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[Huaco Kid]

6 hours ago, Dric902 said:

 

"Why don't you save everyone involved a lot of time,  and just die before I get there."

[ChuteTheMall]

[Cougar_ml]

2 hours ago, Schmidt Meister said:

the letter "E"

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[ChuteTheMall]

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[Schmidt Meister]

The USAF revealed and named its newest fighter, the 15EX Eagle II on 4.7.2021 at Eglin AFB, FL.

[Schmidt Meister]

In other GREAT AF news the A-10 Thunderbolt II has been slated for several upgrades and wing replacements which will extend its service life to at least 2040. Everybody loves Hawgs.

 

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[ChuteTheMall]

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[railfancwb]

4 hours ago, ChuteTheMall said:

French adaptation of Vespa and surplus bazooka for Algerian war. 

[Historian]

I have another computer next to me.  The HR drone is telling me how to fill out the 8th type of yearly eval. system we've used in my 18 years here.

Government.  It has eaten my soul.  May it choke.

[railfancwb]

6 hours ago, ChuteTheMall said:

March of Dimes

[Historian]

I'm going to club myself.   The darkness will be better than this HR lesson.

[Silentpoet]

[Borg warner]

[Schmidt Meister]

On April 13, 1970, disaster strikes 200,000 miles from Earth when oxygen tank No. 2 blows up on Apollo 13, the third manned lunar landing mission. Astronauts James A. Lovell, John L. Swigert, and Fred W. Haise had left Earth two days before for the Fra Mauro highlands of the moon but were forced to turn their attention to simply making it home alive.

Mission commander Lovell reported to mission control on Earth: “Houston, we’ve had a problem here,” and it was discovered that the normal supply of oxygen, electricity, light, and water had been disrupted. The landing mission was aborted, and the astronauts and controllers on Earth scrambled to come up with emergency procedures. The crippled spacecraft continued to the moon, circled it, and began a long, cold journey back to Earth.

The astronauts and mission control were faced with enormous logistical problems in stabilizing the spacecraft and its air supply, and providing enough energy to the damaged fuel cells to allow successful reentry into Earth’s atmosphere. Navigation was another problem, and Apollo 13‘s course was repeatedly corrected with dramatic and untested maneuvers. On April 17, with the world anxiously watching, tragedy turned to triumph as the Apollo 13 astronauts touched down safely in the Pacific Ocean.

[Schmidt Meister]

On April 13, 1941, during World War II, representatives from the Soviet Union and Japan sign a five-year neutrality agreement. Although traditional enemies, the nonaggression pact allowed both nations to free up large numbers of troops occupying disputed territory in Manchuria and Outer Mongolia to be used for more pressing purposes.

The Soviet-Japanese pact came nearly two years after the Soviet Union signed a similar agreement with Nazi Germany, dividing much of Eastern Europe between the two countries. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Nonaggression Pact allowed Nazi leader Adolf Hitler to move German forces to the West for his major offensives of 1939 to 1941 and bought Soviet leader Joseph Stalin time to prepare the empire for what he saw as its inevitable involvement in World War II.

However, on June 22, 1941, just two months after the Soviet-Japanese nonaggression pact was signed, Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the USSR. Stalin was caught by surprise, and the German Wehrmacht penetrated deep into the Soviet Union, killing millions of Russians and reaching the outskirts of Moscow before the Red Army was able to begin a successful counteroffensive. Although Japanese offensives into the eastern USSR during this time might have resulted in the defeat of the Soviet Union, Japan was forced to concentrate all its resources in a resistance against the massive U.S. counteroffensive in the Pacific, underway by fall 1942.

During the Yalta conference in early 1945, Joseph Stalin, at the urging of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, agreed to declare war against Japan within three months of Germany’s defeat. On August 8, 1945, true to Stalin’s promise, the Soviet Union declared war against Japan, and the next day the Red Army invaded Manchuria. The same day, the United States dropped its second atomic bomb on Japan, devastating Nagasaki as it had Hiroshima three days earlier. Faced with the choice of destruction or surrender, Japan chose the latter. On August 15, one week after the Soviet declaration of war, Emperor Hirohito announced the Japanese surrender on national radio, urging the Japanese people to “endure the unendurable.”

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The neighbors on "Date Night"...

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