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That time the grandson of the Jameson Irish Whiskey founder paid 6 handkerchiefs to watch a 10 year old get murdered and eaten.
James Sligo Jameson - Wikipedia
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I was drinking some Jameson last week...and it did taste a little funny.
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Why so "sear"ious...
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At FT Knox today, stopped in to the Patton museum. Lot of cool shit, but this was my favorite. Old Blood & Gut's aviator jacket he actually wore in the Battle of the Bulge.
The credit for the lowest mass tac in history goes to 3/509: 143 feet.
Lowest combat jump is technically the US at 175ft. (Noemfoor when two a/c had malfunctioning altimeters, the rest jumped from 400-500 feet)
The Germans jumped into Crete at 250 ft.
Lowest combat jump is technically the US at 175ft. (Noemfoor when two a/c had malfunctioning altimeters, the rest jumped from 400-500 feet)
The Germans jumped into Crete at 250 ft.
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Hegseth wants to restore the names to these posts. I hope it happens. Changing the names of our forts was so fucking gay.
Pete Hegseth says US military bases should restore names of Confederate generals
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This is a pretty interesting but not often talked about chapter in WW2:
This was one operation in a series of allied efforts to destroy German efforts to develop an atomic bomb. One of the efforts, Operation Freshman, failed when the glider being used crashed, resulting in all the British commandoes on board being killed, either from the crash, or capture and execution.
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Operation Gunnerside.
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) February 28, 2025
82 years ago Today, eleven Norwegian commandos on skis infiltrated and destroyed a Nazi chemical plant developing the Atomic Bomb.
Some historians believe this set the Nazis back far enough for the US to develop the Bomb first. pic.twitter.com/0qVliUL33P
This was one operation in a series of allied efforts to destroy German efforts to develop an atomic bomb. One of the efforts, Operation Freshman, failed when the glider being used crashed, resulting in all the British commandoes on board being killed, either from the crash, or capture and execution.
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Norwegian heavy water sabotage - Wikipedia
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Whether intentional or opportistic, beer runs always seem to make for good stories.
During the Korean War, a detachment of Seabees went behind enemy lines to capture several locomotives. When they discovered that the switchyard was next to the Kiran Brewery, they quickly loaded the locomotives with cases of beer and sake, then managed to avoid heavy fire to… pic.twitter.com/cc35cU4KFQ
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I remember first seeing/hearing about these in John Wayne's documentary, The Green Berets. Nasty stuff and reportedly had a large psychological impact; kind of Vietnam's equivalent to the IED. We can come up with some pretty simple, yet ingenious ways of fucking each other up:
Vietnam war traps pic.twitter.com/W4yxX3tMBN
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My uncle retired from the Navy, EOCS, all 24 years in the Navy with the Sea Bees. But before that he was a combat engineer in the Korean war, and told this story often, said that's why when the war was over he joined the Navy (Sea Bees).
A great book on this and Allied efforts to stop the Nazi's from obtaining The Bomb.
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IIRC, the author's conclusion is that using heavy water probably wouldn't have worked, but by the time our scientists figured that out the "best" the Germans could do was make a dirty bomb.
If you could visit one place in Europe for history, where would you go?
I loved the Black Taxi tour in Belfast, Ireland. I want to go back and do it again but without kids and on a longer tour. Our guide lost his leg to a bomb he planted as a teenager to target some Protestants. There is one tour company that you spend half the day with a former IRA member and the other half with a former UDA member.
I loved the Black Taxi tour in Belfast, Ireland. I want to go back and do it again but without kids and on a longer tour. Our guide lost his leg to a bomb he planted as a teenager to target some Protestants. There is one tour company that you spend half the day with a former IRA member and the other half with a former UDA member.
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