#hitory

[taraross-1787]

This Day in History: Flying Tigers

On this day in 1941, the Flying Tigers see combat for the first time. The unit formally known as the First American Volunteer Group would spend the next several months developing a reputation for the ages: In roughly 50 aerial battles, it would never be defeated.

Perhaps more importantly to some Americans, the Flying Tigers struck the first blow at the Japanese in the wake of Pearl Harbor.

“Years before American soldiers stormed the beaches of Normandy,” author Sam Kleiner writes, “or raised the flag on Iwo Jima, it was Chennault’s Flying Tigers who rallied the country with victories . . . .”

The story continues here: https://www.taraross.com/post/tdih-flying-tigers

[jmelcr]

History is written here and now.

[swedebeast]

Okay, so, I found something

yeah, so, uh, for those with an interest in military technology or naval warfare, this will require a second glance. But the Swedish wording of this is "PROPOSAL FOR AIR CRAFT CARRIER CRUISER WITH 6 210MM GUNS"

So, uh, this seems to have been the pet project of one Harry Åbom who drafted this sketch in 1946 and it is not mentioned anywhere else in the Swedish navy command correspondence, except for this sketch in the war archives - seemingly it was a proposal that just never went anywhere because there was no benefit for the Swedish navy when it never went too far away from air field coverage, and if they ever wanted any carriers they could just buy them as surplus from the US or Great Britain.

Below I will present the translation (and added info for context)... and oh boy, strap yourselves in.

Guns 6: - 210 mm gun 3 barrel turret 8: - 120mm - - 2 barrel turret 30: 40mm - - two and one barrel tripod/gun pod Hull armour Above water belt: 70 and 70 mm (rear 40mm) Torpedo belt: 80 mm Flight deck and other hangar: 25mm Hangar deck: 25mm Torpedo deck: 75mm Sides and ends: 50mm PROPOSAL FOR AIR CRAFT CARRIER CRUISER With 6 210mm guns Keel length: 160m Keel width: 22m Underwater compartment: 6.1m Displacement: 12,000 tons Displacement standard: 11,500 tons Speed with 40,000 horsepower: 26 knots Air craft: 16.

[damselrech10]

Ang isang paglalakbay ay nagsisimula sa isang hakbang... - unknown #alaala #nature #hitory https://www.instagram.com/p/CkvkzTxypD2/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[peashooter85]

"More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette."

TV ad from 1950's

[protoslacker]

The ancient peasant farmers who fashioned this forest garden system continued to hunt wild game and harvest wild foods, just as their descendants in Tuscany do today. The culture and cuisine of Tuscany - from truffle hunting to winemaking - is part of a 30,000-year-old unbroken tradition and relationship with the land. The elegance and near-perfection of these temperate forest gardens is shown in how they have thrived for millennia on some of the most contested land in Europe, surviving climate change, war, pestilence, drought, and economic upheaval.

Max Paschall at Shelterwood Forest Farm. The Lost Forest Gardens of Europe

[bmachine-blog1]

The visit of the photographer J. R. Chairman in the location of the American troops stationed on the Atoll of Tarawa. 1944.

[anunawarewolf]

World war 2 history class: Write an essay about the fürher

Me: King Bradley, also known as the fürher and the leader of amestris, was born in 1854-