Cessna posted:

Edit: Here's a famous photo of the drop on Crete. You can see how low those planes are:

sullat posted:

My dad's uncle got to watch one, he was a sailor on one the observation bosts. Probably also an unwitting test subject too.

Arquinsiel posted:

It'd have been very different if they had been raised by emus.

Cessna posted:

Nenonen posted:

Leopard ½ has the best ventilation around. Just make sure you keep the enemy to the front and right.

Cessna posted:

M-1A1 driver's position:



It's surprisingly comfortable.

Molentik posted:

I loved that book as a kid, still have it somewhere. Theres also castles and battleships etc.

Grenrow posted:

Yeah the castle one is also hilariously gory. It goes through various stages of castle life, i think one is like a fair, another is the harvest, and then the end is an extremely violent siege. It ruled.

Grenrow posted:

Am I misremembering or was there a thing where in each book, there's a little Where's Waldo thing going on in each page. Like in the Man o' War book, it was a stowaway, and in the castle one, it was a spy?

Jobbo_Fett posted:

[Incomprehensible yet fascinating stuff]

Randarkman posted:

Here's some German WW1 uniforms (though the uniform diversity at that time was much greater as Bavarians, Prussians and others had their own units and uniforms).

feedmegin posted:

They're specifically talking about loudspeakers. Lord Haw-Haw was on the radio (and he wasn't one person, it was originally a generic term for all of them). Including P.G.Wodehouse, sort of, as in Jeeves and Wooster.

VostokProgram posted:

I've been trying to figure out why the Abrams is designated M1 and the bradley M2/M3 instead of following the M60


The M60 is called: Tank, Combat, Full Tracked: 105-mm Gun, M60

And the original Abrams is: Tank, Combat, Full-tracked, 105-mm gun, M1

Why did the number go back to 1?

Cyrano4747 posted:

With some vessels it can also come down to food. Nuclear powered vessels have a mechanical endurance that is functionally infinite (measured in years between refueling rather than km) but the crew has to eat.

MikeCrotch posted:

What if...we had breechloading guns, but on the outside?

Elissimpark posted:

I'm glad that I get to avoid that kind of existential headache by living in the Southern Hemisphere.

*Goes back to reading On The Beach

Xakura posted:

Don't see a single spadroon though

sebmojo posted:

What time is it, in the picture

FMguru posted:

As a naval officer I abhor the implication that the Royal Navy is a haven for cannibalism. It is well known that we now have the problem relatively under control, and that it is the R.A.F. who now suffer the largest casualties in this area. And what do you think the Argylls ate in Aden? Arabs? Yours etc. Captain B. J. Smethwick in a white wine sauce with shallots, mushrooms and garlic

Raenir Salazar posted:

snippity snip

OscarDiggs posted:

Are there any good books about how battles were actually fought throughout various periods.

Not wars or logistics as such but the nitty gritty of, how did a medieval general tell his knights to charge over there instead of over there? How did the union rifle company waiting for their orders to ambush an enemy unit know and execute said orders? How does a tank commander in WW2 know when he's winning and when he's losing?

Similarly, are there any books about the nitty gritty operations of ships during the age of sail? There's lots of famous captains and admirals, whose famous battles can be read about. But there must have been a lot lf busy work in between those battles.

Jamwad Hilder posted:

The Union and Confederate armies often had different names for different battles because there's no post-battle meeting where they decide "ok this one was called X"