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July 2, 2020

Fixing Gettysburg: The First Day

Filed under: Books, History, Humour, Media, Military, USA — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 06:00

Atun-Shei Films
Published 1 Jul 2020

In this three-part series, I review a classic Ron Maxwell film about a little known historical event that no one talks about called the Battle of Gettysburg. I also present an abbreviated and oversimplified history of the battle, while simultaneously criticizing the movie for presenting an abbreviated and oversimplified history of the battle.

In this first episode, I discuss the first day of fighting on July 1, 1863 – including Buford’s cavalry, the Iron Brigade, the Railroad Cut, and John Burns.

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~REFERENCES~

[1] “General John Buford’s Report of his Cavalry’s Action at Gettysburg” (2015). Iron Brigader https://ironbrigader.com/2015/06/22/g…

[2] W.C. Storrick: The Battle of Gettysburg (1931). J Horace McFarland Company, Page 11

[3] “The First Day at Gettysburg: Then and Now.” American Battlefield Trust https://www.battlefields.org/learn/ar…

[4] “Lt. Colonel Rufus Dawes Describes the Fighting of the 6th Wisconsin Infantry at Gettysburg” (2013). Iron Brigader https://ironbrigader.com/2013/06/13/l…

[5] “Civilian John Burns at the Battle of Gettysburg (2018)”. C-Span https://www.c-span.org/video/?447809-…

[5 1/2] Allen C. Redwood: “The Confederate in the Field”. Civil War Home https://www.civilwarhome.com/confeder…

[6] Codie Eash: “The Wounded Wisconsinite Who Witnessed Pickett’s Charge” (2018). National Museum of Civil War Medicine https://www.civilwarmed.org/reed/?fbc…

[7] Cooper Wingert: “The Confederate ‘Slave Hunt’ and the Gettysburg Campaign” (2020). Emerging Civil War https://emergingcivilwar.com/2020/05/…

Kennedy, the Lying Politician | The Cuban Missile Crisis I Prelude 2

Filed under: Americas, History, Military, Russia, USA, Weapons — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

TimeGhost History
Published 1 Jul 2020

The Cold War grows gets more and more tense as both the USSR and the US try to get the upper hand through the volume of nuclear weapons and strategic launching sites – including Cuba.

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Creative Producer: Joram Appel
Post-Production Director: Wieke Kapteijns
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Edited by: Daniel Weiss
Sound design: Marek Kaminski

Colorizations:
– Carlos Ortega Pereira (BlauColorizations) – https://www.instagram.com/blaucoloriz…
– Daniel Weiss

Sources:
– New Georgia Encyclopedia

Soundtracks from Epidemic Sound:
– “Cold Eyes” – Elliot Holmes
– “Juvenile Delinquent” – Elliot Holmes
– “Nightclub Standoff” – Elliot Holmes
– “Scope” – Got Happy
– “Zoot Suit” – Elliot Holmes
– “Car Chase in Virginia” – White Bones
– “When They Fell” – Wendel Scherer
– “Kissed by Thunder” – Elliot Holmes

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Early Automatic Pistol Cartridges – What, When & Why?

Filed under: Europe, History, Military, USA, Weapons — Tags: , , , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

Forgotten Weapons
Published 12 Oct 2016

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In discussion with a friend recently, the topic of early automatic pistol cartridges came up. Specifically, looking at the context of which cartridges were actually available at which times, and how this might provide helpful context for understanding why particular cartridges were adopted (or commercially successful) or were not.

I decided to see if I could put together a useful video on the subject, and this is the result. We will look at the cartridges available prior to 1900, the ones developed or introduced between 1900 and 1904, and then a few followups which appeared between 1905 and 1910.

Some cartridges became popular because of their ballistic characteristics — like the 7.63mm Mauser and the C96 “Broomhandle” — while others became popular because of the handgun much more than the cartridge itself — like the Browning 1900 and the .32ACP / 7.65mm Browning.

QotD: Army recruits

Filed under: Humour, Military, Quotations — Tags: , — Nicholas @ 01:00

There have been better attempts at marching, and they have been made by penguins. Sergeant Jackrum brought up the rear in the cart, shouting instructions, but the recruits moved as if they’d never before had to get from place to place. The sergeant yelled the swagger out of their steps, stopped the cart and for a few of them held an impromptu lesson in the concepts of “right” and “left” and, by degrees, they left the mountains.

Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment, 2003.

July 1, 2020

A Non-Nazi in Nazi Uniform? – Gerd von Rundstedt – WW2 Biography Special

Filed under: Germany, History, Military, WW2 — Tags: , , , , , , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

World War Two
Published 30 Jun 2020

Most of the German high-command are not committed National Socialists. So what were like and why did they still serve the Nazi regime?

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Dememorabilia – https://www.instagram.com/dememorabilia/
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Julius Jääskeläinen – https://www.facebook.com/JJcolorization/
Cassowary Colorizations https://www.flickr.com/photos/cassowa…
Norman Stewart – https://oldtimesincolor.blogspot.com/

Sources:
Map of Europe 1871, courtesy Alexander Altenhof https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi…
Bundesarchiv
Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe

Soundtracks from the Epidemic Sound:
Phoenix Tail – “At the Front”
Philip Ayers – “Trapped in a Maze”
Skrya – “First Responders”
Johan Hynynen – “Dark Beginning”
Gunnar Johnsen – “Not Safe Yet”
Farrell Wooten – “Blunt Object”

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The Somme then and now … in full HD

Filed under: Britain, Europe, France, History, Military, WW1 — Tags: , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

MC C
Published 1 Aug 2016

100 years ago Malins and McDowell exposed their film to the light capturing a moment in time.

It’s very difficult to understand and watch the original film as they were very limited by technology and the danger. Malins risked his life on several occasions making this film, being right on the front line with a huge box camera sticking out above the trench. After watching the film many times, over many years, I wanted to find these locations and stand in their foot prints and re-film.

Some locations were easy to find, some took much research and some I haven’t yet been able to locate, but all the ones in this documentary are within yards to feet of where they filmed originally, none are guesses or just possibilities. I hope you enjoy watching and it helps you to understand please leave comments this is worth more to me than earning money I ask for nothing but love remarks.

June 30, 2020

David Irving – Can you trust ANYTHING he wrote?

Filed under: Books, Europe, Germany, History, Military, WW2 — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

TIK
Published 29 Jun 2020

Can you trust ANYTHING that David Irving wrote? In 1996, David Irving sued Deborah Lipstadt for libel (in the “Irving vs Penguin Books Ltd” trial) because Deborah Lipstadt had said Irving was a Holocaust Denier. Historian Richard Evans was called upon as an expert witness, and he examined Irving’s works for two years, discovering many major factual errors in David Irving’s works. Richard Evans came to the conclusion that Irving cannot even be classed as a “historian”, and says “not one sentence” in any of his speeches or written works can be trusted. Richard Evan’s Telling Lies About Hitler presents a solid case against David Irving that casts serious doubt about every “historical” text that Irving wrote, and this video presents 3 examples from Evan’s brilliant book (this video is not a sponsored video, I genuinely think Evan’s book is brilliant and you should get yourself a copy) that really should make you question the opinions of those who still promote Irving’s works.

Holocaust deniers may continue to deny that the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question” took place, but in actively distorting the evidence, they undermine their own cause. The term “distorian” describes their “writers” better than the term “historian”.

And, in case it isn’t blatantly obvious, I’m NOT a Fascist, NOT a Nazi, NOT a Marxist, and am NOT promoting said evil ideologies. This video is for educational and historical purposes, so that we may learn from the past and prevent it from repeating.

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📚 BIBLIOGRAPHY / SOURCES 📚

Evans, R. In Defence of History. Granta Books, Kindle.
Evans, R. Telling Lies About Hitler: The Holocaust, History and the David Irving Trial. Verso, 2002.
Irving, D. Hitler’s War:1939-1942. PAPERMAC 1983.
Irving, D. Hitler’s War:1942-1945 PAPERMAC 1983.
Lipstadt, D. Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory Penguin Books, 2016.
Rees, L. The Holocaust: A New History. Penguin Books, 2017.
Seidel, G. The Holocaust Denial: Antisemitism, Racism, & the New Right. Beyond the Pale Collective, 1986.
Shermer, M. & Grobman, A. Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? University of California Press, 2009.
Steinbacher, S. Auschwitz: A History. Penguin Books, 2005.

The FULL list of all my sources: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/…

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History isn’t as boring as some people think, and my goal is to get people talking about it. I also want to dispel the myths and distortions that ruin our perception of the past by asking a simple question – “But is this really the case?” I have a 2:1 Degree in History and a passion for early 20th Century conflicts (mainly WW2). I’m therefore approaching this like I would an academic essay. Lots of sources, quotes, references and so on. Only the truth will do.

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“The Squadrons Are Coming” – HMS Ark Royal aviation operations

Filed under: Britain, History, Military — Tags: , , , , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

Aircraft Games Movies
Published 1 Jul 2010

In the Western Approaches, Ark Royal welcomes her air group back aboard, with the occasional hairy approach for newly qualified aviators.

This appears to be footage from episode 3 of Sailor, a BBC television series from 1976 about life aboard HMS Ark Royal.

The Wikipedia entry for HMS Ark Royal (R09) begins:

HMS Ark Royal (R09) was an Audacious-class aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy and, when she was decommissioned in 1979, was the Royal Navy’s last remaining conventional catapult and arrested-landing aircraft carrier. She was the first aircraft carrier to be equipped with angled flight deck at its commissioning; her sister ship, HMS Eagle, was the Royal Navy’s first angle-decked aircraft carrier after modification in 1954. Ark Royal was the only non-United States vessel to operate the McDonnell Douglas Phantom at sea.

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While Ark Royal‘s career spanned 24 years from the time of her commissioning (her name was a household word), she spent as much time in refit; repair and reserve and modernisation as in commissioned service (12 years). It required a lot of effort from her engineers to keep her serviceable between yard periods. Ark Royal had been poorly preserved during its lengthy construction from 1942 to 1955, and much of its machinery was obsolete by its completion, including its dated DC electrics, supplemented later by some AC systems, resulting in a ship which experienced regular defects and mechanical failure. Eagle was a more reliable and well-built ship, and spent far more time at sea than her sister. The scrapping of Ark Royal in 1980, two years after Eagle, marked the end of conventional fixed-wing aircraft operations aboard Royal Navy carriers. She had borne so many innovations, yet her replacement was not equipped with any of these. There was some discussion about preserving her as a museum ship, and some private funds were raised; the MOD would not sanction these efforts.

June 29, 2020

The Canadian Armed Forces Primary Reserve

Filed under: Cancon, Military — Tags: , , — Nicholas @ 03:00

Ted Campbell looks at the state of the reserves, specifically the Army Reserve:

For those interested, and every thinking Canadian should have some, albeit limited interest in the subject, there is an interesting thread over on Army.ca which deals with the problems (there are a lot of them) in making Canada’s reserve Army (the militia if you’re old enough) into an effective force.

I’m going to go with what I think is the majority opinion and say that our Army reserve, in particular, is ineffective. That does not mean that it does not do yeoman service: Canada’s tiny regular Army could not have conducted sustained combat operations in Afghanistan from 2002 to 2014 unless thousands and thousands of reserve force soldiers had stepped up. They were mostly young men, many looking for some combination of a full-time job, some adventure, a faster route into the regular Army, or even a sort of “gap year” experience, but some, like Canada’s current Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan, were middle-aged senior officers when they took a year off from their civilian careers to serve. Today, as I write many reserve force soldiers are serving in a new sort of front-line: long term care facilities that have been ravaged by the COVID-19 virus. The one problem that Canada does NOT have in its Army (regular or reserve) is the quality of the people who serve ~ they are, by and large, amongst the best soldiers in the world and, equally, especially the reservists, Canada’s finest citizens.

But too many people seem to be content with the notion that reserve Army is doing enough by providing a pool of individuals to fill up or augment regular Army units in an emergency. If that’s all the country wants, if that’s the level of capability for which we are willing to settle, then I think we, as a nation, do not deserve the service of the men and women in our reserve Army units.

Operation Gunnerside: The Mission to Stop Germany’s Atomic Bomb

Filed under: Europe, Germany, History, Military, WW2 — Tags: , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

Historigraph
Published 21 Mar 2020

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Sources:

Richard Petrow, The Bitter Years

David Greentree, Heroes of Telemark: Sabotaging Hitler’s Atomic Bomb

Clips:

1948 film Kampen om tungtvannet

Clips from contemporary documentary; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3jSW…

Music:

“Crypto” by Kevin MacLeod
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“Rynos Theme”, Incompetech https://incompetech.com

“Hitman” by Kevin MacLeod
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June 28, 2020

The Peasants Rise Up Against The Bolsheviks – The Russian Civil War(s) 1920 I THE GREAT WAR 1920

Filed under: History, Military, Russia — Tags: , , , , — Nicholas @ 09:30

The Great War
Published 27 Jun 2020

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Freeing peasants and workers from oppression was one of the main messages of the Bolsheviks. The peasants in the countryside were happy to get rid of the landowning class and supported socialist ideas of land reform but once the Bolsheviks turned to “War Communism” to maintain their power against the Whites and other forces, the reluctant support of the peasants dropped — and in 1920 they turned to open revolt.

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Figes, Orlando. A People’s Tragedy. The Russian Revolution (London: The Bodley Head, 2017 [1996]).
Mawdsley, Evan. The Russian Civil War (New York: Pegasus Books, 2005).
Smele, Jonathan. The “Russian” Civil Wars 1916-1926 (London: Hurst, 2015).
Sumpf, Alexandre. “Russian Civil War,” in 1914-1918 online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War. https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.
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Operation Barbarossa – End of the Nazi-Soviet Alliance – WW2 – 096b – June 27 1941

Filed under: China, Germany, History, Japan, Military, Russia, WW2 — Tags: , , , , , , , , — Nicholas @ 06:00

World War Two
Published 27 Jun 2020

Operation Barbarossa kicks off this week with action all along the front as German panzers pierce deep into the Soviet Union. Meanwhile, Claude Auchinleck becomes Commander of the Allied forces in the Middle East that capture Damascus.

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– Cassowary Colorizations
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– Daniel Weiss
– Norman Stewart – https://oldtimesincolor.blogspot.com/

Sources:
– Imperial War Museum: E 3833, TR 841, E 1549, E 5448
– Bundesarchiv, CC-BY-SA 3.0: Bild 146-1990-044-13, Bild_183-B24575, Bild_101I-265-0048A-03, Bild_101I-208-0031-03, Bild_169-0443, Bild_101I-020-1262-35, Bild_101I-020-1272-21, Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-209-0056-06
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– FDR Presidential Library & Museum

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“Viking” was the word for “Incel” in the early Middle Ages

Filed under: Books, China, Europe, Health, History, India, Military — Tags: , , , , , , — Nicholas @ 05:00

At least, that’s one interpretation offered by Mary Harrington at UnHerd:

Europe According to the Vikings (1000) from Atlas of Prejudice 2 by Yanko Tsvetkov.

Last week, World War 3 nearly started in Ladakh. A dry, high-altitude region of Indian Kashmir on the Himalayan border with China, it’s been the site of escalating tensions and military buildup for some time. On June 15, the first physical confrontation between the Indian and Chinese militaries for 45 years erupted, killing at least 20 Indian and 45 Chinese soldiers.

There are all sorts of geopolitical reasons cited for the escalating tension between the world’s two most populous countries, but there is one more central and timeless problem that is going to drive both countries towards violence and instability — women. Or a lack of them.

In his History of the Normans, written circa 1015, Dudo of St Quentin argued that the reason the Vikings went raiding was because they couldn’t find wives, an idea echoed by the Tudor antiquarian William Camden in his 1610 book Britannia. “Wikings”, Camden suggested, were what you got when there weren’t enough women to go round, resulting in an excess of young men hanging around full of machismo but without any prospect of finding a nice girl and settling down. (Viking literally means raider.)

So, whenever these spare males “multiply’d themselves to a burdensom community”, Camden reports that an area would draw lots. Those of the young troublemakers chosen in the lottery would be sent off on a ship to make a nuisance of themselves overseas. Which they did.

In evolutionary biology, the “operational sex ratio” is a term used to count the proportion of males and females in a given species that are seeking a reproductive mate. As soon as the ratio tilts away from 50:50, the sex that’s over-represented will have to compete to secure a mate from among the less-plentiful potential partners of the opposite sex.

Though they wouldn’t have used that phrase, both Dudo of St Quentin and William Camden were both describing this phenomenon in human males. Where potential wives are scarce and the “burdensom community” of spare men multiplies, the result is more violence and crime. One 2019 study showed that where polygyny — that is, multiple wives — is a social norm for higher-status men, attacks on neighbouring ethnic groups skyrocket. With a few men monopolising eligible women, the rest are forced to seek status and resources by attacking other tribes.

India and China both have an extremely “burdensom community” of spare males. The normal ratio of newborn boys to girls is around 105:100. But as Mara Hvistendahl documents in Unnatural Selection, thanks to prenatal ultrasound and sex-selective abortion the ratio in China is around 118:100, and 108:100 in India. In some regions of India, the ratio rises as high as 150 males to 100 females. Though sex-selective technology is now banned in India, it’s still widespread, and the country now has some 37 million more men than women. Studies estimate that China has around 30 million excess men.

British 1942 Prototype Simplified…Enfield?

Filed under: Britain, History, Military, Weapons, WW2 — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

Forgotten Weapons
Published 18 Nov 2018

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In 1942, the British government instituted a development program to design a new simplified rifle to replace the No4 MkI Lee Enfield. The CSAD (Central Small Arms Department) came up with a design using a quite simple receiver machined form a small steel billet. It was a rifle wholly distinct form the Enfield, although both were chambered for the .303 British cartridge. The simplified rifle used a front-locking bolt, a simplified cocking piece, and had a magazine holding just 6 rounds. The sights were a simple 300/600 yard rear aperture, and a crude spike bayonet could be fitted either forward for use or rearward for storage.

The project never got as far as serial production, or even field trials as far as I can tell, and only a handful of prototypes were made.

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June 27, 2020

Tank Chats #74 Panzer I | The Tank Museum

Filed under: Germany, History, Military, Weapons, WW2 — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

The Tank Museum
Published 10 May 2019

Panzer I was the first tank mass produced by Germany, as part of their drive to re-arm in the 1930’s before the Second World War.

The Tank Museum’s Panzer IB tank is the only known commander’s model of the Panzer I.
Cradit @10:25 Panzer I from The Arsenalen Museum, Sweden.

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