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[Racerbvd]

[WPOZZZ]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Corinth Canal? I stood on a bridge overlooking the canal and it was really high! We were at a souvlaki stand and the guy charged us all different prices.

[GH85Carrera]

World War II Paratroopers sitting across from themselves in the same plane that dropped them into Normandy in 1944.

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

World War II Paratroopers sitting across from themselves in the same plane that dropped them into Normandy in 1944.

How cool is that? ^

[Por_sha911]

^^
Not cool Flat. I miss Z on the team (and winning another cup)

Random:

[flatbutt]

[QUOTE=Por_sha911;11709318]^^


I guess that was a bit thoughtless, my bad . I was going for the laugh at Panger needing to tape his mic to a stick in order to talk to Zdeno.

[Racerbvd]

[chapstic2001]

[GH85Carrera]

A US Army Corporal of the 14th Armored Division, Arthur P. Garrett of Terre Haute, IN, completes the additional armor of an M4A2 Sherman tank, applying cement to sandbags.
The tank belongs to the 25th Tank Battalion, according to marking on Gun Barrell.
Based on unit histories and building in the background, this photo was probably taken around January/February 1945.
It is said that the use of sandbags on tanks as field modifications intended to increase crew survivability in medium (Sherman) and light (Stuart) tanks primarily served to improve crew morale as the layering of sandbags on the outer hull of their vehicles made them feel safer.
However, sandbags proved to be an effective means of preventing the penetration of the tank''s armor by the shaped charges (high explosive, anti-tank) fired from hand-held German panzerfausts and panzerschrecks. (Both were similar in nature to the widely known bazooka used by US forces.) The added protection afforded by sandbags allowed medium tank crews to continue their missions even after being hit by multiple rounds from German panzerfausts and panzerschrecks. Sandbags were especially helpful because tanks of the 14th Armored Division experienced unusually high levels of combat in urban environments during which attacks by hand-held anti-tank weapons were very common.
Sandbags were much less effective in protecting against armor penetrations by solid anti-tank rounds (shots) fired from high-velocity guns such as the notorious 88mm. However, there are a few recorded instances in which a sandbagged medium tank absorbed one or more hits from shots fired by high-velocity anti-tank guns without hull penetration. In subfreezing weather, the moisture in the sandbags froze making them as hard as concrete. Frozen sandbags defeated shots fired from high velocity anti-tank rounds on numerous occasions.
General Patton's charge towards the end of the war that the added weight of sandbags caused the bogie wheels and suspensions of tanks to wear out quickly is not borne out by the contents of the division G-4 Journal. In fact, there is no mention of excessive wear or damage to these components, and the division did not require abnormal amounts of replacements for these components.
The only exception is seen among certain units which were equipped with already worn-out M5 light tanks which were issued to the division on its arrival at Marseilles in lieu of new light tanks. These old tanks, as well as some equally worn-out half-tracks were obtained from the junk yard of an Ordnance Supply Depot, and were discovered to have first been in combat during the North African campaign.
By April, 1945 the bogies on these North African light tanks were completely worn out, and required replacement in the field, but given the extraordinary number of miles they had traveled the bogies lasted considerably longer than expected - even carrying the added weight of sandbags.

[Por_sha911]

[QUOTE=flatbutt;11709323]

Originally Posted by Por_sha911

^^
I guess that was a bit thoughtless, my bad . I was going for the laugh at Panger needing to tape his mic to a stick in order to talk to Zdeno.

Its all good. I was being overly melodramatic.

[Heel n Toe]

[GH85Carrera]

Situated on a steep slope of Cleopatra Hill, Jerome, Arizona is in the most unlikely location for a major mining city. Once one of the largest cities in Arizona, today Jerome is a small town of around 450 people, but numerous historic buildings remain.

[JackDidley]

[GH85Carrera]

Jeanne Bauer walks with a DynaTAC mobile phone on 6th Avenue in New York, accompanied by John Mitchell, the Motorola engineer behind the phone. (1973






Cappadocia, Turkey

[Baz]

Charlie Hustle:

[GH85Carrera]

Based on a 1930 Henderson—presumably the 100 mph (160 km/h) Streamline model—and was built in 1936 by a gent called O. Ray Courtney.




Main Street in Sharpsburg, Maryland, September 1862, after the Battle of Antietam


The U.S. Army has long understood the need for soldiers with foreign-language proficiency, and that need only increased as the Army began to be fielded further abroad. In WWII this need was addressed through the creation of the Military Intelligence Service (MIS), a two-branch lingual intelligence-gathering unit composed of a German-speaking section (the famous Ritchie Boys) and a Japanese-speaking section primarily made up of second-generation Japanese-Americans (Nisei).
The Nisei MIS soldiers were embedded with units across the Pacific from all service branches; their ability to decipher Japanese communications and place them in their cultural context made them superb intelligence analysts, interrogators, and battlefield assets. General Douglas MacArthur’s intelligence chief, General Charles Willoughby, claimed that “the Nisei shortened the Pacific War by two years, and saved possibly a million American lives and saved probably billions of dollars.”
One particularly noteworthy group of Nisei MIS soldiers were the 14 linguists assigned to Merrill’s Marauders, a famous guerilla warfare unit which fought far behind enemy lines against overwhelming odds in the inhospitable Burmese jungle.
Assignment to Merrill’s Marauders was particularly dangerous for the Nisei, since they could expect little quarter from the Japanese (who viewed them as race traitors) and even less from local and Chinese guerillas, who passionately hated the Japanese and often mistook American Nisei troops for Imperial Japanese soldiers.
Nisei soldiers’ knowledge of Japanese proved essential to battlefield success on multiple occasions. During engagements, Nisei linguists could interpret shouted Japanese commands in real time, allowing American forces to adjust accordingly and set traps for enemy soldiers. On at least one occasion, a Nisei soldier impersonating an Imperial Japanese officer shouted orders to an entrenched enemy across the line of battle, commanding them to charge directly into American machine gun fire.


Straw huts erected on Smith's farm used as a hospital after the battle of Antietam. 1862

[Por_sha911]

Patrice Bergeron - the only NHL player to win 5 Selke awards.
The above pic is from #4

[craigster59]

[GH85Carrera]

When Albert Einstein met Charlie Chaplin in 1931, Einstein said, “What I admire most about your art is its universality. You do not say a word, and yet the world understands you." “It's true.” Replied Chaplin, "But your fame is even greater. The world admires you, when no one understands you."


1930s Devaux-Coupe GM 350 V8
At first glance, anyone who knows about the country’s automotive design language will tell you it’s a French car from the 1930’s. Only to discover it’s built in Australia by an Aussie man.
The company started out in 2001 building their first production car, the ‘Coupe’. Named after the company’s founder’s mother’s maiden name (French ancestors) and inspired by the cars from the 1930’s, it beautifully reflects the extreme French curves of the era done by the coach builders from France and other cars from the same era such as the Bugatti 57 SC Atlantic, the Alfa Romeo 8C 2900 B Lungo and the Bentley 41.4 litre Streamline. From the narrow front grille, the swooping front fender, the long bonnet, the big round externally mounted headlights and the narrow pram wheels with multi wire spoke rims, it very much looks like a French car from the 30’s. David Clash (CEO and founder) started working on the Devaux since his teenage years. The original prototype was taken from an existing vehicle sub-frame and built on it. Later, it was built from the ground up as a production variant.






J. W. Swart's Bar Room Drinks 12 1/2 Cts. Charleston, Arizona, 1885.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

When Albert Einstein met Charlie Chaplin in 1931, Einstein said, “What I admire most about your art is its universality. You do not say a word, and yet the world understands you." “It's true.” Replied Chaplin, "But your fame is even greater. The world admires you, when no one understands you."


1930s Devaux-Coupe GM 350 V8
At first glance, anyone who knows about the country’s automotive design language will tell you it’s a French car from the 1930’s. Only to discover it’s built in Australia by an Aussie man.
The company started out in 2001 building their first production car, the ‘Coupe’. Named after the company’s founder’s mother’s maiden name (French ancestors) and inspired by the cars from the 1930’s, it beautifully reflects the extreme French curves of the era done by the coach builders from France and other cars from the same era such as the Bugatti 57 SC Atlantic, the Alfa Romeo 8C 2900 B Lungo and the Bentley 41.4 litre Streamline. From the narrow front grille, the swooping front fender, the long bonnet, the big round externally mounted headlights and the narrow pram wheels with multi wire spoke rims, it very much looks like a French car from the 30’s. David Clash (CEO and founder) started working on the Devaux since his teenage years. The original prototype was taken from an existing vehicle sub-frame and built on it. Later, it was built from the ground up as a production variant.


J. W. Swart's Bar Room Drinks 12 1/2 Cts. Charleston, Arizona, 1885.

Very cool about Einstein and Chaplin.

The Devaux coupe is hot!

drinks 1 bit!

1 bit coin from Martinique