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sail32 said:
What are the items lower left of picture of the equipment of a Stuart ?
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At the extreme left are the track "clamps"(not sure what "treadheads" really call them). They are used to "compress" the tracks so you can "fix a flat". The other things could be spare track sections.

Just noticed that above those things are the windshields for the driver and assistant diver. And on second thought those things really don't look like tract sections.
 
points said:
A very good white point of view. But do you really think that blacks in the US should get all teary eyed and salute that flag? The states rights you are talking about, along with other things , was the right to keep and enslave other humans. Lots of cultures did the same thing but the enslaved rarely felt very good about it.
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I gave you an example of some blacks who commemorate the memory of a CSA General as a hero. There are similar stories.

Please explain how not flying the Stars & Bars and destroying Civil War monuments and statues makes things better. Have you ever read Orwell's "1984" where any and every thing NOT in sync with the current political flavour of the month is obliterated?

The rank & file soldiers of the CSA were NOT slave owners themselves, but dirt poor share croppers themselves in the agrarian economy of the South.

The re-writing of inconvenient history is a knee-jerk reaction with a short lived 'warm fuzzy' feeling.
 
Sharps '74 said:
You mean some aren't. It might just take one complaint from an "offended" person to result in an order to cease & desist flying the flag.

Recently on the toob there was an item about a black church with a stained glass window of Stonewall Jackson. Seems Stonewall conducted Sunday School for the slaves on his plantation and was known to be a fair and kindly owner. They are able to separate the man from the soldier.

This whole 'get rid of the Stars & Bars and statues commemorating Civil War heroes' is just so much PC bull#### and rewriting of history, right out of Orwell's "1984". The abolition of slavery was NOT the reason for the war, it was fought over states rights. The agrarian economy of the South was based on cotton and cheap labour. Emancipating the slaves in one fell swoop would have destroyed it.

It happened - live with it! Burning Confederate flags and removing statues isn't going to change that. Long Live Dixie! Up the Confederacy! Down with Political Correctness!
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On this one I totally agree. Just because they were on the loosing side doesn't mean they were less brave or sacrificed less. And you are totally right about the reason for the civil war, it was about states rights vs federal rights. Slavery was just a trigger because it had a huge financial impact on the south and basically none on the north. Don't get me wrong slavery should have been abolished long before it was but it was only part of the reason behind the civil war.
 
We're running the risk of getting the thread shut down here, lads. Plenty of other threads dealing with the controversy around the Virginia Battle Flag, monuments to the War of Northern Aggression, and the role played by slavery. Can we get back to the pics, please?

Askaris, in the employ of the Imperial German Army, getting tuned up in East Africa during WW1:

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They were led at the top by this clever, capable man, General Paul Emil Von Lettow-Vorbeck:

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Made even more famous in 1939 when, having been asked by Hitler to be an ambassador to the Court of St. James's, he invited Adolf to perform an aggressive physical act of love upon himself. They pulled his pension, searched his house, and kept a file on him as a result, the dicks.
 
Too well-known, well-loved, and well-connected. 'Dolf's rule wasn't absolutely absolute, if you know what I mean. He still had to have the support of the German People, and imprisoning/executing/assassinating a much-loved public figure would cause more trouble than it'd fix. That's my theory anyhow. :)

Wellington as seen from below, Burma, 1942:

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The Wizard said:
At the extreme left are the track "clamps"(not sure what "treadheads" really call them). They are used to "compress" the tracks so you can "fix a flat". The other things could be spare track sections.

Just noticed that above those things are the windshields for the driver and assistant diver. And on second thought those things really don't look like tract sections.
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Maybe grousers for winter conditions? And is that a fire hose & nozzle front row centre?
 
Dark Alley Dan said:
Too well-known, well-loved, and well-connected. 'Dolf's rule wasn't absolutely absolute, if you know what I mean. He still had to have the support of the German People, and imprisoning/executing/assassinating a much-loved public figure would cause more trouble than it'd fix. That's my theory anyhow. :)

Wellington as seen from below, Burma, 1942:

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The Wellington was a well blooded type by the end of the war. I read it was one of the fww Allied warplanes which were continually being made through the course of the war.Not that many around today?

Look at those bombs. Wouldn't that ruin your breakfast at The Savoy!

Ps, what are the objects vaguely reminiscent of big cigarettes to the right side of the bay?
 
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fat tony said:
The Wellington was a well blooded type by the end of the war. I read it was on the list ofAllied warplanes which was continually being made through the course of the war.Not that many around today?

Look at those bombs. Wouldn't that ruin your breakfast at The Savoy!

Ps, what are the objects vaguely reminiscent of big cigarettes to the right side of the bay?
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I think they are hinges.

What is that long line of box-like things on the left?
 
Just finishing up Mark Zuehlke's latest installment in his Canadian Battle Series of books, FORGOTTEN VICTORY -First Canadian Army and the cruel winter of 1944-45.

The Clearing of Moyland Wood, during Operation Veritable, is one location the book goes into detail about. Several Canadian regiments had the joy of rooting out well dug in paratroopers throughout the nightmare of a place.

Chatting with my grandfather once about his time as an infantryman with the Canadian Scottish Regiment, he recalled in particular the Leopold Canal, and this forest as being some of the most terrible times.

Picture of Moyland Wood below gives a strong hint of why he felt that way .....

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fat tony said:
I was asking about the objects to the right of the bomb bay lol: )
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Hinges You can still get them, we called them weld ons.
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