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| T/A6Pak |
 02/13/07 2:38pm
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Check out the link below...T-34
http://www.strategypage.com/military_photo...1115163335.aspx (Is Goose still inside it???) --------------------  Signature designed by Old Man Mike Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.  |
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| Nothing |
02/13/07 2:44pm
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 Colonel  Group: {MOB} Regs Posts: 1271 Joined: July 25th 2005 From: Chicago, IL. Member No.: 1272 |
It said that its actually a Russian tank that was stolen by the Germans and thats why there is German markings on it.
Im sure this is one of the T34's that Jibbletits stole behind the Russian spawn in Barb. I knew that tank looked farmiliar, lol. --------------------  |
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| Spartan |
02/13/07 2:49pm
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Damn Its nice to have a piece of history back, Way to go Little kid!!
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| Barkmann |
02/13/07 4:15pm
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 Colonel Group: {MOB} Regs Posts: 1034 Joined: December 1st 2006 From: Toronto/Canada Member No.: 2291 Xfire: barkmann77 |
yea 6PAk i think your right, that Goose is still inside.
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| Angus Thermopyle |
02/13/07 4:40pm
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Awesome story. I am amazed that they were able to pull it out given the softness of the soil and the weight of that beast.
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| Spartan |
02/13/07 5:46pm
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I wonder why the Germans didn't drive it into Germany and get specs and then put it back in barbs minefields?
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| Kleerance |
02/13/07 5:53pm
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I guess Rommel and LB_ gets tears in their eyes when they see this live picture of their lady.......
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| Cpt. Snot Rocket |
02/13/07 7:17pm
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Komatsu is a big customer of ours. Pictured is the D375A-2. 525HP at 147,850Lbs. This post has been edited by Cpt. Snot Rocket: 02/13/07 7:20pm Attached thumbnail(s) 
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| Stickman |
02/16/07 1:03am
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QUOTE(Spartan @ 02/13/07 5:46pm)  I wonder why the Germans didn't drive it into Germany and get specs and then put it back in barbs minefields? Think about it, man! A lake is a WAY better place to stash a tank than a minefield! Even better than the forested minefields in Tuchola forest! Too bad the pond/swamp on the south side of Barb isn't deeper. --------------------  |
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| Leadmagnet |
02/16/07 1:11am
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QUOTE(Barkmann @ 02/13/07 1:15pm) yea 6PAk i think your right, that Goose is still inside. could possibly be turducken too.... --------------------   |
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| Rommel |
02/16/07 6:27am
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QUOTE(Kleerance @ 02/13/07 5:53pm) I guess Rommel and LB_ gets tears in their eyes when they see this live picture of their lady.......  first-class quality of the steel.  -------------------- |
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| Capt.Furillo |
02/26/07 2:47pm
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| -Snowman- |
02/26/07 4:58pm
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Nice find 6/Pak.
I find it amazing that after 62 years after the war this stuff keeps turning up. Did anyone happen to notice the German markings on that Russian tank? If you ever get into the history of the Eastern front and what transpired with men and machinery, you'll find that German army was very resourceful in adapting Russian weaponry for their own use. Check into it's interesting stuff.  --------------------  |
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| UNDEAD 1 |
02/27/07 4:26am
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wasnt rommel the one to start that tactic in africa? i remember seeing on the history channel he had his men stealing any tank or jeep they could get because they had nothing to fight with. i always got a kick out of one tactic he used,i think in tobruk but not sure. he tricked montgomery into thinking he had a whole division of tanks by fastening chains to the back of jeeps which drove with the tanks and made a huge dust cloud ,in which the british retreated for a short time .
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| Capt.Furillo |
02/27/07 2:26pm
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Brit had done the same to the Italians in 1940 when they had less than 30,000 troop in Libya and Italians over 100,000. They Italians held off attacking thinking there was amajor force against them. See following from NZ Division diary.
Middle East Command wanted 500 dummy trucks and 300 dummy tanks for deception purposes and it wanted them in a hurry. Colonel Heath was told on 17 June that the order must be filled by the 24th and to get busy. Fifth Field Park was ordered to organise the stores and build the trucks, while 6 Field took care of the tanks. Within the hour lorries were heading for Cairo, Alexandria and Suez to pick up material, while Captain Morrison and Lieutenant Bucknell20 did some hard thinking. There were only three days left by the time the prototypes had been built, saw benches erected and the components spread along the assembly line. Four hundred men were borrowed from the infantry and artillery and mass production started. The flow of components was co-ordinated by Sergeant Lineham21 and as each unit was completed Corporal Brittenden22 gave it a shot of camouflage paint from a homemade outfit mounted on a compressor truck. The finished articles, which used up twenty miles of timber battens and ten acres of hessian, were knocked down for transport and the last units delivered to the railway people within half an hour of the deadline. Captain Morrison remarked in his report that the only major difficulty was the recovery of hundreds of hammers and saws from the infantry and artillery helpers. The dummies were used to good purpose, for General Wavell in his despatch on the early operations in the desert up to November 1940 mentions the smallness of the force falling back from the frontier in the face of Italian superiority in men and material and concludes: 'Nevertheless this small force continued to inflict heavy casualties on the enemy with practically no loss to itself, and to hold in check a force of four or five divisions for a further six weeks. A skilful use was made of dummy tanks to deceive the enemy.' |
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