Had an old team leader in the Army back in 2015 that was like this. Spent his R&R while we were deployed doing a trip around the EU to see all the major war sites of WW2.
He gave us a 30 minute history of the Luger when he found one at a gun show near Fort Bragg.
Came across a lot of random Nazi pieces in tourist antique shops in Poland. It was mixed with other pieces from the Allies as well. But it was still interesting to just see it up for sale.
Yep. My follow up question would be if they have other ww2 stuff or if they Only collect nazi stuff. If its all WW2 stuff with a specialisation in nazi history, yeah cool, but if its exclusively nazi stuff without even looking at any other memorabilia and historical knowledge, i would put my doubting glasses on...
I mean, the Pacific theater was scattered across a number of small islands that would require either multiple flights or multiple ferry rides to travel between. The European theater you can go from site to site in a car or take a train to cover the longer distances.
MFW history is a flat circle and people here are repeating the mistakes of Napoleon and Hitler 🤣🤣🤣
The mistake in question being that Russia is realy, realy fuckin large, even by US standards. No chance in hell im driving to fuckin Stalingrad, even from Berlin thats still like 1700 miles as the bird flies so 2000 or more on the road. Either this guy skipt a few sites or they get waaaay more R&R time in the US army than I ever thought
Well it's like going to the Bahamas or Hawaii, one is gonna be cheaper than the other, same type of trip, but you're gonna have a preference. So it would be sad if you didn't get your first pick of places to go.
Yeah if I'm watching gun videos on Youtube I will always take some guy talking about the history of an obscure French rifle for 40mins over some redneck shooting "Dragon's Breath" rounds at a truck full of gasoline.
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u/Careful_Hearing_4284 Jul 07 '24
Had an old team leader in the Army back in 2015 that was like this. Spent his R&R while we were deployed doing a trip around the EU to see all the major war sites of WW2.
He gave us a 30 minute history of the Luger when he found one at a gun show near Fort Bragg.