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The picture with the Jerry kid crying is from a movie....
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Armour Piercing, High Explosive Anti Tank, and High Explosive.
I can't really define them in the time I have atm, but Wikipedia should be able to explain the differences.
NavyShooter
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The tankers in that photo look Russian to me....
I'm supposing that might be one of the tanks they captured and tested? That's the left turret side of a Tiger 1 BTW.
NS
I'm supposing that might be one of the tanks they captured and tested? That's the left turret side of a Tiger 1 BTW.
NS
The least obvious one is HEAT, which is basically a shaped charge, designed to penetrate armor by using super heated plasma. AP focuses on the shape and density of the material striking the armor, to facilitate penetration. HE is just plain old 'big bang' without focus on penetration, but used to cause wider area damage.
NavyShooter - Yes you are right these are Russian firing on a German captured tank.
Desert Fox - Do you know what movie ?
smellie - I know that no one was in the tank should have said this with the picture. Just wanted to show AP rounds ( This picture said something to me also. There is no save place in war
) I will not be putting up graphic pictures as I don't like them. Sorry if I offended you or anyone else on this thread and thanks for the info on the Shermans
Cheers
Joe
Desert Fox - Do you know what movie ?
smellie - I know that no one was in the tank should have said this with the picture. Just wanted to show AP rounds ( This picture said something to me also. There is no save place in war
) I will not be putting up graphic pictures as I don't like them. Sorry if I offended you or anyone else on this thread and thanks for the info on the Shermans Cheers
Joe
"The Bridge" IIRC.
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- Leduc County, Alberta
Yes. "Die Brücke"
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=i84_1qHjxd0#t=485s
That doesn't sound impossible at all since the French destroyer Le Terrible did 44 knots before WWI; using those same Parson's turbines of course!
(What you read as a child you never forget.)
The best story is the Turbinia flying down the rows at the Spithead Review in 1897 with the picket boats unable to catch her!
The PT boats were based on British Power Boat Co. samples sold in 1939, if I remember my Uffa Fox correctly.
I did a little more research and found that this is a 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion corporal having a chat with a little boy on his own level. The little boy is leaning against the soldiers knee showing a level of trust that seems to justify everything the soldiers endured.
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The mirrors look like after market along with what I think are signal lights all to make it street legal.
Ok guys New day New picture This came from a fellow gunnut (smellie thank you) this will be a 3 day picture series, as I have received 3 pictures.
courtesy of smellie - " pictures are of a couple of Makhnovshchina with Nagant revolvers.
"Father" Nestor Makhno was an Anarchist who fought against the Reds and the Whites both during the Russian Civil War in 1917 - 1923, leading one of the "Black" factions: dedicated Anarchists. They terrorised parts of Ukraine, especially the Mennonite areas, for about 3 years. The group was just about as crazy as Makhno himself (who once shot their Doctor when a wounded man complained that the standard of medical care wasn't up to his standards!!!!!). Makhno liked to drive around in his pet locomotive with "ANARCHY IS THE MOTHER OF ORDER" painted along the boiler in 4-foot lettering. He also liked to ride around in Tachankas: 2- or 3-horse hitch on a sleigh with a Maxim Gun mounted.
Victor Peters did good small book on him about 40 years ago; University of Minnesota Press put it out. It was just called "NESTOR MAKHNO" and contains many eye-witness accounts of his 'exploits' in Mennonite Ukraine; interestingly, Peters' book is not mentioned in the Wikipedia article on Makhno. Makhno himself died of TB, alcoholism and poverty in Paris in 1934. After leaving Russia he had worked as a taxi driver, carpenter, stagehand and worker in an auto plant, exactly as most REAL intellectuals seem to do today. "
smellie's first picture - " this is the one of the three guys, two with Nagants. The FLAG in the UL corner is most interesting because there exists a LUGER of unknown provenance with this particular Skull on it. The Luger was believed to be SS at one time but the SS never used this type of marking. Could there be a connection? The Luger is in Datig's original book, PISTOLE PARABELLUM. "
Cheers
Joe
This came from a fellow gunnut (smellie thank you) this will be a 3 day picture series, as I have received 3 pictures.courtesy of smellie - " pictures are of a couple of Makhnovshchina with Nagant revolvers.
"Father" Nestor Makhno was an Anarchist who fought against the Reds and the Whites both during the Russian Civil War in 1917 - 1923, leading one of the "Black" factions: dedicated Anarchists. They terrorised parts of Ukraine, especially the Mennonite areas, for about 3 years. The group was just about as crazy as Makhno himself (who once shot their Doctor when a wounded man complained that the standard of medical care wasn't up to his standards!!!!!). Makhno liked to drive around in his pet locomotive with "ANARCHY IS THE MOTHER OF ORDER" painted along the boiler in 4-foot lettering. He also liked to ride around in Tachankas: 2- or 3-horse hitch on a sleigh with a Maxim Gun mounted.
Victor Peters did good small book on him about 40 years ago; University of Minnesota Press put it out. It was just called "NESTOR MAKHNO" and contains many eye-witness accounts of his 'exploits' in Mennonite Ukraine; interestingly, Peters' book is not mentioned in the Wikipedia article on Makhno. Makhno himself died of TB, alcoholism and poverty in Paris in 1934. After leaving Russia he had worked as a taxi driver, carpenter, stagehand and worker in an auto plant, exactly as most REAL intellectuals seem to do today. "
smellie's first picture - " this is the one of the three guys, two with Nagants. The FLAG in the UL corner is most interesting because there exists a LUGER of unknown provenance with this particular Skull on it. The Luger was believed to be SS at one time but the SS never used this type of marking. Could there be a connection? The Luger is in Datig's original book, PISTOLE PARABELLUM. "
Cheers
Joe
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Ah Makhno......
f**k him and the Bolsheviks too!!!
Reading stories about his "exploits" as a child helped me determine that THIS Mennonite would never be a pacifist!!!!
I really need to start a parallel org to the JPFO... The MPFO!!!!
Mennonites for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership!!!
f**k him and the Bolsheviks too!!!
Reading stories about his "exploits" as a child helped me determine that THIS Mennonite would never be a pacifist!!!!
I really need to start a parallel org to the JPFO... The MPFO!!!!
Mennonites for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership!!!
