Picture of the day

[ArmedGinger]

You have a 40mm under barrel grenade launcher on your rifle? That's cute....

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Jaysus. What recoil-generation monster am I looking at here?

 

[Dosing]

Missoula MT's Historical Museum area.

 

[fingers284]

Well, I guess "Bubba" was active with cannons all the way back to 1880's

 

[*lawrence]

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

"You will NEVER come home late again."

 

[CV32]

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Cuba?

 

[stewbud]

Cuba?

The internet says:

"October marks the 60th anniversary of the most dangerous crisis in recorded history. In October 1962, U.S. President John Kennedy faced off with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in an eyeball to eyeball confrontation, each with his nation’s nuclear arsenal in hand. In the midst of the crisis, in a quiet aside with his brother, Kennedy offered his estimate that the risks of nuclear war were between one in three and even. Nothing that historians have discovered in the decades since has lengthened these odds. Had this crisis ended in nuclear war, hundreds of millions of people in the Soviet Union, the United States, and Europe could have experienced sudden death."

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[ArmedGinger]

Cuba?

Trudeau's dad's toy collection

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Your 4WD truck is adorable.
Here's the ADMK "Mulus", which ran on either tires or tracks depending on terrain and mood. This from a website of some kind...

Produced in 1935, this Austrian wheel-###-track tankette had the unique arrangement that was able to swing the front wheels upward via gear-driven arms. They then could be removed and put into brackets on the rear of the vehicle. The rear wheels could also be removed by driving the tracks up on blocks. A strange feature was that the front arms acted as a framework for the driver's seat.

A very odd armored vehicle, little is known of its status with the German Army.

Plenty of variations, apparently:

Wheels down:

Wheels up:

The Germans (or in this case Austrians) did love their gimmicks. Anyone who's ever owned a BMW, Porsche, or MB product might say they still do.

 

[bearhunter]

Trudeau's dad's toy collection

No, Kruschev's pint of blood drawn from the Cubans to escalate the Cold War while testing Kennedy's resolve.

 

[enen]

No, Kruschev's pint of blood drawn from the Cubans to escalate the Cold War while testing Kennedy's resolve.

Wasnt it in response to US putting missiles into Turkey?

 

[bearhunter]

Wasnt it in response to US putting missiles into Turkey?

Nope, Cuba.

Look it up.

 

[enen]

Nope, Cuba.

Look it up.

In a separate deal, which remained secret for more than twenty-five years, the United States also agreed to remove its nuclear missiles from Turkey.
https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/jfk-in-history/cuban-missile-crisis

letter from Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev arrived Saturday morning demanding that the United States agree to remove its Jupiter missiles from Turkey in exchange for a Soviet removal of missiles from Cuba.

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/moment.htm

 

[bearhunter]

I see where you're coming from.

I took that pic to be Cuba, from the dense vegetation. Turkey doesn't have a lot of areas which look like that.

 

[*lawrence]

Home Guard, on the water. (#OTD) in 1940, Edinburgh.

 

[*lawrence]

Spoils of war. (#OTD in 1916, France. #WW1

 

[AP]

In a separate deal, which remained secret for more than twenty-five years, the United States also agreed to remove its nuclear missiles from Turkey.
https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/jfk-in-history/cuban-missile-crisis

letter from Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev arrived Saturday morning demanding that the United States agree to remove its Jupiter missiles from Turkey in exchange for a Soviet removal of missiles from Cuba.

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/moment.htm

The event was more significant then many people may have realized … my father disappeared into the bunker in Camp Borden for the better part of a week; we had no idea where he was.

Seems to me there was another member on here that manned a radiation monitoring site downwind of Toronto… perhaps around that time

 

[fat tony]

Light finally shed on unknown WWII frontline war stories from the Tiwi Islands

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-17/tiwi-islands-unknown-frontline-war-stories/100817320

Aboriginal islanders recruited during World War II went behind enemy lines by submarine, canoed an injured airman across the sea for help, rescued a shipload of stricken sailors, and captured six of the enemy.

But it took 20 years for recognition and payment for their efforts.

Paddy Henry Wurrumnamiddi Puruntatameri carting stores on the Tiwi Islands in 1943. (Supplied: Australian Consolidated Press, Justin O'Brien Collection)

Tiwi islanders went behind enemy lines aboard USS Stingray, assisting commandos and laying supplies. (Supplied: US Navy)

The following story about the Don Isidro sinking is told by Marie Munkara, the grandaughter of Louis Munkara

The burnt and wrecked Don Isidro beached on Bathurst Island. (Supplied: Australian War Memorial)

Louis Munkara and his family were camping at Powanapi, on the western side of Bathurst Island, on the afternoon Darwin was bombed.
"They were surprised by the appearance of a large vessel from the north trailing plumes of smoke, the Don Isidro," she said.

As night descended, fires were built on the beach as beacons for survivors to know which direction was land.
"Many crew members made it to shore during the night and were made comfortable by my family.

"But unfortunately, a number of casualties washed up as well and were buried in the sand dunes."

The ship ran aground in shallow water and has not moved since.

"My opportunistic aminay [grandfather] and a few others returned to the wreck and retrieved a large amount of food and alcohol," she said.

"I've been told that my family partied on these salvaged goods for weeks."

Tiwi man Louis Munkara was given an RAAF title. (Supplied: NT Library and Archives, John Brown Collection)[/img]

Tiwi man Matthias Ulungura was the first Australian to take a Japanese POW when he captured Hajime Toyoshima on Melville Island after Toyoshima's Zero fighter crashed there in 1942 during the first Jap Raid on Darwin. The Zero was retrieved and thoroughly examined for intel purposes.
Toyoshima later died in the infamous Cowra Breakout in 1944.

Here is another website elaborating on the Tiwi contribution to the Allied victory.

https://lant.nt.gov.au/explore-nt-history/tiwi-heroes