Picture of the day

[Dark Alley Dan]

Chug chug chug...

 

[MarkCNP]

Bomber jackets:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dougsheley/sets/72157626140462192/

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Feckin' badass. This is what all the Sailor Jerry types are trying to emulate.

 

[MarkCNP]

Badass is right, imagine surviving 25 missions over Germany.

 

[Philthy1]

The gunner looks so pleased....love it

 

[RRCo.]

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Any idea what that basket-like arrangement is on the back?
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Firewood. You can't always find it when you need it out on the steppe

 

[grelmar]

Firewood. You can't always find it when you need it out on the steppe

Don't think so. From reading through Carius's "Tigers in the Mud" and some of the ad-hoc solutions they were coming up with in Russia, I would be more inclined to think it was for shoring up ditches and soft ground to make specific routes more passable for the tanks.

 

[diopter]

 

[t-star]

they're called FACsINES- and everybody used them to shore up or cross ditches, etc-

 

[Sharps '63]

No, a fascine is a bundle of sticks. Look at the Italian Fascist emblems dating back to Roman times. What the soldiers above are doing is creating a "corduroy road" over otherwise impassable ground. Done all the time around here.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Corduroy road, or the remnants thereof, was common to find in the bush when I was growing up. Hard on trees, but it makes goo into road, and I suppose that's what counts.

Here's a corduroy bridge, probably leading from one long patch of corduroy to the next.

 

[Sharps '63]

Fascine - a tightly bound bundle of sticks used by military engineers as a method of filling in trenches and/or strengthening earthworks.

Been around since Roman times.

 

[woodchopper]

Fascine - a tightly bound bundle of sticks used by military engineers as a method of filling in trenches and/or strengthening earthworks.

Been around since Roman times.

and a modern version is a bunch of ABS pipe bundled up and dropped in the ditch to create a crossing / breach.

 

[MarkCNP]

GM gun production Detroit

http://3.bp.########.com/-M8GRfCP4FV8/VPznZoyeYoI/AAAAAAADm-4/Hz2WqCdu3eA/s1600/Detroit%2C%2B1940s%2B(19).jpg

 

[Quiet]

Fascine - a tightly bound bundle of sticks used by military engineers as a method of filling in trenches and/or strengthening earthworks.

Been around since Roman times.

and a modern version is a bunch of ABS pipe bundled up and dropped in the ditch to create a crossing / breach.

Sounds like a much more expensive way of getting to Moscow!

 

[RRCo.]

Don't think so. From reading through Carius's "Tigers in the Mud" and some of the ad-hoc solutions they were coming up with in Russia, I would be more inclined to think it was for shoring up ditches and soft ground to make specific routes more passable for the tanks.

Notice how the pieces are too short to be used under both tracks as in the other photos?

Besides which, a 25 ton tank will snap those 4-5 inch pieces like twigs.

Good for making crosses on graves anyway.

 

[sail32]

I think I've see picture of the B-17 in post 2174 before.

I think the original caption was that the wing was knocked off by a bomb from a bomber flying above it.

 

[woodchopper]

GM gun production Detroit

http://3.bp.########.com/-M8GRfCP4FV8/VPznZoyeYoI/AAAAAAADm-4/Hz2WqCdu3eA/s1600/Detroit%2C%2B1940s%2B(19).jpg

those are serious AAA guns.

 

[scott585]

those are serious AAA guns.

much has been made of the german 88, but all the major powers had similar guns. the only difference is that the germans pointed theirs at tanks as well.

 

[Curly1]

much has been made of the german 88, but all the major powers had similar guns. the only difference is that the germans pointed theirs at tanks as well.

...and mounted the guns on tanks!