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purple said:
Chronic coughers and people with colds and sniffles were screened out of patrols too. I don't know about chronic farters though.;) Chines troops ate a lot of garlic and people said you could smell them.
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You spent enough time in the Middle East to know that different smells came from different ethnic or even regional people. Most of the time it wasn't unpleasant but the odd time it would be noticeable before entering a village or town, because it all smelled the same and wasn't the least bit pleasant.

After leaving, the smell wouldn't leave your nose until you had a shower and changed clothes.

This goes on all over the world and we smell just as good to them as as they do to us.
 
ArmedGinger said:
Haven't seen cages but I have seen them with spikes!

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There was a "Tarawa" surviving Sherman featured on that Pawn Brokers show last week with all those spikes making like a porcupine on it. It was a "still running, still firing" machine, purchase price was 1.3 mill...pawn guy passed on it.
 
fingers284 said:
There was a "Tarawa" surviving Sherman featured on that Pawn Brokers show last week with all those spikes making like a porcupine on it. It was a "still running, still firing" machine, purchase price was 1.3 mill...pawn guy passed on it.
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I remember that episode. Seemed a little overpriced to me. I remember a DD Sherman selling for only $500,000 two years ago. It wasn't restored but was running and driving. You can pick up a Leopard 1A5 for under $300,000 USD.
 
Grizzly Adams said:
You can pick up a Leopard 1A5 for under $300,000 USD

I'll remember that when I win the lottery. :redface:

Grizz
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T-72's start at around EU200K + shipping, from moderately reputable "we swear we didn't steal it from the local armory" dealers in the former East Bloc.

If you want to stick to WWII stuff, fully restored T34-85's can be had for EU60K + shipping.

A lot of them specify Canada as a destination country for shipping. I remember browsing around a while ago (dream the dream), and several mentioned that export to Canada and the U.S. was easier/preferable than most EU countries.
 
I have a little experience on the T 72 and think it is a howling good value should one win a crazy big lottery and have the land to run it at speed. Sort of like the SKS of the tank world, anvil tough, cheap, reliable, and capable for what it is.
 
grelmar said:
T-72's start at around EU200K + shipping, from moderately reputable "we swear we didn't steal it from the local armory" dealers in the former East Bloc.

If you want to stick to WWII stuff, fully restored T34-85's can be had for EU60K + shipping.

A lot of them specify Canada as a destination country for shipping. I remember browsing around a while ago (dream the dream), and several mentioned that export to Canada and the U.S. was easier/preferable than most EU countries.
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This one is in the Museum of Regiments in Calgary, along with a T34, I keep wondering how they acquired them.

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Grizz
 
bearhunter said:
You spent enough time in the Middle East to know that different smells came from different ethnic or even regional people. Most of the time it wasn't unpleasant but the odd time it would be noticeable before entering a village or town, because it all smelled the same and wasn't the least bit pleasant.

After leaving, the smell wouldn't leave your nose until you had a shower and changed clothes.

This goes on all over the world and we smell just as good to them as as they do to us.
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Funnily enough all of the Finnish outposts on the Golan Heights kept a dog as early warning against penetrations of the position at night by the locals. The dogs could tell the difference between the odors of the locals and the Finns, and would sound off whenever they smelled somebody other than a Finn. I think they kept them as pets too. The Arabs really weren't friendly to animals except for horses, and even they were often neglected.
 
Low-level oblique photograph taken from Short Sunderland Mark III, EK591 'U', of No. 422 Squadron RCAF after sinking the German type VIIC submarine U-625 in the Atlantic Ocean. The surviving crew manoeuvre their dinghies together for support after abandoning the sinking U-boat some 500 miles west of Land's End. None of them survived their ordeal.

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Grizzly Adams said:
This one is in the Museum of Regiments in Calgary, along with a T34, I keep wondering how they acquired them.

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Grizz
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One of the seven ex-East German T-72 brought to Canada in the early 1990s for use as targets if needed (Eryrx, Leopard mid life extension) The tank was at DRES Suffield then museumed, it was repainted some "cool" war trophy BS tan because CF museums do stupid stuff like that........like Borden does also.
 
XRCD011 said:
One of the seven ex-East German T-72 brought to Canada in the early 1990s for use as targets if needed (Eryrx, Leopard mid life extension) The tank was at DRES Suffield then museumed, it was repainted some "cool" war trophy BS tan because CF museums do stupid stuff like that........like Borden does also.
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Thanks. I saw the tan color and assumed it made it back from Afghanistan.

Grizz
 
purple said:
Funnily enough all of the Finnish outposts on the Golan Heights kept a dog as early warning against penetrations of the position at night by the locals. The dogs could tell the difference between the odors of the locals and the Finns, and would sound off whenever they smelled somebody other than a Finn. I think they kept them as pets too. The Arabs really weren't friendly to animals except for horses, and even they were often neglected.
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I met a few land owners in Africa that had dogs in their houses to smell for specifically black intruders. Those dogs knew the household staff and were friendly with them. They were the same with most Caucasians, but let anyone else get near them and their training came out very vocally and if one of them came into the house, without an escort, they went into attack mode.

The Finns made a good choice. I never could figure out why the Arabs were so hard on their dogs and other animals, other than some were declared "unclean" by their religion.
 
purple said:
Funnily enough all of the Finnish outposts on the Golan Heights kept a dog as early warning against penetrations of the position at night by the locals. The dogs could tell the difference between the odors of the locals and the Finns, and would sound off whenever they smelled somebody other than a Finn. I think they kept them as pets too. The Arabs really weren't friendly to animals except for horses, and even they were often neglected.
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It isn't just dogs that have a good smell memory.

I used to baby sit a friend's 550 acre ranch where he kept a herd of 50 bison. He took me to the fence and let the boss cow smell me. He told me she would never forget it and that she now considered me a friend as I was with him. Days later, I went looking for the herd and found some of them in a dust wallow, rolling off their tattered winter fur. There were several new born calves in their almost orange fur and the cows gathered protectively.

I thought - "Oh boy, I'm in trouble now!", but the boss cow approached me, got my scent, snuffed her approval and all was good. I was packing my Henry in 44-40 because I had seen "Dances With Wolves" and thought it was cool. I never felt do unarmed in my life!
 
green said:
The helmet plate is for Kaiser Frederik deceased 1888. WW1 should be W for Kaiser Bill. A speculative item.
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It's on permanent display at 'Le Mémorial de Verdum' war museum in Fleury-devant-Douaumont, France and well documented as an authentic item. The Helmewappen is standard for a Prussian unit for the 1914-18 period.
 
Sharps '74 said:
It isn't just dogs that have a good smell memory.

I used to baby sit a friend's 550 acre ranch where he kept a herd of 50 bison. He took me to the fence and let the boss cow smell me. He told me she would never forget it and that she now considered me a friend as I was with him. Days later, I went looking for the herd and found some of them in a dust wallow, rolling off their tattered winter fur. There were several new born calves in their almost orange fur and the cows gathered protectively.

I thought - "Oh boy, I'm in trouble now!", but the boss cow approached me, got my scent, snuffed her approval and all was good. I was packing my Henry in 44-40 because I had seen "Dances With Wolves" and thought it was cool. I never felt do unarmed in my life!
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Those here that own cattle, especially range cattle will comment similarly.
 
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