Tirpitz? I knew a Dam Buster who explained how they did the attack on it, with Lancasters through Russia. One of the most interesting presentations I ever sat through. He was a member of our pistol club.
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So 70 years after the fact they are using bits of Tirpitz as metal covers for utility excavations? I bet they'd get more bang for their buck selling them on e-bay.
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http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/her-ligger-tirpitz-70-aar-etter/a/10105091/
An ignoble end.
Neat Tirpitz photos. When I was last in Bergen I visited the Bruno submarine bunker, which is still in use today. It's difficult to convey how over0built that thing is. It's massive with re-inforced concrete walls several meters thick in layers with voids between them designed to dissipate blasts. They still have a lot of the WW2 signage up inside for historical preservation reasons.
Wartime:
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The Russians tried to blow up the bunker. After a year, they managed to collapse only 2 pens then gave up and turned it over to Norway for their use.
Interesting place Bergen. My hotel had a re-purposed bomb shelter for storing luggage and everywhere you look are remnants of the war, including an overgrown giant concrete flak tower just outside the tourist district.
Wartime:
Today:
The Russians tried to blow up the bunker. After a year, they managed to collapse only 2 pens then gave up and turned it over to Norway for their use.
Interesting place Bergen. My hotel had a re-purposed bomb shelter for storing luggage and everywhere you look are remnants of the war, including an overgrown giant concrete flak tower just outside the tourist district.
You're a youngster then. I can remember getting thrown out of a final math exam in high school for using a slide rule. Of course, back in those days that was considered to be the ultimate form of cheating. I think my math teacher felt banning them was a form of job protection.
They came in different shapes and sizes as well. Some were cylindrical and about 8 in long and an inch in diameter. Others were round circles about 6in in diameter and a quarter inch thick. Most were just made of three pieces of wood or plastic and joined together on the bottom.
If you know how to use a Vernier measuring instrument you can use a slide rule or similar calculator. I still have a couple of very good and expensive slide rules in a drawer of things I just couldn't bring myself to throw away. One is made of heaven forbid Ivory the other is made from some sort of space age (back then) plastic. They both still work well after 20 years in hiding and they still don't need batteries.
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Dang, now Bergen's on the list of places I gotta see...
Speaking of Flakturm:
http://4.bp.########.com/-KhMBe_qyBrY/UKkdhD-5XaI/AAAAAAAAF4A/ei-KYkxBS-g/s1600/3.jpg
Hell of an over-and-under setup, und mit Flakmadchen! That's, what, 37mm?
Dunno what this box does, but it looks heavy...
"Ve keep der Schnapps in hier. It's ze only vay to be sure it's safe..."
Speaking of Flakturm:
http://4.bp.########.com/-KhMBe_qyBrY/UKkdhD-5XaI/AAAAAAAAF4A/ei-KYkxBS-g/s1600/3.jpg
Hell of an over-and-under setup, und mit Flakmadchen! That's, what, 37mm?
Dunno what this box does, but it looks heavy...
"Ve keep der Schnapps in hier. It's ze only vay to be sure it's safe..."
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Fort Worden and Fort Casey in Washington guarded the entrance to Puget Sound.
Both are now parks.
Fort Casey has had some of it's 10" guns restored.
http://www.fortwiki.com/Fort_Casey_(1)
https://www.google.ca/search?q=US+1...0ahUKEwjX8q2I5fXNAhVDHGMKHU8aCDgQsAQIUg&dpr=1
Both are now parks.
Fort Casey has had some of it's 10" guns restored.
http://www.fortwiki.com/Fort_Casey_(1)
https://www.google.ca/search?q=US+1...0ahUKEwjX8q2I5fXNAhVDHGMKHU8aCDgQsAQIUg&dpr=1
Neat Tirpitz photos. When I was last in Bergen I visited the Bruno submarine bunker, which is still in use today. It's difficult to convey how over0built that thing is. It's massive with re-inforced concrete walls several meters thick in layers with voids between them designed to dissipate blasts. They still have a lot of the WW2 signage up inside for historical preservation reasons.
Wartime:
Today:
The Russians tried to blow up the bunker. After a year, they managed to collapse only 2 pens then gave up and turned it over to Norway for their use.
Interesting place Bergen. My hotel had a re-purposed bomb shelter for storing luggage and everywhere you look are remnants of the war, including an overgrown giant concrete flak tower just outside the tourist district.
In Mar 78 we took JaDex who was our CDS on a Norwegan tour to Boda Banak and Bergen. We had their CDS on board as well and did a few passes by the sub base and got a good briefing on its history. When we landed at Bergen we parked beside the entrance to an inside mountain aircraft tunnel and hanger. Quite impressive indeed.
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We toured the Midway in San Diego a few years ago. It was a nice reminder to me to stay the hell out of the navy. Totally not my bag.
P-40s catching a ride aboard USS Ranger.
P-40s catching a ride aboard USS Ranger.
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Swords into plowshares. Italy, 1945.
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From: United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities Circa 1975
^There is supposedly a classified part of this report with details on Operation Gladio.
^I am pretty sure I saw this during the first OMG! go around with this news release in those days.
Thompson Centre Arms ler scope. Great product placement!
^There is supposedly a classified part of this report with details on Operation Gladio.
^I am pretty sure I saw this during the first OMG! go around with this news release in those days.
Thompson Centre Arms ler scope. Great product placement!
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David Niven dropped his Hollywood career and went home to Engliand to re-up for the Army. He'd graduated Sandhurst between the wars and hadn't enjoyed the peacetime army very much, but felt the need to go back.
When asked how he liked army life, he replied "Well on the whole, I would rather be tickling Ginger Rogers' tits."
Can't blame him. They are lovely.
When asked how he liked army life, he replied "Well on the whole, I would rather be tickling Ginger Rogers' tits."
Can't blame him. They are lovely.
He did. In 1944 he and Samuel Goldwyn sought his early release so he might star in a wartime movie planned by Goldwyn. Niven was released from service in November 1945 and, of course, resumed his successful movie career. Niven served in France and Germany. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1411404/Niven-tried-to-leave-Army-at-height-of-war.html
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The USS Wolverine operated on Lake Michigan as a training carrier for naval aviators. She started life as the SS Seeandbee:
Converted in 1942/43, she was a paddlewheeler, which seems nuts, but worked well enough.
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Struck off service 1945, scrapped 1948. Short career, but what the hell would you do with a fresh-water sidewheel aircraft carrier in a peacetime, downsizing navy?
Converted in 1942/43, she was a paddlewheeler, which seems nuts, but worked well enough.
[youtube]pkjcsLE-yF8[/youtube]
Struck off service 1945, scrapped 1948. Short career, but what the hell would you do with a fresh-water sidewheel aircraft carrier in a peacetime, downsizing navy?
