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[Buckmastr]

Ensign Ardon Rector Ives escaped from his burning Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat when his plane burst into flames after crash landing on USS Lexington (CV-16) on February 25, 1945. Ardon Ives survived only to be KIA in a dogfight with Japanese fighters just a few weeks later on March 18, 1945 (aged 23).

 

[brokenspokes1812]

post 22301 that the one where the belly tank dislodged on landing and went into the still rotating prop ?

 

[tokguy]

I would suspect that they carried at least 1 more likely 2 - 20 liter jerrycans as part of the Veh EIS

I would agree with you on that conclusion. For that unit to go 585 kms...it would need to be well supplied with jerry cans.
I drive a fair amount of unusual trucks. I'm going to go with a polite bit cynicism on that kms per liter estimate.
I always think in mpg...that usage is 14 mpg ( US) or a better looking 16 in imperial gallons per mile.
I would guess that rate is calculated at about 70 kms per hour, on pavement, downhill with a tailwind empty.
Respectfully submitted with a smile of course
Almost always enjoy this post...rarely gets salty here...don't want to change that either.

 

[Buckmastr]

post 22301 that the one where the belly tank dislodged on landing and went into the still rotating prop ?

Not sure but that looks about right considering the fire.

 

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BENE - C.C.2358
- Rudimentary showers with water heated by the sun, at the Bene barracks.
- Infirmary where some natives patiently wait their turn.

 

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A moment of leisure in the refectory of the barracks in P. Amélia.
The soldier standing on the left is Augusto Silva. He was the only soldier who had no platoon.
He went out with all of them, every day, following the conductors of the mine-blaster.
For this reason, he gave him a special status, accepted by all, which was the following.
He had a woman who he found in the village, so he slept with her every day, and he didn't even come to the barracks.
For that, the conductors of the mine-buster took him a weapon, and a column near the hut where he lives, and they picked up Augusto Silva at the beginning of the escorts and left him in the same place on the way back.

It's because?
Because to this soldier many of us owed his life, because he was a real minesweeper, with an incredible lynx eye.
He detected endless mines and he always continued standing with absolute concentration on the road and, because he passed there every day.
He knew how to distinguish any alteration that might occur in it; he received the Governor General award and was praised by me and the Commander-in-Chief. Oh, and he was put in the Left for punishment, after serving a sentence in Xefina (I think that's what a particular prison was called).
LUIS COIMBRA,

 

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JAGDPANZER IV / 70 A

 

[donor]

That JAGDPANZER looks a lot like SU-76i.

 

[VanIsleCam]

I'm curious on the armor thickness. The glacis looks 1/2 the thickness of the fixed turret. Was the idea that it's low profile so likely to only take higher hits?

 

[donor]

From "Odd things that flew" category- Beechcraft Model 34. One build and crashed. Too many surplus C-47/DC-3 on the market killed it.

 

[Tikka223]

From "Odd things that flew" category- Beechcraft Model 34. One build and crashed. Too many surplus C-47/DC-3 on the market killed it.

Interesting. Where are the engines?

 

[bearhunter]

Looks like two turboprops, one on each wing.

You can see the air intakes.

 

[CV32]

I'm curious on the armor thickness. The glacis looks 1/2 the thickness of the fixed turret. Was the idea that it's low profile so likely to only take higher hits?

60 mm (at 50 deg) on the front superstructure, and front upper hull (at 45 deg)
50 mm (at 45 deg) on the front lower hull
30 mm (at 30 deg) on the side superstructure, and side upper and lower hull (at 0 deg)
20 mm (at 35 deg) on the rear superstructure
20 mm (at 11 deg) on the rear upper hull and rear lower hull (at 9 deg)
20 mm (at 90 deg) on the superstructure top and bottom
10 mm (at 90 deg) on the upper hull top and bottom
12 mm + 10 mm (at 90 deg) on the lower top and bottom
80 mm (Saukopfblende, the rounded shape) on the gun mantlet

 

[HuskyDude]

Looks like two turboprops, one on each wing.

You can see the air intakes.

Two in each wing!!!! Twin Quad!!!

The unusual engine layout that led to its popular nickname, "Twin Quad." The four engines were buried in the wings, with each pair of engines connected to a single propeller via clutches and a common gear box.[1] The engines were horizontally opposed eight-cylinder air-cooled Lycoming GSO-580s[1] (GSO denoting "Geared Supercharged and Opposed", with each engine featuring a built-in reduction gear box in addition to the common propeller gear box). The engines were rated at 400 horsepower at 3,300 rpm.

 

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Aleixo Corte-Real (born Nai-Sesu; Ainaro, 1886 — Timor, May 1943), better known simply as Dom Aleixo, was an East Timorese nobleman.
While still young, in 1911-1912, he fought with the Portuguese a column of insurgents, coming from Manufahi, commanded by the liurai Dom Boaventura.
Having later converted to Catholicism, he was baptized in 1931, then adopting the name by which he became known. Dom Aleixo was Soro's liurai.
In 1942, during World War II, the Japanese invaded the island of Timor where some Australian companies were stationed that offered resistance, counting on the support of some Timorese population.
The Black Columns, East Timorese militias armed by the Japanese, sowed terror among the civilian population until the end of the three-year occupation.
Dom Aleixo Corte-Real, who opposed the Japanese invasion since its inception, fought against Japanese troops and black columns, being captured in 1943.
Shortly thereafter he was shot with his entire family.
During the period after World War II he was a central figure in the colonial promotion of the Portuguese Estado Novo regime, and it is argued that Dom Aleixo was killed for having remained faithful to Portugal, refusing to surrender the Portuguese flag he had hidden.

 

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[grelmar]

I love a good Dazzle Cam paint job.

Olympic, in her wartime colours, working as a troop transport. She had a more successful career than either of her sister ships.

 

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^ "The Olympic-class ships were 269.13 metres (883.0 ft) long, displacing 52,310 long tons (53,150 t) normally (their draft at this displacement being 34 ft 7 in or 10.5 m), and their tonnage was around 45–46,000 GRT.[25] Olympic became the largest ship in the world when it was completed in May, 1911 before losing the title to its sister Titanic when she was completed in April, 1912. After the loss of Titanic the third sister ship Britannic claimed the title of largest British-built ship until her own sinking in November 1916. After this Olympic would enjoy the title for 20 years until the commissioning of RMS Queen Mary in 1936.[26] All three vessels sported four funnels, with the fourth being a dummy which was used for ventilation and aesthetic purposes. Smoke from the galleys and Smoking Room fireplaces and fumes from the engine rooms was exhausted through a chimney up the forward portion of this funnel. On the one hand it was a decoration to establish a symmetry in the ships' profile, on the other hand, acting as a huge ventilation shaft, it prevented the large amount of ventilation cowls on deck as on Cunard's Lusitania and Mauretania.[27]"

 

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