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round of applause fellas

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This blog is now 10 years old. Thanks for being here all this time. Hope you enjoyed.

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What do you think of the comet tank? Or the tortoise?

The comet would have been much better if fielded earlier but due to coming out so late it remains a foot note of British tank design, it was relatively poor in most aspects except speed and firepower. Just use a Centurion at that point.

The tortoise is like most super heavy projects, a waste of time and energy but an interesting outcome that helped shape later heavy designs.

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M4A3(76)W Shermans of the 761st Tank Battalion, date unknown.

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The firefly’s 17pdr is a 76mm.

hiya shermayne what do you think of the matilda 2 or the churchill? oh and what do you think of all the cool stuff they did to force a 75mm into a sherman?

The Matilda 2 managed to be a rather formidable force in the desert with it's thicker armor. The unfortunate fact of the matter is that the 2 pdr wasn't enough to manage an excellent AT capability needed at the time. It was *okay* as a heavy tank and quickly became obsolete. The Churchill was a decent infantry support tank but it was too specialized to be effective in more than a couple of roles, It's variants are interesting but it's speed mixed with it's complex design lead to too many issues for it to be truly successful.

Even to this day I manage to find more interesting things that were done to the Sherman that allows it's ever increasing adaptability to continue to surprise me. Do you have any variants that are your favorite?

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hiya shermayne what do you think of the matilda 2 or the churchill? oh and what do you think of all the cool stuff they did to force a 75mm into a sherman?

The Matilda 2 managed to be a rather formidable force in the desert with it's thicker armor. The unfortunate fact of the matter is that the 2 pdr wasn't enough to manage an excellent AT capability needed at the time. It was *okay* as a heavy tank and quickly became obsolete. The Churchill was a decent infantry support tank but it was too specialized to be effective in more than a couple of roles, It's variants are interesting but it's speed mixed with it's complex design lead to too many issues for it to be truly successful.

Even to this day I manage to find more interesting things that were done to the Sherman that allows it's ever increasing adaptability to continue to surprise me. Do you have any variants that are your favorite?

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Friendly reminder that the Sherman was the best tank of world war 2 and you can’t prove otherwise.

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Wow that’s so cool, I wonder what Chernobyl looks like now?

Stained glass windows in the administrative building of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was one of the largest in the Soviet Union and the poster child of the Soviet nuclear power industry. As such, little expense was spared on details like these windows.

The Soviet Union often used motifs in abstract art to promote Communism and laude their successes.

For more info, check out my reblog of this post.

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B-24J Liberator with the 458th Bomb Group with a collapsed front wheel due to a landing accident at Horsham St Faith, Norfolk, England, March 2nd, 1945.

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Men loading bombs inside a B-29 Superfortress, Saipan, Mariana Islands, 1945.

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Happy Easter

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The Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger is pretty good, would recommend for anyone looking for a good German perspective of World War I.

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During the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese War, Russia had to send their Baltic Fleet to reinforce their Pacific Fleet. The larger ships had to go around Africa which took more than 6 months and 18,000 miles. The Russians lost the ensuing battle and the war.

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Hey ,what ya think of the casted M2A4 and casted M3A1 Lee ?

While simply inferior to their welded counterparts, they proved invaluable during early stages of the war and provided the US/UK/allies with a lot of extra tanks that some units would have simply gone without. And at least they're not riveted like some certain 1944 cruiser designs...

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The Destroyer USS Hammann sinking,June 5th 1942, These images were taken from USS Yorktown.