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SECOND PARAQUETIST SERGEANT LAURINDO JOSÉ DA CUNHA CARDOSO
- Laurindo went out !!
Lieutenant Colonel Almendra said in a hushed voice.
And a sad silence fell over the room.
A mute and invisible bugle paid the final homage to Sergeant Laurindo.
Nobody exclaimed “no, it can't be! “or” how was that? "
We had known for two hours, so the silence was greater! .
Proceeded with the removal of a system of traps.
Methodically, and with the expertise we all recognized him.
But the impossible happened! From inside the terrible and deadly device, the tell-tale came out, the characteristic noise.
Within two or three seconds it will explode, and with it out of sympathy, many, many more!
There are more men inside the war material collection. Men whose lives are three seconds from death.
Sergeant Laurindo is aware of all this. He thinks he failed (we just thought that happened) and he doesn't want anyone to pay for his "failure", he lowers himself, catches the explosive death, which already smokes and launches himself in a fantastic, desperate race towards the front door, to launch it where it might not kill anyone.
He reaches the triumphant door and goes free from the nightmare, but he doesn't quite do it!
Between the doorposts, which represents the frontier of life, the raw roar split the air and shattered the body of the man who carried it.
There were no more outbursts of sympathy, no more dead or wounded men.
Second Parachute Sergeant Laurindo José da Cunha Cardoso died for them all !!
It was kind of bad looking, coarse-featured and brusque in manner, but it didn't even take the sacrifice of his life to let us know he was the opposite of what he looked like.
(Newspaper Beret Verde 1972)
Resulting from the material captured in “Operation Brida/IH”, which took place between November and December 1971, in the region of the Cuando and Capui rivers, in Angola, with the 1st CCP commanded by Captain Paraquedista Ferreira Pinto, and with 5 Gr Combat Aux.DGS
Sergeant Laurindo Cardoso was one of the pioneers of the Portuguese Parachutists, taking a course in Parachuting in Spain, being Parachutist 185 .
He went to the Paratroopers course in 1968
He had already served two service commissions in Angola between 1961 / 1963 / 1965 / 1967, he was on his third commission, also in Angola, he belonged to the 1st CCP of BCP 21 , already a veteran in his 40s, he continued to accompanying his Paratrooper comrades on combat missions, he ended up dying for his Paratrooper brothers.
He died in January 1972, posthumously awarded the 3rd Class War Cross Medal.
WE WILL NEVER FORGET YOU
Pedro Castanheira
- Laurindo went out !!
Lieutenant Colonel Almendra said in a hushed voice.
And a sad silence fell over the room.
A mute and invisible bugle paid the final homage to Sergeant Laurindo.
Nobody exclaimed “no, it can't be! “or” how was that? "
We had known for two hours, so the silence was greater! .
Proceeded with the removal of a system of traps.
Methodically, and with the expertise we all recognized him.
But the impossible happened! From inside the terrible and deadly device, the tell-tale came out, the characteristic noise.
Within two or three seconds it will explode, and with it out of sympathy, many, many more!
There are more men inside the war material collection. Men whose lives are three seconds from death.
Sergeant Laurindo is aware of all this. He thinks he failed (we just thought that happened) and he doesn't want anyone to pay for his "failure", he lowers himself, catches the explosive death, which already smokes and launches himself in a fantastic, desperate race towards the front door, to launch it where it might not kill anyone.
He reaches the triumphant door and goes free from the nightmare, but he doesn't quite do it!
Between the doorposts, which represents the frontier of life, the raw roar split the air and shattered the body of the man who carried it.
There were no more outbursts of sympathy, no more dead or wounded men.
Second Parachute Sergeant Laurindo José da Cunha Cardoso died for them all !!
It was kind of bad looking, coarse-featured and brusque in manner, but it didn't even take the sacrifice of his life to let us know he was the opposite of what he looked like.
(Newspaper Beret Verde 1972)
Resulting from the material captured in “Operation Brida/IH”, which took place between November and December 1971, in the region of the Cuando and Capui rivers, in Angola, with the 1st CCP commanded by Captain Paraquedista Ferreira Pinto, and with 5 Gr Combat Aux.DGS
Sergeant Laurindo Cardoso was one of the pioneers of the Portuguese Parachutists, taking a course in Parachuting in Spain, being Parachutist 185 .
He went to the Paratroopers course in 1968
He had already served two service commissions in Angola between 1961 / 1963 / 1965 / 1967, he was on his third commission, also in Angola, he belonged to the 1st CCP of BCP 21 , already a veteran in his 40s, he continued to accompanying his Paratrooper comrades on combat missions, he ended up dying for his Paratrooper brothers.
He died in January 1972, posthumously awarded the 3rd Class War Cross Medal.
WE WILL NEVER FORGET YOU
Pedro Castanheira
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A soldier from 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR) and Reconstruction Task Force 3 (RTF-3) with a captured Martini-Henry rifle in Afghanistan, 2007/8.
Cant help but wonder what is going through his mind at that moment...."Man were fighting people using stuff like this with this(whatever that thing is he's carrying)"....or is he realizing "man this thing will put a hole in me just the same and just as quick as mine will them"
Back when the Afghans were fighting the Russians they found that a heavy wad of lead from a Martini Henry was quite useful when flung through helicopter rotors. Speaking of antiques, I wonder how many Longbranch No4s were retrieved from the Taliban. We sent a pi$$-pot full of them over there in the early 1980s.
Yes, I read something similar, that a smear of lead from a bullet on the tail rotor was enough to destabilize the helicopter and it had to set down and then it was swarmed and destroyed. Not sure if it was true or not.
Brian James in Facebook page: Battleships, Battlecruisers, & Monitors: The Big Gun Through Two World Wars
The Japanese had a small blast from the past - out of oblivion, the general public was reminded of the existence of the legendary lathe, on which the barrels of Yamato and Mutsu's main armament gun barrels were turned. It is noteworthy that it did not originate from the UK. The Wagner machine, weighing 219 tons, was delivered from Germany in 1938 and installed at Kure Naval Arsenal. It miraculously survived after the war and was later transferred to the metallurgical company Kobe Steel at Takasago, where diesel crankshafts for supertankers and other civilian ships were made on it, the veteran of the Third Reich literally worked until recently. And now, after collecting donations - 240 million yen to date - it should be transferred to the Yamato Museum.
The Japanese had a small blast from the past - out of oblivion, the general public was reminded of the existence of the legendary lathe, on which the barrels of Yamato and Mutsu's main armament gun barrels were turned. It is noteworthy that it did not originate from the UK. The Wagner machine, weighing 219 tons, was delivered from Germany in 1938 and installed at Kure Naval Arsenal. It miraculously survived after the war and was later transferred to the metallurgical company Kobe Steel at Takasago, where diesel crankshafts for supertankers and other civilian ships were made on it, the veteran of the Third Reich literally worked until recently. And now, after collecting donations - 240 million yen to date - it should be transferred to the Yamato Museum.
Brian James in Facebook page: Battleships, Battlecruisers, & Monitors: The Big Gun Through Two World Wars
The Japanese had a small blast from the past - out of oblivion, the general public was reminded of the existence of the legendary lathe, on which the barrels of Yamato and Mutsu's main armament gun barrels were turned. It is noteworthy that it did not originate from the UK. The Wagner machine, weighing 219 tons, was delivered from Germany in 1938 and installed at Kure Naval Arsenal. It miraculously survived after the war and was later transferred to the metallurgical company Kobe Steel at Takasago, where diesel crankshafts for supertankers and other civilian ships were made on it, the veteran of the Third Reich literally worked until recently. And now, after collecting donations - 240 million yen to date - it should be transferred to the Yamato Museum.
As a teen I worked in a construction company shop in Calgary, the owner was an ingenious guy with a couple of patents to his name. He had a lathe from war time gun production at the Ogden shops, not nearly that but a room full.
Grizz
There's a good chance my grandfather used that lathe. He was deaf in one ear, so couldn't serve, but as a skilled machinist they had him building the navel guns (12pounders I think) in the Ogden shops.
Auggie D.
Portrait of a young Soviet soldier in a German POW camp in #Belarus, 1941.
Putin's childhood? Actually, it reminds me of the movie Come and See.
Film was made based on real events described in a book.Good read here http://www.templerodefshalom.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Rudling-PA.-The-Khatyn-Massacre.pdf
After war there were many children in state orphanages in Soviet Union and Poland left with mental scars after similar events.My mother met some of them in early 60s when she was in nursing school.
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Portrait of a young Soviet soldier in a German POW camp in #Belarus, 1941.
I often wonder what happened. Did he live, build a life after the war or die in a camp.
