It is actually designed to have the same footprint as the Echo! But the fuselage has been expanded by eliminating the drop tanks and enlarging the stub wings. Still has to fit inside the hangar deck of the L decks. Which is another reason why Marines did not buy the Chinook.

I just left Okinawa after a tour of duty there. That’s really interesting that those sites were there. Great website shows how they looked and one of them has been converted into a peace museum by a Buddhist sect!

The Marines did have the tandem rotor CH-46 Sea Knight which preceded the Chinook. Boeing Vertol submitted a bid for a modified Chinook but was underbid by a desperate Sikorsky for the heavy lift requirement.

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True. I like the Why We Fight series better.

There is one prolific website that is insidious in nature because it is very well researched and the author has visited the camps and museums. But then makes sly comments about how advanced the Germans were and how most of the prisoners were Communists etc. I took issue with a professor that was citing the pages as a…

It's important to see these again but it takes you down terrible places full of revisionists, apologists, deniers, etc.

Yes I think the no frat rule quickly disappeared. There’s some other docs also about the bringing of baseball and other Anerican activities as part of American occupation. Funny because that’s a set up for One Two Three and Coca Cola!

There is also a good one about Germans made post war about how you still can't trust them because of their warlike nature.

Beans, bullets, and band aids. How you really win at war. Logistics. Considering Germany still relied on horse drawn logistics there was no way those high tech Nazis were getting to CONUS.

Was going to say that's the stix! Gotta be like 20 miles yeah?

amphibious landings are hard! (Note I know these aren’t Royal Marines)

Plus probably 75% of military action figures are of WW2 Germans. Collectors love all the German uniforms.

SS would have the eagle on the sleeve vice chest.

This isn’t that unusual. Sculptor uses someone as a model to make them more realistic.

I actually was watching it on my phone on the toilet!

There’s more to that story.

They should've used the Chewbacca defense!

What do ball bearings have to do with the future? Everything