Excellent movie, checkout the bombardment too, its on Netflix as well. Though be warned you will cry at the end.
EDIT: check out ghosts of war, its kinda of a horror flick, but based in France during WWII…
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EDIT: check out ghosts of war, its kinda of a horror flick, but based in France during WWII…
Inglorious? No. Bastards? Never. Meet the real Tarantino war heroes
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Inglorious? No. Bastards? Never. Meet the real Tarantino war heroes
The crack troops on whose story a new film to be screened at Cannes is based had their peers in the UK: 10 Commando
Video links. It's also available on amazon prime periodically as a freebie.
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Finally finished my re-watch of BOB. Also watched the documentary immediately after. Powerful stuff. Will probably rotate around to watch some other non WWII stuff, then I'll pivot back around to watch "The Pacific". Hopefully with a bit of a different expectation I can get into it a bit better.
Just got these this Friday and so got pretty much everything for my Bolt Action armies. Rubicon Models make some good model kits just that you have to use either a very good super glue or ABS type glue for them as if you do not the pieces will not bond and so you just end up with a big old mess. The SD Kfz 7 (8 ton payload) was the 3rd largest halftrack type to be built and see service in the war they originally was to tow and position the FLAK 36/37 88mm field AA gun, the largest halftracks was the 12 ton SD Kfz 8 then the monster SD Kfz 9 (18 ton payload). The 9 was so massive and expensive as it cost 60,000 Reichsmarks to build a Panther Ausf A tank was 117,000!!!!
The M-5A1 and M-8 Scott was off shoots of the M3 Stuart light tank, except the M5 had twin Cadillac V-8's and a GM hydromatic automatic gearbox and a little thicker armor in the nose 64mm vs the 50 that the M-3 had. The Scott was built from Sept 42 to Jan 44. The reason it was so short in production was that the M-7 Priest SPG and 105mm armed Sherman's was made and could do everything the M-8 could and better with the larger gun and HE ammo over the lighter 75mm howitzer the M-8 had. But the M-8 continued to be used in all fronts to the end of the war as it's light weight and size was perfect in the iland hopping campaigns in the Pacific and the tight winding roads in Italy.
Thanks for that. I really enjoyed that story.Inglorious? No. Bastards? Never. Meet the real Tarantino war heroes
Article:
Inglorious? No. Bastards? Never. Meet the real Tarantino war heroes
The crack troops on whose story a new film to be screened at Cannes is based had their peers in the UK: 10 Commandowww.independent.co.uk
Video links. It's also available on amazon prime periodically as a freebie.
Start ~0:45 in:
Still "accidentally" locating live WWII ordnance in the UK. Reports were EOD attempted to demil, but it went bang. Thankfully no one was hurt. Just numerous reports of full drawers.
In a previous life, had an M55 go off in my hand while I was attempting to demil a fuze.
****ing-A. Still got all my fingers - lol.
Major incident declared after war bomb found in Great Yarmouth
Army specialists have been moved into the area where a 400metre cordon has been put in place after the device was found on Tuesday near Southtown Road in Great Yarmouth.
www.dailymail.co.uk
World War II bomb in Great Yarmouth explodes in unplanned detonation
An eruption of noise was felt across Great Yarmouth today as the World War II bomb at the centre of a defusing operation blew up at around 5pm.
www.dailymail.co.uk
In a previous life, had an M55 go off in my hand while I was attempting to demil a fuze.
****ing-A. Still got all my fingers - lol.
Read this this morning. Crazy stuff.
Sadly I do not have much of a connection to the war.
I did have a great uncle that was a seabee in the South Pacific. He would have to build landing strips while being strafed by the Japanese.
He HATED the japs. Strangely he was the first person I knew to buy a Japanese car. He bought an accord in 1979 and had civics and accords for the rest of his life. He loved Japanese cars as much as he hated Japanese people.
I did have a great uncle that was a seabee in the South Pacific. He would have to build landing strips while being strafed by the Japanese.
He HATED the japs. Strangely he was the first person I knew to buy a Japanese car. He bought an accord in 1979 and had civics and accords for the rest of his life. He loved Japanese cars as much as he hated Japanese people.
Humbling video on war deaths, focused on WWII. The cause of deaths of military and civilians from a war will always be disputed for a variety of reasons.
It's insane to think + or - a few million human beings lives is "close enough".
For perspective, if we were silent 1 second for every WWII death, 70 million people, no one would speak for 2.2 years.
If we chose the high side, 85 million people, we'd be silent for 2.7 years.
Anyway, here's a video that's been posted several times before on SVTP, but not in this thread.
The video:
Here's one historian's assessment:
It's insane to think + or - a few million human beings lives is "close enough".
For perspective, if we were silent 1 second for every WWII death, 70 million people, no one would speak for 2.2 years.
If we chose the high side, 85 million people, we'd be silent for 2.7 years.
Anyway, here's a video that's been posted several times before on SVTP, but not in this thread.
The video:
Here's one historian's assessment:
When I was stationed at Geilenkirchen they found something every time they dug a hole.Still "accidentally" locating live WWII ordnance in the UK. Reports were EOD attempted to demil, but it went bang. Thankfully no one was hurt. Just numerous reports of full drawers.
Major incident declared after war bomb found in Great Yarmouth
Army specialists have been moved into the area where a 400metre cordon has been put in place after the device was found on Tuesday near Southtown Road in Great Yarmouth.www.dailymail.co.uk
World War II bomb in Great Yarmouth explodes in unplanned detonation
An eruption of noise was felt across Great Yarmouth today as the World War II bomb at the centre of a defusing operation blew up at around 5pm.www.dailymail.co.uk
In a previous life, had an M55 go off in my hand while I was attempting to demil a fuze.
****ing-A. Still got all my fingers - lol.
I've been watching Hitler - A Career on Netflix. Excellent documentary. Highly recommend. Really gives insight into his coming to power.
My former Father-in-Law was a tail gunner during WW2. The stories he would tell were chilling. He survived being shot down 3 times.
He was ostracized by his family because he was assigned to the Pacific Theater to fight Japan and they wanted him to go fight the Germans. He tried to tell them you can't choose where you fight when you enlist, they TELL you where you are going. On top of that, he lied about his age to enlist. He was only 17 years old at the time. How many 17 year olds in this day and age would do that? I would venture none.
He was ostracized by his family because he was assigned to the Pacific Theater to fight Japan and they wanted him to go fight the Germans. He tried to tell them you can't choose where you fight when you enlist, they TELL you where you are going. On top of that, he lied about his age to enlist. He was only 17 years old at the time. How many 17 year olds in this day and age would do that? I would venture none.
That was common for the greatest generation, lots of fellas lying about their age to get into the fight. The balls on that generation. They were bad asses!
I watched "All Quiet on The Western Front" this past weekend and am now re-watching "Band of Brothers."
WWI was such a waste. There were no objectives, it was essentially one day after another running across a field to your death. No meaningful territory was captured and that which was captured was surrendered as soon as it was captured. The advanced weaponry combined with archaic strategy maximized the amount of death. All for nothing.
Contrast this with WWII. Every battle centered on an objective. It was a necessary war beyond an exhibition of death. Band of Brothers does a great job of portraying this.
WWI was such a waste. There were no objectives, it was essentially one day after another running across a field to your death. No meaningful territory was captured and that which was captured was surrendered as soon as it was captured. The advanced weaponry combined with archaic strategy maximized the amount of death. All for nothing.
Contrast this with WWII. Every battle centered on an objective. It was a necessary war beyond an exhibition of death. Band of Brothers does a great job of portraying this.
On my mothers side my grandfather was too young to enlist for WW2 but got in the navy and served in the Korean War. Ended up in Japan and met my grandma. She told stories of the Hiroshima bombing as she wasn’t in the immediate area, obviously, but remember hiding for a while near a bridge.
Always was interested in the pacific theater. Crazy how ruthless the Japanese were in the 30s and 40s.
Always was interested in the pacific theater. Crazy how ruthless the Japanese were in the 30s and 40s.
I bet they were both amazing people. Have you read John Hersey's "Hiroshima?" It is a quick but awesome read.
another pic of my grandfathers little brother on Iwo Jima since the pics don’t seem to be loading this one on the first page of the thread. 5th Marines… RAH!!!
Bottom row, second from the right.
Bottom row, second from the right.
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