Picture of the day

Athlit ram Haifa, Israel:

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Single bronze casting weighing 465 kilograms

Era:

between 530 BC and 270 BC
 
Sharps '63 said:
Diversity and cultural pluralism sure worked for the Nazis, didn't?

An element of "if you can't beat 'em - join 'em" might have motivated some to sign up under the Swastika, others may have seen it as a means of settling old ethnic rivalries.
There must have been a "notwithstanding clause" written into the racial purity laws that allowed "untermenschen" into elite units like the SS.
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On the other side of the coin, life was often not too great for partisans with Judaic origins in WWII. According to some stories, they had to watch their backs.
 
Wow! I have a US pal that does his own bronze casting for the restoration of antique steam engines. Even today, that would be a real challenge for a foundry.


fat tony said:
Athlit ram Haifa, Israel:

800px-Israeli_National_Maritime_Museum-_Naval_ram-1.jpg


800px-Haifa-maritime-museum-ram-1.jpg


Single bronze casting weighing 465 kilograms

Era:

between 530 BC and 270 BC
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fat tony said:
"Captured American equipment in Belgrade museum"

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Propaganda or taboo subject?

This appears to be not propaganda - story at following link:

http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=42986
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To quote the article cited "The former prisoners of war, Staff Sgt. Christopher J. Stone, 25; Staff Sgt. Andrew A. Ramirez, 24; and Spc. Steven M. Gonzales, 21; are members of B Troop, 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, stationed in Schweinfurt, Germany."

But the name on that displayed uniform is Carpenter - a different incident? or propaganda based on the incident?
 
Sharps '63 said:
Yes. That was my impression from reading "The Taliban Don't Wave". The ANA wouldn't know how to press such a charge, assuming they gave a pile of camel dung in the first place.
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From reading "The Taliban Don't Wave" the two suspects that occured to me were;

a) The somewhat disgruntled soldier he was saddled with, can't remember his name.
b) Some of the slack-ish ANP officers. I don't think they could care less about the killing itself. But I wouldn't put it past them to use it as a way to get rid of an uppity Canuck who was making them do their jobs.

The reason I leaned towards b) is because of the timing. Nothing happened for 2 months after the incident. If it had gone up the chain internal to the Canadian forces, I would have expected Semrau to get yanked a lot quicker.

But if a sleezy ANP officer was using back-channels to rid himself of an uppity Canuck, the timing works out a bit better. It would have taken a while to wend its wayt from ear to ear in a whisper campaign.

Speculation on my part. I don't know anything other than what I read in Semrau's book and the Newspapers at the time.
 
Plausible. We may never know.

When a soldier of the ilk of Lewis MacKenzie is supportive of Semrau, I'll take his opinion over that of a bunch of non-combat military lawyers and base wallah slack a$$es.
 
Photo is obviously a fake, Ballsofice154: "everybody knows" that the Ross Mark III was not used in the Second World War!

Seriously, John, you come up with a surprise every time you post.

Thanks for this one!
 
It wasn't all me thank my grandmother that kept both uncles picture albums from the SWW.

Also I'm sure the photo is a fake of a fake as I spy a rear sight ahead of the action, a Harris Magazine Lever, and no external magazine... MK II's out in the wild and in use in 1940 rewrite the history books!! :runaway::runaway:
 
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