Is anyone interested in a World War 1 / World War II thread?

Is anyone interested in a World War 1 / World War II thread?

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hell yeah

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I agree

Nice!

Since playing Battlefield 1 I'm really interested in all this old Tech

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Obligatory

Gotta talk about the Gustaph then.

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Damn your is so big!!

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>1992
That's from Generation Kill bro.

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clicked wrong picture, my bad.

> Live in Flanders
> Have 4 relatives who fought in the Trenches
> Still have letters from 2 of them
> Spoke to an 100 year old ww1 vet who shared a room with my grandfather in a retirement home when I was like 12 years old
> Had hours of listening to that guys stories (yes I was already incredibly intrested in history when I was 12).

I'd say I'm pretty interested

Vas is das?

solders in a trench at battle of the bulge colorized

Fuck off queer bait

Anyone got anything on what the Finns were up to during the war

greentext his stories, would love to hear some

Blanket folding 101

Goliath bombs

Remote controlled Anti tank mines

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> Hi mum and dad (he lied about his age to enlist)
> I hope you can forgive me for doing what I did
> In 2 weeks we will get our wages when we are relieved
> other boys here use it to buy drinks or to get girls (hookers kek)
> I'm doing fine (censorship prevented him from telling what trench warfare was really like and he knew it)
> i will send my wages to you, I don't know if it's any use now (Germans occupied like 98% percent of the country but still let letters pass after they too censored them)

> I'll send it because this war could drag on a bit longer the expected you might want to use it for Dirk (younger brother) I don't drink anyway.

He always drew some real good pictures with his letters i'd scan it but my dad still has the letters.

the one before was my great grandfather I'll post a story of my grand dad's roommate in a min

moar, tell some of the stories he told you in person with no censorship

that one was of my great grand dad who was killed in combat

Jesus Christ, you expect us to fall for that?

It's obviously Stalingrad.

how old was he?

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My grandfather was in Korea. He never ate rice cuz he saw them pissing and shiting in the rice paddies whenever they needed to

> Be room mate of my grand dad
> The year is 1914
> he sees jerries march into his/mine home town/city central square
> window from 2nd floor of a bar opens up
> machine gun mows down jerries (convicted criminals who served in the first wave as a punishment).
> Ohshit.jpg
> Jerries round up any males between 16 and 50 they could fine
> dug own graves and got executed (cousin amongst them)
> gets away and runs to next town
> Sees belgian officer assembling ppl to join the army
> enlists cuz wants revenge for dead cousin and Belgian nationalism was still a thing, it certainky is different when ur home turf is invaved (for the first time since ur country is founded).
> fought for the next 4 years, mostly on the yser front (ypres, basicly one of the biggest hellholes on the western front for the enitire war)

2 weeks short of turning 16 when he joined the army

sounds fucked up. I've always been interested in history, and reading 'all is quiet on the western front' when I was 14 sparked my interest for WW1

Soviet experimental weopon

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well 2 years ago you couldn't look passed it.... it happened lik right here.
My city was burned to the ground (city archives dating back to the 1300's were burned).

Germans were scared of Belgians cuz (at the very beginning) they resisted like fucking radical ISIS. It was the first war of this young country and civillians would just open fire on jerries whenever they had the chance. as a response they destroyed cities that were over 800 years old.

A german officer once wrote.
"Belgian soldiers will only surrender when they run out of bullets and bricks to throw at us, after that the civillians go for our throats".

that only lasted very briefly tho.

btw ignore the grammar and typo's I'm drunk.

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Idk the exact translation of the title but you should read somthing called like "war high"
by Ernst yünger a German soldier in the trensches.

Great book

> I'm the Belgian

can't find anything when I try to google either of those things

oorlogsroegs is the dutch translation

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Jünger

Storm of steel

cheers, I found it

Oorlog in terpentijn
"war in Terpenthine" (pretty sure the translated version is called differently)

is also a great ww1 book
it's from a writer who molded his dad's ww1 diaries into a book

thanks, will check it out. one of the best war books I've ever read was 'dispatches' from the vietnam war. real gritty shit, full metal jacket was partly based on it

This is my rifle this is my gun one is for fighting the other is for shitposting

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea.
Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,
Fallen in the cause of the free.

Solemn the drums thrill: Death august and royal
Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres.
There is music in the midst of desolation
And a glory that shines upon our tears.

They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables of home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England's foam.

But where our desires are and our hopes profound,
Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,
To the innermost heart of their own land they are known
As the stars are known to the Night;

As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain,
As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,
To the end, to the end, they remain.

Salutes to you Sup Forumsro

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We must never fuhgeddaboudit

These two wars; they make me thinking about my great great grandad and uncles. Love them even though I never met them. I don't like to think about these wars.

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> Never forgetti moms spagheti

mericunts the phrase is old and 9/11 is not big ennuf for it to be used

poor doggo

Settle down himmler

youtube.com/watch?v=NkKEynoTwp8

In Flanders fields

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved, and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.

Major John McCrae – 1915

I grew up with this shit (I live close to ypres and the menin gates).

Was ist das*

I have a collection of postcards from WWI.

It's just a dog

probably made a nice snack after it blew up

LCI(L) 319

my grandfather was on this vessel

the old lie Ducle et docurum est pro patria morio

says it all

my grandpa served on DE-47 in WW2

That's Fucking awesome

he was able to bring back a Mauser K98. he gave it to me about 15 years ago. it's locked in my safe :)

nice :)

Awesome again

My father was stationed at 9 and worked at a gas station and saw no combat so no really good stories to tell. He died of Agent Orange about 12 years ago. Both grandfathers were in World War II and the other in Korea but I don't have any pictures

that hurt mate

>machine gun mows down jerries (convicted criminals who served in the first wave as a punishment)

Citation needed. Typically frontline troops are picked for effectiveness to win battles, while penal battalions may be sacrificed 1914 was early to have accumulated many of those.

Stationed at nam* in a gas station

My great granny serviced the dock sidebars where these seamen would cum on leave.

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man i wish i was from the older generation so i could of spoke to these guys

It's what the guy told me m8 they didn't fac any reagular troops just (sometimes armed) civillians.

History is neat

Everyone has heard of unit 731 by now, right?

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

Nightmare fuel.

war is better

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Colorized photo of a German experimental rocket

Smallest German tank is named Goliath.

Biggest German tank is named Mouse.

Is good joke, ja?

What the christ is that horribly balanced contraption?

fucking nazi death machines

USA USA

blimp

Norway before Quisling.

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Lol is that Goebbles?

Blohm & Voss BV 141, for reconnaissance. Honestly didn't think I'd learn something new from this thread.

You might have heard of concentration camps that the Germans ran for the Jews. But, have you heard about the 1255 concentration camps that the Jews ran for ethnic Christian Germans AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR? Did you know that 60,000 to 80,000 thousand Germans died in those camps? Did you know that the German government refused to investigate these crimes?

Too bad! Spanish civil war!

same children

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