This one is kinda cool.
Taken in July 1918 at Camp Dodge in Iowa. Yes, it's real - no photoshop. Most of these doughboys subsequently went to europe.
Wow, cool picture claven2
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Wow, cool picture claven2
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Dark Alley Dan
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V. cool pic. It'd be neat to see it from directly above. I have to think she'd be unrecognizable as the S.O.L.
Been playing World of Tanks lately - man, I love being on vacation - and have developed a new appreciation for Der Hetzer. Und zo:
Factory fresh:
One previous owner, never smoked in:
Bodyman's special:
Lemmy approved:
Been playing World of Tanks lately - man, I love being on vacation - and have developed a new appreciation for Der Hetzer. Und zo:
Factory fresh:
One previous owner, never smoked in:
Bodyman's special:
Lemmy approved:
Close, 18000 men in total, and as I remember, there are more men in the torch than the entire rest of the sculpture put together. They had to do this to get the right perspective. The back half of the sculpture is nearly a mile away.
This Canadian Sherman tank is positioned at a street corner ready to blast Germans firing from a house. Note the tank commander using binoculars. The road around the tank is littered with empty casings.
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This old girl has been firing a lot of rounds, by the looks of things.
- taken from Canada At War
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This old girl has been firing a lot of rounds, by the looks of things.
- taken from Canada At War
C squad sherman V, seems to lack any track widening bits
every hatch is open on the tank, no doubt to clear out the fumes. i bet it is providing fire support for a unit up the road
The suspension and track on this one are standard. There were track extenders developed which were bolted on to the outside edge of the track shoes in an effort to lessen ground pressure and improve mobility on muddy/soft terrain. The later horizontal volute suspension on the Shermans featured wider, center-guided track to improve mobility. The Soviet T34 and German Panther and tiger tanks had superior mobility on soft ground because of their wider tracks.
This fellow has gotten more 75mm main gun rounds away than a lot of them did before being knocked out. Tanks are still very vulnerable to hand-held anti-tank weapons in towns and close/heavily treed country because they are quite blind when buttoned up and can only depress their weapons to a certain extent. The US Army re-learned these lessons the hard way in the urban fighting in Iraq where they lost quite a few exposed tank commanders to small arms/sniper fire and had a lot of AFVs disabled or knocked out by RPGs. The best way to fight tanks in an urban area is with RPG/LAW shots to the rear or from above where the armour is thinner. Molotov cocktails still work when tossed down on the engine compartment. This is why it is important to have accompanying infantry in these situations. The old maxim is; in open country tanks lead, in close country infantry leads.
Old pictures, eh.
i have a couple.
the one on the right is my Grandpa on my mother's side. I believe that's a paddle fish caught in the Red River along the southern border of Oklahoma.
The one below is his mother in law, my Great Grandmother, a full blood Pottawatomie Indian. I have seen some of her old letters and they are addressed, to I.T. Indian territory, what is now Oklahoma. I called her Grammie. she was as sweet as anyone can be. A tall woman.
i have a couple.
the one on the right is my Grandpa on my mother's side. I believe that's a paddle fish caught in the Red River along the southern border of Oklahoma.
The one below is his mother in law, my Great Grandmother, a full blood Pottawatomie Indian. I have seen some of her old letters and they are addressed, to I.T. Indian territory, what is now Oklahoma. I called her Grammie. she was as sweet as anyone can be. A tall woman.
All the hatches are open for ventilation, the commander is using calling shots with binos, the tank is firing to the side rather than with its frontal armour to the target, and it has obviously been firing from one spot for quite some time. So I would guess this tank is providing artillery support from a commanding position near the edge of a town for an infantry company going house-to-house digging out stubborn holdouts. They probably know that the enemy have no AT artillery, and the infantry screen between the tank and anyone with a Panzerfaust or Molotov cocktail is a couple hundred yards deep.
In short, they have done their very best to ensure they have every possible unfair advantage and are making full use of that. Their sports teachers at their old schools who taught them about "the playing fields of Eton" would be most ashamed of them, but they're doing their instructors at Tank School proud.
The Sherman soldiered on in Canada until around 1970 when they were taken out of service with the militia armoured regiments. Although obsolete, they were an automotively sound vehicle with the twin GM diesels and made a good training vehicle to teach crew drills and tactics. When I went thru the Armoured Corps school in Borden in 1965 they were still being used as APCs with turrets removed. They were painted OD green with white stars, a hold-over from Korea I suppose, but were replaced that year when the M113A1s started to arrive. There were also a couple which were painted white and used as target tanks for the Entac and SS11 ATGMs with dummy warheads. I learned to drive a Sherman which was a lot of fun and also was one of the first to drive the M113s shortly after they were unloaded from the railcars in Borden.
My last exposure to them was in the middle east in the 1970s after they had been taken out of service by the IDF. The IDF had re-engined them and re-gunned them with the French 105mm gun and they still managed to hold their own against the Syrian T54/T55/T62s on the Golan heights during the Yom Kippur war. Some were still being used by the so-called 'Christian Militia' in south Lebanon which was armed and supported by the Israelis. I saw others which were dug in and being used as stationary pillboxes in some of the kibbutzes on the west bank. We even found a length of Sherman track which we joined and used to surround a flower garden in our camp on the Golan Heights.
202 Workshop in Montreal was still using a de-turreted Sherman as a shop tractor in the late 1970s. Within the past several yrs I've seen various Sherman chassis being used on road construction jobs here in southern interior B.C. The hulls had been severely altered to mount great big honking rock drills etc. One on them was a real old timer with the early pattern suspension and tracks.
My last exposure to them was in the middle east in the 1970s after they had been taken out of service by the IDF. The IDF had re-engined them and re-gunned them with the French 105mm gun and they still managed to hold their own against the Syrian T54/T55/T62s on the Golan heights during the Yom Kippur war. Some were still being used by the so-called 'Christian Militia' in south Lebanon which was armed and supported by the Israelis. I saw others which were dug in and being used as stationary pillboxes in some of the kibbutzes on the west bank. We even found a length of Sherman track which we joined and used to surround a flower garden in our camp on the Golan Heights.
202 Workshop in Montreal was still using a de-turreted Sherman as a shop tractor in the late 1970s. Within the past several yrs I've seen various Sherman chassis being used on road construction jobs here in southern interior B.C. The hulls had been severely altered to mount great big honking rock drills etc. One on them was a real old timer with the early pattern suspension and tracks.
Dark Alley Dan
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OK - if we're telling war stories, let me put my helmet on...
When I was a wee kid, maybe around 5-7 years old, on a Sunday that was some sort of Veterans or Memorial Day, my dad ended up at the McGregor Armoury for drinks (in the SGTs and WO mess).
Well a warrant, or maybe even the Garry RSM, took me outside to the compound where the FGH((M) kept their Shermans. I got to climb up on the hull, then the turret, and then the WO opened one of the hatches and I got to climb down inside! (I remember looking down the barrel or maybe even thru the gunsight and it was trained on the Armoury!!
The WO even showed me the training turrets (two) that the Garry's had on some sort of wooden pedestal mount at the back of the compound.
T'WAS A WAY COOL DAY!!
When I was a wee kid, maybe around 5-7 years old, on a Sunday that was some sort of Veterans or Memorial Day, my dad ended up at the McGregor Armoury for drinks (in the SGTs and WO mess).
Well a warrant, or maybe even the Garry RSM, took me outside to the compound where the FGH((M) kept their Shermans. I got to climb up on the hull, then the turret, and then the WO opened one of the hatches and I got to climb down inside! (I remember looking down the barrel or maybe even thru the gunsight and it was trained on the Armoury!!
The WO even showed me the training turrets (two) that the Garry's had on some sort of wooden pedestal mount at the back of the compound.
T'WAS A WAY COOL DAY!!
