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When I watched a History Channel special on the fall of Singapore, the point they dwelt on much more heavily than bicycle infantry was the IJA quickly fording all manner of streams and creeks and rivers across the Malay Peninsula by using men as mobile bridge struts. There were these pictures of soldiers standing waist- or even shoulder-deep in water holding up planks/logs while the rest of their troop marched over them. That said I don't that in particular was the "secret weapon" so much as the Japanese invading Singapore through the Peninsula, across land, in the first place
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Imperial Japans Secret Weapon: Maneuvering! Next time on SECRET WEAPONS OF WW2
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Agean90 posted:Imperial Japans Secret Weapon: Maneuvering! Next time on SECRET WEAPONS OF WW2 A special they had on the seaplane-carrying "super" submarine was the funniest thing because they tried so hard to puff it up to this really scary weapon that could bomb the CONUS with impunity
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gradenko_2000 posted:A special they had on the seaplane-carrying "super" submarine was the funniest thing because they tried so hard to puff it up to this really scary weapon that could bomb the CONUS with impunity There's a plaque in my mother's neighborhood (Dundee, Omaha, NE) commemorating a Japanese fire balloon having made it there and exploding, causing no damage. The intelligence folks kept the news suppressed so that the Japanese military wouldn't be able to use the news to calibrate further balloon bombs.The fact that a balloon made it practically to the dead center of the country is pretty significant, though.
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Jan 6, 2015 06:21
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"Why is Lithuania so small" is actually an obvious thought for anyone with a rudimentary awareness of the Glorious Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, such as from the better history books
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Jan 6, 2015 06:50
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GreyjoyBastard posted:"Why is Lithuania so small" is actually an obvious thought for anyone with a rudimentary awareness of the Glorious Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, such as from the better history books Considering how many people know that Lithuania exists and how many learn about history of other countries... For example, I don't remember anything about TYW from school. Probably because reformation went over quite smooth (and apparently the PLC had established religious freedom a lot earlier) and we didn't have a bigger dog in the race. Oh the glory of the days past... Although if you played Lithuania is EUIV, you know why it collapsed!
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Jan 6, 2015 07:25
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JcDent posted:For example, I don't remember anything about TYW from school. HEY GUNS fucked around with this message at 07:54 on Jan 6, 2015 |
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Jan 6, 2015 07:33
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Recommend me a book: I want to get a few books about aerial combat tactics. Some grognardy books about WW2 aviation would be particularly nice.
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Bacarruda posted:My book are on the other side of the Pacific Ocean atm, but there's a great story I read about an Australian guy on a scooter outrunning a bunch of Japanese soldiers. His platoon was trapped and they needed to get a message out. So the Aussie commandeered a scooter and charged the Japanese headlong. Apparently they were so stunned, they didn't fire a shot and just scrambled out of the way as the lunatic Australian barreled through their lines. I know it's probably the motorbike version, but I'm still imagining of breaking through enemy lines on this 
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Ensign Expendable posted:Most of them haven't ever seen a tractor, let alone worked with one. The cavalry was just incredibly conservative and averse to change. I think people are giving soviet cavalry too little credit. They were incredibly effective in the woods at Leningrad during WWII, running through the freezing snow and loving (admittedly demoralized and losing) german infantry up with sabers. Their knowledge of rough terrain fighting, hardy steeds and no-fucks-given cossack attitude arguably did the same things tanks could, and a lot faster. Tias fucked around with this message at 13:34 on Jan 6, 2015 |
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Jan 6, 2015 13:30
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Disinterested posted:Recommend me a book: I want to get a few books about aerial combat tactics. Some grognardy books about WW2 aviation would be particularly nice. Bergerud, Fire in the Sky is a great book about WWII air battles in the South Pacific.
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Jan 6, 2015 13:37
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Fragrag posted:I know it's probably the motorbike version, but I'm still imagining of breaking through enemy lines on this From what I remember, it was basically a 1940s-vintage Razor scooter. Maybe something like this?  Quite possibly the least-dignified form of military transportation ever devised.
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Disinterested posted:Recommend me a book: I want to get a few books about aerial combat tactics. Some grognardy books about WW2 aviation would be particularly nice. Robert Shaw's Fighter Combat: Tactics and Maneuvering is a classic. It's written by a fighter pilot for fighter pilots, and is relevant for WW2 and modern fighters. Shaw presents a situation and teaches the tactics for guns-only combat, and then for rear-aspect only missiles as well as modern all-aspect missiles.
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JcDent posted:Considering how many people know that Lithuania exists and how many learn about history of other countries... For example, I don't remember anything about TYW from school. Probably because reformation went over quite smooth (and apparently the PLC had established religious freedom a lot earlier) and we didn't have a bigger dog in the race. Because Russia strong!
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INTJ Mastermind posted:Robert Shaw's Fighter Combat: Tactics and Maneuvering is a classic. It's written by a fighter pilot for fighter pilots, and is relevant for WW2 and modern fighters. Shaw presents a situation and teaches the tactics for guns-only combat, and then for rear-aspect only missiles as well as modern all-aspect missiles. God bless used books: that book is expensive new.
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FAUXTON posted:There's a plaque in my mother's neighborhood (Dundee, Omaha, NE) commemorating a Japanese fire balloon having made it there and exploding, causing no damage. Eventually the intelligence folks stopped suppressing it, because a family in Oregon got themselves blown up when they saw one in the woods and started playing around with it. Interestingly, one of those bombs landed on the power lines which supplied power for the cooling pumps for the production reactor at Hanford.
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Jan 6, 2015 15:29
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Raenir Salazar posted:Because Russia strong! No, because you're not oppressing the local population out of their culture. Eventually they start getting ideas, like "if I'm not a Lithuanian, why I should I be part of Lithuania?". And being szlectaboos,
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In his 'Ghosts of the Ostfront' series Dan Carlin mentioned a Soviet cavalry charge down a valley full of retreating Germans. Can anybody tell me more of this incident?
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Jan 6, 2015 16:02
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Bacarruda posted:From what I remember, it was basically a 1940s-vintage Razor scooter. Maybe something like this? Just you wait until someone pulls off an attack with segways or unicycles. If they used rollerblades though, that would just be rad.
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Jan 6, 2015 17:05
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Bacarruda posted:Quite possibly the least-dignified form of military transportation ever devised.  "Evacuating a Russian POW who stepped into a mine in Kontupohja. November 3 1941"
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SlothfulCobra posted:Just you wait until someone pulls off an attack with segways or unicycles. 
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HEY GAL posted:Well, neither did I. And now look. We never were told about it, just the basics of the reformation and the English Civil War. I had to learn about Prince Rupert myself dammit.
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Jan 6, 2015 17:22
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What are those guns? They look like dinky stripped down AKs of some variety.
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Arquinsiel posted:What are those guns? They look like dinky stripped down AKs of some variety. I think they're Type 79 SMGs but I am really really not an expert on guns.
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Jan 6, 2015 17:40
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Loving the guy in the back with a sniper rifle.
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Personally, I like the guy trying to use a one inch wide pole as cover. Would it really through things off so much to mount a frikking riot shield on the front of the thing or something?
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Jan 6, 2015 18:44
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Alright men, they're dug in with heavy weapons and they've closed all the side exits. We need to get across the plaza - fast. There is no other choice, we can't lose any more hostages. Prepare for segway charge. Lock your throttle and stay low.
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Jan 6, 2015 18:57
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Slavvy posted:Alright men, they're dug in with heavy weapons and they've closed all the side exits. We need to get across the plaza - fast. There is no other choice, we can't lose any more hostages. When can their glory fade? O the wild charge they made! All the world wondered. Honour the charge they made, Honour the Segway Brigade, Noble six hundred.
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Might wanna go with "honor the Seg' Brigade" or something like that, otherwise you gently caress up the meter.
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Grand Prize Winner posted:Might wanna go with "honor the Seg' Brigade" or something like that, otherwise you gently caress up the meter. Nah, syllable-wise it matches the first line.
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What exactly would the tactical advantage of the Segway Brigade be compared to just running around?
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FAUXTON posted:Nah, syllable-wise it matches the first line. No it doesn't. Unless you pronounce "glory" with three syllables or something. It's supposed to link to "HON ' OR the CHARGE they MADE '" anyways. (And "Last of the Light Brigade" is better  )
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FAUXTON posted:Nah, syllable-wise it matches the first line.
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100 Years Ago All caught back up. Huzzah. Yesterday: The French have finally given First Artois up as a bad job, there's a typhoid epidemic brewing in the mountains near Sarikamis, and some poor bugger in the BEF has been given Field Punishment Number One for missing roll call, so I'm having a quick look at what FP 1 was like. Today: The early history of Etaples, soon to be the BEF's major camp in France. Right now, it apparently looks like nothing so much as a really bad music festival, right down to the joker who won't stop trying to play Tipperary. Oh, and the blokes are still having fun with travelling in cattle trucks.
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I feel like coming up with punishments worse than just having to continue to live in a trench as a WWI soldier must have been pretty tricky.
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INTJ Mastermind posted:Loving the guy in the back with a sniper rifle. It's a crossbow!
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Davin Valkri posted:No it doesn't. Unless you pronounce "glory" with three syllables or something. It's supposed to link to "HON ' OR the CHARGE they MADE '" anyways. Glo-ry, with the O being taken as longer than the 'ry and lining up with "Segway." Brig' would match the 'ry, and 'gade would match Fade. If it was music, "Glory" would comprise three eighth notes, so yeah three syllables in a sense, just weird to perceive as written.
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Tomn posted:What exactly would the tactical advantage of the Segway Brigade be compared to just running around? There's actually a lot of interest in sort of....mobility/strength enhancers for infantry types. A Segway is maybe kind of a primitive form of this. I have no idea what the capabilities are of a Segway but if it can move me 30km cross country without me having to use my legs, or if it can carry my kit while I walk alongside..... Charging into battle on them though, that seems a little silly.
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Trin Tragula posted:Today: The early history of Etaples, soon to be the BEF's major camp in France. Right now, it apparently looks like nothing so much as a really bad music festival, right down to the joker who won't stop trying to play Tipperary. That song must have gotten old really really fast.
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Tomn posted:What exactly would the tactical advantage of the Segway Brigade be compared to just running around? Gun stabilisation, maybe?
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