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We found 22 product mentions on r/wwiipics. We ranked the 44 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
2. 405 LB Holding Power 3" Diameter CMS Magnetics Powerful Fishing Magnets Built w/Neodymium Magnets | Rare Earth Magnets, Great for Magnet Fishing or Treasure Hunting | Fishing Magnet 7
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>> Powerful: This Fishing Magnet is Made of Much Stronger and Thicker Neodymium Magnet than our Competitors' so It Exhibits the Largest Reaching Distance Among all Fishing Magnets! The Steel Cup was Punched out from Sheet Metal instead of Machined Cup. The Machined Cup Has a Thick Bottom so to Hide ...
3. No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War
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Used Book in Good Condition
4. D DAY Through German Eyes - The Hidden Story of June 6th 1944
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5. Air Combat At 20 Feet: Selected Missions From A Strafer Pilot'S Diary
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6. Those Navy Guys and Their Pbys: The Aleutian Solution
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Used Book in Good Condition
8. If You Survive: From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II, One American Officer's Riveting True Story
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Great product!
9. Gabby: A Fighter Pilot's Life (Schiffer Military History)
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Used Book in Good Condition
10. Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front
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Zenith Press
11. Ss-Totenkopf: The History of the 'Death's Head' Division 1940-45
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Used Book in Good Condition
14. Baa Baa Black Sheep: The True Story of the "Bad Boy" Hero of the Pacific Theatre and His Famous Black Sheep Squadron
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Bantam
15. The Myth of the Eastern Front: The Nazi-Soviet War in American Popular Culture
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Used Book in Good Condition
17. Red Acropolis, Black Terror: The Greek Civil War And The Origins Of The Soviet-american Rivalry,1943-1949
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Used Book in Good Condition
18. Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War
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The magnet's are pretty small for how strong they are, you need to look for Neodymium magnets instead of ferrous ones. This is the one we use, it's plenty of power and quite cheap if you ask me. Don't get you hand caught in between it and metal, they can crush bones easily.
As for good spots we have had most success under bridges next to roads, but fishing piers or really wherever people go to fish are great to find lures, hooks and all kinds of fishing tools that can often be resold.
Hope that helps, it sure is a lot of fun for so little money.
Anyone interested in the desert war should read Derek Robinson's A Good Clean Fight. It's a sequel to his more well known story Piece of Cake. Excellent story even though it's historical fiction - highly recommended.
I strongly recommend the book Farthest Field - An Indian Story of the Second World War. It's written by a guy who - just like you - found out about men in his family who had fought for the British during WW2, leading him to thoroughly investigate and find out what he can about those men and their service.
It's a brilliant book IMO, mixing personal and historical prose, and it really opened my eyes to the theaters in which the BIA fought.
I also strongly recommend this BBC documentary about the BIA as a whole and what happened to the veterans afterwards.
I've read "With the Old Breed" and I agree it is a fantastic book. I'm mostly read on pilot memoirs though but I've read a few infantry accounts. No problem about telling you some good reads:
Just a few of my favorites. I'm personally akin to reading about "guys who were there". But that's just my preference.
Wikipedia covers the basics pretty well.
This memoir covers it from the perspective of a GI on the ground
This is a quick, interesting watch
The B-25s in these photos are field conversions to "Commerce Destroyer" (as General Kenney called them) gunships with 4 .50 machine guns in the nose, and an additional 4 .50s in package guns on either side of the fuselage (2 per side). They used low-level masthead/skip-bombing tactics to attack these ships. The basic idea was to suppress gunners with the .50s on approach to the ship, then drop bombs which skip across the water like skipping a rock, which impact the side of the ship. They also used these types of tactics against airfields and other ground targets, strafing and dropping (among other things) 23 lb parafrag bombs.
You can read more about this in books like this (free) or these (not free). I also highly recommend this memoir as one of the best POV books covering this theater.
There's a fantastic book that features this image.
Amazon
What if, oh I don't know, "James Bond" was the codename for a particularly daring mission by a team of highly skilled agents?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Op-JB-Christopher-Creighton/dp/0671855654
The Tiny Guidebook Of Italy For The Inquisitive Barbarian Invader
https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Red-Snow-Memoirs-Soldier/dp/0760321981
Here is one for $7.99.
I think I read that here
D DAY Through German Eyes - The Hidden Story of June 6th 1944 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1539586391/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_i_DZnWDb9CZ9EWB
They were totally screwed by the Allied forces (British and US) who left them hanging. Thanks for your service, loyalty and commitment to freedom but fuck off now that the Nazi's are gone.
Source: The Western Betrayal and Max Hastings Inferno
This is a GREAT book:
Red Acropolis, Black Terror: The Greek Civil War and the Origins of the Soviet-American Rivalry, 1943-1949 by André Gerolymatos
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Red-Acropolis-Black-Terror-Soviet-American/dp/0465027431
Read this and you guys can answer all your own questions about the end of the war: https://www.amazon.com/Retribution-Battle-1944-45-Max-Hastings/dp/0307275361/ref=pd_sim_14_3/132-6370175-6170745?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0307275361&pd_rd_r=a8ce1a4b-ba8b-11e8-a904-6bfe9a9fef2d&pd_rd_w=BUzyi&pd_rd_wg=TDVrt&pf_rd_i=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=18bb0b78-4200-49b9-ac91-f141d61a1780&pf_rd_r=6XVV33RTYCH490BRYHBZ&pf_rd_s=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_t=40701&psc=1&refRID=6XVV33RTYCH490BRYHBZ
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Yes, it's called No Surrender
No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War https://www.amazon.com/dp/1557506639/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_UMd4Db0R4DM66
Everything about this guy's story is incredible
Lol, Heinz Guderian was just as much of a Nazi as the rest of them. He was one of the highest ranking officers who coordinates reprisal killings after the Warsaw Uprising and units under his command carried out the Commissar order so he’s a war criminal. He also continued to defend Hitler up until the day he died. He isn’t to be respected at all.
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In 1950, Guderian published a pamphlet entitled Can Europe Be Defended?, where he lamented that the Western powers had picked the wrong side to ally themselves with during the war, even as Germany "was fighting for its naked existence", as a "defender of Europe" against the supposed Bolshevik menace. Guderian issued apologetics for Hitler, writing: "For one may judge Hitler's acts as one will, in retrospect his struggle was about Europe, even if he made dreadful mistakes and errors". He claimed that only the Nazi civilian administration (not the Wehrmacht) was responsible for atrocities against Soviet civilians and scapegoated Hitler and the Russian winter for the Wehrmacht's military reverses, as he later did in Panzer Leader.
Ronald Smelser and Edward J. Davies, in their book The Myth of the Eastern Front, conclude that Guderian's memoirs are full of "egregious untruths, half truths, and omissions", as well as outright "nonsense". Guderian's claimed, contrary to historical evidence, that the criminal Commissar Order was not carried out by his troops because it "never reached [his] panzer group". He also lied about the Barbarossa Decree, that preemptively exempted German troops from prosecution for crimes committed against Soviet civilians, claiming that it was never carried out either. Guderian claimed to have been solicitous towards the civilian population, that he took pains to preserve Russian cultural objects, and that his troops had "liberated" the Soviet citizens.
Stop trying to find ways to defend nazis
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Since that guy deleted his comment and I typed out a response to him asking me for sources I’ll post it here in case anyone is interested, I’m so tired of the Nazi defenders on this sub.
Battistelli, Pier (2011). Heinz Guderian: Leadership, Strategy, Conflict. United Kingdom: Osprey Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978 1 84908 366 9.
It’s on page 58
Also from Guderian:
Even after the war, Guderian retained an affinity with Hitler and National Socialism. While interned by the Americans, his conversations were secretly taped. In one such recording, while conversing with former field marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb and former general Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg, Guderian opined: "The fundamental principles [of Nazism] were fine".
A member of the Nazi high command was a Nazi, shocker.
Just in case you want a source for that too, it’s in page 108.
https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Eastern-Front-Nazi-Soviet-American/dp/0521712319
I own the books, I tried to find free PDFs but couldn’t.
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