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stevebc said:
Years ago my instructor at PVI (later BCIT) was an Englishman named Len... can't recall the last name. He had been a tail gunner in Lancs.

He was a short, slight fellow, with an amazing sense of humour.
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When I joined the RCAF as a aero engine tech in 64 there were quite a few older guys manning the aircraft servicing and snag desks wearing WAG and AG wings on their battle dress uniforms.
 
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USS Augusta, USS Midway, USS Enterprise, USS Missouri, USS New York, USS Helena, and USS Macon in the Hudson River in New York, New York, United States for Navy Day celebrations, 27 October 1945
 
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IMAGE: First Lieutenant Baldomero Lopez, USMC, leads the 3rd Platoon, Company A, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines over the seawall on the northern side of Red Beach, as the second assault wave lands, 15 September 1950, during the Inchon invasion. Wooden scaling ladders are in use to facilitate disembarkation from the LCVP that brought these men to the shore. Lt. Lopez was killed in action within a few minutes, while assaulting a North Korean bunker. Note M-1 Carbine carried by Lt. Lopez, M-1 Rifles of other Marines and details of the Marines' field gear.

Hard to believe after all the advances in technology since the Great War, and only five years on from WWII, soldiers are still going over the top using wooden ladders, into a major assault.
 
It does have a "Great War" feel to it, doesn't it? An awful lot of WW2 era kit in evidence there. if you'd told me the pic was from Tarawa or Iwo Jima, I would have had no reason to not believe you.

This looks like Invasion of the Bondage Freaks, but it's Korea.

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If I was in charge of the PRK's propaganda wing, I'd make sure every home had a copy of this next to the place where the fridge would be if anyone had a fridge.
 
Dark Alley Dan said:
It does have a "Great War" feel to it, doesn't it? An awful lot of WW2 era kit in evidence there. if you'd told me the pic was from Tarawa or Iwo Jima, I would have had no reason to not believe you.

This looks like Invasion of the Bondage Freaks, but it's Korea.

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If I was in charge of the PRK's propaganda wing, I'd make sure every home had a copy of this next to the place where the fridge would be if anyone had a fridge.
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Korea was a #####ing place to fight; cold in the winter and hot and humid in the summer. We don't want to do that again.
 
green said:
Russian "Romeo" class looking a little distressed.
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The admirals of the Soviet Union declared North Korea’s prize submarine to be obsolete back in 1961, and Western experts stubbornly point out its inability to sink enemy vessels.

But Kim Jong-un, the “Supreme Leader” of North Korea, offered navigation tips and issued stern battle orders during a proud tour of a Romeo class submarine of the People’s Navy.
Designed in the 1950s, the vessel was in production for the Soviet Union for only 48 months until being succeeded by nuclear-powered submarines 53 years ago.

Every other navy in the world then gave up on the Romeo, with its noisy and easily detectable diesel engine – apart, that is, from North Korea’s. Today, the country has 20 Romeo class boats, comprising almost a third of its submarine fleet.

During his visit, pictures of which were released Monday, Mr. Kim mounted the vessel’s conning tower and went on a short voyage, during which the official news agency reported that the multi-talented leader “taught” the submarine’s captain a “good method of navigation.”
Mr. Kim also urged his commanders to think “only” of “battles” and “spur combat preparations.”

Any captain of a Romeo class submarine might, however, view hostilities with trepidation.

The boats carry Yu-4 torpedoes, a Chinese-made weapon dating from the 1960s with a range of six-and-a-half kilometres. The Los Angeles Class nuclear-powered attack submarines of the U.S. Navy, meanwhile, carry Harpoon missiles that can sink a ship 240 km away.
The North Korean vessel is a “basic” model with “virtually no anti-submarine performance,” says IHS Jane’s Fighting Ships.

This means the Romeo might try damaging a ship – provided it happens to be less than four miles away – but it would be helpless against an enemy submarine trying to send it to the bottom.

At least one North Korean submarine has gone to the bottom without any help from the country’s enemies. A Romeo class boat sank in an apparent accident in 1985.

Of North Korea’s 20 submarines in this category, seven were supplied by China between 1973 and 1975 and the rest built in the country’s own shipyards between 1976 and 1995. More than three decades after the Soviet Union had stopped making the vessel – and after it had been phased out by the navies of Syria, Algeria and China – North Korea was still producing its own version of the Romeo.
 
Ganderite said:
The admirals of the Soviet Union declared North Korea’s prize submarine to be obsolete back in 1961, and Western experts stubbornly point out its inability to sink enemy vessels.

But Kim Jong-un, the “Supreme Leader” of North Korea, offered navigation tips and issued stern battle orders during a proud tour of a Romeo class submarine of the People’s Navy.
Designed in the 1950s, the vessel was in production for the Soviet Union for only 48 months until being succeeded by nuclear-powered submarines 53 years ago.

Every other navy in the world then gave up on the Romeo, with its noisy and easily detectable diesel engine – apart, that is, from North Korea’s. Today, the country has 20 Romeo class boats, comprising almost a third of its submarine fleet.

During his visit, pictures of which were released Monday, Mr. Kim mounted the vessel’s conning tower and went on a short voyage, during which the official news agency reported that the multi-talented leader “taught” the submarine’s captain a “good method of navigation.”
Mr. Kim also urged his commanders to think “only” of “battles” and “spur combat preparations.”

Any captain of a Romeo class submarine might, however, view hostilities with trepidation.

The boats carry Yu-4 torpedoes, a Chinese-made weapon dating from the 1960s with a range of six-and-a-half kilometres. The Los Angeles Class nuclear-powered attack submarines of the U.S. Navy, meanwhile, carry Harpoon missiles that can sink a ship 240 km away.
The North Korean vessel is a “basic” model with “virtually no anti-submarine performance,” says IHS Jane’s Fighting Ships.

This means the Romeo might try damaging a ship – provided it happens to be less than four miles away – but it would be helpless against an enemy submarine trying to send it to the bottom.

At least one North Korean submarine has gone to the bottom without any help from the country’s enemies. A Romeo class boat sank in an apparent accident in 1985.

Of North Korea’s 20 submarines in this category, seven were supplied by China between 1973 and 1975 and the rest built in the country’s own shipyards between 1976 and 1995. More than three decades after the Soviet Union had stopped making the vessel – and after it had been phased out by the navies of Syria, Algeria and China – North Korea was still producing its own version of the Romeo.
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So even North Korea can build its own subs lousy ones but still
 
Apparently, South Korea was working on a deal to buy a few S-3 Viking ASW aircraft. Sadly, after 2 years of pondering, they decided against it, and so the world is denied the sight of this.

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For some reason, I've always liked the lines of the Viking. BIG ol' vertical stab must give gobs and gobs of yaw control.

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purple said:
During the Korean War the extensive rice paddies were fertilized with human waste, not exactly the preferred place to go to ground under fire.:puke: I'd suppose they're using chemical fertilizers by now.
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"Jim McKinney: I think my first reaction, first sense was the smell, the smell was terrible.
(Busan Harbor)

Raymond Tremblay: You could smell #### from about 15 miles off shore.

Kenneth Garbutt: The harbor at Busan was not the most delightful place to... to land that's for sure.
(Busan Harbor)

Jean-Paul Savary: Two million people, no water, no toilets. That doesn't smell very good.
(People on the street in Busan)

George W. Elliott: Well, them days Korea was filthy. The rice paddies had human waste in it.
(Koreans walking through muddy water)

Paul-Émile Pomerleau: They collected human waste to fertilize the soil."

http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/history/korean-war/land-morning-calm/conditions/arrival
 
purple said:
During the Korean War the extensive rice paddies were fertilized with human waste, not exactly the preferred place to go to ground under fire.:puke: I'd suppose they're using chemical fertilizers by now.
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I'd bet money that they still go "old school/stool " in North Korea . I had an uncle who fought in Korea , I remember him saying how rank the smell got during the hot summer days .
 
If you're too poor to afford to subsidizing/pay the chemical fertilizer industry, you use the real "McCoy", which is in abundance all around you.
 
Other Asian ****holes that one would have been very fortunate to have missed out visiting, during WWII ....

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"Smashed by Jap mortar and shellfire, trapped by Iwo's treacherous black-ash sands, amtracs
and other vehicles of war lay knocked out on the black sands of the volcanic fortress."
PhoM3c. Robert M. Warren, ca. February/March 1945.
National Archives 26-G-4474

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"Marine Pfc. Douglas Lightheart (right) cradles his 30-cal. machine gun in his lap,
while he and his buddy Pfc. Gerald Churchby take time out for a cigarette,
while mopping up the enemy on Peleliu Is." Cpl. H. H. Clements, September 14, 1944.
National Archives 127-N-97628.
 
I would take fighting off fanatical Hitlerjugend and their Panzerfaust's in the rubble of Berlin over this any day ....

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"Men of the 7th Division using flame throwers to smoke out Japs from a block house on Kwajalein Island,
while others wait with rifles ready in case Japs come out." Cordray, February 4, 1944.
National Archives 111-SC-212770
 
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