Bugger...

He nose how to land an aircraft, pinpoint accuracy, on the nose!

 

The first piece of Stukahenge is laid in place.

 

Damn Britisher, bet he couldn't do that again.
Is that the WW2. Version of Robin Hood splitting the arrow.

 

French Cuirassier harness: Battle of Waterloo 18 June 1815

 

Reverse parking was never my forte......

 

Sniffed really hard on that one. The hole is too neat, and WTF fired a round like that at the time? Not to mention the physics of the energy transfer would have spun the poor dog face like a top.

 

Direct hit by a solid shot cannon ball, I assume.

 

And add in close range (charging the guns and all that) to your observations Chris and why not?

Kind regards, at close range things go through things, they don't tend to "bounce off", most always,

Jim.

P.S. You'd reasonably think that the mottling/speckling below the shot hole was caused by powder. Have to be pretty close for that.

 

But that's a piercing puncture, not a ball puncture.

I'm inclined to "Let's see how cool a hole we can make."

Closer inspection shows that the hole was cut around most of the circle and then the center pounded in. The center was bent down and to the right. Not a bursting impact, in my opinion.

Just my opinion, of course.

 

Gets funnier. ~200 mm hole in the front, ragged hole in the back. "Yeah, shot completely through him, it did!" Punched through the breast plate but didn't distort the arm hole reinforcement noticeably.

Some 'historical artifacts' are too good to be true I think.

 

Just as he is about to be immortalized in a LIFEmagazine photo, the last US soldier in the line slips on the icy road surface. Belgium, Ardennes Jan 45 (Courtesy FB World War Pictures)

 

"Right hand down a bit !"

 

Have you ever wondered sometimes when you've seen a crashed vehicle in an unusual position how it ended up like that.
When I was a young man I watched a boy racer once drive at speed past the apartment where I lived, travelling past a row of parked cars there was a car coming in the opposite direction without room to pass, he braked hard turning the car sideways and shot though a gap in the parked cars mounted the kerb which bounced him a few feet in the air and and landed on a raised triangular flower bed, the wheels hanging over the edges, as no one was hurt except for the drivers pride as he got out I thought it hilarious, it was also funny watching the passerby's afterwards scratching their heads wondering how it got on there.

 

A picture that surfaced on FB 'Troubleshooters - Living History Group's Post':

 

An unusual view of what appears to be a Loyd carrier, said to be in Keighley.

Men of Worth Project (@menofworth.bsky.social)

 

Jagdtiger from 2. Kompanie of 653rd schwere Panzerjäger Abteilung.
Tank commander Rudi Braun and his comrades were retreating from advancing American troops when the bridges in Kolbermoor became an insurmountable obstacle for the heavy steel colossus: tank barriers had been set up on Ludwigstraße, and the steel bridge over the industrial canal near the spinning mill had a load capacity of only 7.5 tons. Rudi Braun later said: “I have to admit that the decision to cross the bridge over the canal anyway was too reckless.”
“Due to the very strict laws of war, which stipulated that under no circumstances were we to leave weapons of war in enemy hands, we had only two options: blow up the tank or drive across the bridge.”
Braun described the attempt to cross the canal very slowly. “But we sank just as slowly.” Only the massive gun barrel “reached” the other side and slowed the sinking somewhat. The six-man tank crew managed to get ashore, soaking wet but safe and sound, and then removed all valuable equipment—such as a telescope and the radio gear—from the vehicle.

 

I honestly think that if I was in that position, I'd go as fast as possible. I once came into Dover after a night at sea in a 9 Beaufort storm. The off ramp was pitching a couple of metres and the ship was pulling away on the moorings. I was in a Series Land-Rover. I banged it into 4wd and floored it (which doesn't actually mean that much with a 2286 Rover). In the back of my mind was the idea that if the front wheels were on the quayside, I had a chance

 

"Hail Mary,
full of grace,
get me the hell,
outta this place."

 

Rudi being introduced to Mr. Physics.