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TowinKarz said:
Note the nice bullet hole right between Philips' eyes on his mask.... he truly got what was coming to him.

The amazing thing that makes that shoot out destined to become part of American lore was the fact that those 2 deaths, were the 2 robbers.

There were injuries aplenty, but, when the smoke cleared, the only ones dead were the robbers. It's a story you just kinda have to hear every now and again when the world seems to be falling apart around you that reminds you, we are not, on the whole, bad people. The good guys do, occasionally, win and win gloriously.
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The J10 full-size Jeep pickup that got ventilated during the final shootout is also somewhat of a celebrity item among FSJ spergs; if I recall, the owner was swamped by offers to buy that Jeep (it still ran too).

I don't know if it ever was sold, but I know some of a few Jeep collectors offered stupid money for that truck.

TowinKarz said:
On a much happier note - the "Cornfield Bomber"

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February 2nd, 1970. While on routine training maneuvers, Air Force Capt. Gary Faust's F-106 Delta Dart fighter entered into a deadly flat spin. Despite all attempts to recover, including cutting the throttle to idle and throwing out the plane's landing drag chute, he had no choice but to eject as he fell below 15,000 feet. Amazingly, the force of the ejection seat firing, and subsequent loss of weight, shoved the aircraft's nose down hard enough that it recovered from the spin on it's own. With the throttle set all the way back, and trimmed for landing, it made a relatively soft belly-flop on the Montana prairie below. An incredulous farmer stumbled upon the surreal scene: a pilot-less jet, with it's engine still idling, slowly pushing itself across his fields. He called the Sheriff, who in turn called the Air Force who advised him to just stay back and let it run out of fuel, which it did some time later. Faust was picked up unharmed when he reached the ground, and a team sent out to recover his plane found it nearly undamaged. After light repairs, it returned to service and would continue to fly until being retired in 1988, whereupon it was enshrined at the Air Force museum in Dayton.
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I have a close family member who was an AF maintenance chief that transitioned to F-106s after B-52s in 'Nam. And from those, to F-16s. He still likes the 106 better.

One of my earliest memories is of being set in the cockpit of a 106. Good times.
 
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If anything a lot of this shit has been adopted in improved forms. It was quite accurate.


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Political cartoon about the Italian occupation of Ethiopia.
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Protesters of the Weaver standoff.

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Soviet Political cartoon of various Nazi leaders.
 
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American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell and two of his Stormtroopers listening to Malcolm X speak at a Nation of Islam conference.
 
Excerpt from the Swedish newspaper Expressen, March 26th 1977. Dagmar Hagelin's father, Ragnar, is shown falling down on the side walk and crying:
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Dagmar Hagelin was a Swedish-Argentinian teenager who disappeared and was murdered by military forces during the Dirty War (the Argentinian military junta's "terrorist war" against left-wingers and other political dissidents) in 1977, which took place in Argentina as part of Operation Condor. However, this was not because she was a political infidel, but because she was in the wrong place at the wrong time and was mistaken for somebody else (she was on her way to visit a friend who, unbeknownst to her, had been arrested the day before and had told the military forces that another politically active friend, Maria Berger, was on their way to visit her). Her disappearance received a lot of attention internationally and resulted in diplomatic complications between Sweden and Argentina.

Dagmar (on the left) was kidnapped by commander and intelligence officer Alfredo Astiz who went by the nickname of "The Blonde Angel of Death". He is known for his involvement in multiple other cases of disappearance and murder, including those of French nuns Léonie Duquet and Alice Domon (two other cases who received a lot of attention internationally). In 2016, he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for his crimes.
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Ragnar Hagelin fought tooth and nail until his death to find out what had happened to his daughter and to bring her justice, but unluckily for him, he died one year before the trial against Astiz was concluded.
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Soviet Political cartoon of various Nazi leaders.
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I think all true and honest Aryans should strive to be like @Heinrich Himmler
 
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The Maunsell Sea Forts

Fortifications built by the British in the Thames estuary during WWII to defend the merchant shipping lanes against German U-boats, mine layers, or aircraft.

Clusters of blockhouses containing light artillery and anti-aircraft weapons, inter-connected by a series of now long-gone rope bridges and all tied to a central "command" platform.

Decommissioned in the 1950's, a number of them survive today and have been used as everything from pirate radio stations to "micro-nations" of squatters who have declared themselves independent of any government.
 
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IBM's first consumer computer that had a 5 megabyte hard disc drive, the IBM 305 RAMAC in 1956.

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Not so historical photo:

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Timothy McVeigh being interviewed on the outskirts Mt. Carmel during the standoff. He would later say that the Oklahoma City Bombing was retribution for the Waco Seige.
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The gunfight of the OK Corral in 1881, Tombstone Arizona.
No photos of course, so I'll post one of the sketches.

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The history:
After years of feuding and mounting tensions, in 1881, the “law and order” Earps and the “cowboy” Clanton-McLaurys engage in their world-famous shoot-out near the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, leaving three men dead and three more wounded.
Both sides in the conflict were ostensibly looking for revenge for what they perceived as malicious attacks and insults, but on a larger level the conflict revolved around which side would control the fate of Tombstone and Cochise County. That hot Arizona day, the Earp brothers—Wyatt; Virgil, the town marshal; and Morgan—along with their friend Doc Holliday, spotted a group of cattle rustlers—Ike and Billy Clanton, Tom and Frank McLaury, and Billy Claiborne, at the other end of Fremont Street, standing in a vacant lot behind the OK Corral. Standing nearby was Cochise County Sheriff John Behan, who rushed up the street to tell the Earps that the Clantons and McLaurys were mostly unarmed and just wanted to leave town peacefully. But the Earps ignored the sheriff and moved ahead to confront their enemies. “You sons of bitches,” Wyatt Earp reportedly said, “you're looking for a fight and now you can have it.”
The question of which side actually drew their guns first is still debated today, but it s believed that Virgil Earp pulled out his revolver and shot Billy Clanton in the chest at point-blank range, while Doc Holliday killed Tom McLaury with a blast from his double-barreled shotgun. Wyatt Earp shot Frank McLaury in the stomach, and the wounded man staggered out into the street but managed to pull his gun and return fire. Meanwhile, Ike Clanton and Billy Claiborne ran for their lives. The wounded Frank McLaury and Billy Clanton both managed to get off several shots before collapsing, and Virgil, Morgan, and Doc were all hit. But when the 30-second gunfight was over, there was no doubt which side had triumphed: the Earps were bloodied but alive, while Billy Clanton and Tom and Frank McLaury were dead or dying. Sheriff Behan, who witnessed the entire shoot-out, charged the Earps and Holliday with murder. However, a month later the Tombstone justice of the peace found the men not guilty, ruling “the defendants were fully justified in committing these homicides.”
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Wanted: Wyatt Earp by Sheriff John Behan for Questioning About The Gunfight at O.K. Corral Resulting in The Death of 3 Men.
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The graves of the McLaury brothers.
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The bodies of the McLaury brothers.

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Oscar Wildean said:
The gunfight of the OK Corral in 1881, Tombstone Arizona.
No photos of course, so I'll post one of the sketches.

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The history:



Wanted: Wyatt Earp by Sheriff John Behan for Questioning About The Gunfight at O.K. Corral Resulting in The Death of 3 Men.
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The graves of the McLaury brothers.
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The bodies of the McLaury brothers.

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It's kind of weird when you look at something this iconic and realize the whole thing can be summed up as "A bunch of people got into an argument and shot each other up."
 
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