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HuskyDude said:
Nice pic Dan.
It is just amazing how many Memorials there are for "Man's Best Friend" around!!

Military Service Dog Memorial

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The Toronto Scottish Regt 1940, somewhere in Britian..
 
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Toronto Scottish Regt and the Airedales in the London Illustrated News in 1940. Some of the Airedales had a small cage strapped to their backs to hold pigeons

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The Soviets weren't as kind . :(

https://www.military.com/video/operations-and-strategy/second-world-war/ww2-anti-tank-dog-mine-eastern-front/1290084667001

Grizz
 
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Second Lieutenant Walter Tull was the first black British Army Infantry Officer. Walter was born in Folkestone on 28th April 1888. His father, the son of a slave, had arrived from Barbados in 1876. In 1895, when Walter was seven, his mother died and his father remarried only to die two years later. The stepmother was unable to cope with all six children and so Walter and his brother Edward were sent to a Methodist -run orphanage in Bethnal Green.
When World War I broke out, he joined the Seventeenth (First Football) Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment and, during his military training, he was promoted three times. In November 1914, as Lance Sergeant, he was sent to Les Ciseaux but, in May 1915, he was sent home with post-traumatic stress disorder. Returning to France in September 1916, Walter fought in the Battle of the Somme between October and November. His courage and abilities encouraged his superior officers to recommend him as an Officer and, on 26th December, 1916, Walter went back to England to train as an Officer. There were military laws forbidding ‘any negro or person of colour’ being commissioned as an Officer. Despite this, Walter was promoted to Lieutenant in 1917 and became the first ever black Officer in the British Army, and the first black Officer to lead white men into battle. He was mentioned in Despatches for his ‘gallantry and coolness’ under fire by his commanding officer and he was recommended for the Military Cross, but never received it. Walter’s Battalion was transferred to the Somme and, on 25th March 1918, he was killed by machine gun fire while trying to help his men withdraw. Walter was such a popular man that several of his men risked their own lives in an attempt to retrieve his body under heavy fire, but they were unsuccessful due to the enemy soldiers’ advance. His body was never found and he is one of the many thousands from World War I who has no known grave.
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He also played for Rangers FC, and was the club’s first black player. In fact he was a very successful player, playing for Clapton, Tottenham Hotspur and Northampton Town. He was the third black person to play in the top flight of English Football and, I think, the second in Scotland.
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An RF-4C Phantom II tactical reconnaissance aircraft (tail #68-0554) that has been restored and put on static display at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, a week ago.

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Dark Alley Dan said:
Did they get the camo 100% on that? That looks kinda "mustard-y"... Phantom-on-a-stick seems all the rage these days
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Looks pretty good to me; they certainly had a big crew and a two year effort involved in the restoration. Good time to grab a Phantom airframe for museums and displays and what not, given the type is leaving service forever (in Japan.)

This would be a good source to check the paint job : Colors and Markings of the Recon Phantoms, Bert Kinzey and Ray Leader.
 
fraserdw said:
You best stay out of the Arizona then

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I have the same thought as Grizz when I see gate guardians.

There's something that cost millions of dollars over its service life to build, purchase, maintain, operate, pickle, store, dewat, restore, and mount. And now it's lawn decoration. What else could that money have been used for? Thinking too much about such a thing might lead one into dangerous philosophical thought...
 
Grizzly Adams said:
Every time I see one of these, can't help but think, Holy ####, there's a lot of tax payer money sitting on a pedestal. :)

Grizz
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Yup...it's the price of freedom. It's only money and the US is spending a cool $1,000,000,000,000.00 + to keep the economy going nowadays with the corona virus pandemic. Guess where that money is coming from?
 
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