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• Aug 4, 2019

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michaelmaltby

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... with a coat like that ... he has a lot to be thankful for

 

• Aug 4, 2019

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michaelmaltby

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• Aug 4, 2019

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I have never seen these pictures until today. Amazing sequence.

US B-25D bomber being destroyed by the blast of a bomb of a preceding friendly bomber, Hansa Bay, Australian New Guinea, 28 Aug 1943

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Damn.

 

• Aug 4, 2019

• #14,664

Gnomey

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Good shots!

 

• Aug 4, 2019

• #14,665

fastmongrel

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Gunners of 'G' Battery (Mercer's Troop), Royal Horse Artillery, inside a Type 28A pillbox armed with a Hotchkiss 6 pounder, 29 October 1940. The corrugated texture on the walls and ceiling is from the corrugated iron sheeting used as a concrete former.

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• Aug 4, 2019

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michaelmaltby

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... the effect isn't half bad, quite pleasing

 

• Aug 4, 2019

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michaelmaltby

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Some people were shocked by this practise ... same using frozen corpses as sandbags .... but dead is dead ... you do what you have to do and pray it doesn't ruin your life afterwards

 

• Aug 4, 2019

• #14,668

Airframes

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Common practice. A few (live) troops drop onto the wire, crushing it down, and the rest run over them, last men helping the 'liers' to untangle and join in the fun.

 

• Aug 4, 2019

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michaelmaltby

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understood ....

 

• Aug 5, 2019

• #14,670

Snautzer01

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Airframes said:

Common practice. A few (live) troops drop onto the wire, crushing it down, and the rest run over them, last men helping the 'liers' to untangle and join in the fun.

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1942 Press Photo Australian Soldiers Train in Negotiating Barbed Wire | eBay

 

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• Aug 5, 2019

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Snautzer01

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• Aug 5, 2019

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Snautzer01

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Frankreich Fort Déroulède Besatzung v. 22.VI bis 3.VII.1940 -Pz.Jg.Abt.230(p349) | eBay

The replacement has a lot to learn about the ways of the occupation force in France.

 

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• Aug 5, 2019

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michaelmaltby

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• Aug 5, 2019

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fastmongrel

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Airframes said:

Common practice. A few (live) troops drop onto the wire, crushing it down, and the rest run over them, last men helping the 'liers' to untangle and join in the fun.

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I got tangled up in some barbed wire once when on a country ramble. I still have a couple of scars.

 

• Aug 5, 2019

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swampyankee

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Snautzer01 said:

Frankreich Fort Déroulède Besatzung v. 22.VI bis 3.VII.1940 -Pz.Jg.Abt.230(p349) | eBay

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"Rudi, you need to wash behind your ears!"

" Mama! "

 

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• Aug 5, 2019

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Aaron Brooks Wolters

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USS Augusta (CA-31). "Undated, war time image. Note cage masts have been cut down and SG search radar has been added." No photo credit available.

 

• Aug 5, 2019

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michaelmaltby

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• Aug 5, 2019

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stug3

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Canadair CL-13 Sabre

 

• Aug 5, 2019

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Tieleader

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Snautzer01 said:

1942 Press Photo Australian Soldiers Train in Negotiating Barbed Wire | eBay

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the looks on their faces says it all !

 

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• Aug 5, 2019

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USS Augusta (CA-31). "Undated, war time image. Note cage masts have been cut down and SG search radar has been added." No photo credit available.

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I don't have much of a date for this photo but the class only had all these alterations towards the end of the war approx. Sept 1944 onwards but I don't think the Augusta had these completed before end 1944.