leemond2008 Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 sup homeboys and homegirls? I aint been on in a few weeks, whats been going on around here? have I missed anything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 (edited) Nelson Mandela died and we are all imperialist racists or something Other than that nothing's changed Edited December 8, 2013 by tonyh29 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leemond2008 Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 what!!! Nelson Mandela is dead??? I swear I take a few day's off from the forum and everything happens, I'm gunna go and take a look on the Nelson thread, I can see that one being pretty interesting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 You clearly haven't been on any BBC tv / radio / web or any other media at any point in the last 3 days. Christmas might have to be delayed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted December 8, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted December 8, 2013 The tanks (M4 Shermans, for those interested) were probably carried on LCTs (Landing Craft, Tank) or LSTs (Landing Ship, Tank) and sunk accidentally in a pre- D-Day training exercise, or (more likely) deliberately tipped overboard at the end of the war as an easy way to get rid of them. Those waters also contain most of the German U-boat fleet, scuttled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 Anybody ever been to Overloon in the Netherlands? Incredible place, many of the tanks were simply left in the forest at the end of the battle so you get some little sense of how the final stages unfolded. You line up your eye with the gun (canon?) on one tank, and a way through the trees will be an opposing tank with shell damage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted December 8, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted December 8, 2013 Anybody ever been to Overloon in the Netherlands? Incredible place, many of the tanks were simply left in the forest at the end of the battle so you get some little sense of how the final stages unfolded. You line up your eye with the gun (canon?) on one tank, and a way through the trees will be an opposing tank with shell damage. Now a tank museum, apparently. I'd love to go to that. Mind you, their website is unreliable - has the one below labelled as a Tiger. It's a Panther. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 The tanks (M4 Shermans, for those interested) were probably carried on LCTs (Landing Craft, Tank) or LSTs (Landing Ship, Tank) and sunk accidentally in a pre- D-Day training exercise, or (more likely) deliberately tipped overboard at the end of the war as an easy way to get rid of them. Those waters also contain most of the German U-boat fleet, scuttled. Have you seen the documentary with the D day landing and tanks that were adapted to amphibious so they could make it to shore They all sunk and the documentary tried to work out why http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2016280.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted December 8, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted December 8, 2013 The tanks (M4 Shermans, for those interested) were probably carried on LCTs (Landing Craft, Tank) or LSTs (Landing Ship, Tank) and sunk accidentally in a pre- D-Day training exercise, or (more likely) deliberately tipped overboard at the end of the war as an easy way to get rid of them. Those waters also contain most of the German U-boat fleet, scuttled. Have you seen the documentary with the D day landing and tanks that were adapted to amphibious so they could make it to shore They all sunk and the documentary tried to work out why http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2016280.stm Just one documentary? I've got shelves full of that stuff ! The DD (Duplex Drive) tanks sort of worked, provided the sea was calm. Any sort of swell though, and they could - and did - get into big trouble. This book has a very good first hand account of the author's Sherman sinking on D-Day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ingram85 Posted December 8, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted December 8, 2013 Who let the old folks out of bed again? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted December 8, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted December 8, 2013 **** off. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 Who let the old folks out of bed again? shush boy, go finish your juice and wipe your nose the men are talking 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 Lucky enough to have been to Overloon a couple of times. First time was as a young teen, whilst staying for free on an RAF base for the summer with relatives that taught how to fly and maintain German Starfighters. I also got work locally picking crops and with days to go on my 4 week trip got to snog a real German girl. That was quite a holiday! I remember that when deep within Germany you always knew which way was east, because when you passed a field of missiles, that's the direction all the warheads were aiming at. I remember being told they were nuclear bombs, on reflection, a tad unlikely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC_Hitz Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 I'm more of a plane man myself when it comes to WWII hardware. Tanks have their place though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 (edited) Lenin statue toppled in Ukraine Edited December 8, 2013 by CarewsEyebrowDesigner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 Who let the old folks out of bed again? They're all in their dressing gowns and slippers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCforever1991 Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 (edited) Lenin statue toppled in Ukraine Did Lenin hate homosexuals? or.. Edited December 8, 2013 by AVFCforever1991 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baselayers Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 I have gastroenteritis. It's not nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted December 8, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted December 8, 2013 I have gastroenteritis. It's not nice! Awww. That's shit. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meath_Villan Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 I have gastroenteritis. It's not nice! Awww. That's shit. Morpheus wont mind ....as long as you wipe 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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