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Desert_Fox said:
Yeah. Why be concerned with the truth.... :(

My beef is that we don't know what that photo is all about. Most likely it's just a staged propaganda photo... Or maybe not... :confused:

Nazi Germany was a horrible and evil regime. We know that. But no matter what the collective group did, no matter how horrible, does not excuse one to implicate EVERY SINGLE person associated with it in the same crimes!

Germany as a nation reaped what she sowed, and deservedly so.

So did the Soviets who invaded Poland, Finland, and the other Baltic countries... Ask any Pole who lost family at Katyn...

The Italians reaped the whirlwind too because of their Fascist Bully Boy Benito. Ask the Abyssinian people, or the Greeks!

I still feel sympathy for the innocent individuals of ALL those countries!

I do not like lumping entire swaths of people into the same category...

Lest we forget!
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I'm well aware that there are many decent people in every country, that goes without saying, one would think. The proportion of @$#%(*'s to decent people varies widely however. Culture, thought and behaviour patterns are also often very different. No one can understand history until they understand that. And remember, the past is prologue.

Lest we forget indeed. Not just that they died, or how they died, but WHY they died. Or were condemned to a living death.
 
Good day Gunnutz New day new picture :)

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Cheers
Joe
 
Pistol or knife on the ankle? What's with the goggles? 1 more question, I've often seen movies and photos of the tommy gun held and fired from the hip like this however I wouldn't think this "spray and prey" tactic was ever actually used. Does anyone here have any first hand full auto .45 experience that could comment?
 
plinker 777 said:
Pistol or knife on the ankle? What's with the goggles? 1 more question, I've often seen movies and photos of the tommy gun held and fired from the hip like this however I wouldn't think this "spray and prey" tactic was ever actually used. Does anyone here have any first hand full auto .45 experience that could comment?
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I fired the TSMG on full auto at the Gunstore in Vegas, from the shoulder, as i was trained on the C1 SMG,..doesn't make me a expert though
 
That last one looks like 506 PIR.

Corcorans and M3 trench knife.

also not an expert, but I have fired a few mags through a M1A1 and close up...this works.* If a man can shoot clays with an upside down and rear facing shotgun through the use of 3''x4'' mirror then this must get easy by a few dozen mags.


* 0-15yrds

P.S. This thread is AMAZING!! Thanks and keep them coming.
 
The St. Étienne Mle 1907 was designed to get around the Hotchkiss patents.
The St. Étienne is a blow foreward design, the opposite of the Hotchkiss.
 
fugawi said:
Here's a Hotchkiss...

But which model, what is the other machine gun? Bonus points for by whom and when.

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twosteam said:
ww1 German photo - 1916 helmets.

Upper gun - Hotchkiss mle. 1914 8mm, gas op, 30 - round strip feed.

Lower gun - maxim 1908/15 - 7.9 mm. (bi-pod, slim water jacket.) recoil opp, 100/250 belt feed.
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Well twosteam you have the machine guns correct, but alas no bonus points for this lass...

Not German soldiers but Polish from the 1 Pulk Strzelców Wilenskich - 1 Rifles Regiment of Vilnius circa the 1920 Polish Bolshevik War.

The giveaway is the Polish braid on the officer in the middle beside the Hotchkiss. Also if you know prewar Polish insignia, you can see the Polish machine gun company crest on the upper left arm of the officer and the soldier in front of him.

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Helmets and the Stielhandgranate were meant to be a bit of a ruse.
 
x westie said:
Victory flypast US navy aircraft over Toyko Bay, 1945, after the Japanese surrender,..thats the USS Missouri in the foreground,..where the surrender was signed
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I guided and became freinds with a fellow from New Jersey who was an A.A. gunner on the Missouri almost for the whole of U.S. involvment in WWII.
A US destoyer was hit by a Kamikazie shortly before the end of hostilities and they lost a lot of deck personel so Bob was transfered over to this destoyer 2 weeks before the signing of surrender. He missed the signing by 2 weeks and most of the elevated pictures of it happening were taken from Bob's gun/duty station. He was royaly pissed at missing it.

I couldn't feel totaly sorry for him as after the war, he married into a very rich family and spent the rest of his life basicly hunting the world. When I first met him he was carrying an "Al Beisen" custom rifle that looked more used and beat up than any barnyard coey you have ever seen.

One interesting fact was that the man was very hard of hearing and said it was a result of his years on the Missouri. When I commented that I would imagine that those big guns would be tough on your ears, his reply was that they didn't bother at all, it was the sharp crack of the 20-30 MM and the 5 inchers that did all the damage.
 
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