Sunshine Mix posted:

I have a quick aircraft question....on the Savoia-Marchetti SM.79, there's this funny little module of the side off the cockpit with its own small propeller (pictured). What's going on there?

Gnoman posted:

Meat is an extremely energy-dense form of food, so that would probably significantly ease the difficulty of transporting rations.

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Alle der mindestens 13 Individuen waren Männer, die in einem Alter von 15 bis 44 Jahren verstorben waren. Die durchschnittliche Körperhöhe betrug 170 cm. Der Zustand der Gebisse ließ auf eine gute, fleischreiche Ernährung schließen. Sehr häufige entzündliche Erkrankungen des Schädeldaches und der Nasennebenhöhlen, sowie Spuren von Mundschleimhautentzündungen deuteten auf äußerst schlechte hygienischen Verhältnisse, Parasitenbefall und unzureichende Wohnverhältnisse.

zoux posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/james_ka_smith/status/888384484671881217

Fangz posted:

Yeah I think one of the commander guys makes a point of not having enough small ships and so being restricted to the Mole because they couldn't take people off the beaches, so the small ships (+ the jury rigged piers) fulfill that role.


It *was* still a catastrophic defeat, but it was enough of a morale boost with the way it was sold to the British public that it kept Britain in the war. I sorta like how the movie kinda alludes to that. Like there was enough ambiguity with them reading Churchill's speech and the look the guy has at the end which is just this side of 'what the gently caress is he on about', meanwhile the kid that died gets a write up as a war hero.

HEY GAIL posted:

hey i was at stralsund all weekend, fun fact: the witstock mass grave and a soldiers' grave from Neu-Brandenburg both evince that soldiers during the 30yw ate more meat than civilians but were in terrible health in other ways, such as parasites and mucous membrane inflammations

Tree Bucket posted:

I can't read German, does "parasitenbefall" mean what I think it does...?

Nebakenezzer posted:

Netflix has a series named Roman Empire: reign of blood, is it good or bad

HEY GAIL posted:

they probably have lice, friend

edit: so much lice that they left traces on the surface of their skulls

PittTheElder posted:

Bad, I got about twenty minutes in before I had to turn it off because the format is so bad.

Nebakenezzer posted:

Things rarely seen in DnD

I mean how the hell does that even happen. Is this one of those "we don't wash ever because we believe bathing saps our vitality" sorta bullshit

I think when it comes to medicine, Europe had to try out all the bad, wrong ideas before starting on some right ones

HEY GAIL posted:

edit: so much lice that they left traces on the surface of their skulls

Tree Bucket posted:

I can't read German, does "parasitenbefall" mean what I think it does...?

Anyway, just got back from seeing Dunkirk. (Loved it.) I was wondering, in reality, were hospitals and hospital ships etc considered "fair game" at this stage of the war, or did both sides generally refrain from blowing up anything with a big red cross on it?

xthetenth posted:

Yeah that lice thing is terrifying. How does that even happen?

Edit: I understand SO MANY LICE is a thing but how does that mechanically impact the skull?

BattleMoose posted:

I don't think they were ever considered fair game and were protected by the Hague/Geneva conventions. There are always exceptions though and they do lose that legal protection if they are used for "any military purpose". If it was used to evacuate any non wounded soldiers it loses that protection. The difficulty is in the knowing.

Is it possible the pilots didn't see the markings? Or the Germans didn't believe it was being used exclusively to evacuate wounded? Or the pilots acted on their own initiative?

Paris was a hospital ship that was sunk by aircraft during Dunkirk evacuations.

FAUXTON posted:

Someone said Dunkirk is a movie where you find yourself holding your breath for 2 hours.

I think it's accurate, there was a lot of points like that.

Mycroft Holmes posted:

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aphid_licker posted:

Oh man they probably deemphasized the head louse situation in the recruitment pitch.

That non-Wittstock site says that the bulk of the deceased died aged 25-29, and that the youngest individual was 15, which makes me wonder about how many campaign seasons it would take before your sinusitis and head lice have been carved into your loving bones.

HEY GAIL posted:

inflammation (and picking at it) makes microscopic traces on the bone

WoodrowSkillson posted:

loving cut your hair off what is wrong with these people

HEY GAIL posted:

neubrandenburg:

Mundschleimhautentzündungen

SeanBeansShako posted:

Even if they cut their hair, which they did if they wore wigs the lice would just infest their head gear and return to their home skull with ease. Also, Barbers were minor surgeons and Dentists too and rarely around, if they weren't busy assisting the regimental surgeons with more important matters.

PittTheElder posted:

Bad, I got about twenty minutes in before I had to turn it off because the format is so bad.

zoux posted:

Everyone had lice until like, the 19th century. Wait til you hear how these guys had to use the bathroom

SeanBeansShako posted:

Was that one series that portrayed itself sort of HBO's Rome at the end but cheaper but when you started watching it couldn't decide if it was a TV show or documentary and we got both talking heads and dry voice overs that kept sinking the pacing and pointing out the obvious?

If so, I abandoned watching that after the 1st episode. It wasn't good.


Little hint about it, they didn't have toilet paper!

HEY GAIL posted:

edit: both of those data sets together gave me a cool idea while I was going to sleep last night, which is that if you find some unidentified 17th century bones now we have a way to (extremely roughly, and not foolproof) tell if they were soldiers or not. Someone who ate a lot of meat, had recurrent sinus problems or nose problems, and more parasites than usual, might be a soldier.

WoodrowSkillson posted:

As the opposing pike block enters into engagement range, a louse crawls into the man's left eye

OneTruePecos posted:

Question for you and the other people in the thread who do research: How do you keep this kind of inference from becoming circular?

HEY GAIL posted:

i talk to people who aren't me frequently

OneTruePecos posted:

Leaving the lice aside, and I know it's played out, but can we talk about this bullshit for just a minute:


How is this a word, German language? It's OK for "inflammation of the oral mucous membranes" to be a phrase, it doesn't need to be one loving word.

OneTruePecos posted:

How is this a word, German language? It's OK for "inflammation of the oral mucous membranes" to be a phrase, it doesn't need to be one loving word.