Kingfish Posted August 2, 2006 Author Share Posted August 2, 2006 Originally posted by Andreas: And that speculation is based on the well-known fact that no German Tiger or Panther was ever knocked out, and the only ones lost were blown up due to either running out of fuel or being immobilised by a crater, right? With the exception of the Wittman fella you guys keep talking about. Everyone knows he was plinked by a rouge Typhoon flying 'off the record'. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 Originally posted by Kingfish: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Andreas: And that speculation is based on the well-known fact that no German Tiger or Panther was ever knocked out, and the only ones lost were blown up due to either running out of fuel or being immobilised by a crater, right? With the exception of the Wittman fella you guys keep talking about. Everyone knows he was plinked by a rouge Typhoon flying 'off the record'. </font> 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mace Posted August 5, 2006 Share Posted August 5, 2006 Originally posted by Kingfish: With the exception of the Wittman fella you guys keep talking about. Everyone knows he was plinked by a rouge Typhoon flying 'off the record'. Ahh? I heard it was a firefly that got him. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mace Posted August 5, 2006 Share Posted August 5, 2006 Originally posted by Vergeltungswaffe: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Kingfish: Check out the p011078-082 series of photos. KT from the 503rd s.Pz.Abt? Doesn't look like a Porsche turret. Clearly a Porsche turret. </font> 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted August 5, 2006 Share Posted August 5, 2006 Originally posted by Mace: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Kingfish: With the exception of the Wittman fella you guys keep talking about. Everyone knows he was plinked by a rouge Typhoon flying 'off the record'. Ahh? I heard it was a firefly that got him. </font> 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McAuliffe Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 This one looks very unlikely been taken in Normandy: Libération de la Basse-Normandie pendant l'été 1944, en secteur américain. Which translates as: Liberation of 'Lower-Normandy' during the summer of 1944, American sector. Looks more like a V1 strike somewhere in London 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 12541 doesn't look terribly Normand-esque either. 11329 and 11464 are all good though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 McAuliffe, A historical oops worthy of the History Channel! Howlingly off! Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 Originally posted by McAuliffe: Looks more like a V1 strike somewhere in London Yeah. What an incredible gaffe. You'd have thought that the caption writer would have noticed at a minimum that the signs are not in French. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McAuliffe Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 Originally posted by JonS: 12541 doesn't look terribly Normand-esque either. P012541 tells us US Navy landing in Normandy :confused: Makes me wonder, does anyone have experience with walking around for a whole day with leather army-boots soaked in salt water? Doesn't look too comfortable to me. Once had my dock-sides wet in the surf. Mixed with the beach sand, they started smelling pretty bad. 11329 and 11464 are all good though. yeah, yeah, I know... the other 5'998 are okay. [ August 06, 2006, 09:52 AM: Message edited by: McAuliffe ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 Originally posted by McAuliffe: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by JonS: 12541 doesn't look terribly Normand-esque either. P012541 tells us US Navy landing in Normandy :confused: </font> 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Dorosh Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 Originally posted by Mace: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Kingfish: With the exception of the Wittman fella you guys keep talking about. Everyone knows he was plinked by a rouge Typhoon flying 'off the record'. Ahh? I heard it was a firefly that got him. </font> 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 Originally posted by Michael Dorosh: You heard it from Brian Reid, author of NO HOLDING BACK - who posted on this very forum about it. Was that in that big debate we had on the subject back about three years ago? BTW, is his new book out yet? Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 P51Ds posting history in all it's glory, from about four years ago. Reid appears on page 8 of that thread, about a year ago this week, and three years after P51D. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 Originally posted by JonS: P51Ds posting history in all it's glory, from about four years ago.Ah, fond memories. One of our first "outings" wasn't it? Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 Maybe not the first, but certainly the finest. BTW, on re-reading it, I noticed that dear old P51D pretty much acknowledges he's FOS on page five: Ekins hits & wipes out Wittman from the side. Impact high up towards the top of the hull where the later internal hull explosion obliterates the strike evidence. Tyffies later spot the Tigers in the open & as there is no smoke & fire to indicate they out of action attack & hit with rockets that cause the explosion. An APDS hit will not necessarliy cause fire & explosion. Interesting hypothesis.Also interesting - for someone who supposedly writes for a living - is his abysmal spelling, grammar, and punctuation. OTOH, it's threads like that that helped/forced me to lift my game on terms of avoiding unsupported statements, and absolute declarations. So maybe P51D wasn't a complete waste of rations. [ August 07, 2006, 04:07 PM: Message edited by: JonS ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John D Salt Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 Originally posted by JonS: [snips] OTOH, it's threads like that that helped/forced me to lift my game on terms of avoiding unsupportted statements, and absolute declarations. So maybe P51D wasn't a complete waste of rtons. Fas est et ab hoste doceri. Omnia bonorum, John. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieseltaylor Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 Londoners would hear the noise of the engine, followed by that terrifying moment when it stopped. The 15-second silence was the hardest to bear. Then came the explosion and the mushroom of rubble and dust thrown high in the air. Hitler's secret weapon, for so long a music hall joke, was no longer amusing. At 4pm on Saturday afternoon, June 17th, rescue parties were rushed to St. John's Hill, Battersea where a V1 had landed in the road, damaging the Surrey Hounds public house, two passing trolley buses and a row of shops. The death toll was 24. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 Found an amazing site called Panzers in Normandy with pictures and illos to die for. Two parts Part one http://www.saak.nl/panzersinnormandy/index.htm Part two Villers bocage http://www.saak.nl/panzersinnormandy2/index.htm Happy viewing! Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mace Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 Originally posted by John Kettler: Found an amazing site called Panzers in Normandy with pictures and illos to die for. Two partsWow! The Web master even ripped off the logo from the book of the same name: http://www.rzm.com/books/eh/panzersnorm.cfm And I strongly suspect the photos are borrowed from the book as well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongLeftFlank Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 Mk. I Pompous Ass My personal fave in the series would be this particular photo, which tells me more about the WWII US officer corps than a million JasonC posts. The immense size of the image (likely exceeded only by the ego of the subject) prohibits replicating it on this forum, but please do click on the link. It's priceless. It's "The Office" WWII style, complete with the Gareth/Dwight suck-up character stage managing the poor doggies in the background. The movie line that instantly sprang to mind is from "Animal House" re Lt. Niedermayer: "Killed by His Own Troops In Vietnam" It's been a while since one of these "Caption That Image" posts has appeared on this forum, but I invite the collective to chime in. Here, I'll start: 2LT Niedermayer demonstrates the proper technique for assaulting the formidable fortifications of the Nazi "Chia-Pet" Line. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melnibone Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 Thanks for this link Kingfish - some spectacular photos! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted August 20, 2006 Share Posted August 20, 2006 LongLeftFlank, Had pretty much the same reaction myself. Was blown away as the beautiful color image loaded, then rendered dyspeptic by that posturing jerk. Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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