This blog is mostly going to consist of information and pictures of weaponry, technology, steampunk, and other interests I may have.
Thats why we love German War Machines.
“Stuka” Junkers Ju 87 dive-bomber.
(via mechgasm)
Today I asked a relative of mine if they knew what the Korean War was. They said they had no idea what I was talking about. They were only 14, but still. I find that very sad. Many Americans fought and died in this war and they shouldnt be forgotten. So Ive decided to start posting about the…
Thought this was interesting.
Well thanks to http://thekingprevails.tumblr.com/ the next book I will be reading is the Fatherland by Robert Harris.
Fatherland is a bestselling 1992 thriller by the English writer and journalist Robert Harris. It takes the form of a high concept alternative history set in a world in which Nazi Germany won World War II.
Everyone is over-obsessed with extraneous and pithy bullshit. Get over your fucking self already.
15 year old girl holds her 1 year old son. People call her a slut. No-one knows she was raped at 13. People call a girl fat. No one knows she has a serious disease which causes her to be overweight. People call an old man ugly. No one knows he had a Serious injury to his face while fighting for our country during the war. Re-post this if you are against bullying and stereotyping. Bet none of you will
Did you know that the Italians were not really prepared when war came in 1915, and started off with a serious shortage of rifles, machine guns and artillery, and soon they were searching the countrys old arsenals for any available guns. The revised wartime battalion had three rifle companies, each having two MG’s (most of them the m1914 6.5mm Fiat-Ravelli), and also an integral MG company with eight guns. The standard battalion also had a platoon of four mortars and in addition to this one platoon of pioneers. The principal rifle used by the Italian Army was the bolt-action 6.5mm MannlicherCarcano m1891 with a six-round magazine. (Many Territorial units still used the ancient 10.4mm Vetterli M1871 single shot guns.) The Mannlicher-Carcano m1891 Cavalleria had a special short barrel and a folding bayonet. (This weapon much later became infamous: it was one of these that Lee Harvey Oswald used when he shot and killed president Kennedy in Dallas in 1963.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5FPHZmmN9I btw I love the brewster body shield they used as you can see in the video.
WOW! I can’t believe the filmmakers of this documentary managed to get a Soviet WWII vet to admit to illegally killing surrendered German soldiers. This is a crazy end to a very good, in depth documentary on WWII, covering, for once, the Eastern front as well as the other fronts.
WWII was unbelievably barbaric and cruel, but especially so on the Eastern Front, and this is readily apparent in recent scholarship on the behavior not only of the Wehrmacht, but of the Red Army as well.
Obviously, no Russians want to hear about the ‘Rape of Germany’, just as no American likes to find out that Allied forces on the Western front were behind some 20,000 rapes (I won ‘t go into the numbers for the Eastern front….they’re pretty controversial. Think ‘low’ millions. Also, understand that these Red Army men were probably terribly destroyed by their experiences in the War, and would act accordingly). But I feel that it is important, as a historian, to get as close to the truth as possible. Because, however unpleasant it may seem, that’s how we come to understand why these terrible things happen, and how we can prevent them from happening again.
I have discovered my future throne. Making one of these is on my list of things I must do before I die.
Fallschirmjager of the Fallschirmjager-Aufklärung-Abteilung 12 about to do some reconnaissance in a type 82 Kübelwagen, near Saint-Lô France, July 1944.
