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I went to York minster once and it was like £20 to get in. gently caress that
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gradenko_2000 posted:cross posting from the Trump thread
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You're not wrong but how do you feel about the earlier militarized pile of dirt, the motte?
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Siivola posted:You're not wrong but how do you feel about the earlier militarized pile of dirt, the motte? and then there's the maori pile of dirt, the pa
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The most important piece of military equipment in history: the shovel.
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Comrade Gorbash posted:The most important piece of military equipment in history: the shovel. But what if, stay with me guys what if we put a hole in it
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chitoryu12 posted:But what if, Don't forget making the drat thing like 6 lbs too.
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Ensign Expendable posted:Pz.Kpfw. VII Lowe I'm confused at how long the Lowe was in development for, only for nothing to basically come from it, but somehow the Panther and Tiger came out earlier from a separate project started later?
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feedmegin posted:You realise that's not a WW2-era Panzerfaust, right, given the context of discussion here? I didn't realize that at all! I just figured they wouldn't still be calling it a Panzerfaust some 70 years later.
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gradenko_2000 posted:I didn't realize that at all! I just figured they wouldn't still be calling it a Panzerfaust some 70 years later. Thats sorta the name of the weapon though. Maschinengewehr (42) translates to machine gun. Just like how they are using the MG 3 now. Same thing with Panzerfaust
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We're still calling armored fighting vehicles by a century-old code name. I think the Jerries have figured it out by now, but we still use the code name.
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Saint Celestine posted:Thats sorta the name of the weapon though.
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Saint Celestine posted:Thats sorta the name of the weapon though. Isn't the MG3 literally a modified MG42 anyway?
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^^ well yes, but I was making the point of MG42, MG3, and Panzerfaust, Panzerfaust 3. HEY GAIL posted:machine weapon, que no? The internet tells me it directly translates to "machine gun" - https://www.dict.cc/deutsch-englisch/Maschinengewehr.html, but was probably used interchangably with weapon.
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HEY GAIL posted:machine weapon, que no? In a modern context it’s basically always “gun”. I always see Waffe used as a generic for “weapon”. You see this with adjectives too, zB “bewaffnete” is used for everything from bewaffnete Streitkräfte to bewaffneter Raub.
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Cyrano4747 posted:In a modern context it’s basically always “gun”. I always see Waffe used as a generic for “weapon”. You see this with adjectives too, zB “bewaffnete” is used for everything from bewaffnete Streitkräfte to bewaffneter Raub.
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Fun fact, the current modern bayonet in use by the Bundeswehr is still technically called Seitengewehr. I'm pretty sure that's just about the only use of Gewehr nowadays that doesn't refer to a rifle/long gun of some kind.
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The generic word for all guns is penis let's be honest.
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Perestroika posted:Fun fact, the current modern bayonet in use by the Bundeswehr is still technically called Seitengewehr. I'm pretty sure that's just about the only use of Gewehr nowadays that doesn't refer to a rifle/long gun of some kind. gewehr with no other modification means pike. a pike is the best and most honorable weapon so it's the only one they just call "weapon."
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What do you do if you are in the middle of a battle but lose your pike for some reason?
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Fangz posted:What do you do if you are in the middle of a battle but lose your pike for some reason?
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vincent van goatse, if you like polish wikipedia you will probably also like the hungarian national archives http://mnl.gov.hu/angol/mnl/ol/about_us_0
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Raenir Salazar posted:I'm confused at how long the Lowe was in development for, only for nothing to basically come from it, but somehow the Panther and Tiger came out earlier from a separate project started later? If you keep changing requirements, any project can go on indefinitely and produce nothing. This kept happening with French tanks after WWII, for example.
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HEY GAIL posted:vincent van goatse, if you like polish wikipedia you will probably also like the hungarian national archives quote:Likewise previously, the institution welcomes everybody who is interested in our national past and wants to gather information of individual or common concern. Oh yeah, that's the stuff.
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Tiger #114 Queue: Chrysler K, A1E1 Independent, Valentine I-IV, Swedish tanks 1928–1934, Strv 81 and Strv 101, Pak 97/38, 7.5 cm Pak 41, Czechoslovakian post-war prototypes, Praga AH-IV, KV-1S, KV-13, Bazooka, Super Bazooka, Matilda, 76 mm gun mod of the Matilda, Renault FT, Somua, SU-122, SU-122M, KV-13 to IS, T-60 factory #37, D.W. and VK 30.01(H), Wespe and other PzII SPGs, Pz38(t) in the USSR, Prospective French tanks, Medium Tank M7, Churchill II-IV, GAZ-71 and GAZ-72, Production and combat of the KV-1S, L-10 and L-30, Strv m/21, Landsverk prototypes 1943-1951, Pz.Sfl.V Sturer Emil, PzII Ausf. G-H, Marder III, Pershing trials in the USSR, Tiger study in the USSR, PIAT, SU-76, Heavy tanks M6, M6A1, and T1E1 Available for request: IM-1 squeezebore cannon 45 mm M-6 gun IS-2 (Object 234) and other Soviet heavy howitzer tanks T-70B Schmeisser's work in the USSR SU-152 T-26 improved track projects Object 238 and other improvements on the KV-1S 25-pounder Lee and Grant tanks in British service 105 mm howitzer M2A1 37 mm Anti-Tank Gun M3 GMC M12NEW 15 cm sIG 33 10.5 cm leFH 18 PzII Ausf. J VK 30.01(P)/Typ 100/Leopard VK 36.01(H) Luchs, Leopard, and other recon tanks NEW 47 mm wz.25 infantry gun SAu 40 and other medium SPGs Strv m/40 Strv m/42 Strv m/21 Strv m/41 pvkv m/43 Sav m/43 Ensign Expendable fucked around with this message at 14:51 on Oct 23, 2017 |
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Definitely want to know more about the SU-76. EDIT: Also I have a copy of Soviet Women in Combat: A History of Violence; probably going to be a while before I can read it, anyone know how it is? spectralent fucked around with this message at 22:29 on Oct 22, 2017 |
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How easy was it for the Allies to repair a Tiger? I've seen pictures of the gearbox and that alone screams "Germans made this", in regards to being extremely overengineered. I can't imagine there were too many spare parts considering the relative scarcity of the Tiger in the west, did the mechanics just shrug and shove Sherman parts that were almost the same size? (I am not a mechanic and dont know how viable that is).
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I have to imagine they were drawing on the spares and supplies the Germans abandoned during the retreat, plus salvaging from multiple tanks to make one operational.
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Man, kinda disappointed that the French didn't actually leave #114 in its French colour scheme in the museum. It'd be worth it for the Wehraboo tears alone! Also, could I request Heavy tanks M6, M6A1, and T1E1, please? Yvonmukluk fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Oct 23, 2017 |
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Oh yeah, that's the stuff.
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Book recommendation post- a friend just asked for audio books she and her grade school kids could listen to about the world wars. I know anything that tries to fit WWI or II into a single volume is going to be a little basic for this thread, but I'm hoping someone might have a suggestion.
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What grade level? GJ Meyer’s A World Undone is the best one volume history of the Great War I’ve seen so far, but it’s still at least high school level really.
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7th grade, or maybe a bit above since he'll have his mother around to ask questions.
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People say that historians have moved past it but the Guns of August has a really good reader on Audible and I liked how it personalized the major players of the war as more than just faceless names that gave orders. It does lean a bit hard in the great man theory and it was written in the 60s so our understanding of WWI has obviously moved on since then but that book is what first got me interested in WWI in any sense beyond "trenches, poets, Tolkien fought here oh and also Hitler got shot"
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Don Gato posted:How easy was it for the Allies to repair a Tiger? From that article: quote:Scroif and Glagow's Tigers were not left without attention. They became known in early January of 1945. A father-son mechanic duo, Roger and Jean Lecourtier, as well as Bernard Verier, put the tank into working order after a month of work. French tricolour insignia was added to the sides, and the tank received a traditional "geographic" nickname: Bretagne. So two months of man-hours to get this one tank up and running after a relatively minor scuffle. It wasn't really practical. When proper armies used captured vehicles, which rarely happened (unless that army happens to be the Wehrmacht), they were only used until they broke down. Without mechanics familiar with the vehicles and a supply of spare parts, the effort just wasn't worth it. However, this was a case of some enthusiastic civilians wanting to get back at their occupiers, so the usual cost-benefit analysis didn't apply. quote:I can't imagine there were too many spare parts considering the relative scarcity of the Tiger in the west, did the mechanics just shrug and shove Sherman parts that were almost the same size? (I am not a mechanic and dont know how viable that is). Parts are definitely not interchangeable. Maybe in some cases foreign parts could be made to work with some very dubious jury rigging, but I'm guessing those fine Frenchmen had some access to parts from the abandoned and destroyed German AFVs littering their land. Geisladisk fucked around with this message at 10:04 on Oct 23, 2017 |
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Don Gato posted:really good reader on Audible it is John Lee, he's like the daniel day lewis of narrators ask me about audiobooks, please
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Zorak of Michigan posted:7th grade, or maybe a bit above since he'll have his mother around to ask questions. A lot of books about the Great War get bogged in detail because there's just so much. Meyer manages a good balance of giving enough specifics without losing the broader perspective to show just how immense the conflict was. Don Gato posted:People say that historians have moved past it but the Guns of August has a really good reader on Audible and I liked how it personalized the major players of the war as more than just faceless names that gave orders. It does lean a bit hard in the great man theory and it was written in the 60s so our understanding of WWI has obviously moved on since then but that book is what first got me interested in WWI in any sense beyond "trenches, poets, Tolkien fought here oh and also Hitler got shot"
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bewbies posted:it is John Lee, he's like the daniel day lewis of narrators George Guidall from An Army at Dawn has like the perfect voice to be your beloved old grandpa telling about what he did during The War.
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