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[Por_sha911]

Holocaust Remembrance Day 4/28/22

[Racerbvd]

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by Steve Carlton

Vostok 1 was Gagarin's only spaceflight, but he served as the backup crew to the Soyuz 1 mission, which ended in a fatal crash, killing his friend and fellow cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov. Fearful that a national hero might be killed, Soviet officials banned Gagarin from further spaceflights. After completing training at the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy in February 1968, he was allowed to fly regular aircraft. Gagarin died five weeks later when the MiG-15 training jet he was piloting with flight instructor Vladimir Seryogin crashed near the town of Kirzhach.

- Wikipedia

Gagarin was a Class act, They had already met the year before and befriended, so when Bob Hoover was visiting Russia for something to do with aviation. Bob did some fancy acro and amazed the crowd to the point it irked the local authorities.. and that resulted in the KGB causing trouble for Bob, soldiers , off to his room, and when Gararin found out, he was at the same venue.. Gagarin intervened and pretty much told the KGB to go F themselves and that was that, the KGB backed off.
That was the status he had in the old CCCP..

[Baz]

[GH85Carrera]

Park Superintendent trip to the Petrified Forest National Park in 1927. This trip was part of an effort to create a driving route for tourists between several western National Parks. The photograph was taken on the road to Petroglyph Canyon, at the south end of the park.

[Por_sha911]

Mi-17 recently in the news. I didn't know they were still in operation.

[GH85Carrera]

Piles of Rifles surrendered by German Soldiers after the End of the Second World War, 1945.


Three generations of women outside their stone cottage in Ireland 1927

[VINMAN]

[GH85Carrera]

April 7th 1999 – A Boeing KC-135R-BN Stratotanker, 57-1418, c/n 17549, of the 153rd Air Refueling Squadron, Air National Guard, was undergoing maintenance at the Oklahoma ALC, Tinker AFB, Oklahoma, when the cabin was over-pressurized during a test and ruptured, tearing a massive 35 foot hole in the aft fuselage, allowing tail section to commence a self-executed rapid kinetic disassembly, and unceremoniously dropped to the ground.
Whoops! I bet they still use that disaster as a training example of what NOT to do.






These progressive high school girls learn the finer points of auto mechanics in 1927.

[Racerbvd]

[id10t]

Originally Posted by Racerbvd

houses on stilts are kinda common over in Cedar Key....

[asphaltgambler]

How does that thing not rack itself, or sideways as there us nothing tying the columns diagonally top / bottom or side to side??

[masraum]

Originally Posted by asphaltgambler

How does that thing not rack itself, or sideways as there us nothing tying the columns diagonally top / bottom or side to side??

It's just waiting for a gentle breeze. It's going to be a helluva ride though!

I'm pretty sure this guys name is W.E. Coyote

[bkreigsr]

BKreigJr. taking a former late-nite host for some hot laps.
Car is the Czinger 21C.

[GH85Carrera]

Launched: 5 April 1958 - USS Growler (SSG-577)
Growler was laid down on 15 February 1955 by the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard of Kittery, Maine. She was launched on 5 April 1958 sponsored by Mrs. Robert K. Byerts, widow of Commander Thomas B. Oakley, Jr., who commanded the third Growler on her 9th, 10th, and fatal 11th war patrols.
According to the documentary "Regulus: The First Nuclear Missile Submarines", the primary target for Growler in the event of a nuclear exchange would be to eliminate the Soviet naval base at Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The patrols made by Growler and her sisters represented the first ever deterrent patrols in the history of the submarine Navy, preceding those made by the Polaris missile submarines.
From May 1960 through December 1963, Growler made nine such deterrent mission patrols, the fourth of which, terminated at Yokosuka, Japan, on 24 April 1962, as the Navy displayed one of its newest weapons.
Decommissioned, 25 May 1964, at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA.;
Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Mare Island Group; Struck from the Naval Register, 30 September 1980;
Final Disposition, on permanent display, 29 September 1988, as a museum ship, Intrepid Park, New York, NY.
Photo caption: Growler (SSG-577) looking over her bulbous missile hanger, underway, with a Regulus missile in the launcher pod. Circa 1959-60.


On March 26, 1945, the American General Patton sends a task force on a secret mission, which is supposed to be a diversion, but in fact aims to free Patton's son-in-law Lieutenant Colonel John K. Waters from the German prisoner camp Oflag XIII-B near Hammelburg in Germany. On 26 March 1945, LTC Creighton Abrams, commanding officer of Combat Command B - 4th US Armored Division, gathered the special task force. The camp was taken by this task force on March 27, 1945, but the liberators did not have the capacity to take all 1500 POWs with them and were forced to leave those requiring medical attention behind until reinforcements could come. After several hours of dodging German troops, "Task Force Baum" was surrounded at a nearby farm. Captain Baum, wounded in the leg, was captured the following evening and sent to Oflag XIII-B at Hammelburg.
The 14th Armored Division liberated the camp on April 6th, 1945 just two weeks after the failed Task Force Baum raid and freeing Baum and Waters. Captain Baum was returned to the 4th Armored Division soon after. He was promoted to Major and Patton was alleged to have offered Baum a Medal of Honor for a successful completion of the mission. As a Medal of Honor warrants an investigation into the events behind the awarding of it, which Patton would not have wanted, Baum received a Distinguished Service Cross. Patton awarded it to him personally.
The mission was a total failure, of the 314 officers and men, 26 were killed during the raid. Only a few made it back to the American lines, the rest was taken prisoners by the Germans. General Patton stated later that he didn't know for sure, that his son-in-law was in Camp Hammelburg. He said that his goals were to liberated American POWs and to bluff the Germans about the Third Army's direction of attack.

[dafischer]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

What's that Storm Trooper's right hand doing?

[HobieMarty]

Originally Posted by dafischer

What's that Storm Trooper's right hand doing?

It appears to be putting a smile on her face!!!

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[masraum]

Originally Posted by dafischer

What's that Storm Trooper's right hand doing?

Originally Posted by HobieMarty

It appears to be putting a smile on her face!!!

Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk

Looks like maybe he's turning on the headlights.

completely different kind of stormtrooper

[GH85Carrera]

April 7, 1877, the Gem Variety Theater opened in Deadwood, SD. Described as “neat and tastefully arranged as any place of its kind,” it was a masquerade for its primary purpose as a brothel.


Outdoor gymnasium and playground, Chicago, 1903.


In the fall of 1876, a successful business man from Georgia named John Saber, arrived in Prescott Arizona to try his luck in gold mining. John Saber purchased numerous mining claims along Lynx Creek but he didn't care much for how crowded the place was, and he wanted to find a place that might produce better gold than Lynx Creek.
By the Spring of 1877, Saber set off alone from Prescott into the dangerous Bradshaw Mountains with only his horse and a pack mule with few supplies and a bulk of mining equipment. Within a month he returned in town with two saddle bag's full of beautiful quartz laced with gold. He purchased two more pack animals and loaded them with as much supplies as he could and even more mining equipment.
A Captain stationed at Ft Whipple asked to escort the prospector with his detachment to as far as Rose Peak (Now Antelope Peak) as the Apache were recently active in the mountains nearby.
Saber agreed and stated that his recent discovery was just a days ride from Rose Peak. Once at the peak and having camped for two days, the military escort continued their patrol and Saber returned to his mine. This was the last time the citizens of Prescott ever seen John Saber alive.
During the late summer, a Chinese laborer collecting firewood from one of the many mining camps came upon a dead man sitting upright against a Ponderosa Pine, his horse and a pack animal hobbled nearby and heavily dehydrated. When others arrived they noticed that this was the man's camp and that there was no sign of foul play. While going through the dead man's clothes, they found documents, a book and a pocket watch identifying the man as John Saber.
Upon closer inspection they could see the cause of death, Saber was bitten by a Rattlesnake and had a slow, agonizing death.
In one of Saber's pack's was 100lbs of crushed rich gold ore which was ready for smelting. Obviously he was making his way into town to have his discovery properly assayed and possibly even file a legitimate claim, but sadly never made it.
No attempt was made to find his mine during that time as the Bradshaw's were so active with the Apache raiding the mining camps and local ranches.
The Saber mine has never been found and the only real clue we have is that it is a day's ride from Rose Peak (Now Antelope Peak).




The U.S. Navy battleship USS Iowa (BB-61) in floating dry dock ABSD-2 at Manus, Admirality Islands, on 28 December 1944, high and dry on the keel blocks. The Camouflage Measure 32, Design 1B camouflage can still be seen on this side.USN Image

[Seahawk]

In my best ZZ T: "They got a lot of nice girls...have mercy."



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