Crude…yet effective. The three main sub-machine guns of the Red Army during World War 2.
Top: PPD-40
Middle: PPsH-41
Bottom: PPs-43
MY BABIES
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Posts tagged "WWII"
“At first the Germans didn’t shoot at him, I think they couldn’t quite believe what they were seeing. But that wasn’t really the astounding thing; the astounding thing was, after he had hooked up with I Company, he came back. “
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Been on a bit of a tanker uniform kick.
Eventually, I’ll have a computer that can run games made after 1998. When that day comes, I’m gonna play the hell out of World of Tanks.
American troops in Africa sitting on captured Panzerkampfwagon II and another vehicle, I’m not sure what kind it is.
What is that adorable thing on the right?
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There is one great thing that you men will all be able to say after this war is over and you are home once again. You may be thankful that twenty years from now when you are sitting by the fireplace with your grandson on your knee and he asks you what you did in the great World War II, you WON’T have to cough, shift him to the other knee and say, ‘Well, your Granddaddy shoveled shit in Louisiana.’ No, Sir, you can look him straight in the eye and say, ‘Son, your Granddaddy rode with the Great Third Army and a Son-of-a-Goddamned-Bitch named Georgie Patton!’The closing of General Patton’s speech the day before D-Day. It’s safe to say he was a little more fiery than Eisenhower. Full speech here (as you might suspect, there is some strong language throughout.)
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The Spitfire is a much loved plane, even today. Built in the late 1930s, it has the look of a classic airplane, with an oblong, slightly rounded body, wings that look like a huge oval strapped to the plane, and a ‘blister’ of glass over the cockpit. World War II marked a time of great innovation, which was sometimes practical and sometimes loony. Those two kinds of innovation came together when great military minds decided that to keep an airplane from being spotted, they needed to paint it pink.
The pink, slightly too washed-out to be an actual baby pink, still seems bright enough to signal every enemy within five miles. This is certainly true when the Spitfires were seen from above. They stand out brightly against the ground. To make sure they were rarely seen from above, these planes were painted to fly just under cloud cover. Although the planes were ideally meant to fly at sunset and sunrise, when the clouds took on a pinkish hue and made the plane completely invisible against them, they were also useful during the day. Clouds are pinker than we give them credit for.
One of the troubles with the Spitfire was the fact that the pilot felt garish and exposed. Having to keep an eye on the sky above to check for enemy aircraft, fly with cloud cover, and frequently fly at dawn or at sunset, these Spitfires were real challenges to their pilots. However, as early spy planes they allowed the Allies to collect much-needed data, while flying close to the ground. And of course, in the evenings, when the sky was pink with the sunset, they were far more invisible than a white plane shining against a pastel cloud.
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