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I use that sentence all the time in a variety of contexts.  

From the May-Jun 1923 issue of Army Ordnance.
 

In my mind that is a double win situation.

I think they have had problems with everything. 

We really need to re-dub that video to make Luigi start spouting off about Khirosheev and Deathtraps.  

We really need to re-dub that video to make Luigi start spouting off about Khirosheev and Deathtraps.  

We really need to re-dub that video to make Luigi start spouting off about Khirosheev and Deathtraps.  

We really need to re-dub that video to make Luigi start spouting off about Khirosheev and Deathtraps.  

I figured we should have a thread for that most venerable of firearms, the M2 .50 cal machine gun.  As a reminder of just how old this weapons system is, here is an article about it from 1921.  This gun is older than many of our grand parents.  Try to think of any piece of machinery dating back to 1921 that is still in use today, either military or civilian.  It's pretty amazing to consider what John Browning accomplished with this design.  
 

 
 



 

I figured we should have a thread for that most venerable of firearms, the M2 .50 cal machine gun.  As a reminder of just how old this weapons system is, here is an article about it from 1921.  This gun is older than many of our grand parents.  Try to think of any piece of machinery dating back to 1921 that is still in use today, either military or civilian.  It's pretty amazing to consider what John Browning accomplished with this design.  
 

 
 



 

So I thought it might be a fun project to create a list of authors who have written about tanks and armored warfare for my website.  I was going to limit the list to authors who have been published in English. I was thinking I would categorize them and provide whatever biographical info that I could.  I started going through my book collection and files collecting names.  I am not finished and I already am getting overwhelmed.  I have not included memoirs by armor officers unless they were actual tank commanders. Here is what I have so far, not sorted or organized yet:
 
List of Tank and AFV Authors
 
Steven Zaloga
Richard Ogorkiewicz
David Fletcher
Robert J Icks
Kenneth Estes
Harry Yeide
George Forty
Simon Dunstan
Kenneth Macksey
Pat Ware
Thomas Jentz
Hillary Doyle
Richard Hunnicutt
Chris Ellis
Peter Chamberlain
Michael and Gladys Green
Peter Beale
A J Smithers
Robert Griffin
M P Robinson
James Loop
Walter J Spielberger
Uwe Feist
Norm Harms
Charles Kliment
Janusz Magnuski
Bruce Culver
Peter Brown
B. T. White
Dr. F. M. von Senger und Etterlin
John Milsom
Roger Ford
Horst Scheibert
Mikhail Baryatinskiy
Robert Forczyk
Lon Nordeen & David Isby
John Buckley
Bruce Quarrie (wehraboo)
Heinz Nawarra
George Bradford
William Auerbach
Orr Kelly
Peter Gudgin
Chris Bishop
Armin Halle
Ian Hogg
Robert Jackson (hack)
Franz Kurowski
Robert Citino
Richard Dinardo
Roman Jarymowycz
Artem Drabkin
M. H. Gillie
Belton Cooper
Patrick Stansell and Kurt Laughlin
Alexander Ludeke
Denis Showalter
Otto Carius
Rolf Hilmes
Wolfgang Schneider
Anthony Tucker-Jones
Thomas Anderson
Dave Higgins
Wolfgang Faust
Bill Munro
Stephan A Hart
Francois Verlinden
Bryan Perrett
Joachim Engelmann
Gordon Rottman
W. J. K. Davies
Wolfgang Fleischer
Michael Jerchel
Michael Norman
Michael Scheibert
James Bingham
David Eshel
Samuel Katz
Michael Mass
Marsh Gelbart
F Cappellano & PP Battistelli
Ralph Riccio and Nicola Pignato
Adam Geibel
Tomio Hara
Fred Crimson
Charles Bailey
Robert Cameron
Oscar Gilbert
James D'Angina
Jim Mesko
 
More to come....
 
 
 
 

In case anyone wants to download PDFs of Ogorkiewicz old AFV profile magazines on Swedish armor, here are some links.
 
AFV Profile 28 S-Tank
 
AFV Provile 42 Modern Swedish Light Armor

Aww, look how cute it is.
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=DWqw5YIwotE
 
help, I'm trapped in the early 1980s

Nah, the GI Joe team were true American capitalists.  We know this because they occasionally fought their Soviet equivalent, the Oktober Guard.  Typically, they start out fighting each other but then have to team up to defeat Cobra.  Kinda like WW2 I guess.  
 

 
When I was a kid I always wanted more Oktober Guard appearances in the GI Joe comic.  Unfortunately, they didn't make Oktober guard figures until I was too old to play with toys anymore.  

No, it is indeed the MOBAT.  
 
You were right the first time, it's a MOBAT with some crap glued to it.  I had a MOBAT tank when I was a kid, I played with it quite.  

Using dog fur to line coats?  Is there no end to the things Imperial Japan did to make me hate them? 

I use that sentence all the time in a variety of contexts.  

Don't know if anyone here reads German/is interested, but as far as I can tell this is the original manual for the Leichttraktor: http://tanks.mod16.org/pdf/leichttraktor.pdf
 
Found in the national archives by accident while poking around a few of gigantic boxes of photonegatives on glass plates from the 20's and 30's. I think it's Heigl's (of Taschenbuch der Tanks fame) photo collection, at least most of the boxes are marked with his name. Don't know what to do with it, there's thousands of photos of interwar tanks, mostly from Britain and France, and I have no idea if they're rare or not.

Volume 2,3 and 4 have some very interesting reading in them.  Stories of bazookas and 57mm guns blowing up Panthers and stuff like that.  
 
Anti-Armor Defense Data Study (A2D2) ‘How to Research’ Guide
Anti-Armor Defense Data Study (A2D2). Technical Report
Anti-Armor Defense Data Study (A2D2). Volume 2. U.S. Anti-Tank Defense at Mortain, France (August, 1944)
Anti-Armor Defense Data Study (A2D2). Volume 3. U.S. Anti-Tank Defense at Dom Butgenbach, Belgium (December, 1944)
Anti-Armor Defense Data Study (A2D2).  Volume 4. US Anti-Tank Defense at Krinkelt-Rocherath, Belgium (December, 1944)

As far as truth goes, I can say that owning Chickens has reinforced my previously held conviction that life is not sacred. 

I'm with Xthetenth on this one.  The Civil War was more important than the American Revolution.  As long as slavery was part of the Constitution it was a pretty meaningless document.  
 
If you really want a dramatic way to put it, I would recommend reading what William LLoyd Garrison had to say about the Constitution.  
 

I'm with Xthetenth on this one.  The Civil War was more important than the American Revolution.  As long as slavery was part of the Constitution it was a pretty meaningless document.  
 
If you really want a dramatic way to put it, I would recommend reading what William LLoyd Garrison had to say about the Constitution.