Picture of the day

[fraserdw]

This pic is backwards. That's an M150 aka TOW open platform on an m113. Looks like the 70s judging by the parkas.

 

[fraserdw]

Think those are US Marines.
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Nope, thats a TOW tube on an M113, late 60s to early 80s

 

[Donny Fenn1]

The LRDG and SAS people were very much of the old English school of creative ungentlemanly warfare. Looked like pirates, fought like partisans, took their lumps like gentlemen, and killed a lot of people who apparently needed it.

and took out more Luftwaffe aircraft than the RAF too..

 

[shortandlong]

Nope, thats a TOW tube on an M113, late 60s to early 80s

I am gonna side with Fraser on this one the guy likely seen one or two

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

VERY interesting footage, to me anyhow, of 263 Squadron operating the Westland Whirlwind:

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[Gibbs505]

Battleship Andrea Doria during the visit of the Minister of defence Bacardi,1949

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

King George VI dedicates the Canadian National War Memorial, 1939:

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Behold the M561 Gama Goat:

Six wheel drive, articulated, could climb trees and kinda float.

2-stroke diesel, loud, slow, complex to maintain. But they stack well.

Any one of those, plus another two or three for parts, and you could be the Gama Goat King.

 

[buzzmagoo]

I have heard that they are something special to drive but great off road for climbing , so so in the mud ( heavy and limited ground clearance ) ya the Stealth Factor isn't great Either LOL!

 

[Ganderite]

Never heard of the Goat. Keep it up.

 

[Ganderite]

At one time on this forum there was a question about sidearms for aircrew. My father was WW2 RCAF aircrew and I know he had a S&W 38 in a blue canvas holster. I know he flew with it because of a story he told me of shooting at a passing flock of ducks with it while taking a dingy out to a moored Canso.

I have just read a good book about the life of a RCAF recruit in 1940 through to the war's end. Only 5 of his 35 colleagues survived the war. he mentions his sidearm in passing.

 

[fat tony]

Some of the US AMF-L troopies are said to have used the Gama Goat. Interesting the BV-206 used a roughly similar articulated suspension.

 

[tiriaq]

The battleships Oklahoma (left) and Arizona in the gateway Pedro Miguel Panama canal, November 1921

March, 2016.

 

[Gibbs505]

Two Spitfire Mark IX of Squadron 241 of Royal Air Force flying beside Vesuvius, in the background you can see the Bay of Naples.
Italy, 1944.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Beautiful pic. Good find.

 

[ipscgraz]

 

[ipscgraz]

 

[shredder]

My all time favourite warbird!!!

 

[donor]

Blast from the past-Etrich Taube. 1909 design,one of the pioneer aircraft,one of the first military aircraft used for bombing.

With top speed near 100km/h that must have been one very interesting ride on one of those.Most of those pix are of replicas as picture of originals aren't around or are of bad quality and retouched for print.

 

[Gibbs505]