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Being a Soviet anti tank dog was not likely gonna lead to a long life.

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And while we are on a kick about the super tanks and the disappointments thereof, we have had Italian, Russian, US. But what about the German PZKW VIII or Maus...

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And a pic of the only surviving Maus being prepped for a trip back to Russia

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Another 200 ton tank that would struggle to do 8 MPH, and was stopped cold when it needed to cross a river.

Good information here:

h t t p://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2-german-prototypes/panzer_maus.php
 
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Nobody ever complains about the crappy cz tankettes. Also done and done as first rate combat machines by 1942 - 1943. /opinion There is also a Hotchkiss in the chart.

A bit ridiculous to put the heavy mortar in the chart. The thing was transported by rail. The track system was only designed to move it at very low speed on a surface prepared by combat engineers to the gun position from the railhead. No doubt also prepared with a lot of labour & sweat.
 
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And the fact my 166 was in the 278th Volksgrenadier Division at the Brenner Pass and the plate range for mine is 1800 to 1850.
 
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Jesus............. I just about fell off my chair seeing this pic and the vehicle markings !
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Looks like an end of war surrender surrender scenario, and surprisingly the Germans were still finding gas for their vehicles.:eek:

I took a train trip thru the Brenner Pass from Munich to Florence last spring and got a good impression of the military significance of the Brenner Pass. There is still a large, intact fortification built by the Austrians in the Tirol not to far from Bolzano. It would have been nice to stop and have a look at it.
 
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Looks like an end of war surrender surrender scenario, and surprisingly the Germans were still finding gas for their vehicles.:eek:

I took a train trip thru the Brenner Pass from Munich to Florence last spring and got a good impression of the military significance of the Brenner Pass. There is still a large, intact fortification built by the Austrians in the Tirol not to far from Bolzano. It would have been nice to stop and have a look at it.
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Looks like it... all the Germans are pretty skinny... hard to find Knockwursts in 1945...
 
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The T-28 never made it into production... It was still under development when the war ended. Probably just as well, it was a case of "the good idea fairy" on a particularly bad drunk. Of the 2 prototypes built, one burned up from an engine fire and was sold for scrap, the other ended up becoming a static display.

It was too big/heavy to cross pretty much any bridge, couldn't ford more than a foot or two of water, was prone to sinking into ground softer than 2 foot thick concrete... After they built it, they realized that they didn't really even have a means of loading it onto a ship to get it to Europe, and REALLY didn't know how to offload it.

Also, while the front casement was borderline impenetrable, the engine deck might as well been made from paper. An infantry mortar round would have punched through it and blown the engine up.

The list of deficiencies was long enough to cost a few people their careers.
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. All true but to a Soviet infanteer thumbing his way through a postwar copy of ‘Enemy Armoured Fighting Vehicles’ .... this pic is going to cause him to pause and say ‘HOLY SHXT!!’
 
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Short Sunderland Mk V of the 201st Squadron RAF moored at Tower Bridge, London 16th September 1956, during the commemoration of the Battle of Britain.
 
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Pre-Surrender Nocturne Tokyo Bay. Painting, Watercolor on Paper; by Standish Backus; 1945; Dimensions Unknown.


“The forts at Futtsu Saki had to be approached and demobilized early on the morning of 30 August 1945. No landings from the sea had yet occurred and we did not know what sort of reception we would receive from the Japanese. From past experience, it was not expected to be healthy in all respects. Was there a division of troops in those forts waiting to mow us down as we hit the beach? Its very silence, the haunted quantity of the burnt-out Japanese destroyer, and the eeriness of the moonlight gave us all a foreboding.”
 
German artillerymen trolled by the Home Army during the Warsaw Uprising

The mortar “Ziu” was settled in the Sowiński Park near the statue of general#Józef Sowiński#in Wola district[18]. The mortar shells caliber 600mm were designed to destroy bunkers. Often they did not explode when they hit buildings or soft ground in Warsaw. On 18 August 1944 a shell, fired from mortar “Ziu”, hit the building at#Moniuszki#10 street, where the famous Warsaw restaurant “Adria” was located. The shell broke through several stories of the building, roof and floor of the “Adria” restaurant and finally stopped in the basement, but it did not explode. Sappers of Polish#Home Army#disarmed the dud shell and removed the explosive charge. The explosive was used to produce hand grenades (Filipinkas) for Polish soldiers.The empty shell was left in the basement. In the mid-1960s during removal of ruins of the “Adria” restaurant the shell was found. It was moved to the#Polish Army Museum#in Warsaw. It is a part of the museum's outdoor exhibition[19].
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Ha ha!
 
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