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re: History in Pictures is a great twitter feed. Here is one just posted.
Posted on 7/24/14 at 11:05 am to Darth_Vader
Posted on 7/24/14 at 11:05 am to Darth_Vader
Only somewhat related but have any of y'all ever done any reading on Hans Ulrich Rudel? I picked up a copy of his book, Stuka Pilot a few years ago and it was great. The total amount of stuff he destroyed was astonishing. It was over 2000 targets in all and I think even a Soviet battleship. Most of it was done from a Stuka but towards the end of the war he flew a ground attack variant of the FW-190. I don't think I could even come close to his kill tally even if I was allowed to use Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 
edited to add his official score per wikipedia. Absolutely incredible. He must've spent a lot of time in the air.
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Rudel flew 2,530 combat missions claiming a total of 2,000 targets destroyed; including 800 vehicles, 519 tanks, 150 artillery pieces, 70 landing craft, nine aircraft, four armored trains, several bridges, a destroyer, two cruisers, and the Soviet battleship Marat
edited to add his official score per wikipedia. Absolutely incredible. He must've spent a lot of time in the air.
This post was edited on 7/24/14 at 11:08 am
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Posted on 7/24/14 at 11:08 am to Wolfgang Wolfhausen
Even after losing a leg!
Posted on 7/24/14 at 11:08 am to Wolfgang Wolfhausen
there's a "military pics" twitter feed as well.. probably a lot of pic you guys would find interesting.
Posted on 7/24/14 at 11:09 am to FightinTigersDammit
I know, right? He had his plane modified so that he could control that foot pedal with his hands. You know you're a big shot dive bomber when Stalin goes out of his way to put a bounty on your head.
Posted on 7/24/14 at 11:11 am to Wolfgang Wolfhausen
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Only somewhat related but have any of y'all ever done any reading on Hans Ulrich Rudel?
His was one of the most fascinating stories of the war. One other ting of note about him is he was the only one to be awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds.
Posted on 7/24/14 at 11:14 am to Darth_Vader
He was a one man wrecking machine. Any time the country you're fighting for has to create a medal especially for you it puts you in pretty rare company I'd imagine. I need to reread the book, I can't remember if any of the aircraft he shot down were downed from his Stuka but if they were then that is almost as impressive as destroying all those ground targets. I wouldn't want to be up against a fighter in one of those things, they weren't exactly nimble in the air.
Posted on 7/24/14 at 11:16 am to Darth_Vader
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Close. It's the Arado Ar 68. She was one the first fighters of the new Luftwaffe.
Correct, sir.
Posted on 7/24/14 at 11:19 am to Spaceman Spiff
Let's make this a little more difficult.
Make/model.
Make/model.
Posted on 7/24/14 at 11:21 am to Spaceman Spiff
Prewar German seaplane, probably a Blum und Voss something or other.
Posted on 7/24/14 at 11:22 am to Spaceman Spiff
Never seen one marked in that manner. I know it was a Hienkel float plane from the early 30's but I can't remember it's model.
Posted on 7/24/14 at 11:23 am to Darth_Vader
Will leave it up just a bit longer...
Posted on 7/24/14 at 11:24 am to FightinTigersDammit
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Blum und Voss something or other.
I know the company you're talking about. Talk about making some odd aircraft. I think their engineers sat around getting stoned every morning before getting to work.
Posted on 7/24/14 at 11:32 am to Darth_Vader
Since no one got - Darth was close. It was a Heinkel He 59.
Posted on 7/24/14 at 12:05 pm to Darth_Vader
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Never seen one marked in that manner.
The Germans painted their air sea rescue planes white with red crosses at the start of WW2.
The British found out that, in addition to rescuing downed aviators (from both countries), they were also reporting convoy locations so they started shooting them down. Once that happened, Germany began camouflaging them.
Posted on 7/24/14 at 12:15 pm to JustGetItRight
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they were also reporting convoy locations
That's a no-no!
Posted on 7/24/14 at 12:18 pm to Spaceman Spiff
I've been playing from Banland.
Some great stuff posted in this thread.
I'm not up on my tanks, but boats and planes I can hang with.
Here is a model of a boat, a not very good boat.
Anyone know the country of origin and name of boat?
Some great stuff posted in this thread.
I'm not up on my tanks, but boats and planes I can hang with.
Here is a model of a boat, a not very good boat.
Anyone know the country of origin and name of boat?
Posted on 7/24/14 at 12:20 pm to Napoleon
That is a BCF.
A British Circular Frigate.....
A British Circular Frigate.....
Posted on 7/24/14 at 12:22 pm to Napoleon
I'm on mobile so the pics are a bit small. I believe that ship is Imperial Russian from the flags. Past that I'm not sure. Odd looking thing.
Posted on 7/24/14 at 12:25 pm to Darth_Vader
Here is another Luftwaffe oddity of the air. Make/model
Posted on 7/24/14 at 12:26 pm to Spaceman Spiff
Damn, that looks weird!
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