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Post by Warork on Mar 19, 2015 19:35:48 GMT
This Sherman Firefly was knocked out during Operation Market Garden in 1944. It was destroyed mainly because its orders were to advance towards the enemy in support of American paratrooper infantry which never showed up. It was destroyed by an 88mm anti tank gun which sent two shells (clearly visible shell holes in the front of the tank) into it and killed the driver instantly. Another crew member hopped out and tried to run down the road but was cut down by German machine guns. Two of the sherman's crew managed to get back to friendly lines and the second sherman that was supporting the firefly also managed to get away despite being damaged. As you can see, the tree has been damaged by either German bullets or shrapnel.
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Post by Warork on Mar 20, 2015 18:32:42 GMT
This is one of the tail fins of Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer's Bf110. He was the highest scoring night fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare. He destroyed 121 enemy planes between June of 1942 and April of 1945 mostly during the RAF's night bombing campaign. Most of his kills were the four engine Lancaster bomber. On the 25th of May, 1944, he shot down four Halifax bombers and one Lancaster in the same sortie. On the 21st of February, 1945 he shot down nine Lancasters in the same sortie. He survived the war but died in France in June of 1950 due to a car accident.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2015 19:47:28 GMT
Polish Home Army fighter carrying a K Pattern flamethrower in the Warsaw uprising.
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Post by Warork on Mar 23, 2015 7:06:05 GMT
Polish Home Army fighter carrying a K Pattern flamethrower in the Warsaw uprising. "When there's Germans patrolling...in your neighborhood...Who ya gonna call?! FRITZBUSTERS!"I AIN'T 'FRAID OF NO NAZIS!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2015 0:41:55 GMT
The USS Franklin, 19th of March, 1945.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2015 19:23:53 GMT
The Kashmiri gate after the 1857 siege of Delhi.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2015 16:38:09 GMT
Found some more good ones. Warning, this batch of images includes graphic/disturbing content and Symbology. As such I have placed them in spoiler tags. 1938 Midnight ceremony inducting soldiers into the ranks of the SS, Feldherrnhalle, Munich. Victims of the Mauthausen Concentration Camp, Austria, May 1945. Child victim of the Hiroshima blast treated for radiation burns, Hiroshima, Japan September 8, 1945. Captured British Mk IV Tank in service of the Freikorps during the Sparticist Uprising, Berlin, 1919. Babi Yar massacre 1941, Kiev, Ukraine. NKVD executioner Major-General Vasily Mikhailovich Blokhin at work, sometime during WW2.
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Post by coolyo294 on Apr 7, 2015 13:53:52 GMT
For those of you who don't know today marks the 70th anniversary of Operation Ten-Go, AKA the kamikaze mission of the Battleship Yamato. So I've collected some pictures of the Japanese fleet in its final moments to commemorate the occasion. "Smoke rises from the Battleship Yamato after she has taken a few hits." "Battleship Yamato taking evasive maneuvers" "Battleship Yamato seen from USS Yorktown CV-10's aircraft. Note that she appears to be down by her bow." "Battleship Yamato under attack. It took at least eleven torpedoes and six bombs to send her to the bottom." "Light Cruiser Yahagi sinking, after taking at least seven torpedoes and twelve bombs." "Destroyer Asashimo dead in the water. She was later sunk with all hands by American dive bombers." "Light Cruiser Yahagi under attack during the second wave of air attacks." "SB2C Helldiver bomber in flight over Yamato. Judging from the smoke, Yamato has already taken a few hits." "The last moments of the Destroyer Asashimo. She was sunk with all hands by American aircraft, with the loss of all 326 crewmen." And last but not least: "Battleship Yamato explodes, sending up a cloud of smoke almost 20,000 feet into the air. Of the roughly 3,000 crewmen on the Yamato only 280 survived."
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2015 21:55:16 GMT
An American soldier demonstrates an M3 Grease Gun designed to shoot around corners. ~1953.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2015 3:13:12 GMT
15 PIAT launchers rigged to a single trigger, courtesy of the 16th Field Company, RCE.
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