A Jagdpanther having its main-drive sockets milled out on the assembly line.
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A Jagdpanther having its main-drive sockets milled out on the...
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Pz.Kpfw.Ausf.G and Jagdpanthers in the assembly area at MNH,...
Pz.Kpfw.Ausf.G and Jagdpanthers in the assembly area at MNH, Hannover Germany, April 1945.
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A very early 8.8 cm Pak 43/3 auf Panzerjager Panther...
A very early 8.8 cm Pak 43/3 auf Panzerjager Panther (Sd.Kfz.173) of 645. Schwere-Panzeräjer-Abteilung, Mailly-le-Camp proving ground, France, Spring 1944.
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Weirdo Turns His Taxidermied Cat Into A Quadrocopter
The full story here!
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the BBC wants to cite me as a source
this is my ghost typing this because first the military channel and now the BBC
goodbye world,
lux
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"Ive spent my whole life in the city where junk is king and the air smells shitty people puking..."
“Ive spent my whole life in the city
where junk is king and the air smells shitty
people puking everywhere
piles of blood, scabs, and hair
bodies wasted in defeat
young people dying on the streets
but the suburban scumbags they don’t care
they just get fat and die their hair”
- Lee Ving of FEAR
where junk is king and the air smells shitty
people puking everywhere
piles of blood, scabs, and hair
bodies wasted in defeat
young people dying on the streets
but the suburban scumbags they don’t care
they just get fat and die their hair”
- Lee Ving of FEAR
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Spandau Maxim Machine gun & MG08
Spandau Maxim Machine gun & MG08
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unsubstantiatedrumors replied to your video: Spandau Maxim Machine gun & MG08 JESUS that sounds...
JESUS that sounds amazing
Fallschirmjager:
I know man…I have watched that 6 times in a row (it’s still playing in the background as I type this) and I cannot get enough. I really need this in my life!
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operationbarbarossa: Anti-tank gunners of the Regina Rifles who...
Anti-tank gunners of the Regina Rifles who knocked out a Pz.Kpfw.V ‘Panther’ tank thirty yards from battalion HQ; Normandy, France - 8 June 1944
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Panther Ausf.G of 12. SS-PzD ‘Hitlerjugend’ knocked...
Panther Ausf.G of 12. SS-PzD ‘Hitlerjugend’ knocked out by Canadian soldiers of the Regina Rifle Regiment’s. This is in reply to this…
Panther ausf G, commanded by Untersturmführer Teichert from the 4th Company of the 1st Abteilung (Battalion), 12th SS Panzer Regiment, 12th SS Panzer Division “Hitlerjugend” outside 75 Rue de Bayeux in Bretteville-l’Orgueilleuse. On the night of June 8-9, 1944, the 1st Abteilung and the 25th Panzergrenadier Regument made an attack on the 1st Battalion, The Regina Rifle Regiment, 3rd Canadian Division, with twenty-two panthers under SS-Obersturmbannführer Max Wunsche, two batteries of self-propelled artillery and a motorcycle company led by SS-Oberführer (later SS-Brigadeführer) Kurt “Panzer” Meyer. The Reginas had suffered heavy casualties in the landing on Juno Beach on June 6, but with reinforcements moved towards Caen and occupied Bretteville-l’Orgueilleuse, Norrey, and Cardonville; other Canadian units occupied other towns, including Putot. At 1100 Hours the attack began. Lacking heavy anti-tank weapons, the Reginas had to stop the Panthers with 6-pounder 57mm (2.24 inch) guns and Projector, Infantry, Anti Tank (PIAT), a spigot mortar with a 12 pound (5 kilogram) high explosive anti-tank (HEAT) shaped charge; the 6-pounders and the PIATs could only penetrate the lesser rear armor of the Panthers. The Reginas also had a large quantity of small arms and ammunition. One PIAT team - Rifleman Joseph E. LaPointe, Rifleman Gill A. Carnie and Lance Corporal Clarence V. Hewitt - took up a position 15 yards (14 meters) from the Regina Rifles Headquarters near Bretteville-l’Orgueilleuse’s Church.
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This is what 5 Rue de Bayeux in Bretteville-l’Orgueilleuse looks...
This is what 5 Rue de Bayeux in Bretteville-l’Orgueilleuse looks like now, on route D613. This view is facing the other way of the Panther Ausf.G in this photo.
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Since, techically speaking it is June 6 in the Normandy Coastal areas...
Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force!
You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have
striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The
hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.
In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on
other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war
machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of
Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world.
Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well
equipped and battle hardened. He will fight savagely.
But this is the year 1944! Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of
1940-41. The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats,
in open battle, man-to-man. Our air offensive has seriously reduced their
strength in the air and their capacity to wage war on the ground. Our Home
Fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions
of war, and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men.
The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to
Victory!
I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in
battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory!
Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great
and noble undertaking.
SIGNED: Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"Our landings have failed and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and..."
“Our landings have failed and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based on the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone.”
- Ike’s speech if D-Day failed.
- Ike’s speech if D-Day failed.
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picturesofwar: Field Marshal Montgomery’s address to Allied...
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fallschirmjager: The advance party of the 8th Battalion,...
The advance party of the 8th Battalion, emplaning on the 5th June.
Fourth from the left is Ted Eaglen. Also travelling in his aircraft were Thomas Billington and Arthur Platt, who were both captured shortly after landing and then murdered by soldiers of the 125th Panzergrenadier Regiment.
Cheers chaps!
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fallschirmjager: The crew of a Stug III (probably an Ausf G...
The crew of a Stug III (probably an Ausf G early, since you cannot see the “saukopf” mantlet of the gun.) Platoon resting as one of their Kameraden watches the skies for the dreaded Jabo!
Jabo, German slang for Jager-bomber or Fighter Bomber (literally hunter-bomber).
During the Normandy campaign a great amount of German losses in material and in men was paid in due to the Western Allies air superiority.Ask any German Veteran just how scary France became with the Allied air superiority…
“The Ami-Anglo planes were like pesky mosquitoes…except more leathal…you could not escape those planes no matter where you went. And the best place to be was where you didn’t want to be….near the enemy.”
Hans Jurgen , 21 Panzer Division.
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fallschirmjager: Pegasus bridge, Caen canal 9 June 1944, with...
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fallschirmjager: Map of 3rd Canadian Infantry Division landings...
Map of 3rd Canadian Infantry Division landings on Juno Beach showing D-Day objectives (“Yew”, “Elm”, “Oak” ).
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demons: 6 June 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a...
6 June 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. Codenamed Operation Overlord, General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which “we will accept nothing less than full victory.”
More than 5,000 ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end the Allies gained a foot-hold in Fortress Europe. The cost was high though—more than 9,000 Allied soldiers were killed or wounded, but their sacrifice allowed more 100,000 soldiers to begin the long march across Europe to defeat Hitler and bring the Third Reich to its knees.
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