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[–]DasHeadCrapHGN 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

I met a German fighter ace maybe two years or so back. He got shot down once or twice but made it back. The last time though he told me that the Soviets captured him and shiped him to a Gulag. He thought he was dead but he made friends with a Soviet officer and was let out at the end of the war.

I don't like what he fought for, he has blood on his hands but you also can't realistically call for the murder of every ex Luftwaffe pilot. I hope he's doing good in the world to atone for his crimes.

Anyways I wonder what happened to him. As a historian it saddens me WW2 vets are dying out. Is he dead? I saw him at an airshow in Minnesota.

[–]lestweforget1914Logistics can't melt Krupp Steel 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

Well apparently Battlefield 5 will be a WW1 shooter which means we now get a literal asiatic hoard of arm chair generals with little to no knowledge of history whinging about ''its just sitting in trenches'' or ''everything moves to slow''.

[–]SergeantSpookAfter all, if there's anyone we can trust, it's the Nazis. 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

I don't give two hoots about how badly they fuck up actual WW1 combat as long as they have armoured trains and tanks. Incidentally, although it's not technically WW1, a game about the Czechoslovak Legion attempting to cross Russia to get home would be amazing.

[–]burgerbob22the allies winning is a myth 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

I love /r/destroyedtanks. I really do. It's one of my favorite subs. But it sure perpetuates the stereotype of the Ronson and the paper Sherman, just from sheer volume of pictures of Shermans posted.

Can someone back me up? I feel like there are a lot of pictures of knocked out Shermans for a few reasons.

  1. There were a metric fuck-ton of Shermans. In pure numbers, something like 5500 Shermans were lost (based on numbers from Wikipedia... can't find real stats). Of course, "lost" could mean a lot of things, I don't think all of those were complete losses. Also, percentage-wise, it's a relatively small number (like 11% of total Shermans produced?). The human casualties from those knocked out Shermans I can't find numbers for, but after wet-ammo storage and up-armoring it seems like it would be lower than equivalent German losses.

  2. US photojournalism was quite well established and prevalent for the period.

  3. The US was winning. That means losses from battles were caught up to and photographed, instead of left behind.

Anyway, that has been grating on me for a while.