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kjohn said:
Re: Hitler. Well, we know that the murdering bastard is dead now, anyway. Sort of too bad that Stalin was able to carry on murdering his own people by the thousands and millions.

Having been born in 1947 in a safe place, small town Saskatchewan, I have never been anywhere remotely close to the death and destruction witnessed by my fellow townspeople. My hometown was chock full of WW1, WW2, and Korean war vets, along with many immigrants from Europe. They are the ones who know suffering.

Since my school days, I have made it a priority to study about the misery and colossal destruction in Europe and the Pacific during the 20th century. I am ever so grateful to the people who tried so hard to stop the murdering, many of whom ended up being murdered themselves.
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That is a very telling statement. When a government gets to be beyond the control of its people at the polls they soon become extremely dangerous to their populations. The Hitlers and Stalins of the world have a special magnetism about them that resonates with the oppressed. It is only later when they consider themselves to be GODs that their true psychopathic personalities are revealed. By the time this happens millions of lives are consumed by whims of the dictator and the other psychopaths he/she surrounds him/herself with. The same thing happens with run away religious factions.
Sadly it is still going on today and maybe at an even more massive pace. Once they control the media outlets and are entrenched for a decade or so the only way to depose them is with violence.

I wonder if mankind will ever change??? I wonder if good fighting evil is just a pipe dream designed to appease the plebes until the next time??
 
One thing the Nazis did bring to Argentina was decent beer. The crew of the Graf Spee were initially interned in Uruguay, but many moved to a place in the mountains of Argentina where they started a German town. It's still thriving and puts on a pretty good Oktoberfest.:cheers:
 
The Graf Spee was a very trim ship. Shame she went out the way she did.

This picture is post war (1954) but documents the only time in history that the USS Missouri, USS Wisconsin, USS Iowa, and USS New Jersey sailed together.

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There are a number of artifacts from the Graf Spee to be seen in Montevideo harbour. These include the range finder, an anchor and a 5.9 inch gun. There is also a monument to the crew. The ship was scuttled in shallow water so many smaller items have also been taken from it over the years.
 
I had this dream where I relished the fray
And the screaming filled my head all day
It was as though I'd been spit here
Settled in, into the pocket
Of a lighthouse on some rocky socket
Off the coast of France, dear
One afternoon four thousand men died in the water here
And five hundred more were thrashing madly
As parasites might in your blood
Now I was in a lifeboat designed for ten and ten only
Anything that systematic would get you hated
It's not a deal nor a test nor a love of something fated
The selection was quick, the crew was picked in order
And those left in the water
Got kicked off our pant leg
And we headed for home
Then the dream ends when the phone rings
"You doing all right?"
He said, "It's out there most days and nights
But only a fool would complain"
Anyway, Susan, if you like
Our conversation is as faint a sound in my memory
As those fingernails scratching on my hull

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Dark Alley Dan said:
I'm guessing Fleet Air Arm. The fuselage markings look about right, and certainly His Majesty's Royal navy doesn't mind a beard on a fellah...
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I'd agree with this. Looks long overdue for some tonsorial care as many Navy types are. He looks to be flying an F6F Hellcat, perhaps off a smaller carrier without a barber chair.
If Navy guys are going to wear beards I think they should model themselves on that spiffy old sea captain in "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir".:p
 
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Definitely, Royal Navy as one is allowed a full beard with permission from the commander. No scruffy or uneven are permitted. It is still that today!
 
MarkCNP said:
You know that poem well, Dan. Nautical Disaster by the Tragically Hip. It's about the sinking of the Bismarck.
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Well I'll be dipped. I thought a line or two sounded a bit familiar, but I couldn't piece it together in my head. Thanks for that. Hell of a song, and Ol' Gord Downie's a writer, alright.

Steyr built the ADGZ armoured car, a goofy lookin' contraption. The Germans "adopted" quite a few.

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Looks like a decent armored scout vehicle that quite a bit of thought went into. Maybe to much?? Able to be controlled from both ends could be a handy feature. I wonder if those center wheels were just for eliminating high centers or were actually driven if need arose. Looks like it came with different configurations as well. Not very many made though. Maybe sixty at most and over quite a stretch of time.
 
I find it nothing short of jaw dropping to see assembly line pictures of wartime material in production by the US and then the fields upon fields of this same material being disposed of post second world war.
 
XRCD011 said:
I find it nothing short of jaw dropping to see assembly line pictures of wartime material in production by the US and then the fields upon fields of this same material being disposed of post second world war.
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So it goes with war material for time immemorial. The British arms merchants, up until WWI, we famous for buying up captured arms from the victors of any given European conflict and then selling them off throughout the colonies (which is how the French Chassepot rifle ended up becoming one of the more widely used Buffalo guns in North America... French Military to Prussian capture to British arms merchants to the colonies... )

I have little doubt that after the collapse of the Roman Empire, there would have been more than a few enterprising souls making "The finest bronze cookware, made from the highest quality Roman Bronze Swords! Bulk discounts and dealer enquiries welcome!"
 
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