The FReeper Foxhole's TreadHead Tuesday - PanzerKampfwagen VIB - King Tiger - Mar. 16th, 2004

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[Professional Engineer]

1930 USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) floated out to become a national shrine

[Professional Engineer]

Those were Tiger I's Joe but then again all airplanes look alike such as the Piper Cub and B 36 to me.

You sure know how to hurt a guy.

[Valin]

Redneck Love Poem

Collards is green,
My dog's name is Blue
And I'm so lucky
To have a sweet thang like you.

Yore hair is like cornsilk
A-flapping in the breeze.
Softer than Blue's
And without all them fleas.

You move like the bass,
Which excite me in May.
You ain't got no scales
But I luv you anyway.

Yo're as satisfy'n as okry
Jist a-fry'n in the pan.
Yo're as fragrant as "snuff"
Right out of the can.

You have some'a yore teeth,
For which I am proud;
I hold my head high
When we're in a crowd.

On special occasions,
When you shave under yore arms,
Well, I'm in hawg heaven,
And awed by yore charms.

Still them fellers at work,
They all want to know,
What I did to deserve
Such a purdy, young doe.

Like a good roll of duct tape
Yo're there fer yore man,
To patch up life's troubles
And fix what you can.

Yo're as cute as a junebug
A-buzzin' overhead.
You ain't mean like those far ants
I found in my bed.

Cut from the best cloth
Like a plaid flannel shirt,
You spark up my life
More than a fresh load of dirt.

When you hold me real tight
Like a padded gunrack,
My life is complete;
Ain't nuttin' I lack.

Yore complexion, it's perfection,
Like the best vinyl sidin'.
Despite all the years,
Yore age, it keeps hidin'.

Me 'n' you's like a Moon Pie
With a RC cold drank,
We go together
Like a skunk goes with stank.

Some men, they buy chocolate
For Valentine's Day;
They git it at Wal-Mart,
It's romantic that way.

Some men git roses
On that special day
From the cooler at Kroger.
That's impressive," I say.

Some men buy fine diamonds
From a flea market booth.
"Diamonds are forever,"
They explain, suave and couth.

But for this man, honey,
These won't do.
Cause yore too special,
You sweet thang you.

I got you a gift,
Without taste nor odor,
More useful than diamonds......
IT'S A NEW TROLL'N MOTOR!!

[Valin]

Everyting you ever wanted to know about the Super Frigates

SUPER FRIGATES - AMERICA'S HIGH TECH WEAPONS OF THE 1790's
Steve McQuillan
The year is 1812 and the United States is at war. Like the war of our recent past, the subject of conversation around the world was American military technology. The focus of attention at that time, however, was on America's forty-four gun "super" frigates. During the first eight months of 1812 these American 44 gun frigates had, in battles fought on the high seas with frigates of the English navy, overcome those English frigates in each of the three ship to ship actions fought between them. To understand the scope of this accomplishment and why it caught even the attention of the Emperor Bonaparte, a brief understanding of naval power in 1812 is required.
The British navy in 1812 was made up of 191 ships of the line, 245 frigates of 50 guns or more and numerous other smaller warships giving it over 860 ships altogether. (Another 56 ships were in the process of construction including three 120 gun ships of the line). The English navy time and again during the preceding twenty years had humbled the navies of France, Spain, Denmark, Turkey, Algeria, Russia and Holland. In the twenty years preceding 1812 the ships of his majesty's navy had fought in over 200 single ship to ship engagements and lost in but five. The last time an English ship had lost a ship to ship action had been seven years earlier when in 1805 the French Milan had bested the HMS Cleopatra. One consequence of this seemingly unending line of victories was that by 1812 over 170 ships on the English roll were ships captured during combat. (This total included 96 French, 39 Danish and 18 Spanish ships) English naval victories had come to be expected by captains and sailors of not only of the Brtish navy but those of the ships which they fought. That attitude was rudely shaken in 1812 when the HMS Guerre (38) was destroyed by the USS Constitution (44), the HMS Macedon (49) captured by the USS United States (44) and the HMS Java (44) taken by the USS Constitution.
The navy of the United States in 1812 consisted of some 50 ships. A congressional committee in early 1812 had determined that a fleet of 12 ships of the line and 20 frigates would be large enough to protect the U.S. because of how thinly spread the English fleet was stretched blockading France. Ships of the line were reserved for the major military and economic powers, however, and something Congress decided the United States could not afford. *see note1
The largest ships in the U.S. fleet in 1812 were the 44 gun frigates, the Constitution, United States and President. Launched between 1798 and 1800 these three ships were built principally to protect U.S. commerce from the Barbary pirates. Because of the threat presented by the Barbary states, the United States' Congress voted in 1794 to build four 44 gun and two 38 gun frigates. (That number was decided on the fact that the Portuguese had adequately blockaded the Barbary states with three ships of the line).....

http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Alley/5443/supfrig.htm

[Professional Engineer]

OLD IRONSIDES
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
September 16, 1830

Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!
Long has it waved on high,
And many an eye has danced to see
That banner in the sky;
Beneath it rung the battle shout,
And burst the cannon's roar;
The meteor of the ocean air
Shall sweep the clouds no more.

Her deck, once red with heroes' blood,
Where knelt the vanquished foe,
When winds were hurrying o'er the flood,
And waves were white below,
No more shall feel the victor's tread,
Or know the conquered knee;
The harpies of the shore shall pluck
The eagle of the sea!

Oh, better that her shattered bulk
Should sink beneath the wave;
Her thunders shook the mighty deep,
And there should be her grave;
Nail to the mast her holy flag,
Set every threadbare sail,
And give her to the god of storms,
The lightning and the gale!

USS Constitution homepage

[Professional Engineer]

OOooo, thanks!

I was able to visit Old Ironsides in 1999. Pretty cool to see many of the main guns aboard her where captured English pieces. Heh heh heh.

[Valin]

Something I ran across a couple of years ago. Good site not big but quality stuff.

[SAMWolf]

LOL! Tankist!!

[SAMWolf]

They were modified T-34's, they did a pretty good job but not much they could do with the drive sprocket and road wheels.

[SAMWolf]

I can't imagine seeing one of these coming and only having a bazooka or rifle grenades.

[SAMWolf]

Morning PE.

Oberssturmbannfuhrer Jochim Peiper, commander of the armoured spearhead of 1st SS Panzer Division, in conference with some of the officers of other units under his command. Aside from men and tanks of his own division, these included King tigers of the 501st heavy tank battalion and paratroops of 1st battalion, 9th Fallschrimjager regiment

[SAMWolf]

I finally picked up a copy on eBay about 2 years ago. Another good one is "April Morning" with Tommy Lee Jones about Lexington and Concord.

[SAMWolf]

LOL!

Like a good roll of duct tape
Yo're there fer yore man,
To patch up life's troubles
And fix what you can.

What more can a man ask for?

[SAMWolf]

50 ships vs 860 ships. Just about even odds for our Navy. :-)

[Soaring Feather]

OLD IRONSIDES
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

Thank You, PE, for posting this classic poem.

[Professional Engineer]

I just learned our FReeper buddy Steve(smaagee) is vacationing at the same place in Iraq as another FReeper. They haven't connected yet, but I and some FReepers have sent him some suggestions on how to connect via FR. Cool!

[U S Army EOD]

A interesting footnote of history, is that the French Navy did not win another naval battle until they sunk, the Greenpeace vessel, "Rainbow Warrior" in Wellington, New Zealand. But they had to be typically sneaky and French to win that one.

[Professional Engineer]

You're welcome Ms. Feather. I have it in my FR profile as well. I love wooden boats/ships about as much as planes with round engines.

[SAMWolf]

Cool!. Goota love those all expenses, govenment paid vacations. ;-)

[WhiskeyPapa]

One of the few live plays I've seen. Saw it at the Schubert Theater in Chicago. I really enjoyed it and have a copy of the Movie.

Concur. Lots of fun.

Hey -- What if George Washington had a King Tiger?

Walt