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From the war remnants museum in Ho Chi Minh City. The museum primarily contains exhibits relating to the American phase of the Vietnam War
Around Frankfurt, there's heaps of cold war relicts. helipads, rocket batteries or, like this, an old tank training ground. I'm not sure if, in retrospect, that all should have made me feel safe or worried...
The burned barricades in Kyiv after violent clashes between riot police and Euromaidan protesters / Ukrainian girl mourns dead civilian protesters during anti-government protest
Here's a comparison with the 2003 version of this Mini-kit. BEHOLD the amazing power of the cheese slope!
LEGO Set 30051
2010 Star Wars
X-Wing Fighter Mini
2010 Spring/Easter Impulse Assortment
Found 2/18/10 at Michigan Target
$3.49
Props man working on "14 Diaries of the Great War" a 2014 international documentary drama series about World War
The Ranville War Cemetery is a Second World War cemetery containing predominantly British soldiers killed during the early stages of the Battle of Normandy. It is located in and named after Ranville in the Calvados department, east of Caen in lower Normandy. A large proportion of those interred were members of the British 6th Airborne Division.
The village of Ranville was the first to be liberated by elements of the British 6th Airborne Division on the morning of 6 June 1944 (D-Day) when the nearby bridge (Pegasus Bridge) was attacked and captured. The cemetery contains the grave of Lieutenant Den Brotheridge - considered to be the first Allied death on D-Day.
The churchyard was immediately used to accommodate battlefield dead. Following the end of the war, the war cememtery was created which gathered burials from locations including Amfreville, Colleville-sur-Colombelles, Houlgate, Orne and Villers-sur-Mer.
RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
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Country:
France
Locality:
Calvados
Identified Casualties:
2139
Location Information
Ranville is best reached by taking the D513 north-eastwards out of Caen, and after about 9 kilometres turning left at Herouvillette. Go north for one kilometre and then turn left into Ranville village. The War Cemetery is on Rue des Airbornes.
Historical Information
The Allied offensive in north-western Europe began with the Normandy landings of 6 June 1944.
Ranville was the first village to be liberated in France when the bridge over the Caen Canal was captured intact in the early hours of 6 June by troops of the 6th Airborne Division, who were landed nearby by parachute and glider. Many of the division's casualties are buried in Ranville War Cemetery and the adjoining churchyard
The CEMETERY contains 2,236 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 90 of them unidentified. There are also 323 German graves and a few burials of other nationalities.
The CHURCHYARD contains 47 Commonwealth burials, one of which is unidentified, and one German grave.
RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Normandy British Commonwealth War Cemeteries in Calvados, France
Roll of Honour
Location: Next to, and south of, Ranville village church and churchyard. From the west take the D514 over the Caen Canal and River Orne then take the 2nd exit at the roundabout onto the D37. At 650 yards (594 metres) take a right turn onto the Rue de la Vallée and take the first left onto Chemin de Longueville. At the next crossroads, next to the church, at 280 yards (256 metres), continue straight across along the Rue des Airbornes. The cemetery is on your right after the church.
2,567 Burials
1,945 British Army (+ 39 unknown), 268 Heer (German Army) + 54 unknown,
85 Royal Marines (+ 1 unknown), 67 Canadian Army, 47 unknown Commonwealth soldiers,
16 Royal Air Force, 16 Royal Canadian Air Force, 5 Royal Navy (+ 8 unknown),
5 French Army, 3 Royal New Zealand Air Force, 2 Luftwaffe (German Air Force),
2 Merchant Navy unknown, 2 Royal Australian Air Force, 1 Belgian Army, 1 Polish Army,
A total of 151 burials are unidentified.
The Australians, Belgian and French are buried in Plot V.
The Pole, an engineer and Colonel in the 1st Polish Armoured Division, is buried in Plot IVA. E. 9.
The New Zelanders are buried in Plots, VA, V and IX.
The German forces fatal casualties are buried in Plots VI and VII.
Of those buried in Ranville War Cemetery, 70 (all Allied) are buried in 6 collective graves:
II. F. 21 (4 identified), III. D.10 (3 unknown), IV. C. 22-27 (6 identified), V. B. 1-22 (22 identified),
VA. D. 3-8 (6 identified), VA. H. 5-8 (1 identified and 3 unknown) VIA. C. 1-25 (25 identified).
18 casualties (all Allied) are buried in joint graves:
V. D. 4 . (2 identified), V. D. 5. (2 identified), V. F. 7 & 8 (2 identified), VIII. A. 20 & 21 (2 identified),
VIII. D. 18 (2 identified), VIII. D. 23 (2 identified), VIII. F. 5 (2 identified), IX. E. 17 (2 unknown).
2 casualties (both Allied) buried in this cemetery have Special Memorials to mark their grave:
Special Memorial Type 'A' (British Army), bearing the inscription 'Known to be buried in this cemetery.
Private CLIFFORD MELBOURNE OXTOBY, Special Memorial Type 'C' (Canadian Army), bearing the inscription 'Buried near this spot'.
Honours and Awards
1 Air Force Cross, 1 Distinguished Flying Cross and Bar, 1 Distinguished Service Order,
1 Distinguished Service Order and Bar, 2 Distinguished Conduct Medals,
3 British Empire Medals, 3 Territorial (Efficiency) Decorations,
4 Officers of the Order of the British Empire, 4 Distinguished Flying Crosses,
13 Mentioned in Despatches, 11 Military Crosses, 19 Military Medals.
Cemetery and Casualty Information
Ranville War Cemetery is the third largest Second World War Commonwealth War Cemetery in Normandy, France. Designed by Architect Philip D. Hepworth it was built, and is still maintained by, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (formerly the Imperial War Graves Commission). Ranville has been referred to as the airborne cemetery, since the majority of the British 6th Airborne Division fatal casualties (655) now rest here.
Some 82 regiments and corps from the British Army are represented in this cemetery, 203 men were killed on D-Day, Tuesday 6th June 1944. All identified casualties in this cemetery (with the exception of 11 German forces casualties) were killed, or died, between May and September 1944.
Casualties range from 16 to 49 years of age. Among those buried in this cemetery are 1 pair of British Brothers, Corporal CYRIL ALBERT JAMES ECKERT (VIA. B. 13) and STANLEY GEORGE THOMAS ECKERT (VIA. B. 23) and 1 pair of Canadian Borthers, JOSEPH MAURICE ROUSSEAU (V. A .G7) and JOSEPH PILIPPE ROUSSEAU (VA. G. 8).
More casualties also lost other family members in conflict: 1 had a father who had been killed in the First World War. 16 lost another brother, 1 who lost a twin brother and 1 lost 2 brothers elsewhere in the Second World War.
7 men who rest in this cemetery served under an alias:
Private MURRAY ADAMS-ACTON served as Private MURRAY ACTON.
Lance Corporal HANS ARENSTEIN served as Lance Corporal HARRY ANDREWS.
Private FREDERICK FLIESCHER served as Privater FREDERICK FLETCHER.
Serjeant EUGEN KAGERER-STEIN served as Serjeant EUGENE FULLER.
Lance Corporal KURT MEYER served as Lance Corporal PETER MOODY.
Private ERNST NATHAN served as Private ERNEST NORTON.
Private BERNARD TAYLOR served as Private BERNARD TUCHMANN.
An Alsatian paradog called GLEN, also rests in this cemetery, he rests with his 19 year old keeper Private EMILE SERVAIS CORTEIL (IA. G. 13).
The Exeter War Memorial. This quite magnificent war memorial stands in Northernhay Gardens opposite the ancient ruin of Rougemont Castle. Atop a pedestal of Devon granite stands a bronze figure representing "Peace" and beneath her a slain dragon. A further four bronze figures sit below "Peace". One features a soldier wearing shrapnel helmet, overcoat and gas mask with rifle slung over his soldier and another a V.A.D. Nurse in uniform. The figure facing the City Wall is a sailor sitting astride the prow of a ship and the remaining figure, as shown here, is of a Prisoner of War (Lady Owen, the wife of Sir James Owen the then Mayor of Exeter had led a team of Exeter men and women in organising relief work for soldiers held prisoner in Germany). John Angel, the sculptor of the Exeter memorial exhibited the figure of "Peace" at The Royal Academy in 1922. The Exeter War Memorial was completed in 1923.
It is perhaps a pity for British sculpture that John Angel was to emigrate to the United States of America early in his career but we can at least appreciate his work from the war memorials at Exeter and at Bridgewater.
He was born in Newton Abbot in Devon in 1881 and in 1901 he was apprenticed to a wood carver before attending Exeter’s School of Art. From there he went to the Lambeth School of Art and then the Royal Academy School where he studied under George Frampton. Angel showed great promise and in 1919 and before he was 30 years old he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.
Angel made his home in London and married an American, Elizabeth Day Seymour. They had two children and the Angel family finally emigrated in 1928.
He died on the 16th October 1960 in Connecticut and was then regarded as one of America’s foremost sculptors. His work for the Cathedral of St John the Divine in New York and his statue of Francis Vigo for the George Rogers Clark Memorial Park in Vincennes , Indiana, overlooking the Wabash River, are just two of many works in America.
Photos by: Matt Kaminski
If Matt Kaminski is pictured, photo is taken by: Blair Williams, Luke Pierce or Jessica Garlesky
Not immediately visible, mounted on the war memorial, but faces the cemetery.
Chapel Allerton.
The names are from W.W.1.
There is one female mentioned, third row.
MARY AMELIA SCHOFIELD. Could she have been one of the ladies killed in the Barnbow explosion.
I have a list of the names, and a Mary E. Schofield is mentioned. Possibly a typo. somewhere?
Join ITS Tactical as we take a look at an improvement to bump helmets with the War Bungee from War Sport Industries
Check out our write-up here with video and detailed photos: itstac.tc/QPasHs
Gathering of World War I veterans of Zeeland on November 11, 1919 during the first anniversary of Armistice Day in front of the chapel owned Douwe Wyngarden on Main St. west of Centennial. The building was used as a community center at that time. Most of the serviceman had returned at the time this picture was taken. The event was celebrated by Zeeland merchants providing a dinner.
Individuals in photograph:
1st Row L-R: N. Vander Zee, unknown, J. De Johnge, G. Meengs, H. Holstege, R. Drukker, N. Veneklasen, J. Den Herder, G. Van Hoven, C. De Witt, G. Goorman, W. Bos, H. Dunnink, J. Kouw and unknown
2nd Row L-R: J. Kamps, F. Van Systema, Joe Den Herder, J. Clark, S. Baar, S. Schipper, R. Lamer, E. Post, A. De Pree, J. Van Loo, H. Bok, G. Gommers, Charles De Wys, unknown, Dave Potgetter, unknown, and Dick Hunderman.
3rd Row L-R: Smallegan, J. Veneklasen, J. Berghorst, unknown, unknown, O. De Jonge, L. Lookerse, H. Van Haitsma, N. Vande Luyster, unknown, Jack Boonstra, Bert Raak, Slagh, and N. Van Haitsma.
4th Row L-R: G. Rozema, M. Barense, J. Slagh, H. Boes, H. Vander Velde, J. Belder, A. Knap, Jake Hop, D. Van Loo, A. Damstra, unknown, unknown, D. Smallegan, H. Gommers, C. Moll, J. Van Dyke, J. Sturing, J. Meeusen, R. Hamer, B. Johnson and B. Morren.
Photograph information from Zeeland Record, July 20, 1972.
A few hundred people gathered at the intersection of Congress and Michigan Saturday April 21st to protest the U.S. wars occurring on a permanent basis in various parts of the world. The overriding message was one of peace, and to put an end to the endless wars.
Two speakers stood out for calling attention to the crises occurring in their countries.
Shireen Al-Adeimi is from Yemen. She spoke eloquently about the relentless bombing campaign being carried out by Saudi Arabia with the support of the United States against her country. Hospitals, schools, even weddings and funerals have been targeted. There is a blockade against her country which prevents food and medicine from being provided to the people who need it the most. Starvation and disease are rampant. It's being called the worst humanitarian crisis of the 21st century. You can listen to some of her speeches on Facebook Live.
Rania Salem is a Palestinian activist. She spoke about how Gaza has been turned into a huge open air prison and how Palestinians are being shot down by Israeli snipers by the wall separating Gaza from Israel while peacefully protesting for their Right of Return to their ancestral lands.
B&W postcard RP-PPC by A.B. c.1905
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Memorial to the local casualties of the Boer War. Unveiled in October 1904 and removed to Avenham Park c.1925
The front view of an American fighter plane from the Vietnam War, as seen in front of the War Remnants Museum, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon).
Imperial War Museum: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30108806
Catalogue number:
EPH 10689
Department:
Exhibits
Alternative names:
name plate
Category:
souvenirs and ephemera
Image size: 8,013 x 6,010 pixels
IWM Non-Commercial Licence www.iwm.org.uk/corporate/privacy-copyright/licence.
Statutory rights and exceptions apply, under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
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Public domain. Regimental design, before 1915, so expired Crown Copyright.
NG TC Roadster based on a 1967 donor vehicle.
Fitted with a Rover 3500cc V8 engine.
12 previous keepers (including donor).
The B-24 was employed in operations in every combat theater during World War II. Because of its great range, it was particularly suited for such missions as the famous raid from North Africa against the oil industry at Ploesti, Rumania, on Aug. 1, 1943. This feature also made the airplane suitable for long over-water missions in the Pacific Theater. More than 18,000 Liberators were produced.
The B-24D on display flew combat missions from North Africa in 1943-1944 with the 512th Bomb Squadron. It was flown to the museum in May 1959. It is the same type airplane as the "Lady Be Good," the world-famous B-24D that disappeared on a mission from North Africa in April 1943 and was found in the Libyan Desert in May 1959.
TECHNICAL NOTES:
Armament: 10 .50-cal. machine guns and 8,000 lbs. of bombs
Engines: Four Pratt & Whitney R-1830s of 1,200 hp each
Maximum speed: 303 mph
Cruising speed: 175 mph
Range: 2,850 miles
Ceiling: 28,000 ft.
Span: 110 ft.
Length: 66 ft. 4 in.
Height: 17 ft. 11 in.
Weight: 56,000 lbs. loaded
Cost: $336,000
Imperial War Museum Duxford (commonly referred to simply as "Duxford") is a branch of the Imperial War Museum near the village of Duxford in Cambridgeshire, England. Britain's largest aviation museum, Duxford houses the museum's large exhibits, including nearly 200 aircraft, military vehicles, artillery and minor naval vessels in seven main exhibitions buildings. The site also provides storage space for the museum's other collections of material such as film, photographs, documents, books and artefacts. The site accommodates a number of British Army regimental museums, including those of the Parachute Regiment (named Airborne Assault) and the Royal Anglian Regiment.
Based on the historic Duxford Aerodrome, the site was originally operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the First World War. During the Second World War Duxford played a prominent role during the Battle of Britain and was later used by United States Army Air Forces fighter units in support of the daylight bombing of Germany. Duxford remained an active RAF airfield until 1961. After the Ministry of Defence declared the site surplus to requirements in 1969 the Imperial War Museum received permission to use part of the site for storage. The entirety of the site was transferred to the museum in February 1976.
In keeping with the site's history many of Duxford's original buildings, such as hangars used during the Battle of Britain, are still in use. Many of these buildings are of particular architectural or historic significance and over thirty have listed building status, Duxford "retain[ing] the best-preserved technical fabric remaining from [a historic airfield] up to November 1918" and being "remarkably well-preserved". The site also features a number of purpose-built exhibition buildings, such as the Stirling Prize-winning American Air Museum, designed by Sir Norman Foster. The site remains an active airfield and is used by a number of civilian flying companies, and hosts regular air shows.
A reminder of the sacrifices made during the Korean War.
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A photo taken at the War Museum in Svidnik, Slovakia. Always when I take shots in museums, I tell myself not to forget to take a photo of the description of the object, but I always forget :). So I have no idea whats the name of this gun is :)
HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 450D with Sigma 10-20mm lens, from a tripod.
Catalog #: 10_0016322
Title: World War One
Date: 1914-1918
Additional Information: World War One Aviation
Tags: World War One, World War One Aviation, 1914-1918
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
Civil War Reenactment.
My fascination with the history of the Civil War brings me to these events for a look & understanding at the sacrifices of those who so nobly fought.
This P-47D Thunderbolt was built in 1945 at Republic’s Evansville factory in Indiana. Serial No. 45-49192 the aircraft was built originally as a P-47D-40-RA. Detail of its service with the USAAF is not known, although it did serve with the Air Training Command during the last few months of the War, and was eventually stored at Tinker AFB in Oklahoma with the Air Material Command. It was restored to full operational status at Hensley Field in Texas in 1952, after the Rio Pact had been signed by the USA, and was assigned to the Military Assistance Program in September of that year. In 1953 it formed part of a group of P-47’s which found their way to the Peruvian Air Force, who paid the princely sum of one dollar for each of the 25 aircraft it took from the USA. In the hands of the grateful Peruvians it gave good service until 1967, initially as a front line fighter and then as a fighter trainer, and having had an all over silver paint scheme applied. Six Thunderbolts, number 119 among them, were stored in the open at the Piura Air Base until 1969 when, after long and difficult negotiations, aviation historian and enthusiast Ed Jurist was able to recover them, with over 45 tons of spares, to the USA. Each of the aircraft was given a new FAA registration, the TFC machine being allocated N47DD. The CAF had N47DA (Peruvian 114) in the air on the 26th August 1971, after four months of reassembly. The 2nd of December the same year saw N47DB airborne again and by February 1974 all six were airworthy and being operated by the CAF from Harlingen. N47DD wore the colours of a 12th Air Force machine, from the 86th Fighter Group, 527th Fighter Squadron, which was based in Italy during the war. In April of 1975, N47DD was delivered to the Kansas Wing of the YAF, at Forbes Field in Topeka, in February of 1977. The silver paint applied by the CAF had worn and the Peruvian markings were showing through and the aircraft was looking rather dishevelled. The airframe was stripped to bare metal by a team of volunteers, and the scheme and markings of Col David Schilling from the 56th FG, 62nd FS, were applied with the aircraft forming the star exhibit in the new YAF museum at Forbes field, which opened on July 2nd 1977. Two and a half years later, in January 1980, N47DD was sold by Tallichet to a B-52 pilot from Texas. Robin Collard had just restored and subsequently sold a P-51 Stump Jumper and was looking for a new challenge. After some preparation, N47DD left Kansas on the 8th February 1980 bound for Del Rio, Texas, although it made a stop-over in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that night. The following morning, the engine refused to develop sufficient power to take off normally, and then failed completely leaving the ferry pilot no option but to force land in a field about half a mile from the end of the runway. Maintaining the Jugs safety record to the full, the pilot suffered only minor injuries. The Thunderbolt was badly damaged. Robin Collard intended to restore the aircraft to flying condition, although in June of 1980 all the parts, the two fuselages and the complete project were sold to Jon Ward. Everything was then shipped out to Truckee-Tahoe airport in Nevada, where the massive rebuild job was started. Four years later, the project was sold on again, this time to Ward’s friend, Jim Kirby who, in turn, parted with it, to the benefit of The Fighter Collection, in late 1984. The aircraft was about 70% complete at this stage. The aircraft was sent to Steve Hinton’s Fighter Rebuilders in Chino, California. Fighter Rebuilders had just completed a P-47G-15 for the Planes of Fame Museum at the time. With an overhauled P& W 2800 engine installed, and the metal work, systems fit and testing completed, in August 1985 the aircraft flew again for the first time since the crash of February 1980. It appeared at the 1985 Gathering of Warbirds at Medera, CA, USA in the hands of Steve Hinton himself. It was disassembled for shipping to the UK in October the same year and arrived at The Fighter Collection, Duxford on the 22nd of January 1986. Sold to Claire Aviation Inc and shipped to the USA in 01.03.2007. Returned to the UK in 2018 and operated by Fighter Aviation Engineering Ltd. Info from Flying Legends website
If every war zone was like this, the world would be in peace...
One of my friends took this photo. The quality is not great, but just for the knowledge, we were all at Paintball. It is a game where you have guns which are filled with small balls full of paint which burst when they hit you hard enough. very painful......From my own experience I got 8 bruises which lasted about 2 weeks
Well this isn't fireworks, this is my country under the attack!! #Yemen #Sanaa
This photograph was taken in a very difficult situation, while Sanaa city subjected to aerial bombardment, the anti-aircraft was firing all over the city..
I tried to transfer the fear and death in my country in a creative way.. like my firend siad "Make Art Not War".
This photo was taken: March 28, 2015 7:43PM