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re: History in Pictures is a great twitter feed. Here is one just posted.
Posted on 7/28/14 at 8:39 am to Darth_Vader
Posted on 7/28/14 at 8:39 am to Darth_Vader
Heck if I know. If I were to just give a guess, I would say it looks like pics of old Brownings I have seen before. Other than that, I don't even know...
WWI day it will be!
WWI day it will be!
This post was edited on 7/28/14 at 8:40 am
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Posted on 7/28/14 at 8:45 am to Spaceman Spiff
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Heck if I know. If I were to just give a guess, I would say it looks like pics of old Brownings I have seen before. Other than that, I don't even know...
WWI day it will be!
Well there's a good reason that it looks like a picture of Old Brownings... that's because it was designed by none other than John Browning himself. However, the pistol was not produced by Browning here in America. Instead this pistol was produced by FN in Belgium. It was known as the FN Model 1910. As for historic significance, this was the pistol used by Gavrilo Princip to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria which was the spark that ignited WWI.
Posted on 7/28/14 at 8:54 am to Darth_Vader
Now that is an interesting bit of history I did not know. 
Posted on 7/28/14 at 8:58 am to Darth_Vader
Name the ship/country:
Posted on 7/28/14 at 8:59 am to Spaceman Spiff
Here's another....
Make, Model, Country of Origin?
Make, Model, Country of Origin?
Posted on 7/28/14 at 9:01 am to Spaceman Spiff
HMS Iron Duke. She was the flagship of the British Grand Fleet during WWI.
Posted on 7/28/14 at 9:11 am to Darth_Vader
French? That's all I got. Was it armed?
Posted on 7/28/14 at 9:13 am to Darth_Vader
Was that the glider built by the guy backed by Alexander Graham Bell?
Forgot his name. Dude tried so hard to name the Wright brothers out to be frauds that it wasn't until 1947 that the brothers were officially recognized as first in flight.
Forgot his name. Dude tried so hard to name the Wright brothers out to be frauds that it wasn't until 1947 that the brothers were officially recognized as first in flight.
Posted on 7/28/14 at 9:32 am to Napoleon
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Was that the glider built by the guy backed by Alexander Graham Bell?
Forgot his name. Dude tried so hard to name the Wright brothers out to be frauds that it wasn't until 1947 that the brothers were officially recognized as first in flight.
No this is the German " Rumpler Taube". She was one of the very first mono-planes ever produced. The Germans used it from everything from a trainer to recon, to bomber & fighter.
Posted on 7/28/14 at 9:45 am to Darth_Vader
Nice!
What plane is this?
What plane is this?
Posted on 7/28/14 at 9:46 am to Spaceman Spiff
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Ok here is another. Name the ship, type, and what is she known for?
It is a US 4 stack destroyer. Without a hull number, it's impossible to tell them apart.
Having said that, I've seen that photo enough to know that it is the USS Ward - which fired the first shot of the Pacific war and with her second shot sank the first warship lost by either side in the Pacific war.
Related to the ward, her commanding officer on 7 December was William Outerbridge.
What historically interesting thing did Outerbridge do on 17 October 1944?
Posted on 7/28/14 at 9:47 am to Spaceman Spiff
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Nice!
What plane is this?
That's the German Albatros DI. Perhaps one of the best fighters of the war.
Posted on 7/28/14 at 9:49 am to Spaceman Spiff
German Albatross fighter.
The Red Baron is forever linked to the Fokker Triplane but he got most of his kills flying various versions of the Albatross.
The Red Baron is forever linked to the Fokker Triplane but he got most of his kills flying various versions of the Albatross.
Posted on 7/28/14 at 9:50 am to JustGetItRight
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Having said that, I've seen that photo enough to know that it is the USS Ward - which fired the first shot of the Pacific war and with her second shot sank the first warship lost by either side in the Pacific war
Excellent, sir!
Do not know the answer to your question, sir...
Posted on 7/28/14 at 9:52 am to JustGetItRight
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The Red Baron is forever linked to the Fokker Triplane but he got most of his kills flying various versions of the Albatross.
Exactly, including an extended fight where he finally killed the opposing pilot after shooting him in the head. I read where he credited hi twin MG's.
Posted on 7/28/14 at 10:02 am to Spaceman Spiff
Try this...
Make and country of origin?
Make and country of origin?
Posted on 7/28/14 at 10:05 am to Darth_Vader
Can't see that one...dreaded red x
Posted on 7/28/14 at 10:08 am to Spaceman Spiff
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Can't see that one...dreaded red x
Sorry, how about now?
Posted on 7/28/14 at 10:11 am to Darth_Vader
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Make and country of origin?
No clue other than WW-1ish.
WTF is that over the barrel? Some type of recoil reduction mechanism?
With the second view - early anti tank gun?
This post was edited on 7/28/14 at 10:12 am
Posted on 7/28/14 at 10:15 am to JustGetItRight
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No clue other than WW-1ish.
Yep. I'm going to stay on a WWI theme today to honor the 100th anniversary of the start of the war.
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WTF is that over the barrel? Some type of recoil reduction mechanism?
It is the recoil mechanism.
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With the second view - early anti tank gun?
When this gun was introduced tanks did not exist. However, it was sometimes used in a anti-tank role later on in WWII.
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