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re: History in Pictures is a great twitter feed. Here is one just posted.
Posted on 7/14/14 at 1:47 pm to Darth_Vader
Posted on 7/14/14 at 1:47 pm to Darth_Vader
Maybe I just missed it but was there ever an answer for the US seal that was a gift from the Russians a few pages back?
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Posted on 7/14/14 at 1:47 pm to Darth_Vader
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I believe that's a Japanese Type 95 light tank.
Those suck on my World of Tanks game........... Just saying.
Posted on 7/14/14 at 1:49 pm to Darth_Vader
Is that the small mortar used by the Japs? I believe that would just slap them on their knee or right on the ground to fire one off.
Posted on 7/14/14 at 1:51 pm to Darth_Vader
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correct
The Soviets fielded similar concept (actually twin concepts) in 14.5mm.
The PTRS-41 (by Simonov) and PTRD-41 by Degtaryov - both borrowed heavily from the Polish model 35, anti-tank rifle.
At least one of the Soviet models was reported in use as recently as this year in the Ukraine.
Simonov
Degtyaryov
We found a weapons cache in Kosovo in 2003 that had ammo for one of these rifles - old Serbian stock.
This post was edited on 7/14/14 at 1:53 pm
Posted on 7/14/14 at 1:51 pm to Darth_Vader
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What is this?
Knee mortar.
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What is it's country of origin?
Wild guess, Japan?
This post was edited on 7/14/14 at 1:52 pm
Posted on 7/14/14 at 1:52 pm to Sid in Lakeshore
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Those suck on my World of Tanks game........... Just saying.
You play World of Tanks?
<- Darth_Aubie of 11th Armored Cav.
Posted on 7/14/14 at 1:54 pm to Ace Midnight
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Knee mortar.
That was it's name given by Marines & GI's but it was not a real mortar. It was actually a grenade launcher.
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Wild guess, Japan?
Correct
LINK
Posted on 7/14/14 at 1:57 pm to jrodLSUke
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I believe that would just slap them on their knee or right on the ground to fire one off.
That's pretty much all there was to it...
Posted on 7/14/14 at 2:01 pm to Darth_Vader
Identify this aircraft
What was it used for?
Posted on 7/14/14 at 2:20 pm to Darth_Vader
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You play World of Tanks?
<- Darth_Aubie of 11th Armored Cav.
captcouv of Elvis
Posted on 7/14/14 at 2:24 pm to captcouv
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captcouv of Elvis
Deputy Commander eh?
Posted on 7/14/14 at 2:32 pm to Darth_Vader
Who is this and what is his claim to fame?
Posted on 7/14/14 at 2:34 pm to fr33manator
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Who is this and what is his claim to fame?
We actually discussed him a few pages ago. He's the Finnish sniper that was known as "white Death" during the Winter War.
Posted on 7/14/14 at 2:36 pm to Darth_Vader
Simo hayha. What happened to his face?
Posted on 7/14/14 at 2:37 pm to fr33manator
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What happened to his face?
He was shot in the face while fighting he Soviets.
Posted on 7/14/14 at 2:38 pm to Darth_Vader
Was only a flesh wound. He went on to kill many more.
Posted on 7/14/14 at 2:40 pm to fr33manator
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Was only a flesh wound.
He lost half his jaw. He did not recover until the end of fighting so the wound basically ended the war for him. He did go on to live into old age though.
Posted on 7/14/14 at 2:42 pm to IT_Dawg
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First picture from Space sent back to Earth?
yes.
1946 on a captured German rocket.
Posted on 7/14/14 at 2:48 pm to ILeaveAtHalftime
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Maybe I just missed it but was there ever an answer for the US seal that was a gift from the Russians a few pages back?
sorry about that.
Soviet children presented a carved great seal.
It was hung up in an office. Many years later it was found to contain a bug.
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Think your neighbor is going a little Walter White on you? Before you call the DEA, try gifting him with a bugged Great Seal of the United States. In 1945, the Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union presented U.S. Ambassador Averell Harriman with a Great Seal, hand-carved from wood, as a gesture of friendship. Their definition of friendship was a little dysfunctional, though, because the gift contained a bug designed by famous Russian inventor Leon Theremin. The bug was hard to detect because it was extremely thin, gave off no signal and had no power supply (this was amazing technology back in 1945, mind you). Harriman hung it in his office at the Ambassador’s House, where the "Thing," as it was later called, went undiscovered until 1952 — three ambassadors later.
Posted on 7/14/14 at 2:49 pm to Darth_Vader
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That was it's name given by Marines & GI's but it was not a real mortar. It was actually a grenade launcher.
I read that marines who captured it and tried to use it from their knee suffered injuries.
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