tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post8830272521445572606..comments2024-03-29T05:28:17.263-07:00Comments on Chant du Départ: I Had No Ideer ...¹OldAFSargehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-56533946519620409502022-11-26T09:09:49.893-08:002022-11-26T09:09:49.893-08:00With CGI you don't evem have to do that. Slopp...With CGI you don't evem have to do that. Sloppy editing on the part of an ignorant civilian staff.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-52118737333425517852022-11-26T09:09:07.201-08:002022-11-26T09:09:07.201-08:00Ah, there you are. 😁Ah, there you are. 😁OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-87250982500086541202022-11-26T09:08:37.778-08:002022-11-26T09:08:37.778-08:00Fury is inaccurate in a number of respects, the Sh...<i>Fury</i> is inaccurate in a number of respects, the Sherman's main gun could penetrate the Tiger's frontal armor at under 600 meters.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-36336504390977360072022-11-26T09:04:18.051-08:002022-11-26T09:04:18.051-08:00Unless the weather is foul.Unless the weather is foul.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-62573945823675260382022-11-26T09:03:58.058-08:002022-11-26T09:03:58.058-08:00That explains some of it.That explains some of it.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-6083616354303166582022-11-26T06:10:37.624-08:002022-11-26T06:10:37.624-08:00Anything with “bear” in its name is awesome.Anything with “bear” in its name is awesome.A bearnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-27250211800720433462022-11-25T21:13:52.943-08:002022-11-25T21:13:52.943-08:00Sprucans at PH 2001 were absolute bottom of bad te...Sprucans at PH 2001 were absolute bottom of bad tech displays in the movies...<br />FFS, there are WW2 DD afloat, which could have been easily shot and copy-pasted into background of PH...Paweł Kasperekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17636249014878876718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-50927808080197886302022-11-25T21:10:52.627-08:002022-11-25T21:10:52.627-08:00Kelly's Heroes and Fury both show the "Ti...Kelly's Heroes and Fury both show the "Tiger terror" factor.<br />75mm gun on Sherman was hardly useful at all against Tiger, you gotta to get suicidally close and/or flanking to penetrate tough kitty skin.<br />76mm (3 inch) improved antitank gun fared better, but at longer ranges it had trouble from the front. And some bean counbters in the rear decided in their infinite wisdom, that for the initial Normandy landings only 75mm Shermans would be used...<br />(Brits went into Normandy with mixing in their own very potent 17pdr upgunned Firefly Shermans into every Sherman company, apparently one of them got Wittman...)Paweł Kasperekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17636249014878876718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-46333445213615001262022-11-25T21:04:07.675-08:002022-11-25T21:04:07.675-08:00when your destination is like 20 klicks away, hour...when your destination is like 20 klicks away, hour-ride in a bike beats traffic jams or waithing for next bus or trainPaweł Kasperekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17636249014878876718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-59437517223985721842022-11-25T21:02:56.686-08:002022-11-25T21:02:56.686-08:00because they are fascinating machines!
they turned...because they are fascinating machines!<br />they turned warfare from static infantry and artillery slogging matches into maneuver of hundreds of klicks <br />they have become icons of warring states militaries, symbols of their industrial and battlefield might<br />Paweł Kasperekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17636249014878876718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-51830662308872712932022-11-25T20:49:10.619-08:002022-11-25T20:49:10.619-08:00Yup, I got it wrong, how did I miss that?Yup, I got it wrong, how did I miss that?OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-51234372320934160202022-11-25T19:39:32.594-08:002022-11-25T19:39:32.594-08:00The Bearcat is an awesome bird!The Bearcat is an awesome bird!OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-86543922877519658142022-11-25T19:38:59.223-08:002022-11-25T19:38:59.223-08:00Roger that!Roger that!OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-69857997494231177482022-11-25T19:38:39.868-08:002022-11-25T19:38:39.868-08:00Amen to your last!Amen to your last!OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-60919813710283049062022-11-25T19:33:36.937-08:002022-11-25T19:33:36.937-08:00"NATO" has always meant "Needs Amer..."NATO" has always meant "Needs America To Operate"<br />BGAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-79501763966481395252022-11-25T19:30:43.342-08:002022-11-25T19:30:43.342-08:00The flying in the film is AMAZING! The opening sce...The flying in the film is AMAZING! The opening scenes with the Bearcats are worth the price of admission - full disclosure; I love the Bearcat - as did Jesse Brown.<br />I don't think "Speahead" will ever be filmed. If they do jowever, I'll be there on opening day.Boat<br />BGAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-76113745226570715282022-11-25T19:15:24.396-08:002022-11-25T19:15:24.396-08:00As an official olde pharte, I was fortunate enough...As an official olde pharte, I was fortunate enough to visit Aberdeen in 1960-61 when all those tanks you saw out in the field were actually INSIDE, the old museum building, along with a most impressive small arms display along the upper level walkway and in the director's office. The tanks still had their original paint then. (After moving outdoors the tanks got repainted at least once with little regard for original colors.) Inside the museum there were a Panther and Pzkpfw IV and a T-34/85 (IIRC), which had sections of the hull cut away to view the interior and mechanical details. <br /><br />This trip was with a high school chum and his uncle who was an old friend of the director, COL G. Burling Jarrett, whom we met. I wish I had known then how important he was in the ordnance world to fully appreciate his awesomeness, and the fact that the Aberdeen Ordnance museum was largely the result of his fanatical devotion to collecting ever since WW1. I think that visit spurred my interest in collecting.<br /><br />He retired in 1966 and two years later, the Army Test and Evaluation Command confiscated the museum building and exiled the museum to an old "splinter" barracks, where it languished for a few years before a private foundation raised money for a modest new museum building for about 15% of the former holdings, the rest placed in storage. Ironically, the old museum building coveted by ATEC was unceremoniously demolished and a new headquarters erected on the old slab. DOD had a moratorium on new construction, but since the old foundation was used they could claim it was repair, not new construction. (Much as the Navy had some with some monitors in the 1870s....)<br /><br />There was, and still is, a lot to be learned from the study of old weapons and the new ones enemies introduce.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-5172139311104876832022-11-25T18:44:14.886-08:002022-11-25T18:44:14.886-08:00And Fridays are half days, no, seriously, I was th...And Fridays are half days, no, seriously, I was there.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-22861389641113320002022-11-25T18:27:43.601-08:002022-11-25T18:27:43.601-08:00Battle of the Bulge used M24 Chaffees to portray M...Battle of the Bulge used M24 Chaffees to portray M4s. Check it out on imcdb.org.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-49649698997767509042022-11-25T18:26:03.931-08:002022-11-25T18:26:03.931-08:00Kind of sad that the the Bundeswehr is now a 9 to ...Kind of sad that the the Bundeswehr is now a 9 to 5 organization. They are kind of important to NATO.SCOTTtheBADGERhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12859188068159799373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-71644837781926743992022-11-25T16:11:49.455-08:002022-11-25T16:11:49.455-08:00Could also have been Battle of the Bulge.Could also have been <i>Battle of the Bulge</i>.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-19848712533719375262022-11-25T15:48:23.119-08:002022-11-25T15:48:23.119-08:00I think it must have been in "Patton" wi...I think it must have been in "Patton" with the scene around Bastogne with the postwar US tanks, filmed with a dark filter to look like a night attack, and the sagebrush was casting shadows.Don McCollorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18028324869570493102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-32704553854405480852022-11-25T14:08:55.209-08:002022-11-25T14:08:55.209-08:00Now that I travel to Maryland a lot, I sure wish A...Now that I travel to Maryland a lot, I sure wish Aberdeen still had all those tanks.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-23785543516706772632022-11-25T14:01:20.093-08:002022-11-25T14:01:20.093-08:00Cool site. I had the good fortune to visit the out...Cool site. I had the good fortune to visit the outdoor tank exhibit at Aberdeen before they packed the lot off to Kentucky. Actual acres of tanks from all over. Even a WW II german tank used for AT weapons testing. Not a Tiger, Panther CiIRC Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-65889795109381100452022-11-25T13:58:16.782-08:002022-11-25T13:58:16.782-08:00There was a lot of that going on back then.There was a lot of that going on back then.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.com