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• Oct 30, 2005

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Gnomey

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What gives you that feeling ...

 

• Oct 30, 2005

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Oh nothing....

 

• Oct 30, 2005

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Gnomey

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I have the same feeling...

 

• Oct 30, 2005

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Changing the subject a bit I have another item to add to my list
The Bailey Bridge

 

• Oct 30, 2005

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Good thing to add, it is considered one of the best military engineering feats.

 

• Oct 30, 2005

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DerAdlerIstGelandet said:

Good thing to add, it is considered one of the best military engineering feats.

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I agree Alder.

 

• Oct 30, 2005

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I am glad!

 

• Oct 30, 2005

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There still in use even though they where only meant to be temporary get you by's

 

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• Oct 30, 2005

• #69

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Wow I did not know that some where still in use.

 

• Oct 30, 2005

• #70

plan_D

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Single segments were often used as ferries across rivers too when time did not permit the full construction of a bridge. This was especially useful at the Volturno and Garigliano river crossings in Italy when Germany artillery kept destroying the bridges.

 

• Oct 30, 2005

• #71

102first_hussars

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I heard. close to the end of the war the germans developed these Infra-red scopes that they would attach to their weapons is this true

 

• Oct 30, 2005

• #72

plan_D

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Only one unit had them and they were equipped with StG.44 Vampire assault rifles and Panther G tanks with infra-red optical equipment.

 

• Oct 30, 2005

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Here's my list...

1) The war-built USN Battleships (i.e "North Carolina" onwards)

2) Escort Carriers

3) Churchill tank

4)MG42

5)ASDIC (sonar)

6)U-boats

7)Stg.44 (daddy of all modern infantry assault weapons)

8)Panzerfaust/Panzershreck (daddy of all infantry anti-armour weapons)

9)Guderian (first guy to put the theory of mechanized warfare into practice)

10)The Paras - who else would not only get to Arnhem, but take the objectives then fight off two SS panzer divisions until they simply ran out of people and ammo?!

 

• Oct 30, 2005

• #74

Erich

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Actually the Luftwaffe developed infa-red detector systems for their Bf 110G-4 and Do 217 night fighters early in the war, discontinued them and then brought them back re-designed and refined for the Ju 88G-6 in spring of 45.

 

• Oct 30, 2005

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schwarzpanzer

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PlanD said:

Look in a medical dictionary.

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Oh, you mean hemorrhoids? You said hemroids. So you missed an o, an r and a h.
- Pedantry's such a bitch ain't it?

Related to the Bailey Bridge is the pre-fab house, suprising longevity on those. 8)

102 Hussars said:

I heard. close to the end of the war the germans developed these Infra-red scopes that they would attach to their weapons is this true

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I showed you one IIRC?

BombTaxi said:

Stg.44 (daddy of all modern infantry assault weapons)

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The Fedorov Avtomat was first.


I'd also like to add the .45 ACP to this little list.

 

• Oct 30, 2005

• #76

plan_D

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No it's not, schwarz, look:

http://www.hemroids.us/hemroid-symptoms.htm

Look at that, U.S spelling, hemroids. Nice try, pinky.

 

• Oct 30, 2005

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schwarzpanzer

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Didn't know you were a Yankee-Doodle-Dandy, PD!

 

• Oct 30, 2005

• #78

plan_D

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Never realised it's easier to talk to Americans in American rather than English?

 

• Oct 30, 2005

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schwarzpanzer

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No, I find they understand me fine, the original way.

 

• Oct 30, 2005

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plan_D

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You obviously don't speak real English then. Or, actually, you don't speak to enough Americans for them to find those obscure words in the English language.

I talk to Americans all the time and I have a lot of American friends. They're much more interesting than the British people - cultural differences are interesting. And it's good entertainment when they visit me and have to question everything, even when they've visited me before and asked the same thing last time.