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I believe and I'll bet that's not an Arab holding it either.
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Donny Fenn1
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Arab or not that dude has frikkin ginormous hands.
You have no idea how true what you just wrote. Bobs RSO the same one in the Youtube went for the Sat night trail ride and dead, far from the camp. As I had to drive back to Canada the next day I retired to my tent, air mat and sleeping bag. About one AM the RSO came rambling in and I could 1. hear it long before it got close then 2. felt the ground vibrate as it sounded like it was WAY to close for comfort as they parked the vehicle. I think I set a new speed record for going from horizontal in sleeping bag on ground to standing vertical outside tent with a flash light on. After that and to this day I set up well away from the vehicles. I cannot find pics of the RSO that we had towing a neat little Pak35/36 but will post a 251 pic that has a even cooler sound when traveling at speed, take about 50 ball and peen hammers and rap them against each other rapidly and you would be close to the sound of a 251 track, very cool sound actually and copied to a lesser degree by the Kettenkrad.
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BTW this is a actual SD.Kfz. 251 and not a post war Czech OT810
BTW this is a actual SD.Kfz. 251 and not a post war Czech OT810
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There’s a movie about that. I didn’t think it was “based on a true story”. It was actually very well done. Anyone know the name?
Prince Harry pictured alongside fellow soldiers from the Blues and Royals whilst serving in Afghanistan, Prince Harry’s friend WO Nathan Hunt directly below to the left tragically took his own life after suffering from PSTD.
Soviet Marine sniper Rad Ayusheyev of the 63th Marine Division, Soviet Navy, 1942.
In October 1944, during the Petsamo-Kirkenes Operation in Finnish occupied territory of Russian SFSR, he killed 25 enemy soldiers however in the fall of 1944, during Soviet military operations in Nazi occupied Norway, he disappeared without trace and was later declared dead.
In October 1944, during the Petsamo-Kirkenes Operation in Finnish occupied territory of Russian SFSR, he killed 25 enemy soldiers however in the fall of 1944, during Soviet military operations in Nazi occupied Norway, he disappeared without trace and was later declared dead.
US military police tie the German saboteurs of the 5th company of the 12th parachute regiment (5./12. Fallschirmjäger, Skorzeny's group) to the posts of German saboteurs Wilhelm Schmidt (1920-1944, right), Oberfenrich Günther Billing, 1923 Günther Billing —1944, center) and non-commissioned officer Manfred Pernass (1921-1944, left) before being shot.
South African Special Forces “Recce’s”
32 Battalion (sometimes nicknamed Buffalo Battalion or Portuguese: Os Terríveis for The Terrible Ones) was a light infantry battalion of the South African Army founded in 1975, composed of black and white commissioned and enlisted personnel. It was disbanded on 26 March 1993.[1]:280
In case anyone is wondering, these trackers don't use boots in the bush. Quitter and literally leaves less of a footprint for the enemy.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3225274)
Curtiss SBC-4 Helldiver (Serial No. NX-035), two-seat scout bomber and dive bomber aircraft in French Aéronavale colours. It is being pushed by sailors across the border between Canada and the USA at Houlton, Maine, and Woodstock, New Brunswick, 6 June 1940.
When the Second World War began in 1939, Britain and France sent envoys to the USA to buy military aircraft. Early in 1940, the French government placed an order with Curtiss-Wright for 90 Curtiss SBC-4 Helldiver biplanes. In order to aid them, on 6 June 1940, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Administration ordered the US Navy to fly 50 SBC-4s of the Naval Reserve that were at the time in use by the Navy, to the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, New York where the 50 planes were to be refurbished to French standards. This included removing all US markings on instruments and equipment, replacing the American machine guns with French 7.7-mm (.303-inch) Darne machine guns and repainting the aircraft in French camouflage colours and national markings. Once converted, the aircraft were to be delivered to RCAF Station Dartmouth, Nova Scotia where they were to be loaded onto the French aircraft carrier Béarn.
Several neutrality acts had been passed by the US Congress and signed into law and the Neutrality Act of 1939 allowed for arms trade with belligerent nations (Great Britain and France) on a "cash-and-carry" basis. This arrangement allowed the the USA to sell materiel to belligerents, as long as the recipients arranged for the transport using their own ships or planes and paid immediately in cash. Because of this provision, the US could not fly military aircraft into Canada; they had to land in the US and be towed across the Canada - US border. The 50 aircraft were flown from Buffalo, New York to Houlton Airport, Maine via Burlington, Vermont and Augusta, Maine. Houlton is on the Canada - US border and local farmers used their tractors to tow the planes into New Brunswick, where the Canadians closed the Woodstock highway so that aircraft could use it as a runway. The Helldivers were then flown to RCAF Station Dartmouth.
Curtiss SBC-4 Helldiver (Serial No. NX-035), two-seat scout bomber and dive bomber aircraft in French Aéronavale colours. It is being pushed by sailors across the border between Canada and the USA at Houlton, Maine, and Woodstock, New Brunswick, 6 June 1940.
When the Second World War began in 1939, Britain and France sent envoys to the USA to buy military aircraft. Early in 1940, the French government placed an order with Curtiss-Wright for 90 Curtiss SBC-4 Helldiver biplanes. In order to aid them, on 6 June 1940, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Administration ordered the US Navy to fly 50 SBC-4s of the Naval Reserve that were at the time in use by the Navy, to the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, New York where the 50 planes were to be refurbished to French standards. This included removing all US markings on instruments and equipment, replacing the American machine guns with French 7.7-mm (.303-inch) Darne machine guns and repainting the aircraft in French camouflage colours and national markings. Once converted, the aircraft were to be delivered to RCAF Station Dartmouth, Nova Scotia where they were to be loaded onto the French aircraft carrier Béarn.
Several neutrality acts had been passed by the US Congress and signed into law and the Neutrality Act of 1939 allowed for arms trade with belligerent nations (Great Britain and France) on a "cash-and-carry" basis. This arrangement allowed the the USA to sell materiel to belligerents, as long as the recipients arranged for the transport using their own ships or planes and paid immediately in cash. Because of this provision, the US could not fly military aircraft into Canada; they had to land in the US and be towed across the Canada - US border. The 50 aircraft were flown from Buffalo, New York to Houlton Airport, Maine via Burlington, Vermont and Augusta, Maine. Houlton is on the Canada - US border and local farmers used their tractors to tow the planes into New Brunswick, where the Canadians closed the Woodstock highway so that aircraft could use it as a runway. The Helldivers were then flown to RCAF Station Dartmouth.
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Dark Alley Dan
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Great pic, Bush.
Imagine pushing airplanes across the border in a cloud of Galouises smoke and muttered French profanity...
After the war, the French got newer, better Curtis Helldivers:
Imagine pushing airplanes across the border in a cloud of Galouises smoke and muttered French profanity...
After the war, the French got newer, better Curtis Helldivers:
30 mm Qassem. Made in basic workshops with motocycle shock absorbers. Very interesting article there with some m48 snipers
https://armamentresearch.com/craft-produced-anti-materiel-rifles-and-light-cannon-in-yemen/
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