Picture of the day.

[michaelmaltby]

 

[michaelmaltby]

Kiel, August, 1942

 

[fastmongrel]

USMC M4 with captured Type 94 tankette on the engine deck

 

[Wurger]

 

[at6]

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"He gave me flowers, dinner, dancing, but will he call me tomorrow?"

 

[Greg Boeser]

somethings never change

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Boy, that brought back memories. I spent two years in the 24th ID (Mech) in the 80's, stationed at Ft Stewart, GA. As part of the RDF our vehicles were all desert sand. When I transferred to the reserves here in MN, our vehicles were woodland camo. It was a weird culture shock. Later, when mobilized for OIF, I spent a year in the desert, again operating desert sand camo vehicles. I remember on one of the few occasions I went into the "Green Zone" in Baghdad. There, parked in front of some HQ, was a spotless woodland camo Humvee, looking like it had just been unpacked from the box. It looked so out of place, that I wanted to touch it, to make sure I wasn't hallucinating.

 

[michaelmaltby]

Prinz Eugen

 

[fastmongrel]

Type 4 Chi-To tank. If you thought all Japanese tanks were puny collections of rivets and machine guns this would have been a nasty surprise for any Sherman tank in 1945. Thick welded sloped armour, heavy 75mm gun and a top speed of 30mph it was the equivalent of the M4E8 series of Shermans and arguably better. Luckily for the Allies shortages of factories and materials meant only 2 prototypes were built.

 

[michaelmaltby]

P-61s being unloaded in the South Pacific

 

[michaelmaltby]

 

[Elmas]

 

[michaelmaltby]

 

[michaelmaltby]

 

[michaelmaltby]

 

[Airframes]

"I see Walter over-cooked lunch again !"

 

[buffnut453]

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And once again Hans's teammates felt the full force of his love of bratwurst, sauerkraut and Brussel sprout sandwiches.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Smokey Stover]

A Canadian soldier inspects a German self-propelled mine "Goliath» (Sd. Land MineJuno BeachWw2

 

[Smokey Stover]

A German infantryman walks toward the body of a killed Soviet soldier and a burning BT-7 light tank in the southern Soviet Union in in 1941, during the early days of Operation Barbarossa.

 

[fastmongrel]

Hungarian 8cm Bofors AA gun Russia 1942