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I should know the rules, Mr. patracy, but I confess some ignorance.
I'm guessing by your pics that images of weapons are "verboten" here at SS, is that right?
Another story he told me from around this same time during the war, was how he was on a field phone about to call in HE rounds on a German 88.
He said that while he was glassing the gun that he watched as the gun crew pivoted the piece 180 degrees from where it had been firing, and promptly...
It's hard to keep track of them all, and there's always something new to learn. Learned about some new bomber variant just the other day (precursor to the B-52); who knew?!
My old man told me about seeing one of these toward the very end of WWII.
He was forward observer for a battery of 8" Howitzers, and by that time his unit was well within Germany (they entered through Aachen).
He said it was flying low, alone, by itself, and no particular threat to him at the...
The pics are all killer, Trailboss, thanks a million!
That de Havilland is a sweet treat.
And that would be a P-47 Thunderbolt in the pics here attached. The P-38 is the twin boom airframe (the one that took down Yamamoto).
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