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Posted: 4/17/2024 7:48:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 749 Exercise Tiger 2400 Omaha Beach. Am I missing something? 2400 is total casualties not KIA. |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 7:52:23 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Operation Mincemeat is on Netflix. https://media2.firstshowing.net/firstshowing/img12/operationmincemeatPostermainimg59b.jpg Yes it is |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 8:45:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryAnd they were hungry again an hour later |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 8:55:08 PM EDT
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Castle_Itter
American soldiers, German Wehrmacht, a Waffen SS captain, and French prisoners of war fought together against a SS unit. |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 9:14:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: And they were hungry again an hour later Quote HistoryQuoted: And they were hungry again an hour later  |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 9:33:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: He was heard saying: "As God as my witness I thought bats could fly" Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I don't believe the bats escaped and burned down the town. I believe someone left a bunsen burner on, and that started the fire. I also believe they tried to drop the bats, but instead of flying to under the eves of the houses, they just fell like stones. It has been quite a few years since I read these stories, I may not be correct. He was heard saying: "As God as my witness I thought bats could fly" IIRC the cold at altitude and lack of oxygen rendered the bad-bombs dead or unconscious, thence dead when they bounced. |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 9:39:50 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/17/2024 9:41:41 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/17/2024 10:05:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: He still had his issue Arisaka. It was in bad shape, but he still used it. I remember reading his story when he surrendered. It was on the news every night for a few weeks. He was also raiding US bases for food. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: What kind of weapons was he using for 30 years? Not his issue guns and ammo? He still had his issue Arisaka. It was in bad shape, but he still used it. I remember reading his story when he surrendered. It was on the news every night for a few weeks. He was also raiding US bases for food. I wonder what happened to his Type 99? Museum? Destroyed? I’d like to see a pic of it to see its condition |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 10:08:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: pigeon bombs! https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/saga-bird-brained-bombers Beat me to that one. |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 10:10:33 PM EDT
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The Brits used the BBC transmitter for deception jamming against the German radio navigation beams during the Battle of Britain. They found that they could shift the Germans’ aim point.
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Posted: 4/17/2024 10:12:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: IIRC the cold at altitude and lack of oxygen rendered the bad-bombs dead or unconscious, thence dead when they bounced. Nope. They enclosed them in casings that worked very much like a modern cluster bomb with a drag-inducing device to slow them down. Kept the bats protected until at an altitude where they could be released. |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 11:05:44 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Gilligan's Island also had an episode tangential to that story. GI ran that episode before they found the real guy. 
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Posted: 4/18/2024 12:05:33 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The Brits used the BBC transmitter for deception jamming against the German radio navigation beams during the Battle of Britain. They found that they could shift the Germans’ aim point. In a book about the Battle of Britain and the aftermath, I read that the German aircrews would then go on the radio berating the guys back home running the guide beam for putting them off target, who'd then argue back telling the aircrews they just suck at flying, and round and round. The English EW guys had to enjoy listening to that. The UK basically wrote the book (first installment at least) on EW... |
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Posted: 4/18/2024 12:15:55 AM EDT
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Posted: 4/18/2024 1:19:41 AM EDT
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Posted: 4/18/2024 1:30:26 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The Brits used the BBC transmitter for deception jamming against the German radio navigation beams during the Battle of Britain. They found that they could shift the Germans' aim point. |
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Posted: 4/18/2024 2:06:33 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: More Americans died training for D-Day during Exercise Tiger than died on Omaha Beach. That kind of makes it sound like a bunch of training accidents vs mostly due to a German attack, which is a little misleading IMHO. |
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Posted: 4/18/2024 3:16:46 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What kind of weapons was he using for 30 years? Not his issue guns and ammo? He’d store Arisaka ammo in glass bottles with corks, he had his rifle, two more, plus the two of his fallen soldiers. His Sword, a least 14 remaining grenades when he surrendered. He also ambushed and killed a few communist gorillas and took their arms. A T33 pistol, a PPSH, and an AK based Rifle among others. |
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Posted: 4/18/2024 3:18:46 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: my uncle was killed after the war had been over for while by a Japanese sniper. Left his wife and 2 year old son behind. Story? Was it the guy in the Philippines? |
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Posted: 4/18/2024 10:24:35 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: He’d store Arisaka ammo in glass bottles with corks, he had his rifle, two more, plus the two of his fallen soldiers. His Sword, a least 14 remaining grenades when he surrendered. He also ambushed and killed a few communist gorillas and took their arms. A T33 pistol, a PPSH, and an AK based Rifle among others. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: What kind of weapons was he using for 30 years? Not his issue guns and ammo? He’d store Arisaka ammo in glass bottles with corks, he had his rifle, two more, plus the two of his fallen soldiers. His Sword, a least 14 remaining grenades when he surrendered. He also ambushed and killed a few communist gorillas and took their arms. A T33 pistol, a PPSH, and an AK based Rifle among others. I wonder what he thought when he stumbled across the AK rifle. Hell of an advancement in fire power compared to what he was used to. |
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Posted: 4/18/2024 10:37:31 AM EDT
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Not WWII, but still worth the watch:
 The Story Of The SMS Emden I THE GREAT WAR - Special |
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Posted: 4/18/2024 10:40:10 AM EDT
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Posted: 4/18/2024 10:56:47 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: In a book about the Battle of Britain and the aftermath, I read that the German aircrews would then go on the radio berating the guys back home running the guide beam for putting them off target, who'd then argue back telling the aircrews they just suck at flying, and round and round. The English EW guys had to enjoy listening to that. The UK basically wrote the book (first installment at least) on EW... Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: The Brits used the BBC transmitter for deception jamming against the German radio navigation beams during the Battle of Britain. They found that they could shift the Germans’ aim point. In a book about the Battle of Britain and the aftermath, I read that the German aircrews would then go on the radio berating the guys back home running the guide beam for putting them off target, who'd then argue back telling the aircrews they just suck at flying, and round and round. The English EW guys had to enjoy listening to that. The UK basically wrote the book (first installment at least) on EW...  Attached FileKharn |
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Posted: 4/18/2024 11:03:13 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I’ll see your bat bomb and raise you a rat bomb. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/857/IMG_0848_jpeg-3190325.JPG According to history, the Germans found one of the first covert shipments of rat bombs and then spent a lot of time/effort inspecting the coal ensuring one never hit the ship’s boiler David Nivin used one as a decoy in "The guns of Navarone," |
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Posted: 4/18/2024 11:13:55 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: GI ran that episode before they found the real guy. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Gilligan's Island also had an episode tangential to that story. GI ran that episode before they found the real guy. The soldier being discussed is far from the only Japanese post WWII island holdout. |
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Posted: 4/18/2024 11:23:27 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'll see your bat bomb and raise you a rat bomb. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/857/IMG_0848_jpeg-3190325.JPG According to history, the Germans found one of the first covert shipments of rat bombs and then spent a lot of time/effort inspecting the coal ensuring one never hit the ship's boiler  |
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Posted: 4/18/2024 6:35:47 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/18/2024 6:43:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryThat is awesome! |
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Posted: 4/18/2024 6:51:29 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/18/2024 7:05:17 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/18/2024 7:17:03 PM EDT
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Project Habakkuk or Habbakuk (spelling varies) was a plan by the British during the Second World War to construct an aircraft carrier out of pykrete, a mixture of wood pulp and ice, for use against German U-boats in the mid-Atlantic, which were beyond the flight range of land-based planes at that time.
The plan was to create what would have been the largest ship ever at 600 metres (1,969 ft) long, which would have been much bigger than even USS Enterprise, the largest naval vessel ever, at 342 metres (1,122 ft) long. The project was shelved due to rising costs, added requirements, and the availability of longer-range aircraft and escort carriers which closed the Mid-Atlantic gap that the project was intended to address. According to some accounts, at the Quebec Conference in 1943 Lord Louis Mountbatten brought a block of pykrete along to demonstrate its potential to the admirals and generals who accompanied Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Mountbatten entered the project meeting with two blocks and placed them on the ground. One was a normal ice block and the other was pykrete. He then drew his service pistol and shot at the first block. It shattered and splintered. Next he fired at the pykrete to give an idea of the resistance of that kind of ice to projectiles. The bullet ricocheted off the block, grazing the trouser leg of Admiral Ernest King, and ended up in the wall. |
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Posted: 4/18/2024 7:32:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I think Hiroo Onoda was a moron and that it's stupid to celebrate him. Anyone with half a brain would have made reasonable attempts to verify that the war was over. Nah, he wasn't a moron. I think he was just very bitter and refused to admit defeat. He had to have known it was over but he still killed what, 25-30 more people? |
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Posted: 4/18/2024 11:39:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What is that ? Quote Historyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alistair_MacLean Movie info: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054953/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 |
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