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Nurse Aura Teles
OK, that's hot - a nurse with an MG42. What's not to like?
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Nurse Aura Teles
When I was a kid lots of black dogs were named "niiiiir". It seemed to work out OK for the dogs and their owners.![]()
That’s because that word is the ye olde English word for black. Just another word that fell out of favour over time.
I still get rid of cobwebs from time to time. Cob is the ye olde English word for spider.
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M4A3(76)W Sherman of 14th Armored Division. Rittershofen Germany, 1945.
Wonder if they ended up getting better radio reception?![]()
I saw a picture , can’t remember where I saw it , but General Patton chastising a Sherman crew that had put sand bags all around their tank , adding extra weight
Got it somewhere in my books. Will try to dig it. i think it is (at least...) in the Heimdal publishing First Army memorial album
Edit... Found it in an osprey publishing New vanguard #73 on the m4 76mm. The picture struck me when i first saw it. Not making politics, but trump make same look... Not sure the photograph made it unscathed too. Sorry for the bad quality, picture from a book vintage style:
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Patton didn't have to ride a Sherman tank and go up against the dreaded 88s or Panzerfausts.People would do anything to give themselves an edge, even if it was for morale building purposes. You see many pics of Shermans with welded on track shoes, logs and sandbags. Regulations tend to get fewer the further forward you go.
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Re-purposing words is the thing now. Woke, progressive and even rainbow used to mean entirely different things.
By the way, what is the correct pronunciation of 'ye'? No, it's not 'yee'.
I think what would have been offensive to him (Patton) was that the crew had compromised one of the key advantages of armour ... the first of which is mobility.I’m wondering if that extra weight did contribute to final drive failure , definitely must have increased fuel consumption, but did give the crews more confidence in their tank
Patton wasn't a master strategist and missed numerous opportunities especially during the battle of France.
Being an armchair general I would offer this humble opinion that after trapping and mauling German Army Group B at Falaise he should of pivoted 3rd Army and driven it into the British right flank for a second Dunkirk.
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ye is a left over of german printing presses. germans didn't have the character for thorn which looks sorta like the modern letter p and made the th sound. in early fonts, the Y looked similar to the hand written thorn character so it was used as a replacement. eventually th became a commonplace alternative to thorn
So ye is pronounced the?