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Kick in a turntable (because damn thing skips again)

BA-20 Soviet armored car.Build on a very distant relative of Ford A chassis.Nearly 4800 made.Germans used a lot of captured ones on rail security duty.

18 captured by Finns including one on picture.

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donor said:
Kick in a turntable (because damn thing skips again)

BA-20 Soviet armored car.Build on a very distant relative of Ford A chassis.Nearly 4800 made.Germans used a lot of captured ones on rail security duty.

18 captured by Finns including one on picture.

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This could have saved the lives of Bonnie and Clyde. :)

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Guenter had been a VERY good NAZI.

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‘Iconic’ USS Nevada located under 15.4K feet of ocean near Pearl Harbor

A private underwater search firm has located the USS Nevada some 65 nautical miles southwest of Pearl Harbor and more than 15,400 feet from the surface of the Pacific Ocean.
The battleship wasn’t really lost because the Navy knew where it used an aerial torpedo to sink it in 1948, but it appears to be the first time an underwater camera has recorded the condition of the ship.
The USS Nevada was one of the U.S. Navy’s longest-serving battleships. It was sunk from damage inflicted during the battle of Pearl Harbor, killing 50 crew members. It was subsequently salvaged and returned to service.
The ship took part in the D-Day landings and participated in the operations in the Pacific, including the invasion of Okinawa. After World War II, it served as a target ship in the first Bikini atomic experiments. The USS Nevada was also used as a target in training and sunk by an aerial torpedo on July 31, 1948.
The underwater search firm SEARCH Inc. issued a news release Monday, stating it made the discovery with a marine robotics company called Ocean Infinity. The partners used a vessel called Pacific Constructor.
“Nevada is an iconic ship that speaks to American resilience and stubbornness,” said Dr. James Delgado, SEARCH’s senior vice president. “Rising from its watery grave after being sunk at Pearl Harbor, it survived torpedoes, bombs, shells and two atomic blasts. The physical reality of the ship, resting in the darkness of the great museum of the sea, reminds us not only of past events, but of those who took up the challenge of defending the United States in two global wars.”
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Sharps '74 said:
Like I said in post #19534 - we are indebted to Herr Hitler for our gun laws, as is the USA. We still have gun owners who refuse to accept this. Saying this 25 years ago got you labelled as a member of the tin foil hat brigade.
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Actually, we are indebted to the UK for the basic gun laws that Germany adopted later and enhanced. Then the UK took them to the League of Nations and the UN and one way or another has managed to infiltrate the laws into the Criminal Code in one way or another, in all of the previous COLONIES, which IMHO they still have far to much influence.
 
Grizzly Adams said:
The days when nuclear bombs were still a novelty and nobody understood the full implications of radiation. :(

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Or they suspected but didn't much care. I'm guessing Management felt exactly that.

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The CT-133 had a very long service life with the RCAF, but I didn't know the RCN operated some as well.

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Several are still in airworthy condition and operating in the US.
 
Grizzly Adams said:
The days when nuclear bombs were still a novelty and nobody understood the full implications of radiation. :(

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Operating in a nuclear or chemical scenario was a major feature of Cold War planning and doctrine. Offensive and defensive chemical capabilities were organic to Soviet formations and its use was assumed. We also assumed that they would use chemical to impair or neutralize our airfields, rear area installations and lines of communications.

Ironically, NATO would probably have been the first to use tactical nuclear weapons. This was because of our massive disparity of conventional forces compared to the Soviets. Nukes were basically an economy of force measure by western nations which weren't prepared to devote enough money to beefing up their conventional capabilities.

We used to integrate schemes of maneuver under nuclear conditions into our planning and training. I was taught nuclear targeting and decontamination and was over-dosed while training at the NBCW School in Borden including exercises at the nuclear facilities at Chalk River.:eek:
 
The NCBW suits we were issued during the era did not allow for urination/excretion or hydration. Once in - you were 'sealed'!

In a training session, the roentgenometer(sp?) was going bats, so the Sgt. swept us individually. We had taken our issue watches to a Deutcher watchmaker in Soest who painted the numerals and hands with a luminescent 'glow in the dark' paint. The practice ceased forthwith.

Ah, the days of the "Cold War" ..... now it's just Covid 19 and civil disarmament we have to cope with.
 
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