Category: Interesting

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On the Run Moving out of harm’s way Great colourization. Gotta luv the tracks. Moving out of harm’s way17 pdr. gun) of ‘B’ Squadron of the East Riding Yeomanry, 33rd Armoured Brigade, came to a halt at the Esso Petrol station on the ‘Wilhelmina-Square’, October, 1944, Den Bosch, Noord-Brabant Province, The Netherlands. Mr. Jo Van…

Helmet Prevents Bad Hair Day February 23, 1945 The (unconfirmed) information I managed to find concerning this photo states that the smiling US soldier was from the 104th Infantry Division and his name was Private E. J. Johnson, a native of Muskegon, Michigan. He is being carried to the rear by German POW’s under armed…

The Lost Generation of 1923 WWII Soviet Red Army Trivia It’s estimated that approximately 80% of the Russian male population born in 1923 perished in WWII. Noting how Soviet underreporting was rampant, the figure may be much higher.

KING TIGER TANK SGP Sla 1616 Cylinder Air-cooled Diesel Engine (Porsche Type 203) In 1943, Simmering-Graz-Pauker (SGP) in Vienna, Austria was tasked by the Heereswaffenamt (HWA, German Army Weapons Agency) to develop a new main tank engine for the Heer (German Army). The requested engine was an air-cooled diesel that would only require minor modifications…

Stalin’s Torch Men Command № 0428 confirmed.    Stalin’s “Torch-men-Order” finally confirmed by Russia itself Aus Metapediahttp://de.metapedia.org/wiki/Fackelm%C3%A4nnerbefehl The so-called “torch-men order” (Fackelmännerbefehl) is the command № 0428, issued November 17th, 1941 by Stalin. It declares that Russian partisans in German uniforms, particularly those of the Waffen-SS, were to destroy all settlements within a swathe of…

How to Choose the Right Kelvin Color Temperature Light bulb color temperature is represented in the unit of absolute temperature, Kelvin, noted by the symbol K. Household fixtures are commonly found in color temperatures on the Kelvin scale of 2700K (warm incandescent), 3000K (warm white halogen) and 3500K (household fluorescent). Color temperatures higher than 3500K are typically used for…

Krupp 80cm Kanone In the 1930s, France constructed the Maginot Line, which was a series of fortifications and obstacles intended to protect the country against invasion from the east (Germany). The Maginot Line was to serve as an impenetrable wall of defense. Naturally, when one country develops a new defensive technology, other countries rush to…