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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #195 on: 21-04-2009, 00:04:26 »
'Did you HAVE to make vindaloo again?'


Churchill Crocodile flamethrowers in action against the village of St Joost, north of Schilberg, during an attack by 1st Rifle Brigade, 20 January 1945.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #196 on: 21-04-2009, 16:04:31 »

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #197 on: 21-04-2009, 19:04:47 »

Posed portrait of a soldier with rifle and bayonet standing watch behind beach defences 'somewhere in Southern Command', England, 15 October 1940.

Photograph was taken at the request of the General Officer Commander in Chief, Southern Command for use as a Christmas card.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #198 on: 21-04-2009, 19:04:47 »
A ton of shermans and grants:


I think I see some stuarts in the back too.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #199 on: 21-04-2009, 20:04:25 »
A static panther turret mounted on a basement. Somehow the turret itself has not been imbedded in concrete. Due to the raised position I consider this rather vulnerable.


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

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Re: Picture of the Day
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #201 on: 21-04-2009, 23:04:07 »
Twilight - the movie is just like Schindler's list... You know you're watching a crime against humanity, but it's sort of entertaining.~~Ts4EVER

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #202 on: 22-04-2009, 08:04:07 »
Yellow stripe and star.. Operation Torch? Sicily?

Looks like stateside maneuvers to me. Most likely at or around Ft. Knox.

yeah thoes are from a serie of photo's around that location. I have some more somewhere.


here are some pre war photos of the US army..I got from taranov.
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #203 on: 22-04-2009, 14:04:51 »
Germans advancing towards east in the Salla region, in northern finland during 1941 autumn.


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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #204 on: 22-04-2009, 17:04:28 »
A Char B1 with unusual armor:


Did some googling and it's apparently the "Char B1 ter".
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #205 on: 22-04-2009, 21:04:45 »
Another variant of a bunker for a static panther turret. This variant is larger than the one posted before and required more construction material. The turret itself had no steal basement but was inserted directly into the bunker notch. While this big variant is a 'standard construction' the smaller variant is a 'special construction'.

I guess the smaller variant was introduced to match with the simplified and improved production technics. With the turret already mounted on the gearing(?) it could be sat on top of the bunker without having the need for complex technical knowledge.

Unfortunately I do not have any satisfying pictures except this blueprint.



Finally: proof that necessity is the mother of invention.


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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #206 on: 22-04-2009, 22:04:44 »

(Note, this vehicle is US.)
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #207 on: 22-04-2009, 22:04:38 »

Men of the Staffordshire Yeomanry crowd in and around a universal carrier for a portrait, 7 June 1944. The vehicle is equipped with a .50-inch Browning machine gun, 7 June 1944.

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Re: Picture of the Day
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #209 on: 23-04-2009, 06:04:45 »
What the....?




Totenkopf soldiers on the attack in mid 1942.By this time around one third of the division's troops were underweight,weak and listless due to intense cold and inadequate shelter.