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WW1 Vehicle I-D: Rebuilding Liberty

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U.S. Army photo by Staci-Jill Burnley, 10MAY2021.

On 10MAY2021, a Liberty Mark VIII (8) tank returned to its birthplace; Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois: “Rock Island Arsenal was designated to produce one hundred of these tanks in January of 1919 at a cost of $35-thousand each. The first tank was completed on January 5, 1920 and the 100th was completed on June 5, 1920.”-Patrick Allie, Rock Island Arsenal Museum

USA photo by Staci-Jill Burnley, 10MAY2021.

The Mark-8 tanks were retired in 1932.  In 1940, 90 were shipped to Canada. Reportedly there are only three Mark-8 tanks still around; one in United Kingdom and two in the United States.

USA photo by Staci-Jill Burnley, 10MAY2021.

USA photo by Staci-Jill Burnley, 10MAY2021.

USA photo by Staci-Jill Burnley, 10MAY2021.

This Mark-8 came from the Armor and Cavalry collection at Fort Benning, Georgia.  It will be restored and then displayed at the Rock Island Arsenal.

USA photo by Debralee Best.

An old photo of the Mark 8 on outdoor museum ‘gate guard’ duty.

Liberty Mark 8 when it was brand new, USA photo.

This photo is dated October 1921.  The information that came with it states the Mark-8 (no mention of ‘Liberty’, probably because previous U.S. tanks were also called Liberty, as well as U.K. tanks which were sent to the U.S. to sell Liberty Bonds) weighs 35 short-tons (U.S./Canadian ton), required a crew of 12 to operate, had four machine guns and two cannons, and even had a wireless communication system.  Mark-8 tanks were built at several locations, such as factories in Ohio and Connecticut.

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Technology

Drone Wars: QF-100 Super Sabre

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U.S. Air Force photo.

First flight of the YQF-100D over Tyndall Air Force Base (AFB), Florida, was in January 1981.  In 1983, just over two hundred F-100 D & F model Super Sabers were pulled from the ‘boneyard’ at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, and converted to QF-100 target drones.  The target drones were meant to last about ten missions before being destroyed.  Missiles fired at the QF-100s were programed to barely miss the Super Sabers, allowing reuse of the drones.

U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Edward Boyce.

A QF-100 and its mobile control van, Tyndall AFB, William Tell aerial gunnery competition October 1984.

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Edward Boyce.

U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Guido Locati.

A QF-100 over Tyndall AFB.

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Lou Hernandez.

Are these enough QF-100s for you?

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Lou Hernandez.

Damage to the wing-tip of one QF-100.   No information about how it happened.

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Lou Hernandez.

The damaged QF-100 gets a place next to the William Tell ’86 scoreboard.

USAF photo Staff Sergeant Dave McLeod.

The ‘pilot’ of the QF-100 sits behind a computer desk, with its own joystick.  Supposedly the control van’s telemetry system allowed the QF-100 to be controlled from the ground within a 15 miles radius.

USAF photo by Master Sergeant Bill Thompson.

In January 1988, testing was done on the QF-100 Gulf Drone Control Upgrade System during the Combat Archer wargame over Tyndall AFB.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Charles Taylor.

QF-100s at the October 1988 William Tell aerial gunnery competition, Tyndall AFB.  Notice the painted canopies and the red stars on the fuselages.

USAF photo by Master Sergeant Boyd Belcher.

The four 20mm gun ports are covered over.

USAF photo by Master Sergeant Boyd Belcher.

Inside the Mobile Control System van for the QF-100s during William Tell ’88.

USAF photo Staff Sergeant Russ Pollanen.

More QF-100s await destruction over Tyndall AFB. The QF-100 program officially ended in 1998.  Some QF-100s escaped destruction and became museum pieces.  Accurate data about F-100s are hard to find, even museum researchers admit they come across conflicting data concerning the specific Super Sabre they are trying to document for their respective museums.

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Drone Wars: QF-16 

USAF ADMITS IT MUST MAKE ITS OWN DRONE PARTS!

Influenza

Vaccine Fail: Pharmacies spoil vaccines, issue fake shots instead? Japan reveals deaths after getting shots!

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Incomplete list of links to reports and studies showing the vaccination campaign is a failure, as of 03MAY2021:

The United Nations’ World Health Organization (WHO) has not approved a single CoViD vaccine!  CoViD shots have only been authorized for emergency use under the UN-WHO’s Emergency Use Listing (EUL), which states “The WHO Emergency Use Listing Procedure (EUL) is a risk-based procedure for assessing and listing unlicensed vaccines, therapeutics and in vitro diagnostics with the ultimate aim of expediting the availability of these products to people affected by a public health emergency.” 

BRAZIL:  Claims the Russian vaccine has active common-cold virus in it!

CANADA: Despite government demands that people get vaccinated, the Canadian Pharmacists Association says that for some reason they are not being supplied with enough vaccines, claiming that “thousands of pharmacies across the country are still waiting to get involved.”

As news media criticizes Canada for lack of vaccines, government health experts to suspend use of J&J vax!

Despite the fact that Canada is having problems issuing vaccines to its own citizens, ‘woke’ health ‘experts’ say Canada isn’t sharing enough vaccines with India!

British Columbia drops minimum age for blood-clot causing AstrZeneca shot to 30.

You now need a vaccine passport to enter Canada.

FRANCE: Glut of vaccine a result of not sending supply where there is demand for it.

GERMANY: New rules will keep unvaccinated people in lockdown slavery, while vaccinated people go free!

U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Milton Hamilton.

For the first time, the U.S. Air Force is vaccinating German employees on Ramstein Air Base, 29APR2021.

ITALY:

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant K. Tucker Owen.

For the first time, the U.S. Air Force is vaccinating Italian employees on Aviano Air Base, 30APR2021.

JAPAN: Revealed; dozens of cases of severe allergic reactions to CoViD shots, so far 19 people died after getting the vaccine!

Revealed; 14-million doses of CoViD vaccines wasted!

UNITED KINGDOM:  Study says just one dose of Pfizer vax will not protect you from new variants.

UNITED STATES: Government data reveals that pharmacies across the United States have wasted almost 200-thousand doses of vaccine, CVS and Walgreens account for most of the wasted shots!

Ignorant Bloomberg writer says the best way to get more people to get vaccinated is to have the government/taxpayers pay pharmacies!

Iowa; The state Department of Public Health refused 71% of federal government issued vaccines, due to the reality that most people refuse to get the “authorized for emergency use only” (not truly approved) shots!

Kansas; At least half of nursing home healthcare workers still refuse to get vaccinated!

Louisiana; The state Department of Health is now begging people to get vaccinated as more than 1-thousand-5-hundred pharmacies are stocked with shots that could end up expiring.

Minnesota;

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Mikaley Kline.

U.S. military/FEMA operated mass-vax site (Community Vaccination Center, aka CVC) at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds in Saint Paul, 01MAY2021.

Nebraska; Hy-Vee pharmacies have so much vaccine that you don’t need to make an appointment, just walk in.

North Carolina;  Walgreens accused of issuing saline shots instead of CoViD vaccines!

Pennsylvania; Despite Erie County pharmacies complaining that not enough people are wanting to get vaccinated (“We began offering the vaccine on Wednesday and we didn’t give a single shot. We did five vaccinations Thursday and none so far Friday.”-Jennifer Barlekoff, Pharmacy Innovations.), weekly infections rates in Erie County have been dropping!

South Carolina;

South Carolina Army National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Brad Mincey.

South Carolina National Guard conduct mass-vax drive-thru operations in Saluda, 01MAY2021.

Texas; Despite revealing a surplus of vaccines (to be sent to Austin for some reason), the Department of State Health Services is demanding that even more vaccines be ordered!

Washington; Grade schools to be used as mass-vax sites for children!

Washington DC; Not one of the so-called CoViD vaccines in use in the United States have been approved as a vaccine under the USFDA!  All the propaganda by government officials and main-stream news media is hyperbole, the USFDA has only “authorized for emergency use only”, which is technically and legally not the same as ‘approving’ as a vaccine, mainly because the ‘experimental medical technologies’ did not go through the more intensive testing required for a true approved vaccine!

Vaccine Fail: OH-CANADA, CONFIRMS DEATH BY VACCINE! REVEALED; CHINESE VACCINES DISABLE & KILL! HERD IMMUNITY FAILS INDIA!

Biden’s Borderland:  MORE BOAT-PEOPLE, MORE DRUGS, AND THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE?

Technology

Vehicle I-D: Soviet armor of the U.S. Marine Corps

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U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer First Class Paul Self.

MTLBs operated by 3rd Amphibious Armored Vehicle Battalion, 1ST Marine Division, acting as opposing forces (OpFor) during wargame Kernel Blitz in June 1997, Camp Pendleton, California.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sergeant Ryan Ward.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Timothy Reynolds.

USMC photo by Sergeant Ryan Ward.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Timothy Reynolds.

USMC photo by Sergeant Ryan Ward.

ZSU-23-4 during Kernel Blitz ’97.

USN photo by Petty Officer First Class Paul Self.

BRDM during Kernel Blitz ’97.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Timothy Reynolds.

T-72 during Kernel Blitz ’97.

Vehicle I-D: MORE U.S. ARMY FAKE-NEWS TANKS, TIGER STRIPES ANYBODY?

U.S.

United Police States: Green Berets show you how to conduct a drive-by-shooting

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U.S. Army photo, 22APR2021.

The U.S. Army’s (USA) 1st Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group-Airborne, traveled to New Hampshire in April 2021.

USA photo, 22APR2021.

They were training for what’s called Low-Visibility Force Protection Training, specifically while using silly-vilian vehicles, in preparation for Low-Visibility Operations in hostile urban/city environments.

USA photo, 22APR2021.

Eyes calls it ‘drive-by-shooting’.

USA photo, 22APR2021.

It even involves defensive driving, i.e. PIT (pursuit intervention technique) maneuver, TVI (tactical vehicle intervention), or what used to be known as a demolition derby.

USA photo, 22APR2021.

 

United Police States, 2016: OBAMA APPROVES EXTRA FUNDING FOR PRISONS!

United Police States, 2015:COPS ABOUT TO OPENLY TAKE YOUR GUNS, NO REASON NEEDED!

IDAHO NEWS MEDIA LIE ABOUT CRIMINAL POLICE RECORDS!

United Police States, 2014: IDAHO GOVERNOR ORDERS SURPRISE INVESTIGATION INTO EVIL FOR-PROFIT PRISON OPERATOR CCA!

‘CHRISTIAN’ NEBRASKA COPS VIOLATE U.S. CONSTITUTION & KIDNAP FAMILY’S CHILDREN BECAUSE OF “IMMORAL” CHOICE OF WORDS USED ON HOME VIDEO!

United Police States, 2013: IDAHO CHILD PRISON COVERING UP SEX CRIMES, DEFIES FEDERAL COURT ORDER! CULTURE OF SYSTEMIC CORRUPTION IN ‘CHRISTIAN’ GEM STATE!

 PROOF YOUR Federal GOVERNMENT IS THE BIGGEST CRIME SYNDICATE EVER!

PRISON is the NUMBER ONE REASON MEN ARE UNEMPLOYED?

YOUR TAX DOLLARS PAY FOR TEXAS RAPE CAMPS!!!

SICK COP BLASTS KITTENS WITH HIS GOVERNMENT AUTHORIZED GUN, IN FRONT OF CHILDREN! TURNS OUT IT’S OFFICIAL POLICY!

‘CHRISTIAN’ MORMONS BEHIND PRIVATELY RUN CONCENTRATION CAMP IN MISSISSIPPI….SAME COMPANY BEHIND ABU GHRAIB?

United Police States, 2012: CALIFORNIA FEMALE COP SHOOTS MAN who was ALREADY RESTRAINED!

MORE THAN 2,000 INNOCENT PEOPLE SENT TO PRISON IN THE UNITED STATES, JUST THE “TIP OF THE ICEBERG”!

UTAH NATIONAL GUARD BASE TO BECOME SITE OF LARGEST PERSONAL DATA CENTER IN THE U.S., YOU ARE THE TARGET!

Business/Economics, Idaho, Technology

Pandemic Logistics Shenanigans: Canned Pet Food? Conspiracy to jack-up prices? Blame China?

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26 April 2021 / 23:50-UTC-07 Tango 06 (07 Ordibehesht 1400/15 Ramadan 1442/16 Ren-Chen 4719)

Photo by AAron Hutchins, 25APR2021.

A recent visit to the Pocatello, Idaho, Fred Meyer revealed that not only are they still out of cat litter, but now they are out of canned cat food!  Notice the blue stickers all over the shelf fronts, they say “Sorry for the inconvenience”.

Across the street at Winco, they are still low on the top selling cat litters, but are also showing fewer stock of canned cat and dog food.  Fred Meyer is also showing a declining stock of canned dog food, but they’re not out of stock, yet.

It doesn’t help that in the past month several brands of pet food, in the U.S., were recalled due to salmonella.

A quick check of the inter-web and I discovered that shortages of pet food is making way more international news than shortages of cat litter, and this time most of the international news media isn’t blaming the pandemic (except for a Fox TV station and other news outlets in New York).

India:  Government orders pet food makers to boost production.

New Zealand:  Global supply issues and shipping delays hit the family cat’s dinner plate.

Whiskas among big-brand pet foods hit by global shipping issues.
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United States: Cat Food Shortage Leaves Pet Owners in a Bind.

Pet food shortage: Fancy Feast, Friskies and 9 Lives.

These Three Beloved Pet Food Brands Are About to Skyrocket in Price.

I also checked for news regarding the logistics industry.

An interesting report out of India revealed that several India airline companies are now contracting to be CoViD-19 oxygen and vaccine cargo haulers in Hong Kong, India and for “private entities” in the United States.  Also, Singapore government-owned Temasek has partnered with Air India and Amazon to airlift oxygen concentrators.

The fact that so many shipping companies are shifting to more profitable CoViD operations can only negatively affect the supplies of everything else.

Siddharth Jain of Inox Air Products, revealed in a recent interview why the current craze of shipping liquid oxygen to CoViD hospitals is screwing up the supply chain, at least in India: “….this has never been done anywhere in the world. Liquid oxygen is not designed to travel thousands of kilometers. Usually, plants are set up where there is a requirement…” 

In New Zealand, University of Auckland Centre for Supply Chain Management director Tava Olsen said supply chains were supposed to flow smoothly like water, but the whole chain had become ‘lumpy’….blames it partly on China.

Covenant Logistics Group just revealed they’ve been restructuring their operations, and admitted that “…supply chain disruptions, and an intensifying national driver shortage, all of which have continued into the second quarter.”

Crain’s New York Business interviewed an ‘expert’ who stated that the pandemic shift to more e-commerce revealed that there is not enough warehouses (believe it or not) dedicated to stocking merchandise for e-commerce sales.  The expert also said the logistics industry is ramping up its use of A-I and robots.

A new article by Logistics Manager says the advent of the pandemic, Brexit, China trade problems, and the recent blockage of the Suez Canal, revealed that the shift to a logistical system operated more with A-I and robots, and less humans, doesn’t work!  It also agrees with the Crain’s New York Business ‘expert’ who says there just aren’t enough warehouses to support the new logistics system.

Photo by AAron Hutchins, November 2013.

At the end of last year the Pocatello, Idaho, Fred Meyer began operating as a ‘fulfilment’ center for their e-commerce and pandemic ‘pick-up’ sales.  The brick-n-mortar store is now serving double duty as an e-commerce warehouse, but that doesn’t mean they’re carrying more stock.

I’ve written several times in the past that the so-called pandemic panic attack buying is actually a major problem with the globalized supply system, in which bigger logistics companies were taking over and shutting down smaller competitors, and switching to a new A-I system with robot workers instead of humans, just before the pandemic hit.

March 2021: PANDEMIC PANIC-ATTACK HITS CAT LITTER? BLAME LOGISTICS COMPETITION AND ROBOTS!

February 2021: GLOBAL SUGAR CRISIS, BETTER STOCK UP NOW!

U.S. Food Crisis: MILITARY DISTRIBUTION SUCCESS PROVES THE MARKET SYSTEM HAS FAILED!

Operation CoViD-19: COVERT OP TO CONTROL THE GLOBAL FOOD SUPPLY?

International, U.S.

Biden’s War: Oregon deployed to Poland!

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Oregon National Guard photo by Master Sergeant John Hughel.

26 April 2021 (00:45-UTC-07 Tango 06) 06 Ordibehesht 1400/14 Ramadan 1442/15 Ren-Chen 4719

Oregon National Guard photo by Master Sergeant John Hughel.

On 25APR2021, between 120 and 130 Oregon Army National Guard soldiers gathered at West Albany High School football stadium, for an official deployment ceremony.

Oregon National Guard photo by Master Sergeant John Hughel.

Alpha Troop, 1st Squadron, 82nd Cavalry Regiment is being deployed to NATO Poland, for about one year, to take part in the anti-Russia operation called European Deterrence Initiative.

Oregon National Guard photo by Master Sergeant John Hughel.

Biden’s War: U.S. FORCES ENTER SYRIA, AGAIN

Technology

Desert Storm: Aircraft Graveyard

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Operation Desert Shield/Storm can be considered the last battle of the undeclared Cold War.  It was totally one sided, and can’t be considered a ‘war’.  The battle annihilated the Iraqi air force.

U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) photo.

What’s left of a Sukhoi 25, NATO reporting name Frogfoot.

DoD photo.

From this angle it appears the Su-25 made an emergency landing on the dirt.  Notice the tracks in the dirt indicate the right main tire was blown as the track is deeper and rougher cut that the left main and nose wheel-tires.

DoD photo.

Sukhoi 22 found in a hardened hanger.

DoD photo.

DoD photo.

In a hanger hit by airstrikes, is this what is left of a MiG-25?

DoD photo.

Definitely a MiG-25.

DoD photo.

What’s left of British Airways flight 149 Boeing 747, on the Kuwait International Airport.  The U.S. DoD reported it as destroyed by retreating Iraqi troops, however it has never been proven. Flight 149 just happen to arrive on the airport the day the Iraqis invaded, passengers and crew were taken hostage. 

DoD photo.

An aerial view showing the British Airways 747 and a smaller Kuwaiti Air Force DC-9 cargo aircraft.  It should be noted that the information that came with this DoD photo said “…coalition bombing of a transport aircraft and a small jet at Kuwait International Airport in the final days of Operation Desert Storm”, contradicting statements that retreating Iraqis did it.

DoD photo.

Staff Sergeant Lee Corkran stands in front of KAF320, the destroyed Kuwaiti Air Force DC-9.  The photo’s original DoD information claimed this was the tail section of a Kuwaiti Air Force 747!

DoD photo.

Abandoned Iraqi Mil 8, NATO reporting name Hip.

DoD photo.

Remains of a helicopter.

DoD photo.

Was this a Hind or a Hip?

DoD photo.

U.S. Army soldiers check-out a Mil-24, NATO reporting name Hind.

DoD photo.

DoD photo.

General Norman Schwarzkopf uses his foot to check-out the pieces & parts of an abandoned Hind.

DoD photo.

Captured by U.S. Marines, a U.S. made Bell 214ST.

DoD photo.

An Iranian F-4E was destroyed during Desert Storm.  The interesting story is that the Iranian pilot defected to Iraq in 1984, in the middle of the Iran-Iraq War.  The back seat Weapon System Operator (WSO) was not part of the defection and became a Prisoner of War.  Later the WSO was released to NATO Turkey, where he was assassinated.

DoD photo.

What’s left of a MiG 29, NATO reporting name Fulcrum.

DoD photo.

U.S. Army combat cameraman, Daniel Jackson, videos the burned-out Fulcrum.

DoD photo.

An aerial view of the same MiG-29.

DoD photo.

A bashed-up Iraqi Pilatus PC-7.

DoD photo.

Burned beyond recognition.

DoD photo.

Sukhoi 22.

DoD photo.

More destroyed Su-22s.

DoD photo.

Su-22 nose.

Iraq 2003:

USN/USMC photo.

ARMOR BATTLE DAMAGE

Vehicle I-D:  IRAQI HUEY

Technology

Crash Landings: USAAF P-51 Mustangs, England, 1944-45

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These U.S. Army Air Force (USAAF) photos were not released for publication until the middle of 1946, a year after the war in Europe officially ended.  One reason for the late release of the photos is that many did not begin arriving ‘state side’ until the end of 1945, remaining with their respective units until the units returned to the U.S. or were disbanded.

U.S. Army Air Force photo.

P–51 (36845), 364th Fighter Group, 67th Fighter Wing, 8th Air Force Station F-375, Honnington, England, 18JUL1944.

USAAF photo.

Personnel retrieve the body of the pilot of P–51 #44-14034, 364th Fighter Group, 67th Fighter Wing, 8th Air Force Station F-375, Honnington, England, 30JUL1944.

USAAF photo.

Bent props caused by crash landing, after a ground attack run over enemy territory, Summer 1944.

USAAF photo.

P–51 #41-3940, 364th Fighter Group, 67th Fighter Wing, 8th Air Force Station F-375, Honnington, England, 16AUG1944.

USAAF photo.

P-51 ‘Hanger Queen’ gets scrapped by the 353rd Fighter Group, 04SEP1944.

USAAF photo.

P–51 #14381, 364th Fighter Group, 67th Fighter Wing, 8th Air Force Station F-375, Honnington, England, 11SEP1944.

USAAF photo.

P–51 #13891, 364th Fighter Group Base, 67th Fighter Wing, 8th Air Force Station F-375, Honnington, England, 11OCT1944.

USAAF photo.

P–51 ‘Rugged Rebel’ (44-13686), 364th Fighter Group, 67th Fighter Wing, 8th Air Force Station F-375, Honnington, England, 17OCT1944.

USAAF photo.

8th Air Force Station F-375, Honnington, England, 03NOV1944.

USAAF photo.

P–51 ‘G.I. Buzz Buggy’ (14703), 364th Fighter Group Base, 67th Fighter Wing, 8th Air Force Station F-375, Honnington, England, 09NOV1944.

USAAF photo.

Probably not caused by a crash landing, P–51 ‘Frances Ann’ (44-13557), 364th Fighter Group, 67th Fighter Wing, 8th Air Force Station F-375, Honnington, England, 08DEC1944.

USAAF photo.

P–51 #44-13933, 8th Air Force Station F-375, Honnington, England,  17DEC1944.

USAAF photo.

P–51 ‘Dana Kay’ (44-11567), 364th Fighter Group, 67th Fighter Wing, 8th Air Force Station F-375, Honnington, England, 15JAN1945.

U.S. Army Air Force photo.

P–51 (43-25066), 364th Fighter Group, 67th Fighter Wing, 8th Air Force Station F-365, Honnington, England, 22APR1945.

U.S. Army Air Force photo.

P–51 ‘Lucky Leaky II’ (2103363), 353rd Fighter Group, crashed on English base, 02MAY1945.

USAAF photo.

USAAF photo.

P–51 ‘Boogie’s Burner’ (44-14190), 364th Fighter Group, 67th Fighter Wing, 8th Air Force Station F-375, Honnington, England, 16MAY1945.

USAAF photo.

P–51 ‘Butch 3rd’ (414774), 353rd Fighter Group, on its English base, 24JUL1945.

Vehicle I-D:  APACHE TO MUSTANG

Technology

Iraq 2003: Armor Battle Damage

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U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) photo.

Iraqi MTLB destroyed, 22MAR2003.

DoD photo.

Destroyed Iraqi MTLB armed with ZU-23-2 gun system, 22MAR2003.

DoD photo.

Destroyed Iraqi T-62 along Highway 6, notice the hull bottom has been blown out and the turret is no longer centered, 04APR2003.

DoD photo.

Chinese made Type 69 burning near the An Nu’maniyah Bridge/Hwy-27, 02APR2003.

DoD photo.

Same Type 69, different angle.

DoD photo.

Same Type 69, photo taken 05APR2003.  It should be noted that the Iraqi army called the Chinese Type 69 a T-55B.

DoD photo.

A USMC M1A1 abandoned and scuttled just outside Jaman Al Juburi, first week of April 2003.

DoD photo.

Same M1A1.  In the heat of battle if a tank was not recoverable then it was destroyed by its own crew to prevent it from falling into enemy hands.  The irony is that eight years later the U.S. government delivered to Iraq upgraded M1A1s, and in-turn the Iraqi government gave several to pro-Iranian militias.

DoD photo.

Another angle on the same scuttled tank.

DoD photo.

While it might not look it, the information that came with this photo states that Marine Corps M1A1 #578677 is considered destroyed.  It does look like it is completely bogged down in mud up to its fenders, and being stripped of whatever can be stripped, just outside Sayyid-Abd, 06APR2003.

DoD photo.

Also at Sayyid-Abd, this USMC M88A2 ‘Hell’s Wrecker’ was written-off.

DoD photo.

Another view of Hell’s Wrecker.

DoD photo.

U.S. Marines check-out an abandoned Iraqi T-72, along Route 1, 08APR2003.

DoD photo.

U.S. Marines find a dozen abandoned T-72s in a farm area of Iraq (exact location not given), 12APR2003.

DoD photo.

Notice the warpage of the barrel of the 12.7mm machine gun on this burned-out T-72, near Al Iskandariyah (Alexandria), 13APR2003.

DoD photo.

Iraqi Type 69 (notice headlight groups on both fenders) destroyed just outside Mosul, 13APR2003.

DoD photo.

Destroyed T-62, no location given, 13APR2003.

DoD photo.

Destroyed Type 69 and T-55 based recovery/engineer vehicle, possibly near the An Nu’maniyah Bridge along Highway 27, 13APR2003.  These are the same vehicles seen burning in this article’s header photo.

DoD photo.

A field of destroyed dreams, 16APR2003.  Type 69s and two types of recovery/engineer vehicles.  Chinese made Type 69s can be identified by the headlight housings on each front fender.  T-55s have a single headlight group on the front slope.

DoD photo.

25JUN2003, U.S. Army soldiers off-load ammo from a damaged and almost completely buried T-72, outside of Fallujah.

DoD photo.

Battle damaged USMC M1A1 sitting in Kuwait, waiting to be sent back to the United States. Information with the photo did not give details about the damage.  14AUG2003.

DoD photo.

U.S. Marines use a battle damaged Iraqi BTR-50 for fire response training, sometime in 2004.  This was the fate of many damaged and captured Iraqi armored vehicles.

Vehicle I-D:  U.S. TAXPAYERS FUND JAPANESE MILITARY VEHICLES FOR IRAQ, AGAIN!

 IRAQI HUEY

IRAQI ARMOR, AFTER THE INVASION (including the M1A1M)

IRAQI GREYHOUND السلوقي العراقي