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Gatorubet

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  1. Coastal has great plate discipline, and a mindset that they know they are going to win, no matter what. Scary team.
  2. huge bases loaded, strike out by Auburn. 1-0 tiggers 5th
  3. Miller and Johnson were on fire in that Duke win. Duke has looked really good so far.
  4. being blind does not mean you can’t find currency in the thread title.
  5. Well, true to its word, Russia showed them. None of those apartment buildings will be able to fly glide bombs into Russia now. Prolly a 50% reduction in Ukraine’s ability to deliver Intercontinental nuclear weapons as well.
  6. Noles lose and Co-Canes lose. Texas wins national championship. This is what I call a fantastic day.
  7. Light the Tower bitches
  8. you’re god damn right
  9. Well…that is not optimal
  10. What up? Oklahoma won yet?
  11. 300 started. Half broke down, ran through traffic signals and crashed, or burst into flames en route. Elmo points out that the number of amputated fingers has been reduced by 67%, but the MSM will not report that.
  12. I am your way out. This world already left you for dead. Won't let you build. Won't let you fellowship. We will do just that. Together. Forever. Just let me in Club Juke…I mean IBRX
  13. Since you bring it up again, how did you come to conclude that 11 was the proper setting for an anal dildo? The judges will also accept a response using drawings or hand/shadow puppets.
  14. “…but King David had faults too and was beloved of God…” As told to me by a high school buddy who married into an evangelical family and went full-on Christian nationalist current GOP type.
  15. Why do you hate 12?
  16. So - we’ll never know?
  17. Well, as tank Commander, he would be Oddball. Upper left hatch. I have not been able to find a picture where they had a standard 50 Cal mounted in the back, and I never asked dad about that when he was alive. But then, my dad was shot twice in separate incidents trying to close the hatch under fire (basically flesh wounds that he did not think serious enough to leave his crew), so maybe he just didn’t wanna sit outside the tank and take rounds.
  18. that is so freaking awesome. I appreciate you sharing that photo of the ninth armored uniform previously
  19. Yup. My dad‘s M43A (76W) was made in Detroit, and it (and its Ford engine) drove from France through Belgium and across Germany, only to be driven into Czechoslovakia when the war ended. They were extremely reliable and easy to fix and get back into action. And more importantly, they would fit on rail cars and be able to cross every bridge and tunnel from the Midwest to the East Coast until they could be loaded on ships and dropped in Europe. We built almost 50,000 Sherman tanks by 1946. We had thousands of replacements just sitting around, waiting to be pushed to the front lines to replace any put out of action by German armor or panzerfausts..
  20. Second from left is thinking: < What did he mean, “We will take that hill!?” …I don’t do hills. My scooter barely goes up the ramp at Costco if it’s too elevated…”>
  21. Zaloga is the man. I will definitely listen to that. The 75 high explosive shell was superior to the 76 shell, which is why many armored divisions did not want to switch to the 76 rounds. Like you say, the primary role of a tank was infantry support, and they were not designed to engage German tanks. The advantage of the 76 caliber was supposed to be the superior armor piercing capability. What annoys me about people dumping on the Sherman being a bad tank is that there was an armor piercing round that could pierce a panther mantlet 9 or 10 football fields away - but the powers that be wanted to hoard titanium for use in aircraft - and so it was only until late in the war that tanks got one round each. Which is all to say that the tank’s cannon was not as bad as it’s reputation (if they had only allowed it to use the damn ammunition that would work best). And even with the bad ammunition Shermans and tank destroyers put the hurt on German armor at Arracourt. Sherman speed and its faster turret traverse were assets. And tanks who are attacking always suffer losses to tanks who know the other guys are coming, and have the range established and are in a hidden position able to fire first.
  22. I volunteer to take those worthless items…
  23. Many years ago, I donated a Nazi flag that was signed by my father and the other men of his 9th Armored CCB tank platoon that helped take the Remagen Bridge. it was difficult to let that part of my family history go, but having a Nazi flag hung up somewhere in my home didn’t seem to be a good idea, and even if it is sitting in a drawer at the museum and nobody sees it for decades - it is being preserved and cared for by curators for future generations - so I think it was the right move.
  24. Last Friday night, I was at the 25th anniversary gala of the World War II museum, formerly the D-Day museum. It was cool having dinner with all those war birds overhead. There was a Sherman M483E9 in the corner next to my table. What an odd duck. While later than the E8, it did not have the E8’s horizontal suspension that led to the nickname “easy-8” (because of the better ride), and for some reason still had a 75 mm canon instead of the 76 that should’ve been installed in the late 1944 timeframe. The three American Sprit awards went to three men who were essentially the creators and driving forces of the creation of the D-Day museum back when they were collaborating with Stephen Ambrose. It was great to hear their stories and to honor them for creating such a wonderful gift to future generations. I’m only sorry that our nation waited until many of those brave men had passed before they opened the museum. I welcome you to come to New Orleans and visit the museum and to support it. There’s a good chance that federal funds they were receiving may be cut off in future.
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