Good looking rifles. Hope one day to add an eddystone to my collection in the future.
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Good looking rifles. Hope one day to add an eddystone to my collection in the future.
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I will have to check it out, thanks.
If cum were concrete, could have paved a 4 lane hwy…My buddies father, Eddie, missed WWII but volunteered for Korea right off the bat. Airborne and ****ed every piece of ass on both sides of the Mississippi.
Good documentary on production during the war.
In Feb 25th I won an Island Assault box so I now have a 4th Bolt Action army that being Japanese it comes with a Type 97 medium tank and 24 infantry, so I am making them into a SNLF or Special Naval Landing Force or Japanese USMC. These are 2 3D printed Su Ki amphibious truck the Japanese was only able to make 198 from early 1943- 45 vs that with the American made DUKW at around 21,000 at the same time. Yes it actually was just a truck chassis mounted under a boat hull, sadly there is only one in existance and it is on some atoll in the Marshals Is. It was deemed to expensive removing it and the other vehicles there so they are all just slowly rotting away to nothing.
The armored car is a 6X4 Type 93 the IJA Imperial Japanese Army had a 4 X 4 version same exact truck just that it had a 4 wheel set up. It was based off of a inter war Ford commercial truck chassis. So you ever see one or the other in actual photos you can tell exactly who it belong to and probably the units involved by seeing if it is a 6 or 4 wheeled version. In real life it had 4 machine guns and an option for a fifth, that little exhaust pipe at the rear of the turret is not a pipe but a pedestal mounting for a Type 91 or 96 MG for anti air defense.
The armored car is a 6X4 Type 93 the IJA Imperial Japanese Army had a 4 X 4 version same exact truck just that it had a 4 wheel set up. It was based off of a inter war Ford commercial truck chassis. So you ever see one or the other in actual photos you can tell exactly who it belong to and probably the units involved by seeing if it is a 6 or 4 wheeled version. In real life it had 4 machine guns and an option for a fifth, that little exhaust pipe at the rear of the turret is not a pipe but a pedestal mounting for a Type 91 or 96 MG for anti air defense.
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I did get my rewatch of The Pacific done a few weeks ago. Definitely better the second time around as I tried to watch it with an open mind as opposed to a continuation of BOB.
I may watch both again in the near future.
This guys channel is pretty good.
Binge watching Band of Brothers yesterday and today.
What an absolute fantastic series this was. Was reading some of the trivia about it and found this:
Prior to production, the various directors were told that the actors were in contact with the veterans they were playing. If the actors said that the veterans disapproved or disagreed with something in the script, it would have to be changed. Many of the actors frequently got themselves taken out of certain scenes after the respective veterans said they weren't there for the event in question.
So awesome that they wanted to keep it authentic like that. Thanks to all that served and especially to those who didn't make it home.
What an absolute fantastic series this was. Was reading some of the trivia about it and found this:
Prior to production, the various directors were told that the actors were in contact with the veterans they were playing. If the actors said that the veterans disapproved or disagreed with something in the script, it would have to be changed. Many of the actors frequently got themselves taken out of certain scenes after the respective veterans said they weren't there for the event in question.
So awesome that they wanted to keep it authentic like that. Thanks to all that served and especially to those who didn't make it home.
The Pacific is also very well done. It doesn’t get the clout that BoB does but it’s an excellent show.
Will be watching that next.
Agree. I first watched The Pacific with the frame of mind that it was going to be continuation of BOB. I just couldn't get into it. That was 8-9 years ago.
I decided to rewatch it last year with a different perspective of not expecting it to be BOB. I was able to get into it much better. It was just a different series. Once I removed the BOB expectation, I realized it was just as good, just different.
If you're into history and have seen Band of Brothers, please check out my video on YouTube of my grandfather's hidden Hitler Photo Album recently discovered. I explain the story in the videos, and it's very interesting! I hope you all enjoy, that's why I decided to share these rare photos on the web.
You are lucky those pictures survived. My grandfather had photos from Europe (Poland and Germany) which my grandmother said were the most horrible and disturbing things she ever saw in her life and she burned them in their oil stoker so no one would see them. She never told us what things were on those pictures but I think I have a good idea.
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