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Originally Posted By 4v50: Big Bertha, the Paris Gun https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fs-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com%2F736x%2Fa1%2F84%2F34%2Fa184348e28c0d4df2982ba595a3cea62.jpg&f=1 View Quote This is Big Bertha: Attached File https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bertha_(howitzer) |
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„From a place you will not see, comes a sound you will not hear.“
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Originally Posted By ValleyGunner:
In Boardwalk Empire, the former sniper guy had a "sniper's mask". Is that such a thing? View Quote I can’t post pics. But if you google “WWI Medical Prosthesis” and chose images, you’ll find Arms/hands modified to hold welding tools & face masks, usually with eye glasses. Left cold: https://www.google.com/search?q=wwi+medical+prosthesis&client=safari&hl=en-us&prmd=isnv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiA5qzplqDZAhXuQ98KHXxWALMQ_AUIESgB&biw=1024&bih=643&dpr=2#isa=y |
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Related and interesting:
http://www.messynessychic.com/2015/05/26/the-real-no-go-zone-of-france-a-forbidden-no-mans-land-poisoned-by-war/ There are still a lot of no-go zones in France due to UXO's. |
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I've seen several posts with the Renault tank in them. There's a restored, running one right down the road from me at The Museum of the American GI in College St, TX. They actually run it.
WWI Tank FT 17 Renault Walk Around Part 1 of 2 WWI Tank FT 17 Engine Walk Around and Tank in Action Part 2 of 2 Operational FT 17 April 2017 |
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Veracity - The thing is, the press are like the Dodo bird. They've evolved with no natural predators.
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Originally Posted By doggettknives:
Related and interesting: http://www.messynessychic.com/2015/05/26/the-real-no-go-zone-of-france-a-forbidden-no-mans-land-poisoned-by-war/ There are still a lot of no-go zones in France due to UXO's. View Quote When some of the stuff floats back up to the top of the ground, the locals just stick it next to the road to be picked up. Of course when I was walking along the path that was adjacent to this area, there was a group of bozos rooting around in it. |
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"Mark my words, the coming war will not be fought on the frontier, or on some distant battle field, but amoungst us and amoung our homes! Our children will learn of it with their own eyes..."
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Originally Posted By David0858:
I've seen several posts with the Renault tank in them. There's a restored, running one right down the road from me at The Museum of the American GI in College St, TX. They actually run it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EEFX-FNBx8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTbLEDYV4Zg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o58VAEQuS0 View Quote Attached File |
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Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God.
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"The people have no other remedy in this (. . .) but to appeal to heaven: for the rulers, in such attempts, exercising a power the people never put into their hands. . ." -- John Locke
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A really good compilation of pictures. https://www.theatlantic.com/projects/world-war-i-in-photos/
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That war was a fucking meat grinder.
19th century tactics and 20th century technology. Brutal. |
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"Let us speak courtiously,deal fairly and keep ourselves armed and ready." -Theodore Roosevelt
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Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get me.
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Originally Posted By 32ACP:
If you’re referring to his tin face mask due to his gun shot wound, yes that was the norm for facial injuries. I can’t post pics. But if you google “WWI Medical Prosthesis” and chose images, you’ll find Arms/hands modified to hold welding tools & face masks, usually with eye glasses. Left cold: https://www.google.com/search?q=wwi+medical+prosthesis&client=safari&hl=en-us&prmd=isnv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiA5qzplqDZAhXuQ98KHXxWALMQ_AUIESgB&biw=1024&bih=643&dpr=2#isa=y View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By 32ACP:
Originally Posted By ValleyGunner:
In Boardwalk Empire, the former sniper guy had a "sniper's mask". Is that such a thing? I can’t post pics. But if you google “WWI Medical Prosthesis” and chose images, you’ll find Arms/hands modified to hold welding tools & face masks, usually with eye glasses. Left cold: https://www.google.com/search?q=wwi+medical+prosthesis&client=safari&hl=en-us&prmd=isnv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiA5qzplqDZAhXuQ98KHXxWALMQ_AUIESgB&biw=1024&bih=643&dpr=2#isa=y |
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Kept safe by the hand of God and the Glock in my hand.
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Originally Posted By CarbineDad:
John Mose Browning goes to war again https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nL9JKassTD4/maxresdefault.jpg View Quote The guys know what’s coming when the gas clears. |
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Originally Posted By 4v50:
This was the era of the dreadnought: https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2F5%2F57%2FSMS_Kronprinz_Wilhelm_in_Scapa_Flow.jpg%2F1200px-SMS_Kronprinz_Wilhelm_in_Scapa_Flow.jpg&f=1 Austro-Hungarian battleships - among the first to have triple gun turrets https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2F1%2F15%2FAustro-Hungarian_Dreadnoughts_At_Pula.jpg&f=1 https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse2.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.4YmBNUEzLgvxCX3guRyhkgHaFc%26pid%3D15.1&f=1 https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fc1.staticflickr.com%2F5%2F4083%2F5195206723_4ff3a1691a_b.jpg&f=1 View Quote |
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To The Lost
Call sign Tsunami Never pick a fight with seven men if all you are packing is a six gun. |
To The Lost
Call sign Tsunami Never pick a fight with seven men if all you are packing is a six gun. |
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Originally Posted By StraightSix:
https://i.imgur.com/sy5DO1f.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Guarding_subway_entrance%2C_Paris_%28LOC%29.jpg https://miepvonsydow.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/verdun.jpg RSC 1917: https://www.quartermastersection.com/french/infantry-weapons/img/FusilM1917.jpg http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b90441141/f1.highres View Quote |
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Goering?
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Snap, bang or fizz I like all 3
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Originally Posted By sydney7629:
https://img.cinemablend.com/filter:scale/quill/b/f/2/7/7/f/bf277f3171686a8464a28a1ec4db9343c8446f00.jpg?mw=600 View Quote |
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Was the position of attention invented in the inter-war period? Most of these guys are standing like civilians.
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WoT ingame; Green_Locust
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"with a Big Iron on his hip" - Marty Robbins
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What he lacks in lean, he makes up for with mean.
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Originally Posted By ValleyGunner:
Thanks, but I'm not referring to the mask he wore to cover his injuries. He had a leather "sniper's cover" in the first hospital scene. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By ValleyGunner:
Originally Posted By 32ACP:
Originally Posted By ValleyGunner:
In Boardwalk Empire, the former sniper guy had a "sniper's mask". Is that such a thing? I can’t post pics. But if you google “WWI Medical Prosthesis” and chose images, you’ll find Arms/hands modified to hold welding tools & face masks, usually with eye glasses. Left cold: https://www.google.com/search?q=wwi+medical+prosthesis&client=safari&hl=en-us&prmd=isnv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiA5qzplqDZAhXuQ98KHXxWALMQ_AUIESgB&biw=1024&bih=643&dpr=2#isa=y |
"It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom – for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself."
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Originally Posted By HungLo: Zep used this pic for their 2nd album. https://img.discogs.com/pu0I51dyMopDYXEps869oAlk8c8=/fit-in/600x603/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3092359-1483310459-6297.jpeg.jpg View Quote |
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Great pictures... Thank you
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USS Ranger (cv-61)
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Originally Posted By Schmeck:
I'm related to one of these guys, unfortunately I'm not sure which one. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/349999/Screen_Shot_2018-02-19_at_10-457193.JPG View Quote Actually the guy third from the right also appears to have his finger off the trigger but he also seems to have his 1911 pointed at someone's head. |
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Originally Posted By FLchuck8:
Not to derail but what is this? https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/126350/2BE58490-27E6-4227-8A8A-947068DA3F8B-447862-448849.JPG View Quote Pic just taken at the Salzburg Fortress museum. |
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My Grandfather was the deck gun officer on this ship. Family lore says the gun was never completed.
USS Celebes info |
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Originally Posted By Bachert:
https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/89809/ECBE9D08-848A-4EC6-B4FE-0A2D08D720B2-458258.JPGPic just taken at the Salzburg Fortress museum. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Bachert:
Originally Posted By FLchuck8:
Not to derail but what is this? https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/126350/2BE58490-27E6-4227-8A8A-947068DA3F8B-447862-448849.JPG |
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Remember, no matter where you're at, there you are.
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Originally Posted By doggettknives:
Related and interesting: http://www.messynessychic.com/2015/05/26/the-real-no-go-zone-of-france-a-forbidden-no-mans-land-poisoned-by-war/ There are still a lot of no-go zones in France due to UXO's. View Quote |
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Originally Posted By Lead-slinger:
If I had to guess I would say is was a grenade for hanging on barbed wire. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Lead-slinger:
Originally Posted By Bachert:
Originally Posted By FLchuck8:
Not to derail but what is this? https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/126350/2BE58490-27E6-4227-8A8A-947068DA3F8B-447862-448849.JPG |
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"Ya brung two too many"
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