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During a quiet moment, soldiers and a Grant tank of the 2/8th Australian Armoured Regiment, clean the weapons. Circa 1943.
Three Māori recruits in New Zealand are instructed on the operation of the Enfield rifle on 1942.
Aboard a Bren Carrier, Australian soldiers in Malaya, Singapore, 1941.
At the war is end... Australian playing cricket on deck of HMS Formidable, Nov 1945.
In the sands of North Africa in 1941, Māori soldiers of New Zealand’s 28th Battalion unleash a haka that fuses ancestral warrior spirit with the brutal realities of modern war.
"Si vis pacem, para bellum." — Vegetius
"Do not hurry to the sound of the guns without knowing why they are firing." — British maxim
"In war, the simplest things are difficult." — Clausewitz
"No plan survives first contact with the enemy." — Moltke
"The side that can most quickly exploit success is the side that will win." — Guderian
Some days you’re the hammer, some days you’re the nail. 🪖🎲
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In the sands of North Africa in 1941, Māori soldiers of New Zealand’s 28th Battalion unleash a haka that fuses ancestral warrior spirit with the brutal realities of modern war.
A tradition maintained to this very day.
One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
- George Orwell, Homage To Catalonia
Australian man inspects an abandoned Japanese Type 95 gun and shells following the Allied victory at the Battle of Milne Bay during the New Guinea Campaign.
Sept 1942.
I see this pic, and many like it, and think "Oh, God it is soo hot here! 😱
"If brute force doesn't work you aren't using enough brute force." - mTk
War does not determine who is right, but it does determine who is left. - B.Russell
"Turn based games don't need a pause key". - mTk
"Overkill is underrated." - Col John "Hannibal" Smith
Senatus Populusque Romanus- SPQR - The Senate and People of Rome (circa 60 BC)
Bf 110 tail used as a bar by Aussie soldiers, Libya, date unknown.
Australian flamethrower operator advancing through dense jungle, Pacific Theater, WWII.
"Si vis pacem, para bellum." — Vegetius
"Do not hurry to the sound of the guns without knowing why they are firing." — British maxim
"In war, the simplest things are difficult." — Clausewitz
"No plan survives first contact with the enemy." — Moltke
"The side that can most quickly exploit success is the side that will win." — Guderian
Some days you’re the hammer, some days you’re the nail. 🪖🎲
Looking for a game? Challenge me here:
Dense jungles, like this one in which Australians are marching single file, cover about three-quarters of Malaya and lie between the Japanese and Singapore. The jungle is pitch black in spots and dotted with pill-boxes. The few roads of Malaya are minded as well, acting as a natural defense against the invading enemy forces (LIFE, 22 Dec 1941)
"Si vis pacem, para bellum." — Vegetius
"Do not hurry to the sound of the guns without knowing why they are firing." — British maxim
"In war, the simplest things are difficult." — Clausewitz
"No plan survives first contact with the enemy." — Moltke
"The side that can most quickly exploit success is the side that will win." — Guderian
Some days you’re the hammer, some days you’re the nail. 🪖🎲
Looking for a game? Challenge me here:
(Colourized and performed pic): A Vultee A-31 Vengeance of No. 12 Sq. RAAF over Dutch New Guinea in late 1943.
The Jeep´s radiator had to be protected from enemy fire!!. A NZ brings in a casualty, assisted by German medics, near the Po River, Italy. 21 April 1945.
A NZ gunner scanning the skies with a Bofors L/60 anti-aircraft gun near Monte Cassino, Italy. March 15, 1944.
