Picture of the day

Hey fellow nutters, if you are looking for a GOOD read during Christmas I have nothing but praise for this one. As for the "milsurp" side of things a lot of the book is wartime based, at least up to as far as I am into this page turner.

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Love to find out the history of that pic!!

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I am guessing the largest armada of NATO warships ever assembled was for Operation Silver Tower in 1968 where 200 warships participated in maneuvres designed to simulate a NATO response to the invasion of Norway by: 'Orange.'

There is not a whole lot of public media of the ex probably due to secrecy and the simple fact the armada covered a vast area of the North Atlantic Ocean.
 
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"Largest Mosquito to hit a car's windshield."

I had a similar problem explaining how a Cessna 180 did a long take-off on a short runway and hit my motorhome. Pictures are worth a thousand words.
 
Christmas Time in Muenster

Went and visited Muenster for the Christmas Markets. It was mulled wine and bratwurst everywhere. Surrounded by my peeps and memories of past visitors.

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Those aren't children. At least not anything like the children you or I have ever met. Those are SS Infantry men and are brain poisoned idiologs. They'd march your grade 9 kid into a slave camp or up against a brick execution wall and wouldn't bat an eye. Stone cold killers.

How would I know you might ask? When I was a kid, my neighbors was a decorated (Distinguished Service Medal) WW2 veteran whose actions at the battle of Otterlo against these very troops left him forever changed.

(He burned them out of their entrenchments with his WASP. An armored Bren Gun carrier that was outfitted with a static flame thrower. He was in charge of 3 WASPS, and they collectively turned the battle)
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Thanks for sharing. Very interesting but as with all war, brutally disheartening
 
Painkillers said:
Those aren't children. At least not anything like the children you or I have ever met. Those are SS Infantry men and are brain poisoned idiologs. They'd march your grade 9 kid into a slave camp or up against a brick execution wall and wouldn't bat an eye. Stone cold killers.

How would I know you might ask? When I was a kid, my neighbour was a decorated (Distinguished Service Medal) WW2 veteran whose actions at the battle of Otterlo against these very troops left him forever changed.

(He burned them out of their entrenchments with his WASP. An armoured Bren Gun carrier that was outfitted with a static flame thrower. He was in charge of 3 WASPS, and they collectively turned the battle)
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Well thank goodness that sort of abusive brainwashing of children has stopped.

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I think it was an AP journalist that published a statement after the Mei Lie massacre in Viet Nam..."Civilized America just got a first hand glimpse of what well raised, civilized American young men are capable of doing on a daily basis"
 
My first look at historic chips out of buildings was along the east bank of the Rhine at Koln. Plenty of peppering aorund west-facing windows. Reconnaisance by fire, I suppose, or guys just not taking chances.

The cathedral really is an astonishing object. Nothing quite like it anywhere else.
 
R005t3r said:
Went and visited Muenster for the Christmas Markets. It was mulled wine and bratwurst everywhere. Surrounded by my peeps and memories of past visitors.

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I was born in Germany and went back once, very difficult to find any sign of the war's devastation, you have to look for it, the rebuilding has been amazing. Time will tell if the same applies for the Ukraine, given the pounding the Russians are giving it.:mad:

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I witnessed that re: war damage to The Dom. Incredible destruction all around from the wartime footage. An edifice of the ages of humanity.
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There is some combat footage of that area around the cathedral, I was there in 2006, you'd never know a lot of people fought died there.

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Toured Berlin before the wall came down and had to laugh when I saw the Olympic Stadium bell that was struck by a round, far to dead on center to JUST be a random hit. I just know someone way back in the day in a tank just could not resist ringing it with a well placed round.
 
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