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[CV32]

Note the cleverly placed turbojets.

 

[The Wizard]

So instead of the Arrow, we got the less-than-perfect BOMARC:

It wasn't all bad news. It sure kept a bunch of folks working in Seattle.

And it kept good company.

We bought a bunch, mounted them in vulnerable, fixed facilities, and then, after eleven years of inertia, sent them to the museums. Thus ended Canada's experiment with anti-air lawn darts.

Miss Bomarc AKA Fran Frost of Kaysville, Utah

 

[donor]

Today in History-Warsaw Ghetto Uprising started.It didn't end well but that wasn't the point.Warsaw Uprising was the largest of all Ghetto uprisings and I think the last one.

Some of the survivors later on took part in Warsaw Uprising in August 1944.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghetto_uprising

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising

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[AP]

Au contraire, mon ami. Witness the Beriev BE-200:

Amphibian water bomber. In service for 20+ years, works very well. Engine placement is key.

Great looking device to my eye. The ultimate fishing cabin.

And to keep it military, a Finnish built Blackburn Ripon.

One more ugly girl from the house of Blackburn. Swear to God, it's like those people went out of their way to make 'em homely.

well "if they dont find you handsome -- they better find you handy"

 

[AP]

I was serving with 4 CMBG in Westphalia during the Cold War. Our RCAF 'Starfighters' had the unhappy role of being low level nuke bombers, hopefully flying below the East German radar.
The Army was just phasing out the "Honest John" short range nuke missile. Had it ever been deployed tactically, we would have been dusted by the fall out. Same for any nukes deployed by the 'Starfighters'.
The grim reality is that there would have been no escape for NATO troops on the ground, but hopefully, our families would have been evacuated to Ostend and the other channel ports.
We made a farce out of our NBCW training as what suits were available were primitive, not allowing urination, defecation, eating or drinking.

.. families werent going to get very far ... and of course once the 'dependants' rushed out on the roads with the kids packed in their 'Opels' or 'VW's' ... you can bet the locals were going to be on the road PDQ as well .. and dont forget all the heavy armour and mechanized forces running up to their battle positions on the same roads -- and EVERY bridge over every creek with a 'Demo Guard' stopping traffic worried about a 'fifth column' .. it was pretty much pointless to try to get out because the roads would be chaos; and depending on the speed of the Warsaw Pact advance (which no one could really know because of the all frequency jamming 'Warsaw' forces would implement) the French would pull the trigger and turn West Germany into a pretty desolate place.... not that they would really give a damn! .. so the sooner the better from their perspective. When we were there in the mid '50's ... my mother had determined we werent go anywhere.... as had most of the 'thinking' wives.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

It's said this is a pic of members of the Dirlewanger Brigade. That's as vile an assortment of limited thinkers, rapists, casual psychopaths and general scum as has ever been in a military organization. Here's a pic of the bulb-headed POS that led them:

When you're known as "the most evil man in the SS", you must really be a piece of work. That's like the Bizarro version of "the nicest host at Disneyland".

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

October '43, Ostfront.

Been places, seen stuff.

 

[grelmar]

It's said this is a pic of members of the Dirlewanger Brigade. That's as vile an assortment of limited thinkers, rapists, casual psychopaths and general scum as has ever been in a military organization. Here's a pic of the bulb-headed POS that led them:

When you're known as "the most evil man in the SS", you must really be a piece of work. That's like the Bizarro version of "the nicest host at Disneyland".

Dirlewanger purposely sought out the misfits and criminals to fill out the ranks of his unit. He liked to surround himself with like minded individuals.

Such a shame that the French let him be guarded by some of his former Polish forced labourers, who quietly beat him to death over the course of a couple days. His death should have been longer, more painful, and more humiliating.

 

[diopter]

Two CT-133s of the Royal Canadian Navy over Halifax in 1957.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadair_CT-133_Silver_Star

 

[Scarecrow]

Some cool WW2 pics;

http://imgur.com/a/TEUJ3

 

[Sharps '74]

Penal battalions have often been called upon to do the really dirty work. It was seen as a means of redemption and saved the lives of better troops.

Dirlewanger purposely sought out the misfits and criminals to fill out the ranks of his unit. He liked to surround himself with like minded individuals.

Such a shame that the French let him be guarded by some of his former Polish forced labourers, who quietly beat him to death over the course of a couple days. His death should have been longer, more painful, and more humiliating.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Nice selection, Scarecrow. A couple jumped out at me:

That's quite an interesting chestful of medals. I recognize the paratrooper badge, but the other two are new to me. Someone here's gonna know...

If you're going to learn how to faust a panzer, I imagine this is the guy you want teaching you. That's one Tank Destruction Badge in gold, four more in silver, for a total of nine tanks destroyed in close combat using hand weapons. Dude had more tank kills than most tank crews.

But he's no Gunther Viezenz:

Records say he had 21 tank kills using Panzerfaust, satchel charges, grenades, etc. Retired as a colonel in the Budeswehr in 1980. Kind of a badass.

 

[Old Albertan]

Nice selection, Scarecrow. A couple jumped out at me:

That's quite an interesting chestful of medals. I recognize the paratrooper badge, but the other two are new to me. Someone here's gonna know...

The one with the lettering in it is a sports badge from the little I do know. The other, with the arrow, is a Hitler Youth sports badge. It seems this lad was quite the athlete.

 

[ipscgraz]

Some cool WW2 pics;

http://imgur.com/a/TEUJ3

Wow...

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Neat. Thanks, Old Albertan.

The "DRL Sports Badge". Still a thing, but sans swastika, of course. To get this, a person has to do the following:

- 50 or 100m swim. 12 minutes.
- high jump., long jump, pommel horse, or leap frogging
- 50, 75, 100, 400, 1000 m run, 300 or 500 m cycling (bit of a sprint, that), or 300 or 500 m inline or ice skating
- Stone or shot put, or a 100 m swim, or shooting sports, bench press, weightlifting, canoeing , or rowing
- 800/1000/2000/3000/5000 m run, 5 or 10 km in-line skating, 10 km walk, 7 km walking/"Nordic walking", 20 km cycling, 600/1000m swim, cross-country skiing, canoeing, rowing, bowling (?) or ice-skating.

Still awarded as bronze, silver, or gold. Some traditions predated AND postdated the 1K year Reich.

And yep, a HJ Proficiency Badge:

The award was instituted in three classes in June 1934 by Reichsjugendführer Balder von Schirach, as an incentive to improve the physical and ideological proficiency of the varying age groups of the growing membership of the Hitler Youth. It was stated at the time that the H J achievement badge was a prestigious award which every fit and ambitious Hitler boy and H J leader should aim for. It was only to be awarded by the Reichsjugendführer to those who meet the stringent requirements that had been laid down. Those who wished to be awarded the badge would have to take a very keen part in at least 8 ideology study periods. These would be held as part of weekly meetings. All members of the Hitler Youth were issued a Leistungsbuch to record the achievements of the members and then to act as a certificate of proficiency. For members of the Marine-H J and the Motor-H J there were to be additional tasks, which would test the disciplines specific to these respective organisations. DJ and H J boys were issued a book with one set of grading standards while the J M and B D M girls were given a book with another set. The award was primarily intended to test the abilities of the members in the following areas, Sport, Small-calibre (or air-rifle) shooting and Field Exercises.



The proficiency badge was awarded on three levels

Iron Class: Awarded to DJ and HJ members - restricted to boys of fifteen years old.
Bronze Class: Awarded to sixteen-year-old boys of the Hitler Youth.
Silver Class: awarded to seventeen-year-old boys of the Hitler Youth.

Award Criteria

The members undertook a test leading to an award of the badge that consisted of a four-part test, which showed clearly how all HJ training was military oriented.
Sports, athletics and gymnastics. 100 metres sprint, 300 metres run, long jump, putting the shot, throwing the hammer, Horizontal bar exercises and swimming.
Shooting with air rifles from the prone position, grenade throwing with dummies.
Field exercises, route marching in full kit, map reading, distance judging, effective use of terrain and camouflage.
Political knowledge. This comprised a slight knowledge of history and the absorption of Nazi dogma.

Regulations for wear

Regulations specified that it would be worn on the left breast pocket. The badge could be worn by members of the HJ, SA, SS, RAD and the military on their uniform.

A cloth version was worn on the athletic shirt, or shorts, and a miniature version was authorised for wear on the lapel of civilian attire

The Nazis were all about the insignia and pagentry. I imagine that's part of the draw for the modern collector. There's just so much of this stuff, or was...

 

[shredder]

When you're known as "the most evil man in the SS", you must really be a piece of work. That's like the Bizarro version of "the nicest host at Disneyland".

You know, I always thought that the Nuremberg trials used the wrong methods of executing the Nazi war criminals.

IMO they should've been slammed into a cattle car, shipped across Europe with no food and very little water, then detrained at Auschwitz, stripped, had their head shaved, then be marched into the gas chambers, where they would be killed in exactly the same way they murdered millions in the Holocaust, right down to using Zyklon B.

I wonder why that never happened? I'm sure the Soviets would've allowed it - and probably sent their own Nazi war criminals to the same end.

 

[55recce]

Then we would bad as then wouldn't we!

 

[oldstarfire]

Then we would bad as then wouldn't we!

IMO......NO
They did that to innocent citizens

They were guilty

 

[donor]

IMO they should've been slammed into a cattle car, shipped across Europe with no food and very little water, then detrained at Auschwitz, stripped, had their head shaved, then be marched into the gas chambers, where they would be killed in exactly the same way they murdered millions in the Holocaust, right down to using Zyklon B.

I wonder why that never happened? I'm sure the Soviets would've allowed it - and probably sent their own Nazi war criminals to the same end.

Soviets shipped their share of German POWs to Gulags.Great many of them died there,working in mines and in Taiga.

In a way that's worse fate than being killed.

There are some suspicions that number of Germans shipped East was far larger then even Soviet accounts claim.Until all Soviet archives are open and investigated we will never know.

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[Gibbs505]

You know, I always thought that the Nuremberg trials used the wrong methods of executing the Nazi war criminals.

IMO they should've been slammed into a cattle car, shipped across Europe with no food and very little water, then detrained at Auschwitz, stripped, had their head shaved, then be marched into the gas chambers, where they would be killed in exactly the same way they murdered millions in the Holocaust, right down to using Zyklon B.

I wonder why that never happened? I'm sure the Soviets would've allowed it - and probably sent their own Nazi war criminals to the same end.

The gas chambers had been destroyed with dynamite.
In the end they were slow hung by an incompetent hangman.