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Originally Posted by kach22i

Aug 2, 2021
The U.S. Military 'Failed Miserably' in a Fake Battle Over Taiwan
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a37158827/us-military-failed-miserably-in-taiwan-invasion-wargame/

Well that's just BS.. there's no failing in a war game.

If you always win at war games, you're not doing em right, and have set the conditions to favorable (Which won't always be the case in actual war).. To have good war games, there have to be good twists and problems that aren't forseen. And one side getting his ass handed to him, should only motivate them into getting better , fixing their problems, doctrine and everything else.

[bkreigsr]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Lucy had big problems backing up the 51 Merc rag-top with Desi giving instructions.

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Originally Posted by bkreigsr

Lucy had big problems backing up the 51 Merc rag-top with Desi giving instructions.

The Long Long Trailer

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[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by Racerbvd

That sequence is hysterical!

[Bill Douglas]

Originally Posted by Racerbvd

Mechanic to customer "I know what the problem is. It's a seal."

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[GH85Carrera]

The German Field Marshal Kesselring conferred on March 10, 1945 with senior Luftwaffe commanders, urging them to destroy the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen and any auxiliary bridges the Americans might construct. From 8 through 16 March, 1945 the Luftwaffe tried. The German planes struck at the railroad bridge, at the ferries, and at the tactical bridges, but with no success. Even when the German pilots got through the fighter screen, they ran into a dense curtain of antiaircraft fire. American antiaircraft units estimated that during the nine days they destroyed 109 German planes and probably eliminated 36 others out of a total of 367 that attacked. From 12 through 17 March 1945 a rocket unit with weapons emplaced in the Netherlands fired eleven V-2's (Vergeltungswaffen, for vengeance) in the direction of the bridge, the first and only tactical use of either of the so-called German V-weapons during World War II. One rocket hit a house 300 yards east of the bridge, killing three American soldiers and wounding fifteen.
That was the only damage. In the night of 16 March, the Germans tried another method, seven underwater swimmers in special rubber suits and carrying packages of plastic explosive compound - but from the first the Americans had anticipated such a gambit. When the German swimmers first tried to reach the bridge, American artillery fire discouraged them from entering the water. On the next night, they moved not against the railroad bridge but against tactical pontoon bridges, only to be spotted by the American searchlights. Blinded by the lights, the seven Germans, one by one, surrendered. On March 17, 1945 the Ludendorff Bridge finally collapsed while two hundred soldiers from the 276th Engineer Combat Battalion and 1058th Engineer Port Construction and Repair Group were still desperately working to maintain it, killing twenty-eight soldiers and injured sixty-three others. By that time, however, the Allies had gained a true foothold deep in German territory.
Source: The last Offensive by Charles B. MacDonald
Picture: The Ludendorff Bridge on March 17, 1945, approximately four hours before its collapse. National Archives and Records Administration.


Sac and Fox tribal members in front of a bark-covered lodge house, somewhere in Kansas. c.1850-1870 photo.


Abilene became Kansas’s first “queen” of the cowtowns when the first Texas herds arrived in 1867 at the frontier village on the Smoky Hill River. Four years later, after more than 440,000 beeves were shipped out of the former stage stop, Texas drovers shifted their herds to new railheads in Newton, Ellsworth and Wichita.

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[masraum]

Originally Posted by Racerbvd

Ring doorbell camera so you can see if anyone steals gas?

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WTF?

[GH85Carrera]

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Oklahoma became one of the nation’s leaders in peach and stone fruit production.
Pictured: Oklahoma homesteaders depended on family members of all ages to harvest fruit trees to get the valuable crops to market on time.


Years of drought have caused the city to emerge from its watery grave.




Leo Major’s story is so preposterous that Hollywood still hasn’t made a movie about it.
A French-Canadian who saw action in the Normandy landings, Leo began his military career by capturing an armored vehicle full of communications equipment, providing the Allies with invaluable intelligence. He then single-handedly took out a group of elite Nazi SS troops, but lost his left eye after a dying enemy managed to ignite a phosphorus grenade. When a doctor tried to send him home, Leo reportedly replied that he only needed one eye to aim.
He later broke several bones in his back, but again refused to be evacuated, returning to the battlefield to participate in the liberation of Holland. During an early-morning reconnaissance mission at the Battle of the Scheldt, he spotted a German contingent in a village, most of them asleep. A typical soldier would have returned to report to a superior, but for a guy like Leo this was an opportunity.
He captured the German commander, and after killing a few soldiers, the entire company of 93 men surrendered to him. He then escorted them back to the Allied lines. But Leo’s greatest feat was still to come.
In April 1945, the Canadians were tasked with liberating the Dutch city of Zwolle. Their plan was to bombard the German positions with artillery until they surrendered. Leo was once again sent on a reconnaissance mission, this time with a friend. His superiors really should’ve known better. Realizing that an artillery barrage would also kill innocent civilians, Leo and his buddy Willie decided to liberate the city all by themselves.
Unfortunately, around midnight, Willie was shot and killed. Enraged, Leo grabbed his friend’s weapon and gunned down two Germans, with the others fleeing in terror. He then proceeded to capture a different German vehicle and forced the driver to bring him to an enemy officer at a nearby tavern. Leo then informed the surprised officer that the town was surrounded by an overwhelming Canadian force and that an attack was imminent, before strolling out of the tavern and disappearing into the night.
The next step was to convince the Germans that what he had told the officer was true. Leo spent the rest of the night racing around the town, gunning down Nazis and throwing grenades like a one-man army.
After seeing their comrades gunned down by a mad Canadian in an eyepatch, most enemy soldiers made the smart choice and surrendered. As the night wore on, Leo kept appearing at the Allied lines with groups of confused German prisoners—before returning to the city.
His final feat was to clear out the local SS headquarters. By 4:00 AM, the Germans had abandoned the town. The artillery attack was canceled, the city saved by a single man. Leo received numerous medals for his deeds in World War II, and earned even more in Korea. Leo Major died in 2008, but his memory lives on in Zwolle, where he is regarded as a hero.


Italy, in the garden of Pier Francesco Orsini. 1952.

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[GH85Carrera]

very early Route 66 photo yesterday. It is of the construction of what would become Rt. 66 just west of Alanreed, Texas. No year is quoted. It appears to be even before Rt. 66 was established. They said, "This pic is in the museum on Main Street in Mclean - some of these men are family to Mr. John Morrow, his kin in this picture are great grandfather and grandfather other uncles and great uncles- this is the construction of 66 just west of Alanreed." This is courtesy of Blanca Schaffer at the "Jericho on 66" page.


US Soldiers utilize a captured German MG 151/20 Drilling Anti-Aircraft Gun at the Bridgehead in Remagen Germany - March 1945
The German MG 151/20 Drilling combined three MG 151 20mm cannons into one gun mount.
The MG 151/20 was a German 20mm aircraft-mounted autocannon produced by Waffenfabrik Mauser, as the Luftwaffe transitioned to 30mm cannons later in WW2, extra MG 151’s were made available for Anti-Aircraft gun mounts.
LIFE Magazine Archives - John Florea Photographer


This is supposed to be the next super spy plane, the DR72. Mach 6. I hope we have something like it. I will be surprised to find it is real.




Turbine Spiral Housing for the Sungari Power Station in Manchuria 1939


An approach is like a fart...if you have to force it, it is probably crap.

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