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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1770 on: 18-12-2009, 15:12:29 »
Might got a side penetration that shutted down the engine, and they tried to tow it away but american forces advanced far enough so they had to abandon it

Thats my guess
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1771 on: 18-12-2009, 18:12:21 »
From the smoke and burn marks coming from the turret, it also looks like they set it on fire or something before abandoning it.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1772 on: 18-12-2009, 22:12:27 »
After this tank was abandoned Hitler forbid cooking and grilling sausages inside turrets.
"Force answers force, war breeds war, and death only brings death.
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1773 on: 18-12-2009, 22:12:02 »


Flettner Fl 282 "Kolibri"


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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1774 on: 18-12-2009, 22:12:22 »
Flettner Fl 282 "Kolibri"

Trials of fl.282 v5 on the landing deck of cruiser Köln, 1942.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1775 on: 18-12-2009, 23:12:40 »


Look what the guy on the right captured :)

i wonder whats the story of that king tiger

i guess this is in the ardennes ?
right track is "off"
judging from the smoke and dirt around the back turrets hatch it burned out.
towing cables can be seen on the right.

17-18 December:[...]The 3. Kompanie had lost two tanks to antitank fire as it passed through Stavelot, and another stalled with a thrown track in a sharp bend on the N33 just before the road turned uphill to enter La Gleize.[...]19 December passed relatively quietly for the Tigers in La Gleize, except for a short action around 3:00 p.m. against a probing force coming down the Francorchamps road. The Königstiger that had thrown a track at the bottom of the hill where the N33 entered La Gleize destroyed one Sherman and repulsed several others from the 743rd Tank Battalion.[...]By 21 December Peiper had decided to withdraw all his forces to the immediate area of La Gleize.[...]The Königstigers defended an arc that covered the northeastern to southeastern approaches to La Gleize.[...]...the 3. Kompanie tank that had thrown a track while approaching on the N33 from the east was still manned. Finally on 23 December Peiper received permission to break his force out of La Gleize and move to link up with his division.  The remaining 850 soldiers of the kampfgruppe moved out on foot at 2:00 am on 24 December.[...]Also left behind was a small defensive covering force, which had the mission of wrecking the remaining operational tanks and heavy weapons after the kampfgruppe departed.


This tank's crew continued to fight after their tank threw track on the road to La Gleize.  (US National Archives at College Park, Signal Corps Collection)


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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1776 on: 18-12-2009, 23:12:27 »
Flettner Fl 282 "Kolibri"

Trials of fl.282 v5 on the landing deck of cruiser Köln, 1942.
Needs Panzerfaust launchers.
It's half naked people on boats. That's all.
Here in Finland we call that "summer".

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1777 on: 19-12-2009, 05:12:54 »
Flettner Fl 282 "Kolibri"

Trials of fl.282 v5 on the landing deck of cruiser Köln, 1942.
Needs Panzerfaust launchers.

Do any Fl 282 "Kolibris" still exsist today?

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1778 on: 19-12-2009, 06:12:58 »
Surviving Fl 282.

Fl 282 V-10 28368 Midland Air Museum, Coventry, England. Partial aircraft, frame with rotor head & wheels.
Fl 282 V-23 was at one time to be found at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, Dayton, Ohio




Japanese Army war Veteran Private Ogawa Isamu, killed in action in 1938


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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1779 on: 19-12-2009, 18:12:42 »

This well known photo of a blown-up armored car in Berlin was actually one of the Schwedish Kompanie's vehicles in the Nordland Division. It could have been company commander Pehrssons command vehicle that was shot up on the Friedrichstrasse just south of the Hitler Chancellery on the 1st of May, 1945. The fallen Unterscharführern to the right of the armored car is in that case identical with the driver in the car, Ragnar Johansson from Stockholm, that was killed by a Russian handgrenade. It's most likely that the armored car had participtaed in the attempt to break out of the city on the night to the 2nd of May. The picture was taken by the Russian reporter Mark Redkin. At a picture reconstructuion, at place in Berlin, the researcher Lennart Westberg positioned the place for the photo to be Friedrichstrasse 107 with the walls of the guardhouse in the backround, 200m north of the river Spree.

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« Reply #1780 on: 19-12-2009, 22:12:26 »
This well known photo of a blown-up armored car in Berlin was actually one of the Schwedish Kompanie's vehicles in the Nordland Division.

lol?
It's Budapest, january 1945.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1781 on: 19-12-2009, 22:12:49 »
Do any Fl 282 "Kolibris" still exsist today?

Well...

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1782 on: 19-12-2009, 22:12:21 »
Japanese Army war Veteran Private Ogawa Isamu, killed in action in 1938

One of most stupid MG design ever. He use Arisaka 5-rounds clips as a ammo. Need lots of clips and oil, lots of oil  ;D

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1783 on: 19-12-2009, 22:12:28 »


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Onoda continued his campaign, initially living in the mountains with three fellow soldiers (Yuichi Akatsu, Corporal Siochi Shimada and Kinshichi Kozuka). The first time they saw a leaflet which claimed that the war was over was in October 1945; another cell had killed a cow and found a leaflet left behind by islanders which read: "The war ended on August 15. Come down from the mountains!"[1] However, they mistrusted the leaflet, since another cell had been fired upon a few days previously. They concluded that the leaflet was Allied propaganda, and also believed that they would not have been fired on if the war was indeed over.

Towards the end of 1945 leaflets were dropped by air with a surrender order printed on them from General Tomoyuki Yamashita of the Fourteenth Area Army. They were in hiding over a year at this point, and this leaflet was the only evidence they had the war was over. Onoda's group looked very closely at the leaflet to determine whether it was genuine or not, and decided it was a hoax.

One of the four, Yuichi Akatsu, walked away from the others in September 1949 and surrendered to Filipino forces in 1950 after six months on his own. This seemed like a security problem to the others and they became even more careful.

In 1952 letters and family pictures were dropped from aircraft urging them to surrender, but the three soldiers concluded that this was a hoax. Shimada was shot in the leg during a shoot-out with local fishermen in June 1953, following which Onoda nursed him back to health, On 7 May 1954, Shimada was killed by a shot fired by a search party looking for the men.

Kozuka was killed by two shots fired by local police on 19 October 1972, when he and Onoda burned rice that had been collected by farmers, as part of their guerilla activities, leaving Onoda alone. Though Onoda had been officially declared dead in December 1959, this event suggested that it was likely he was still alive and search parties were sent out, though none was successful.

On 20 February 1974, Onoda met a Japanese college dropout, Norio Suzuki, who was traveling the world and was looking for "Lieutenant Onoda, a panda, and the Abominable Snowman, in that order". Onoda and Suzuki became friends, but Onoda still refused to surrender, saying that he was waiting for orders from a superior officer.

Suzuki returned to Japan with photographs of himself and Onoda as proof of their encounter, and the Japanese government located Onoda's commanding officer, Major Taniguchi, who had since become a bookseller. He flew to Lubang and on 9 March 1974 informed Onoda of the defeat of Japan in WWII and ordered him to lay down his arms.

Lieutenant Onoda emerged from the jungle 29 years after the end of World War II, and accepted the commanding officer's order of surrender in his uniform and sword, with his Arisaka Type 99 rifle still in operating condition, 500 rounds of ammunition and several hand grenades. This makes him the second-to-last fighting Japanese soldier of World War II, before Teruo Nakamura.

Though he had killed some thirty Philippine inhabitants of the island and engaged in several shootouts with the police, the circumstances of these events were taken into consideration, and Onoda received a pardon from President Ferdinand Marcos.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1784 on: 19-12-2009, 23:12:31 »
Do any Fl 282 "Kolibris" still exsist today?

Well...

Hehe, I was thinking nore or less, the whole thing  :P. I was Just curious how many are still around just to see if I could figure out an estimated sale price for what one of those would go for...