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Re: The Military History/Pics Thread.
Posted: Sat May 25, 2019 6:03 pm
by backrow
An Italian military vehicle going backwards. Well I never!
Re: The Military History/Pics Thread.
Posted: Sat May 25, 2019 9:17 pm
by AlanBengio
backrow wrote:
An Italian military vehicle going backwards. Well I never!
This is the new FREMM frigate taking the sea last January
2019 looks pretty busy for the Marina
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GPy1P6_wCfo
Re: The Military History/Pics Thread.
Posted: Sat May 25, 2019 10:52 pm
by GWO2
backrow wrote:
An Italian military vehicle going backwards. Well I never!
At least their government Builds their Naval boats in their OWN country (whether it goes forward or backwards)
Re: The Military History/Pics Thread.
Posted: Sun May 26, 2019 10:50 pm
by Nieghorn
Re: The Military History/Pics Thread.
Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2019 12:36 am
by Lacrobat
Viet Minh leaflet giving instructions about saving U.S pilots during WW2, 1945:
Re: The Military History/Pics Thread.
Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2019 1:36 am
by happyhooker
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Jesus. My grandfather, who spent a fortunately very brief time in a Japanese pow camp had a print of that on his wall. To the best of my knowledge, it's still in my parents ' attic
Re: The Military History/Pics Thread.
Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2019 11:06 am
by Taranaki Snapper
Americans, eh? Always winning WWII...
Re: The Military History/Pics Thread.
Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2019 3:30 am
by Nieghorn
Re: The Military History/Pics Thread.
Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2019 6:29 am
by Hong Kong
Re: The Military History/Pics Thread.
Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2019 8:39 am
by redderneck
LHD?
Good luck to it when it tries overtaking on Irish backroads.
Re: The Military History/Pics Thread.
Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2019 8:46 am
by Calculus
@HK, what's the point of that post
Re: The Military History/Pics Thread.
Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2019 10:51 am
by frillage
Hong Kong wrote:
fooking huge
Kind of slates them for Molotov Ribbentrop, while ignoring Munich agreement doesn’t it?
Re: The Military History/Pics Thread.
Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2019 2:56 am
by Zico
I was watching one of those Chernobyl docs on You Tube and saw this is also in the exclusion zone;
An over the horizon radar system apparently.
It reminded me of this;
It's a listening station from the Vietnam war in Northern Thailand. I saw it from a train heading to Nong Khai.
Apparently there have been a lot of rumours about it's current function but it's NOT a CIA black site. They proved the point by opening it up as a museum.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/news/genera ... ret-prison
Re: The Military History/Pics Thread.
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2019 12:39 am
by Taranaki Snapper
Re: The Military History/Pics Thread.
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2019 2:13 am
by Auckman
Taranaki Snapper wrote:
gets the message across.
Re: The Military History/Pics Thread.
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2019 3:05 am
by Lacrobat
frillage wrote:Hong Kong wrote:
fooking huge
Kind of slates them for Molotov Ribbentrop, while ignoring Munich agreement doesn’t it?
So? The US had nothing to do with Munich, and the UK didn't split Czechoslovakia with Hitler the way Stalin did Poland.
Re: The Military History/Pics Thread.
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2019 4:06 am
by Taranaki Snapper
Re: The Military History/Pics Thread.
Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2019 11:08 pm
by Nieghorn
General Tobias Smuts ... with a Krag-Jorgensen.
I'm not sure how he got a Norwegian rifle (which was used by Norwegians, Danish, USA and some Boers), but my grandfather willed his 1897 Steyr model to my dad. It has an odd cartridge box...
Re: The Military History/Pics Thread.
Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2019 11:11 pm
by Turbogoat
Taranaki Snapper wrote:
This message was brought to you by the Dept of the Navy.
Re: The Military History/Pics Thread.
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2019 12:23 pm
by Nieghorn
Lieutenant Frederick William Campbell, V.C.
Citation
“For most conspicuous bravery on 15th June, 1915, during the action at Givenchy.
Lieutenant Campbell took two machine-guns over the parapet, arrived at the German first line with one gun, and maintained his position there, under very heavy rifle, machine-gun, and bomb fire, notwithstanding the fact that almost the whole of his detachment had then been killed or wounded.
When our supply of bombs had become exhausted, this Officer advanced his gun still further to an exposed position, and, by firing about 1,000 rounds, succeeded in holding back the enemy’s counter-attack.
This very gallant Officer was subsequently wounded, and has since died.”
(London Gazette, no.29272, 23 August 1915)
As he was retreating, his right thigh bone was shattered. The wound turned septic, and Campbell died in hospital in Boulogne four days later.
Re: The Military History/Pics Thread.
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2019 4:22 pm
by happyhooker
Nieghorn wrote:
Lieutenant Frederick William Campbell, V.C.
Citation
“For most conspicuous bravery on 15th June, 1915, during the action at Givenchy.
Lieutenant Campbell took two machine-guns over the parapet, arrived at the German first line with one gun, and maintained his position there, under very heavy rifle, machine-gun, and bomb fire, notwithstanding the fact that almost the whole of his detachment had then been killed or wounded.
When our supply of bombs had become exhausted, this Officer advanced his gun still further to an exposed position, and, by firing about 1,000 rounds, succeeded in holding back the enemy’s counter-attack.
This very gallant Officer was subsequently wounded, and has since died.”
(London Gazette, no.29272, 23 August 1915)
As he was retreating, his right thigh bone was shattered. The wound turned septic, and Campbell died in hospital in Boulogne four days later.
How the hell was he there. In 1914/15 surely they weren't enlisting 48 year olds and if he'd been regular he wouldn't be a lieutenant, unless he was promoted from the ranks very shortly beforehand.
Re: The Military History/Pics Thread.
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2019 4:26 pm
by Monk Zombie
perhaps a brevet appointment
Re: The Military History/Pics Thread.
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2019 4:37 pm
by happyhooker
Goes some way to explaining it:
A Militia soldier of the 30th Wellington Rifles, Campbell served in the South African War with the 2nd (Special Service) Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment.
Re: The Military History/Pics Thread.
Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2019 1:34 pm
by Nieghorn
Some celebs I didn’t know served...
Rob Riggle, a reserve Lt Col, nontheless!
Re: The Military History/Pics Thread.
Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2019 12:21 am
by Taranaki Snapper
Re: The Military History/Pics Thread.
Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2019 5:52 am
by Tehui
NZ, 1864. General Duncan Cameron leads the British invasion of Tauranga. After slaughtering many of the indigenous population, they clear a runway for British settlers to establish housing and commercial interests. 150+ years later, Tauranga City Council still refuse to change the street name Cameron Road which runs through Tauranga.
Re: The Military History/Pics Thread.
Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2019 6:12 am
by Adrianmole
Why should TCC do such a thing and deny history?
Re: The Military History/Pics Thread.
Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2019 6:18 am
by Tehui
Adrianmole wrote:Why should TCC do such a thing and deny history?
History or murder?
Re: The Military History/Pics Thread.
Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2019 11:10 am
by koroke hangareka
Tehui wrote:Adrianmole wrote:Why should TCC do such a thing and deny history?
History or murder?
Arguably both. Keep the name, bung up a memorial to those killed.
Re: The Military History/Pics Thread.
Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2019 11:29 am
by Yer Man
Lacrobat wrote:Viet Minh leaflet giving instructions about saving U.S pilots during WW2, 1945:
Slight tangent, but the Air Raid that resulted in the largest death toll in WW2 was the Doolittle Raid.
Only killed maybe a hundred in Tokyo.
But, since the Bombers didn't have enough fuel to return to base, the plan was to keep flying* and bail out over China.
In retaliation the Japanese massacred the local Chinese wherever they thought pilots had been helped.
Estimated death toll 150,00 to 250,000. More than died from the two Atomic Bombs.
* Apparently one plane forced down over the Ocean and the Japanese Navy captured the pilots.
They were tied up in chains... and thrown overboard.
Re: The Military History/Pics Thread.
Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2019 6:06 pm
by Tehui
koroke hangareka wrote:Tehui wrote:Adrianmole wrote:Why should TCC do such a thing and deny history?
History or murder?
Arguably both. Keep the name, bung up a memorial to those killed.
F* the name.
Re: The Military History/Pics Thread.
Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2019 4:31 am
by Nieghorn
Yer Man wrote:
* Apparently one plane forced down over the Ocean and the Japanese Navy captured the pilots.
They were tied up in chains... and thrown overboard.
Yikes! That didn't make "30 Seconds Over Tokyo"!
... speaking of, recently listened to an interview with a surviving member of the Tuskegee Airmen. They were talking about Austria apologizing in the last few years for the lynching of one of the 332nd pilots that had bailed out. The vet was quick to mention, however, that many pilots - not just a black man - were lynched by angry citizens. I'd never heard of this before!
(... but can understand it, as he'd just been talking not only about bombing runs but also that escorts were allowed to seek out 'targets of opportunity' on the way back when clear, and that would often probably include civilians working on/at railways, in factories, storage yards, driving trucks, etc.)
https://www.historyonthenet.com/intervi ... ry-stewart
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/ ... 549023002/
Re: The Military History/Pics Thread.
Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2019 3:51 am
by Taranaki Snapper
Mueller served as a Marine Corps officer during the Vietnam War, receiving a Bronze Star for heroism and a Purple Heart.
Re: The Military History/Pics Thread.
Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2019 4:55 am
by Pat the Ex Mat
That article is a cracker.
Re: The Military History/Pics Thread.
Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2019 1:40 pm
by AlanBengio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N487_HrwssY
For the ones interested - the new PPA Light "Thaon Di Revel" at sea last week (part of the PPA program related to multipurpose patrol ships for Italy)
Re: The Military History/Pics Thread.
Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2019 6:32 pm
by GWO2
Last Sunday, my 99 year old dad was taken to Cardiff airport, where he was allowed to board the Lancaster from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight. It was the first time he had been in a Lanc. for 70 odd years he was absolutely thrilled. The man that took him, Leighton, was a volunteer from an organisation called the Project Propeller. They pick up aircrew veterans from WWII and fly them in their private planes, to a reunion, this year it was in Coventry.My father said he didn`t remember it being hard to move around in the aircraft so I rminded him it was over 70 years ago. The volunteer told me he went up the ladder like a bat out of hell and he couldn`t keep up with him.
Re: The Military History/Pics Thread.
Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2019 6:44 pm
by The Man Without Fear
Nieghorn wrote:
Is this a euphemism?
Re: The Military History/Pics Thread.
Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2019 11:12 pm
by Shrekles
GW - your dad looks in great nick for 99! What was his role in his Lancaster?
Re: The Military History/Pics Thread.
Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2019 12:02 pm
by Nieghorn
"Mein Herr, yes, that is going to make a great shot, but the Russians ARE shooting at us. Get down here!"
Re: The Military History/Pics Thread.
Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2019 2:09 pm
by The Prophet Zarquon
Yer Man wrote:Lacrobat wrote:Viet Minh leaflet giving instructions about saving U.S pilots during WW2, 1945:
Slight tangent, but the Air Raid that resulted in the largest death toll in WW2 was the Doolittle Raid.
Only killed maybe a hundred in Tokyo.
But, since the Bombers didn't have enough fuel to return to base, the plan was to keep flying* and bail out over China.
In retaliation the Japanese massacred the local Chinese wherever they thought pilots had been helped.
Estimated death toll 150,00 to 250,000. More than died from the two Atomic Bombs.
* Apparently one plane forced down over the Ocean and the Japanese Navy captured the pilots.
They were tied up in chains... and thrown overboard.
By that standard the Air Raid that resulted in the largest death toll in WW2 was the Japanese attack on Pearl. In retaliation the Americans declared war on the Japan and Germany and the death toll resulting therefrom was 418,000 of Amercian Servicemen alone, not to mention Japanese, German and Italian combatants and friendly civilians, mostly French, killed.
