Monthly Archives: August 2010

1/6th Scale Dioramas

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Two fascinating links from the Lone Sentry Forum: Peter Shaw’s 1/6th Scale Dora Railroad Gun and an amazing collection of 1/6th scale dioramas at Kampfgruppe von Abt Modelling Team.  

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Odds and Ends

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Popular pages on LoneSentry.com: Tiger Tanks in the Battle for Florence Vulnerability of Tiger Tanks The Pz-Kw 5 (Panther) Tank The New 88 and Its Carriages Dive Bombers German Antitank Weapons The German Mouse: Super-Super-Super-Heavy Tank Became Hitler’s White Elephant … Continue reading →

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Flak was Everywhere

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

“Flak was everywhere” from U.S. Ninth Air Force training publication.

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Spearhead – 3rd Armored Videos

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

   3AD.com has uploaded an extensive collection of videos related to the 3rd Armored Division in WWII on YouTube and Vimeo: 3rd Armored Division YouTube Channel 3AD.com on Vimeo Public.Resource.Org has digitized the 1970 U.S. Army “Big Picture” film The … Continue reading →

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Captured Jeeps

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

 

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German Tank and Armored Car Sights

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Summary of major German panzer and armored car gunsights from TM-E 30-451: Handbook on German Military Forces, War Department, March 1945. [As with all U.S. wartime intelligence, the data may be inaccurate or incomplete. The source text has not been … Continue reading →

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Churchill & Eisenhower Accused of UFO Coverup?

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

News of the strange. The British Ministry of Defense has released hundreds of secret “UFO files” online. The files, originally published at http://ufos.nationalarchives.gov.uk/, span several decades and contain eyewitness accounts, sketches, and classified briefings. The files include a letter accusing … Continue reading →

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Warsaw 3-D Documentary

Posted on August 3, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

City of Ruins is a new documentary film featuring 3-D sequences showing the destruction in bombed-out Warsaw after World War II. The documentary movie from the Warsaw Uprising Museum was directed by Oscar-nominated director Tomek Baginski.      

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M40 and M43 Gun Motor Carriage

Posted on August 1, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

The 155-mm Gun Motor Carriage M40 and 8 in. Howitzer Motor Carriage M43 were self-propelled artillery vehicles based on major components of the medium tank M4A1 with the Continental engine and HVSS suspension. The M40 Gun Motor Carriage was designed … Continue reading →

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Checkerboard

Posted on August 1, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

The Checkerboard newspaper of the 99th Infantry Division is available online at http://99div.newspaperarchive.com/. All issues can be browsed and searched by keyword. The Checkerboard was the newspaper of the 99th Infantry Division during World War II and the 99th Infantry … Continue reading →

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