P40 War Hawk…
General Claire Lee Chennault led the Flying Tigers flying in China against the
Japanese air asaults
Taken with my Galaxy S8
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Those war machines were all brutally efficient with little regard to creature comforts.
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And they had to be that way…given engine, lift, drag, payload limits…
But then again modern day fighter planes give no room for comfort either…
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I love owls … I can call them to me at night … Owl wipes
I was recently watching a show about early “computers” which were people manually calculating big gun trajectories during WW2.
Due to the latency of the communication - and manual calc errors or errors in the comm - I think the hit rate was around 1 in 2400. Lots of wasted rounds and supplies were hard to get.
Someone made a mechanical - or maybe tube based - calculating machine that cut the calc time down to seconds instead of minutes and improved the hit rate to 1 in 400 so about 6 times better. Still not great but it was a huge improvement and saved precious materials too.
My numbers are probably off working from memory but the ratio was pretty close.
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Original photos from World War II. Transmitter master and power master are created … due to the history of our country, the people of our region have family members who fight on both sides
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The Danish minority in Germany was forced into the war by the Germans or had they been shot. My grandfather was one of the last to escape Stalingrad because he was suffering from Pulmonary Tuberculosis. He died 6 months after returning home
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