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u/day1patch · 2 pointsr/wwiipics

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.

u/penubly · 1 pointr/wwiipics

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.

u/OnkelMickwald · 22 pointsr/wwiipics

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.

u/Layin-Scunion · 3 pointsr/wwiipics

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:

  • Red Star Against the Swastika was probably the most interesting memoir I've ever read. Having the perspective of an IL-2 pilot that survived the war is a unique one and the only book I know of that's out there. His experiences were heart wrenching. It has criticism of being not well written. That is not the case. It was translated from Russian so that is why it reads as it does.

  • Gabby Gabreski's book was a very well written book. Very detailed accounts of his sorties and points that you don't see very often in a pilot memoir. This is mostly because he kept a detailed diary throughout his life. Going from A P-47 pilot over Europe to flying an F-86 over Korea (and scoring an Ace against 5 MiGs) was as well, a unique pilot perspective. Great man and great leader.

  • Forgotten Soldier was a very sobering book. Not much to say really. You just have to read it to really understand. It does have some criticisms of glossing over war crimes committed by his unit and fabricating stories but it was still a great read regardless.

  • Samurai! by Saburo Sakai was an awesome account and one of my favorites. Very interesting that he taught himself and other pilots to make unconventional side-slipping attacks on TBFs and SBDs. His aircraft would slide sideways during his attacks to throw off the rear gunners. He swore by it because out of all the attacks he made, he was rarely hit.

  • Baa Baa Black Sheep follows Pappy Boyington and his unit through the Pacific. The guy was hilariously courageous or stupid depending on your opinion. He would lead combat sorties half drunk from the night before. Telling officers over him he didn't like that they were assholes. He had no issues being insubordinate but he was so good at what he did, the officers over him couldn't do much about it. His unit was producing destroyed Japanese aircraft at a rate that surrounding units weren't even coming close to.

    Just a few of my favorites. I'm personally akin to reading about "guys who were there". But that's just my preference.
u/innocent_bystander · 1 pointr/wwiipics

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

u/Magnum2684 · 2 pointsr/wwiipics

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.

u/JimmyBuffalo · 1 pointr/wwiipics

There's a fantastic book that features this image.

Amazon

u/prxpost · 1 pointr/wwiipics

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

u/Tempestion89 · 38 pointsr/wwiipics

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

u/davecheeney · 4 pointsr/wwiipics

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

u/ikeabillybookcase · 13 pointsr/wwiipics

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

u/Tominator8 · 5 pointsr/wwiipics

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

u/OG_Breadman · 4 pointsr/wwiipics

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.

Edit:

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

Edit:

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.