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A Greman, eh?I learned about the Bangalore torpedo from DC comics, Our Army At War (?). The issue was about Sargent Rock encountering his identical twin at Omaha Beach in a blasted bunker. He was a Greman!
According to a testimony, there were several attacking groups and their mission was to put the bomb, set timer and be back to the base. These three military engineers were not in time to be back for unknown reason. R.I.P.I might not agree with the politics but that took guts.
Great picture. Never went to Berlin but I spent a 3 years in Fulda on the boarder.West German border police observation tower at the Berlin Wall in February, 1962. If anyone is on Facebook, I posted a rather long story about driving to Berlin and East Berlin in 1962. Search on my name "Neil Albaugh" and it should pop up.View attachment 715043
It was our job to protect the Fulda Gap from Soviet & Warsaw Block armor. We were part of V Corps artillery, armed with Corporal IIB guided missiles. It carried either a nuclear or conventional warhead.Great picture. Never went to Berlin but I spent a 3 years in Fulda on the boarder.
Every family has it's version of family fun!My father worked for Pan Am and we used to fly to Berlin to visit family then rent a car and drive thru checkpoints to Poland. Remember all the tank traps, mine field signs that were posted. Remember my dad making a mistake and an East German border guard yelling Halt auf, öffne dein verdammtes Fenster and a bunch of them pointing their sub machine guns at us, fun times. We did that 4 or 5 times and it was always interesting
It was C17E, not D-17E.Just confirmed that Japan Air Transport Co., Ltd. purchased a Beechcraft D-17E in 1936.
Tachikawa & Tokyo Aircraft Co., Ltd. assembled the model in April, 1937 for the first time.
Licensed 20 in total were assembled by April, 1939.
Thanks.
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Source: 10 Years of Japan Air Transport Co., Ltd (1938)