Off topic but pictures like this are rare and this is just great!!

http://picasaweb.google.com/7thfight...76881317798034

It's amazing that so much death occurred at a place of so much beauty.


- Jeff

Amazing pics. Thanks for sharing the link, as these are some of the best pics I have everseen. Panther F you are right, such a huge cost for such a small pretty island. I guess we should not forget the horrors of the lesser island Chi Chi Jima, I will never forget what happend to shot down American pilots there. http://www.pacificwrecks.com/provinc..._chi_jima.html

Today's footage of those battlefields in color hardly even look the same as back then.


- Jeff

Just caught the episone of "The Pacific" with the IWO battle. Haunting. They did dress up a Sherman with wood armor. Thumbs up.

Yes they did use thick wooden planks on the sides of Shermans like the Germans used schurtzen on their tanks. it causes the anti tank rounds to detonate before reaching the side of the tank. Mide you it wouldn't stop an 88 round but most Japanese rounds it would

That's something I want to do with a Sherman, once I get the courage back up to buy a Mato again.


- Jeff