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Russian PTRD ATR being manned by a German, but bro its straight from the wiki page.
Imagine whole companies armed with those things firing in salvos, crazy
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Imagine whole companies armed with those things firing in salvos, crazy
O'Kelly's Boys
I love this tread, keep the pictures coming
That photo must have been taken in 1939 when Hitler attacked Poland, then let Stalin {USSR} have a portion of Poland,..those Germans & Ruskie officers look pretty relaxed,..but in less than 2 years they will be at each other throats
Has anyone noticed the different footwear the one German officer with the cigarette is wearing? Leather greaves like Calvary or motorcycle dispatch. What gives?
Saw that too, the Germans still used some horses for the officer corp,..i read a article where the Germans used 650,000 horses in the invasion of Russia to haul supplies,..i can't imgaine what that must have been like, trying to feed all those horses
The movie War Horse gives a little glimpse of what that was like for the horses. It wasn't pretty. Good movie though.
Ian
While the armoured divisions were mostly mechanized, the infantry divisions were still mostly horse drawn; along with bicycles and motorcycles.
New day new pictureJapaneses paratroopers??
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Joe
In the background appear to be what looks like the copies of the Douglas DC3 (Dakota/Gooney Bird) that Japan was licensed to build before WWII and continued to build all through WWII.
Last spring, at the Chilliwack HACS show, I was talking to a fellow about their horses. He was on the Russian front and spent several years in a labor camp, until his debt to Russia was considered paid off.
He told me they would use the horses up until they couldn't function any more then slit their throats and eat them. They considered the horse meat a real delicacy. Horse is still commonly available in European meat markets. Quite tastey.
They also used oxen in the same manner.
Don't get me wrong, they treated their animals as well as possible but as their war effort deteriorated so did the condition of the horses. Understandable.
The allies used horses as well, especially the Russians.
Horses have some great advantages. Other than feed, which is usually available along the way, they only need minimal attention and of course lots of water. They usually don't move up the roads faster than the marching men an therefore supplies are always close by, not waiting in the rear to be brought up or lost.
From what old Krawinkle told me, water was the biggest concern of the horse handlers. Their horses would collapse from lack of water and wouldn't eat the dry grass available for them in the winter, so they starved down until they had to be put down for food. Same thing happened to the troops.
When the German High Command ordered their doctors to find out why their troops were not doing well on their rations, they concluded lack of fat in their diet and lack of water.
They started issueing them small tins of fat every day and increased their water ration when possible. The sudden extra fat intake was more than the emaciated bodies of their troops could get used to and many of them died from the accompanying complications created by starving bodies, suddenly getting more than they could handle.
Same thing happened to POWs, Concentration Camp inmates and refugees. Nasty/painfull way to die.
Very harsh lesson to learn.
Grants were good tanks. The Brits really did a good job with them and liked the main gun.
It had a voracious appetite for fuel and the profile was way to high with no sloping armor.
It's biggest defect was the sponson mounted gun on the right side of the tank. It had a limited traverse and the tank had to be moved to get on target.
Other than that, it was very reliable and relatively maintenance free, in comparison to later Shermans. The Brits kept them active in rear areas right up to the end of the war.
The 35mm turret gun was supposedly very handy for light vehicles and anti personelle work.
It had a voracious appetite for fuel and the profile was way to high with no sloping armor.
It's biggest defect was the sponson mounted gun on the right side of the tank. It had a limited traverse and the tank had to be moved to get on target.
Other than that, it was very reliable and relatively maintenance free, in comparison to later Shermans. The Brits kept them active in rear areas right up to the end of the war.
The 35mm turret gun was supposedly very handy for light vehicles and anti personelle work.
“To protect the precious bulk of Winston Churchill in wartime a special one-man pressure chamber was built for the personal plane which carried him many times across the Atlantic and to Casablanca, Moscow and Yalta. Churchill was warned by his doctors that it was dangerous for a man of his age and physical condition to fly above 8,000 feet. The solution was a pressure chamber complete with ash trays, telephone and an air-circulation system good enough to prevent smoke from the ubiquitous cigar from fogging the atmosphere.”
- LIFE Magazine, 1947
“To protect the precious bulk of Winston Churchill in wartime a special one-man pressure chamber was built for the personal plane which carried him many times across the Atlantic and to Casablanca, Moscow and Yalta. Churchill was warned by his doctors that it was dangerous for a man of his age and physical condition to fly above 8,000 feet. The solution was a pressure chamber complete with ash trays, telephone and an air-circulation system good enough to prevent smoke from the ubiquitous cigar from fogging the atmosphere.”
- LIFE Magazine, 1947
Damn, I'll bet that thing stunk to high heaven. No one else could bear to be in it.
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