Picture of the day

[smellie]

Unterseekleinegepanziertkettenkraftkampfwagen, perhaps?

That's for the Mark I.

Mark II had to be bigger just to have its name painted on it!

Where is Desert Fox when we need him? He could suss this one out fer us!

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

I think Smellie got it.

Here's a grainy "before" pic, with the same nervous looking commander perched in the hatch, ready to bail if the thing decides to tour the ocean bottom:

They were awfully small.

 

[john@]

Interesting, repurposed by the Chinese? Or did they also buy them from Vickers?

 

[RRCo.]

Looks like it has a Kitchen/Kort rudder, but boy oh buoyancy, there ain't much! Looks more like "going down by the stern" than anything else.

 

[plinker 777]

Unterseekleinegepanziertkettenkraftkampfwagen, perhaps?

That's for the Mark I.

Mark II had to be bigger just to have its name painted on it!

Where is Desert Fox when we need him? He could suss this one out fer us!

..and that is a mouthful of borsht...err, sauerkraut that is!?

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

So, 1935, and the folks in Europe are dinking around with wee tanklettes.

Ten years later, this:

What an enormous leap in technology. Very impressive how war pushes those advances.

 

[smellie]

Likely she's "down be da Starn" because they are cracking on too much throttle.

Ally-samey motorboat: crack 'er on and the back end goes down.

I would think that when swimming a Tank, one should be MOST gentle. Several Sherman drivers discovered that on D-Day.


Dan, I don't see your pic.

 

[Desert_Fox]

So, 1935, and the folks in Europe are dinking around with wee tanklettes.

Ten years later, this:

What an enormous leap in technology. Very impressive how war pushes those advances.

I assume that is a Joseph Stalin II Tank captured by the Germans as noted by the paint on the turret, "Bestimmt für OKW (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht)"? Or in Englisch "Intended for the OKW (Upper Command of the Wehrmacht/Armed Forces)"...??

 

[basic_drill]

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[XRCD011]

Then Captured Sd.Kfz6 on the hill postwar




And now.

 

[kjohn]

^^ Good old Crown Vic.

 

[Cdn303]

They should have never discontinued those. I find it hard to take a officer seriously when they try to pull you over in a Caprice.

 

[mikerock]

Then Captured Sd.Kfz6 on the hill postwar




And now.

Shows you how big those prime mover halftracks really were. When I was at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds before they moved their collection, I was surprised at the size of the German armour compared to their Russian and Western contemporaries.

 

[XRCD011]

If anyone has any info on what that Sd.Kfz6 was doing on the hill (part of a display???) or even the date of the picture, or have other pictures of that vehicle there please post. I believe this particular vehicle went to the UK and is now in the Bruce Crompton collection. I may even see this vehicle at Overloon Holland next year.

 

[tetra]

Supposed to be WWI on a German front line.

 

[RRCo.]

The Germans were very careful to gather up brass and bronze from the battlefield; I believe by the later part of the war their troops were actually paid for what they collected to the point where they would even chisel the driving bands off dud shells at times. That could be a German pile captured in late 1918.

 

[tetra]

^^ Interesting!

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

For sale - range brass, once fired, various calibers, sold by the ton.

Offers?

 

[kjohn]

Supposed to be WWI on a German front line.

RANGE CLEANUP DAY We think SKSs make a mess!

 

[basic_drill]

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