My last P-38, as well as his personal issue S&W revolver, were brought back from Europe by my uncle at the end of WW2. I has hoped to pass them on to family members, but Trudeau said `NO``.
Picture of the day
- Thread starter jwhc
- Start date
fat tony
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Porzus Massacre, Italy, late WWII.
Sorry you have to search Italian language articles and use a translator to get detailed information.
https://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/malga-porzus-massacre-site-wwii/view/google/
TLDR: The Communist GAP (Communist Italian resistance network), pressed the higher military authority, to get clearance to execute 17 members of the Catholic Italian resistance network, Brigate Osoppo.
The higher military authority was Tito's Partisans, who fully supported the proposal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigate_Osoppo
View from the location of the executions.
Sorry you have to search Italian language articles and use a translator to get detailed information.
https://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/malga-porzus-massacre-site-wwii/view/google/
TLDR: The Communist GAP (Communist Italian resistance network), pressed the higher military authority, to get clearance to execute 17 members of the Catholic Italian resistance network, Brigate Osoppo.
The higher military authority was Tito's Partisans, who fully supported the proposal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigate_Osoppo
View from the location of the executions.
Last edited:
Dark Alley Dan
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Darkest Edmonton
Is that one of three? Brought in to make necessary holes in thick concrete? Only faintly radioactive?
One of between 17 to 28 (there's a lot of deliberately obscured records about what went down). Eventually, they thought better of the idea of using the guns to punch holes in concrete to relieve pressure. Instead, they realized they made pretty decent, and expendable, bulldozers for knocking down stick framed buildings and trees in the surrounding areas in order to build firebreaks. The heavy armor offered at least some radiation protection (not much - wrong kind of metal, and built before CBRN ventilation was a thing) to the operators. Better than an open cab dozer, I guess, but really it was mostly just a way of convince the drivers "Is fine, Ivan, you'll be Ok. Trust the Stalinium armor."
Around 600,000 people earned "Liquidator" certificates during the cleanup. But... Soviet record keeping. Estimates of how many were actually involved range between 300,000 to 800,000 civilian and military personnel. Getting the the certificate and recognition entitled you to a lot of benefits and an increased pension, so many who deserved it, never got it, and many who were nowhere near, got a padded pension.
Buriakivka is the largest and best known equipment boneyard in the exclusion zone:
But a lot of vehicles were just left beside the roads when they ran out of fuel or broke down, or wherever they were last working. Notably, the current Google Maps satellite imagery appears to be deliberately blurred. But even so, there appears to be a lot of empty dirt where there should be vehicles. I'm sure that has nothing to do with the current front lines rolling back and forth over the area, and both teams recycling everything they can lay their hands on:
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.3304758,29.9222643,412m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MTEyMy4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw==
Dark Alley Dan
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Darkest Edmonton
There's likely a story behind this one...
Dark Alley Dan
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Darkest Edmonton
Here's USS Carronade:
An "inshore fire support ship", she was fitted with a whack of little 5" Spinner Rocket launchers on her foredeck:
Those are mag-fed 5" rocket launchers. The weight of fire it could lay down was impressive. But is it possible to mount just one of those double-barreled launchers in an aircraft? Say, an unsuspecting B-25?
Apparently, yes it was:
It worked, but not well enough to pursue past the "can we get away with this" stage.
An "inshore fire support ship", she was fitted with a whack of little 5" Spinner Rocket launchers on her foredeck:
Those are mag-fed 5" rocket launchers. The weight of fire it could lay down was impressive. But is it possible to mount just one of those double-barreled launchers in an aircraft? Say, an unsuspecting B-25?
Apparently, yes it was:
It worked, but not well enough to pursue past the "can we get away with this" stage.
Attachments
Last edited:
Dark Alley Dan
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Darkest Edmonton
Howard Hughes was pretty crazy, but also undeniably smart. And he had an eye for beauty, whether it be starlets or aircraft design. The Lockheed Constellation is one of mankind's most beautiful creations. The H-1 racing plane is still a stunner. The H-4 at McMinnville is as elegant as a large airplane gets. And he absolutely killed it (and very nearly himself too) with the XF-11, which he flew into a house next to the Los Angeles Country Club due to mismanagement and departure from the proper testing protocols.
Smart man, dumb move.
Smart man, dumb move.
ipscgraz
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Imagine what this would be worth if we had an open market...
MP-40 still in the original box.
ht tps://www.instagram.com/p/BwJQc9BFH0I/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=2dl19rub2d6h
MP-40 still in the original box.
ht tps://www.instagram.com/p/BwJQc9BFH0I/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=2dl19rub2d6h
Nah, it'd prob be worth $20k - $30k in the USA, which is the most expensive market for machine guns.
Or he bought it in Saigon and had an armorer mount it or he mounted it himself.Interesting seeing a XM177 with a rifle scope. Wonder if he stole a "greenie" off someone's M40
View attachment 1049540
Some day we will be saying that about a Cooey .22Imagine what this would be worth if we had an open market...
MP-40 still in the original box.
ht tps://www.instagram.com/p/BwJQc9BFH0I/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=2dl19rub2d6h
Michael Cain on war.Much has been said about the carnage of war. That has been going on for millenia.
I could be related to one of these guys.
British Lewis Gun team, 1917 or 18.
Here's my take. War is young kids killing young kids. That's it. The people who profit from it never get their hands dirty.
My experience. When I was in the army during the cold war. I was posted in Germany. Through the twist of fate, I had a brother in East Germany in the eastern block army. Weird eh? I had cousins in Poland all part of the Warsaw pact. Had we gone to war with Russia, I would be fighting my brother and cousins. Now that's F#@*ked.
Dark Alley Dan
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Darkest Edmonton
Hell of it is, no one asks the kids if they want it. There will be losses in Venezuela. But the oil companies will recover some assets, the populace will be distracted, and the shareholders at General Dynamics will see a nice dividend in 2026. Some kids will come home in boxes and be hailed as having made the ultimate sacrifice for the security of the nation, but you and I know that's bullsh!t, particularly in this instance.
The whole goddamned thing is reprehensible. Sometimes it's a necessary evil. Sometimes people need to be stopped. Sometimes countries won't listen to anything except artillery fire. But more frequently it comes down to someone with pull doing something to reduce financial losses or increase their income.
Right now there's a kid aboard a ship off the coast of Venezuela who doesn't know he's living through his last month. There are PLENTY of people ashore who aren't going to see Christmas. I think Caine's right, and I know Points is, too.
The whole goddamned thing is reprehensible. Sometimes it's a necessary evil. Sometimes people need to be stopped. Sometimes countries won't listen to anything except artillery fire. But more frequently it comes down to someone with pull doing something to reduce financial losses or increase their income.
Right now there's a kid aboard a ship off the coast of Venezuela who doesn't know he's living through his last month. There are PLENTY of people ashore who aren't going to see Christmas. I think Caine's right, and I know Points is, too.
Major General Smedley Butler, two time M.O.H. winner, and veteran of virtually every military adventure the US got up between 1898 and 1929, summed it up in the title of his book:
I wonder why he chose Brigadier General for his byline. He was a Major General, and base commander at Quantico, from 1929 until his retirement in 1931.
He really would know. He was boots on the ground for some of the U.S.'s least honorable endeavors, protecting their interests in the Opium trade during the Boxer Rebellion, a wide range of the "Banana Wars" preserving the fiscal integrity of the United Fruit Company (still around as Chiquita Brands International).
I wonder why he chose Brigadier General for his byline. He was a Major General, and base commander at Quantico, from 1929 until his retirement in 1931.
He really would know. He was boots on the ground for some of the U.S.'s least honorable endeavors, protecting their interests in the Opium trade during the Boxer Rebellion, a wide range of the "Banana Wars" preserving the fiscal integrity of the United Fruit Company (still around as Chiquita Brands International).
