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    well alteast the MT-LB has consistency in its shape
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    FTFY
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    you know, a few chemical weapons and Soviet occupations would of solved this whole ISIS thing but thats non of my business
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    Grinning troops of the 29th US Marine Regiment, 6th US Marine Division, hitch a ride on board an M4A3 Sherman 75mm of Company A, 6th Tank Battalion, heading for Chuda in the drive towards Motobu Peninsula, Okinawa. April 5th 1945. (Note. the partially dismantled deep wading gear to allow the M4A3 to move through deep water during the landings a few days before.) The 29th US Marines reached Chuda at 1200 hours on 6 April and threw a line across the isthmus on the road there. In its sector the enemy's destruction of bridges had been inept; frequently only a span of the bridge had been dropped or cracked. The engineers cut hasty bypasses for the vehicles, repairing the broken spans later. Behind reconnaissance units and tanks the 29th Marines advanced on 7 April into Nago, a medium-sized town nestling in the deep bend where Motobu juts out westward from the island. A spearhead drove north to Taira, cutting Motobu off from the rest of Okinawa; other troops started west from Nago along the coast road to Awa. Here for the first time there was evidence that he troops were meeting not stragglers but outposts of an organized defense, for the marines became involved in a few small fire fights and met some organized rifle fire. They had reached Motobu Peninsula, which for some time was to be the focus of the III Amphibious Corps' effort.
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    A 105 mm Self Propelled Gun M-7 'Priest' of the 14th Armored Field Artillery Battalion, 2nd Armored Division passes through Rue Holgate, Carentan, Normandy on the 18th June 1944. At dawn on 13 June, the 101st Airborne was about to attack the German line when it was attacked by tanks and assault guns. Two battalions of the 37th Panzergrenadier Regiment, supported by the 17th Panzer Battalion and III./FJR6, struck hard at the 501st PIR on the American left, which fell back under heavy pressure. The left flank companies (Dog and Fox Companies) of the 506th then gave way, and by noon the spearheads of the German attack were within 500 yards of Carentan. However, Company E (Easy) of the 506th, commanded by 1st Lt. Richard D. Winters, anchored its right flank against a railroad embankment and held its position. Reinforced by the 2nd/502nd PIR taking position on its right, Easy Company slowed the German attack until American tanks could be brought up. Reacting to an Ultra warning of the size and threat of the counterattack, Lieutenant General Bradley diverted CCA U.S. 2nd Armored Division (commanded by Brig. Gen. Maurice Rose and near Isigny sur mer) to Carentan at 10:30. At 14:00 CCA attacked, supported by the self-propelled howitzers of the 14th Armored Field Artillery Battalion. One task force of tanks and mechanized infantry surged down the road to Baupte in the 2nd/506th's area and shattered the main German thrust. A second task force drove back German forces along the Périers highway, inflicting heavy losses in men and equipment. CCA, followed by the 502nd PIR, then pushed west a mile beyond the original lines. The counterattack became known anecdotally among the surviving paratroopers as the "Battle of Bloody Gulch".
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    An SAS jeep (Sr/Nº4822478) in the Gabes-Tozeur area of Tunisia. The vehicle is heavily loaded with jerry cans of fuel and water, and personal kit. The 'gunner' is manning the .50 cal Browning machine gun, while the driver has a single Vickers 'K' gun in front, and a twin mounting vickers behind.
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    A Vickers machine gun team of 7th Battalion Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, 59th (Staffordshire) Division in position in a field of corn at Someren in Holland, 21 September 1944. At the outbreak of the Second World War, the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers consisted of seven battalions. A further three were raised during the war. Prior to the war, the regiment was one of a number that been selected to transition from an infantry role to an support role and be equipped with the Vickers machine gun. While most battalions served as divisional machine gun[a] or support battalions, several undertook different roles: motorcycle, searchlight, tank, reconnaissance, regular infantry, and deception units. The battalions of the regiment saw action with the British Expeditionary Force during the Battle of France, defended the United Kingdom, fought in the North African Campaign, took part in the Battle of Singapore, fought in Italy, and operated with the 21st Army Group in the North-West Europe Campaign of 1944–1945.
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    Pilot Officer Albert Gerald Lewis DFC (aged 22) in his Hawker Hurricane Mk.1 (VY-R) P2923 with 85 Squadron RAF at Castle Camps, RAF Debden's satellite airfield in Cambridgeshire. July 1940. Albert Gerald Lewis (10 April 1918 - 14 December 1982) was a South African born fighter ace during the war, who was featured in a 'Life' magazine article about the Battle of Britain. Lewis received his Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) in July 1940 and his citation read that during the Battle of France on May the 19th, he shot down five enemy aircraft before he himself was shot down over Lille. He then joined No.249 Squadron RAF on the 15th of September 1940. One the same day he shot down a Heinkel He.111 and on the 18th, a Messerschmitt Bf. 109 (his twelfth confirmed enemy aircraft). On the 27th of September he claimed 6 kills (three Bf 109s, two Bf 110s and a Ju 88), two probables and one damaged. While on a patrol on the 28th of September he was shot down and he baled out of his Hurricane over Faversham and was taken to Faversham Cottage Hospital, blind for two weeks, and with shrapnel in his legs with severe burns on the face, throat, hands and legs. He returned to the Squadron in December, 1940, having been promoted Flight Lieutenant on the 29th of November. He was flying by the 17th of January 1941, and became "A" Flight Commander, and was awarded a bar to the DFC. His final tally was 18 kills A group of veteran German prisoners captured at Maltot, south west of Caen, Normandy. 23rd of July 1944. I think that some or all of these 'Veterans' could be from the Grenadier Regiment 980 (formerly 348), 272nd Infantry Division (formerly the 216th), which had been decimated on the Eastern Front in July 1943. They all are showing the The Iron Cross 2nd Class medal ribbon. Three are wearing the Eastfront medal ribbon, three have the Wound Medal in Silver (2nd class) for being wounded three or four times). One has the Wound Medal in Black (3rd class, representing Iron) for those wounded once or twice by hostile action). The Grenadier in the centre also wears the Iron Cross 1st Class and a Silver Assault Badge.
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    Cpl. Carlton Chapman (S/Nº 33527792) a machine-gunner in an M-4 Sherman tank, attached to a Motor Transport unit, near Nancy in north-eastern France, November the 5th 1944. (Cpl Chapman was killed in action 4 days later) Cpl.Chapman served in the 761st Tank Battalion, the first African-American tank unit to go into combat. It was also one of the US Army’s most highly trained tank battalions, thanks to two years spent training at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana, and Camp Hood, Texas. The unit’s first engagement came on November the 8th, only days after this photo was taken. The men of the 761st Tank Battalion, chose their own logo and motto shortly after the unit was activated in 1942: a black panther and “Come Out Fighting.” They lived up to the motto, enduring 183 continuous days in combat, and earning four campaign medals, 11 Silver Stars, 69 Bronze Stars and about 300 Purple Hearts. A Medal of Honor and a Presidential Unit Citation came later Carlton Chapman from Pembroke, Virginia died on the 9th November 1944 and was awarded the Posthumous Purple Heart. He was buried at Plot C Row 23 Grave 60, Lorraine American Cemetery, Saint-Avold, France.
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    Every time collimatrix touches a keyboard the queen sheds a tear RUSSIA STRONK
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    Say what you want about the armor on say a BTR-50 or MT-LB but atleast they aren't fuck ugly
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    Handles the recoil pretty well. Espically when compared to the Stryker MGS
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    Well the Aramta is the best armored tank in the world its most likely for export/testing on their new MBT
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    I did here stories about Tankers leaving their shermans behind in Manchuria, i guess the T-34s were better at mountain passing than M4s
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    RIP-Leo2a7 China now has better gun Maoist Ingunitiy>Krupp Stalh 125mm ONLY mm
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    once again, excellent work thank you
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    I hate to interrupt you in your anti-hollywood wankfest but from what i heard Mad Max uses ALOT of practical effects, like half the stuff in the movie is a practical effect
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    Jimquistition said Nintendo won E3 i guess he had a good run, but i think he's lost his marbles
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    these arnet for me, its to appeal Khand-e and his Chinese Fetish
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    really appreciate the graphs
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    BTR-40/152 good times also, why is there no BTR-70?
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    its a decent enough game with mods, though im more of the 'sit in a arm chair and eat burgers while use my mousehand to out-stragize HATO' kind of guy if the enagement is above 300 meters otherwise i just play Halo or pixel-hunt with a mosin in one of the Red Orchastra's
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    Time to put the 'ole "out for burgers" sign up and lock the doors in Russian Embassy of Pyongyang and hope for the best
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    Quick Yuri!, Russify the ship we cant let those fake commie's appear stronker than us in Eastern Russia Sea *adds strip of ducktape to the outer hull, replaces Chinese coffee machine in officers lobby with a Russian one* You see, glorious Russian modification, hell if you really want a case of the shoe being state-mandated to the other foot we should make 200 crappy versions of these and sell them to 3rd world countries!
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    The Typhoon is arguably the most powerful self propelled vehicle mankind has ever produced
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