Monthly Archives: August 2010

Flak Traps

Posted on August 15, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Beware of Flak Traps! Ninth Air Force (IX Tactical Air Command) training poster:  

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Aerial Bombs

Posted on August 14, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

The following tactical intelligence report appeared in “Eastern Air Command Weekly Intelligence Summary”, No. 10, Nov. 3, 1944 published by Headquarters Eastern Air Command, Southeast Asia. Oscars Drop Aerial Bombs on B-24 Moulmein Mission 22 October Preliminary Report from 356 Squadron (RAF) Thirteen … Continue reading →

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Bronco New Flak Releases

Posted on August 14, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

CB35042 1/35 German 3.7 cm Flak 36 w/ Sd.Ah. 52 Carriage Trailer CB35079 1/35 German Sd.Ah. 52 37mm Flak 36/37 Ammunition Carriage Trailer  

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Disruptive Camouflage of Vehicles

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

How useful is disruptive camouflage on tanks and military vehicles? The following excerpt on camouflage is taken from the A Military Encyclopedia Based on Operations in the Italian Campaigns 1943-1945 by the G-3 Section, Headquarters 15th Army Group, Italy. The … Continue reading →

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Route of the Ghost Corps

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Route of the U.S. XX Corps (20th Corps) and Divisions Commanded. Source: The Ghost Corps thru Hell and High Water, U.S. Army, XX Corps, 1945.  

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761st Tank Battalion Figures

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

New World Miniatures has announced two new 1/35th scale resin figures depicting men of the 761st Tank Battalion “Black Panthers”.  

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Germans Surrender in Czechoslovakia

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

U.S. Army video of German troops surrendering in Czechoslovakia in 1945: Part 1 — German soldiers, wagons, and trucks surrender. U.S. soldiers inspect abandoned German equipment and artillery. Wehrmacht soldiers in a Schwimmwagen are directed forward by U.S. soldiers. Part … Continue reading →

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The Seventh Army Story

Posted on August 8, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

“The Big Picture: The Seventh Army Story” a U.S. Army film produced by the Army Pictorial Service:  

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B-24D Liberator “Sherazade”

Posted on August 7, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Pilot and crew in front of the B-24 Liberator “Sherazade” of the 425th Bomb Squadron, 308th Bomb Group, Fourteenth Air Force in China in WWII. The bomber markings list ten missions with three Japanese fighters shot down and one boat … Continue reading →

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Baka… Flying Warhead

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

The following intelligence report on the Japanese Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka (Allied nickname “Baka”) appeared in the June 1945 issue of C.I.C. (Combat Information Center) published by the U.S. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations.           … Continue reading →

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