

Still from film shot from the nose camera of a Bristol Beaufighter, flown by Lt Burne of No. 16 Squadron SAAF, showing rocket projectiles from his aircraft exploding on an enemy-occupied building in the village of Gospic, Yugoslavia.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #265 on: 05-05-2009, 01:05:48 »
Not that those tactics ever worked worth a damn.  The tank destroyers ended up being too weakly armoured, and the tanks were forced to fight things they were meant to fight.

Well, yeah, that was my point. It was a double edged sword, in that it helped them steer away from accepting large, unreliable, and cost-ineffective tanks, but at the same time prompted them to think that tanks were too slow to operate sans infantry, and that Tank-killing should be undertaken by speedier vehicles. Their tactic was also probably influenced by Plan 1919.

If they had only accepted the first lesson, most Shermans would have had 76mm guns (i think they asked for relatively few because a gun with good armor piercing capability would inspire aggressive action), whereas if they only absorbed the second lesson we would have had more of these behemoths, with a gun with poor anti-armor capability and low speed but thick armor.



T23E3 Medium tank prototype armed with a 76mm gun and 76mm of frontal armor at 47 deg.
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #266 on: 05-05-2009, 14:05:50 »


Curious finn checking out the damage done to the turret of a Sotka 85 after the battles at Äyräpää-Vuosalmi had ceased. No record which gun did that damage, but it happened at Vuosalmi. It could be anything from PaK40's to Sturm's, panzerfausts and shrecks.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #267 on: 05-05-2009, 19:05:13 »

Lance Corporal Lodge of 278 Field Company, Royal Engineers, holding a German hollow charge anti-tank magnetic mine during Operation 'Epsom', 26 June 1944.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #268 on: 05-05-2009, 19:05:39 »
Sturmrad44


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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #269 on: 05-05-2009, 20:05:16 »
KNIL (Koninklijk Nederlands Indisch Leger or Royal Netherlands Indies Army), the Dutch colonial army in the Netherlands East Indies (present day Indonesia).