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  1. Sentinel

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    Yes, it is part of a bomb (or shell).

    No, it's not anything to do with an atom bomb.

    (Hehe. This is my revenge for brndirt1's tough question. :D)
     
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  2. brndirt1

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    Is it the "guts" of a proximity fuze of American manufacture? I think RCA made them (not sure)

    Tough question? Sorry 'bout that chief.
     
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    You got it! Some related video.

    Over to you.
     
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    Okay, here is an easy one; which Army sported this emblem?:confused:
     

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    USA, all the way!
     
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    Ooo, ooo. I know this. The 45th Infantry Division of the US Army, a National Guard unit out of New Mexico and Arizona. They later became the Thunderbirds, and was the unit Bill Mauldin was in.
     
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    OK, Doc. You type faster than I. You're up.
     
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    Thanks, Lou. Your answer was more complete, but I guess I did answer the question.

    Okay, staying with insignia, which unit proudly wore this patch?


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  9. sunny971

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    the 551st Parachute Infantry battalion - (GOYA - Get off your ass!)
     
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    Outstanding! You're up to bat!
     
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  12. Sentinel

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    Just a wild guess ...

    The famous surrender of France to Hitler, in the same railway carriage where the surrender of Germany to France was signed some 22 years ago?

    I wonder what's so special about railway carriages ... :)
     
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    CORRECT!

    Hitler probably wanted to prove a point: To rewrite history in the exact same spot where Germany surrendered 22 years before. Only this time Germany would come out victorious .. (at least for a short while) All propaganda!

    OK Sentinel, your go!
     
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  14. sunny971

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    ok I admit it was an easy one ... I'm running out of pictures!

    It's hard to stump you guys, your all experts in WW2 photography!
     
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    That whole business of "embarrassing" your defeated opponent goes way back, but in just the events between Germany and France the list is pretty interesting.

    The new nation of united Germans made the French submit to a surrender ceremony in the Palace of Versailles ending the Franco-Prussian war, then they French turned that around and made the Germans sign the actuall surrender documents in; you guessed it Versailles Palace. The railcar was the signing of the first armistice bringing the shooting to an end in WW1, just like the second one broght the shooting to an end, an armistice.
     
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    I knew about the 1918 signing, but not the two before it. I was just wondering why the Armistice was signed in a railway carriage rather than a building -- but I guess if it was near the front, the buildings might have been destroyed or full of supplies.

    Okay, next question: What's the story here?
     

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    Sentinel,

    Good one... are the pants owned by a Jew? or concentration camp member?
     
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    Those are the pants which were worn by Hitler on the day of the failed July Stauffenberg bomb attack. He was very lucky that the bomb had been moved to the other side of that table support, all those who died in the explosion were on the other side of that support.
     
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    Well done Clint! I was going to say Bigfoot, but that wouldn't be right :)
     
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    And I was going to offer that we now had proof that the Incredible Hulk aided the Nazis! :D
     
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