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' Pappenheim & Wallenstein' sounds like the title of the best sitcom ever. They could call each other Pappie and Wallie and have wacky drunken adventures involving pistols, windows and wizards.
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ArchangeI posted:What prevented the designers from using a device known to the modern world as an exhaust pipe? Its more the lack of a seperate apartment for the engine than the lack of exhaust pipes.
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Aug 10, 2016 00:34
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Somebody post that Spit IX pic with the wooden beer case underneath the wings.
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Sep 5, 2016 12:32
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I'll be travelling through Portugal, northern Spain and southern France the next couple of months. Are there any cool milhist museums/locations that you guys know of?
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Fusion Restaurant posted:Can anyone tell me more about how forts in the Netherlands used flooding as a defense? Learned a bit about it today that supposedly they planned to use cannons to blow up dams but not rly and it sounds crazy. Seconding this! I know a little bit about the Nieuwe Water Linie and how it was supposed to work but not nearly enough for a effort post.
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Dec 11, 2016 23:24
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My grandmother started getting altzheimer a while ago and she keeps having nightmares about Stukas and their sirens lately. As a psychological weapon they were quite effective werent they? Are there any other similar examples of using sound as a psychological weapon? I've read some time ago about small tubes welded to the fins of bombs to generate a similar sound to the Stuka siren but I can't remember the details...
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Dec 17, 2016 21:04
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Cant believe I didnt think of bagpipes. Those things sound creepy in a normal setting, let alone on a battlefield. Another one I just thought of is the Stalin Organ. I've read multiple accounts German east front veterans recalling that the shriek those things make hosed them up royally, even when they weren't the guys on the receiving end.
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Dec 17, 2016 23:25
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So he is basically part of the reason hentai exists?
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Dec 28, 2016 16:39
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Didn't they send Marseille to Africa because he was a pain in the rear end? Partying all night with the local French girls and reporting for duty hungover, having long hair, racing over runways in stolen cars and playing jazz etc?
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Jobbo_Fett posted:
I agree that it cant be a 234 but that drawing posted earlier looks like a 234. Especially the fender in one piece instead of two seperate fenders and the shape of the rear. Maybe it's possible he drew those pictures later, after they received 234's?
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Jan 25, 2017 01:38
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In the winter they could pass as a forest.
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Feb 26, 2017 01:22
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aphid_licker posted:Approximately what are the pros and cons of building a more conservative successor to the Pz IV instead of the Panther and Tiger? Apparently the Panther is 45 tons and a late IV is 25. So maybe a 35 ton tank? That's apparently about in the same ballpark as the Sherman or T-34, and those were fine until the end of the war? They did and it was called the StuG IV.
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Feb 27, 2017 22:29
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Subs also have the problem of damaged batteries reacting with salt water, producing toxic fumes. Das Boot has a few great scenes about this kind of stuff.
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Mar 28, 2017 14:39
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What was life like for Soviet submariners?
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Apr 1, 2017 16:33
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Ensign Expendable posted:Movement of equipment went the other way. The Eastern Front siphoned up everything with tracks down to rickety British cruisers and zany one-off conversions. The only things never sent there were utter garbage like tankettes and obsolete French tanks. Didn't they send KV's to Italy for the planned invasion of Malta? Edit: quote:Additional armour intended for Herkules included 2.Kompanie/Panzerabteilung z.b.V.66, a German unit partly equipped with captured Russian tanks. A mix of ten KV-1 (46-ton) and KV-2 (53-ton) heavy tanks were made available for the invasion and at least ten Italian motozattere (landing craft) were modified with reinforced flooring and internal ramps to carry and off-load these vehicles. Other tanks in the unit included captured Russian T-34 medium tanks, up-armoured German light tanks (five VK 1601s and five VK 1801s) plus twelve German Panzer IVGs armed with 75mm guns. Molentik fucked around with this message at 06:38 on Apr 5, 2017 |
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Apr 5, 2017 06:35
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Make the Netherlands the United Provinces again!
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Apr 5, 2017 17:39
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Is there a historical equivalent to that boondoggle? That one Swedish ship maybe?
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Apr 5, 2017 19:01
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Makes sense to me. The derp gun was an ideal bunker buster. But they would probably turn into fancy bunkers themselves after 50m after landing on the beach. Those tanks the Brits used at Dieppe didn't manage to get far on the beach before getting stuck, and that was on a pebble beach witch much lighter tanks.
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Apr 5, 2017 22:05
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Forgotten Weapons did a few good videos on flamethrowers a while ago! https://youtu.be/ts55TNp1Fq4
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Apr 13, 2017 15:06
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Re; Anti tank tactics I'm phoneposting, but if you google 'panzerknacker fibel' you'll find a nicely illustrated German manual on how to knack panzers!
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May 6, 2017 17:25
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Isnt that company that is building fw190s and me262s building new 109's?
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May 7, 2017 19:51
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SeanBeansShako posted:Somebody should do a historical soldier food book. Liquified corned beef and kale potato mash from tins with wild hog sateh
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May 20, 2017 10:46
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Speaking of slaves, did the British and the French 'free' slaves in Africa to enroll them in the militairy like the Dutch did? With 'free' I mean being a free man after 10 years of service in a bloody conflict.
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May 23, 2017 10:55
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Bacarruda posted:Euro trip I have some suggestions for you when you are in the Netherlands; - Dont go to the new National Military Museum in Soesterbeek, it's very fancy design wise but the collection isn't that great. - If you are in Arnhem visit Hartenstein ( the Airborne museum) which is pretty great. There is also the 'Bronbeek' museum which specialises in our colonial militairy history. It's not that well known, but I think it is a very nice museum. - Whatever you do, don't miss out on the Overloon museum. Overloon was the locatation of the bloodiest tank battle on Dutch soil and they have a huuuuge museum there. They have a shitload of tanks like a Panther, Shermans, T-34, Hetzer etc along with a huge collection of US trucks, weapons etc.
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Jun 1, 2017 10:10
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Another good museum is the armor museum in Sinnheim, Germany (not terribly far from Arnhem if you are used to US distances I guess).
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limp_cheese posted:I was wondering what the kits of soldiers looked like at various points in history. Not the weapons they carried, but more the personal or non-weapon items they carried. How many rations did they carry, or the personal hygiene things, how much ammo per soldier, or anything really. Doesn't t matter at what point in history. Something like this? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-one/11006139/Inventories-of-war-soldiers-kit-from-1066-to-2014.html
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feedmegin posted:The ones in the first one look kinda steampunk to me. They remind me of that Czech 'Turtle' armoured car for some reason. Which is one of the most beautiful armoured cars btw.
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Jun 2, 2017 22:33
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OwlFancier posted:This picture makes me unreasonably giggly. Somebody please post those pics with Romans in a Chinook and those musketeers hanging off a Huey(?)
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Jun 9, 2017 14:35
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C.M. Kruger posted:If you're going to watch Come and See, I'd suggest a double-feature with Die Brucke. Seconding Die Brucke, the 1955 version.
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Jul 8, 2017 10:03
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Que that one picture of the traiterous elephant helping a nazi car get out of the mud.
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Sep 2, 2017 07:33
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Jagdpanzer 38t, based on looks alone. It looks so cute and menacing at the same time.
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Sep 28, 2017 10:59
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They had electrical heated suits.
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Nov 13, 2017 02:26
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Also lol at the thought of doing a torpedo run in a Ju52.
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Comrade Gorbash posted:Does anyone know a good source for post-WWII paratrooper operations? I know that French used them extensively in Vietnam and Algeria, and that there were combat jumps in Korea. But I haven't really found much beyond the basic accounts of numbers and places, etc - no more than what Wikipedia would have, essentially. Another combat jump was made by the Dutch in Indonesia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Kraai
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bewbies posted:On the flip side, I always found it very strange that WWII era militaries (particularly the Germans) didn't really figure out missiles, especially SAMs. Germany had everything it needed tech level-wise to build something like a Nike Ajax during the war years and that poo poo would've absolutely wrecked the Allied heavy bombers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheintochter
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How Nazi were the designers of the Ratte actually? What if the whole thing was just an elaborate plan to tie up as much resources as possible as a way to undermine the Nazi war effort? 
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Am I the only one that thinks the Ju290 is a gorgeous aircraft ( and the Fw200 for that matter)?
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Cyrano4747 posted:Hrm. . . . how can we make flying a helicopter even more inherently dangerous. The guys piloting the things knew that as soon as a enemy warship or plane was sighted the cable would be cut and the Uboot would dive... leaving them to fend for themselves.
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Il-2 Sturmovik rear gunners.
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Chillbro Baggins posted:Well, of course, I meant that particular design of it that the SS used to pretend they were ledit heirs to the previous empire. And the Panzertruppen of course, which led to a lot of POW's being mistaken for Waffen SS.
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