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Military Affairs & History

Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2017 6:18 pm
by columbia
I just watched a program on the GIs, who were at the Berga concentration camp. I certainly knew of it, but to see/hear men who survived it. Wow.

Military Affairs & History

Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 10:44 am
by DigitalGypsy66
The Air Force with its Gripen’s is signalling the coming of Christmas in the skies over Sweden.
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https://twitter.com/carlbildt/status/940596697230606336

Military Affairs & History

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2017 5:42 pm
by columbia
Database suggestion for tracking military deaths?

My mother’s uncle died in Ardennes, but his bithdate is lost to time. The fact that he was a Robert Smith doesn’t make it any easier to find out the info.

Military Affairs & History

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2017 5:57 pm
by Kaiser
Maybe this, if you know his unit and middle name
https://abmc.gov/search/node

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Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2017 6:04 pm
by columbia
Thanks

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Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2017 8:07 pm
by DigitalGypsy66
One of the big military personnel records' archives had a big fire back in the 70s, and a lot of the WW2 files were lost.

That being said, you may be able to request his records as a direct family member.

Military Affairs & History

Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2017 1:36 pm
by columbia
If you need a 10,000th reminder that it was a good thing for the US to enter the war in Europe, watch “The Grey Zone” (2001). Good lord.

Military Affairs & History

Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2018 12:36 pm
by Freddy Rumsen
Currently reading a book on the Habsburg Empire and the author just described their main military commander during the war of Austrian succession as having more than ordinary incompetence, which given the history of Austro-Hungarian leadership must say something about how god-awful this guy must have been.

Military Affairs & History

Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2018 8:34 pm
by Freddy Rumsen

The remains of second world war sailors who died on British and Dutch warships in the Java sea were secretly dumped in an anonymous mass grave by modern-day metal scavengers as they rifled through wrecks illegally lifted from the sea bed, it has been claimed.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/ ... mass-grave

Military Affairs & History

Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2018 11:05 am
by DigitalGypsy66
Cool story about a C-47 that particpated in the D-Day airborne invasion was salvaged from a boneyard, and hopes to fly over Normandy in 2019:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/29/us/d ... &smtyp=cur

Military Affairs & History

Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2018 6:42 pm
by tifosi77
Fitness Tracker Data Highlights Sprawling U.S. Military Footprint In Africa
Out in the cocoa-colored wastes of north-central Niger, people have been running around in circles. Exactly who has been jogging or walking around this compound outside the town of Arlit is unclear. But there’s a good chance it has something to do with U.S. Africa Command’s “Analysis Office” there, the existence of which was disclosed in 2016 contracting documents.

Not far away, people have been running round and round in a compound near the airfield in Agadez, Niger, where the U.S. military is building a $100 million drone base. There has also been a significant amount of movement going on around the airport in Gao, Mali, where the U.S. military established an outpost in the early 2010s. And Garoua, Cameroon, the site of a U.S. drone base, is also aglow with the digital evidence of many past runs, according to an online interactive map that shows the routes of people who use fitness devices, such as Fitbit.
Is this geotagged-photos-on-social-media-providing-targeting-coordinates-for-mortar-attacks redux?

Military Affairs & History

Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2018 11:38 pm
by dodint

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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 1:46 pm
by tifosi77
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 1:49 pm
by Freddy Rumsen
About time they got back in the carrier game.

Military Affairs & History

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 1:52 pm
by tifosi77
It's a humongous capital investment for them. It took eight years to build, but the thing cost something like 10% of their annual defense budget.

Military Affairs & History

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 2:01 pm
by Dickie Dunn
A non-nuclear aircraft carrier? Is this WWII? Thanks for trying GB, better luck next time.

Military Affairs & History

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 2:24 pm
by shafnutz05
A non-nuclear aircraft carrier? Is this WWII? Thanks for trying GB, better luck next time.
Yes, that is a major eyebrow raiser for me.

Military Affairs & History

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 2:38 pm
by tifosi77
I don't think the Royal Navy has any nuke-powered surface ships.

Military Affairs & History

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 8:59 pm
by Dickie Dunn
Not much of a Navy then.

Military Affairs & History

Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2018 3:56 pm
by Freddy Rumsen
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Pilot is about to flip the wing of a v1 in order to knock the gyroscope off balance and stop the flying bomb reaching its London target

Military Affairs & History

Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2018 4:07 pm
by tifosi77
That's spectacular.

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Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2018 8:11 pm
by DigitalGypsy66
Wow, I knew they did that but never saw a picture of it. Wouldn't it have been easier to shoot it down?

Military Affairs & History

Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2018 8:13 pm
by Freddy Rumsen
V-1's, the original drone warfare

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Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2018 8:57 pm
by tifosi77
Wow, I knew they did that but never saw a picture of it. Wouldn't it have been easier to shoot it down?
The first thing that comes to mind is the Spit might be out of ammo. I've also read that if the aircraft were at zero range of its guns, it would be within the blast radius of the device. But I don't know if that's true or not.

One other possibility: If they dork up the gyroscope, it might send the thing pretty much into a nose dive. If they shoot it down, they may disable it without destroying it, and therefore have no idea where the thing will come down.

Military Affairs & History

Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2018 8:50 pm
by Freddy Rumsen
NAVY INVESTIGATION: Fox News reported that three midshipmen have said that three classmates are accused of selling cocaine, LSD and the sedative ketamine bought on the dark web using the digital currency bitcoin.
https://t.co/CklM7sbAH5