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Cincydawg

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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #1288 on: November 16, 2022, 11:23:40 AM »
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #1289 on: November 16, 2022, 01:20:59 PM »


This has to be among the weirdest-looking of all Sherman variants.
It is the T31 demolition tank, which began its life in 1944 after a request for an engineer vehicle armed with two 7.2 inch rocket launchers in the turret.
These launchers were encased in their own armored compartments on either side of the turret. Two .30 caliber machine guns were also added to the turret for close-in defense, as well as a .50 caliber.
Interestingly, a dummy 105 mm howitzer barrel was fitted in the center of the turret. Many sources state that this was indeed a working weapon, but this is untrue. There were also plans to install a flame thrower, in case three .30 caliber machine guns, one .50 caliber machine gun and two 7.2 inch rocket launchers weren't enough.
A single prototype was completed in 1945, but due to problems in testing and the end of the war the project was cancelled.

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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #1290 on: November 16, 2022, 01:24:32 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on November 16, 2022, 11:23:40 AM

Looks like they nabbed someone on the left, any of your kin bootleggers?
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« Reply #1291 on: November 16, 2022, 01:28:19 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on November 16, 2022, 09:06:20 AM

So that's what our board meetings use to look like.I always thought it was like this



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« Reply #1292 on: November 16, 2022, 01:37:22 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on November 16, 2022, 01:20:59 PM
This has to be among the weirdest-looking of all Sherman variants.
It is the T31 demolition tank, which began its life in 1944 after a request for an engineer vehicle armed with two 7.2 inch rocket launchers in the turret. There were also plans to install a flame thrower, in case three .30 caliber machine guns, one .50 caliber machine gun and two 7.2 inch rocket launchers weren't enough.
Even if that model was completed with the flamethrower,it would have been more serviceable in the Pacific.It would get blasted in the ETO because the Reich had much better armor piercing capabilities.Guys would have to be nuts to crawl inside of that and become a roman candle or a road flare
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #1293 on: November 17, 2022, 11:36:23 AM »


First in the nation in NJ 1928.
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #1294 on: November 17, 2022, 04:00:33 PM »
Wonder what it looks like now? 
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« Reply #1295 on: November 17, 2022, 04:03:09 PM »
Probably has flyovers now.
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« Reply #1296 on: November 17, 2022, 04:04:35 PM »
Quote from: MrNubbz on November 16, 2022, 01:28:19 PM
So that's what our board meetings use to look like.I always thought it was like this




Yeah, that's it. I'm the guy in the shopping cart. We're missing TK in that picture, as he was busy outrunning the Madison police.
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« Reply #1297 on: November 17, 2022, 04:05:44 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on November 17, 2022, 11:36:23 AM


First in the nation in NJ 1928.
Looks like there were a lot of loose lips who needed a government contract to do away with
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #1298 on: November 18, 2022, 07:58:18 AM »
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #1299 on: November 18, 2022, 08:35:34 AM »
Didn't he expand on a space-time continuum and question the work of Albert Einstein? Who examined the laws of physics as they related to the speed of light.Einstein had concluded that space and time, rather than separate and unrelated phenomena, are actually interwoven into a single continuum (called space-time) that spans multiple dimensions - length/width/height/time.I use to read this stuff in between issues of Field & Stream(Not really). As good as they were I don't think Einstein or Bohr could beat the spead during football season
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #1300 on: November 18, 2022, 08:40:15 AM »


Here's a postcard issued in the early 1940s that shows a rendering of the Orange Bowl when it opened in 1937. It was then known as Burdine Stadium, then named after Miami's pioneer merchant Roddey Burdine, who passed away one year before the stadium was completed. The original seating capacity was 23,330. End zone bleachers were added in 1939. The upper deck would be constructed in 1947.
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« Reply #1301 on: November 18, 2022, 08:41:36 AM »
That would be big enough to hold all of the Cane fans today, plus extra for visiting fans.
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