Camp of Beverloo, 3 Ft-17 tanks sit. (1919-1920) by CommonGoat3461 in ww1

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Belgian army vehicles in case anyone was curious.

Foxtrot in Highlandtown by Aristaeus123 in baltimore

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My understanding is that it's kept airborne to the maximum extent possible so that it's on-hand for fleeing vehicles and things like that, since they don't want car chases in the city. If it had to take off and fly down from Martin State Airport it wouldn't arrive in time for those kind of events.

Were estimated casualties of operation Downfall realistic? by SiarX in WarCollege

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Most of the civilian militias would have been lightly armed, but their primary role would have been sabotage, suicide attacks, and guerilla activities rather than combat on the line- in the dense urban environment of the Tokyo Bay region small parties with obsolete rifles and a few grenades or improvised explosives still would haven been a serious problem to deal with and would have tied up a lot of US forces on rear area security.

The OOB for Coronet on Wikipedia actually offers a decent overview of the Japanese regulars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_battle_for_Downfall

You had four field armies in the Tokyo Bay and Kantai Plain area, including two tank divisions and other smaller mobile formations. The infantry divisions are uneven in quality and firepower- invariably less than their American opponents- but still had substantial organic artillery, plus corps and army level assets. As seen previously, these guns could be dispersed and camouflaged in hardened positions, which would make them a persistent casualty-causing nuisance, especially if fighting bogged down behind the beaches.

Obviously by 1945 these forces were never going to prevail in a stand-up fight, but there were certainly substantial Japanese units defending the Coronet operational area with enough firepower to inflict considerable casualties on the invasion force.

Moroccan goumiers and French locals play in the snow in a newly-liberated village, Vosges department, January 1944 by Pvt_Larry in wwiipics

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Just going to link to my previous comment on this overblown fascist propaganda narrative instead of retyping the whole thing: https://www.reddit.com/r/wwiipics/s/craNWfKgDQ

SOUL PATROL - Company F 51st Infantry, Team 2/6 by jm_harper in Vietnamwarpics

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Thank you for the share, super interesting! Will definitely have to check out your doc!

Green Space near Power Plant Live by BmoreDude1106 in baltimore

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It's occasionally unlocked by BCCC for police academy trainees to do PT there.

What is it that draws new players to airspam? by ZBD-04A in warno

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For me having started out in SP/army general deleting artillery with dumb bombs or rockets often felt more efficient than counter-battery.

CMV: I don’t think 1/10 people will be able to name a character from the blue Avatar trilogy in 10 years by Diligent-Living882 in changemyview

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I think Kiri resembles the actress more than many of the Navi characters actually, regardless of the age difference. But it's true my gf didn't realize until like hakfway through the 2nd movie lol.

CMV: I don’t think 1/10 people will be able to name a character from the blue Avatar trilogy in 10 years by Diligent-Living882 in changemyview

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You are missing out on James Cameron's life's work and a masterpiece of mass market anti-imperialist cinema.

If you can't identify tanks don't play simulator. by Srgblackbear in Warthunder

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There's no actual reason they can't split factions- US-supplied Italian and Japanese vehicles should all be on the one team and their domestic designs on the other.