Monday, January 20, 2014

Tab Clearing...

Three wiki tabs open again...
The last is my absolute favorite WWII... or any war, for that matter... Medal of Honor story: "You've heard about the guy who stepped out into the open and took on four tanks with his Tommy Gun and knocked one of them out, right?" (Apparently a round went through the vision slit and killed the driver and it drove into the gully.) .45ACP: It knocks out tanks.
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19 comments:

  1. Anonymous8:22 AM, January 20, 2014

    Dear God in Heave, just what we need. 6 months of fans of the .45 ACP telling the world why the round is better than an 80mm mortar. :)

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  2. og9:04 AM, January 20, 2014

    Location, location, location. Well done that man.

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  3. Fiftycal9:26 AM, January 20, 2014

    Well, my 9 would have done the same thing.

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  4. KevinC10:28 AM, January 20, 2014

    Not that taking out a tank with a Tommy Gun isn't worthy of the Badass Hall Of Fame, but it was an *Italian* tank we're talking about here...

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  5. Robert Fowler10:30 AM, January 20, 2014

    .45, Hell yeah.

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  6. Robert11:37 AM, January 20, 2014

    Hell, Sgt. Rock did that to Tiger tanks every other issue...

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  7. Ragin' Dave12:17 PM, January 20, 2014

    So a guy named Fiftycal says his 9mm can do the same thing as a .45.....

    Things like this is why I read the comment around here.

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  8. LCB12:59 PM, January 20, 2014

    I took Melatonin for a while to help me sleep. Seemed to help a little for a while.

    Robert said: Hell, Sgt. Rock did that to Tiger tanks every other issue...

    I miss Sgt. Rock, I do...

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  9. Anonymous1:57 PM, January 20, 2014

    .45ACP also takes down fighter planes.

    http://www.airforcemag.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/1996/July%201996/0796valor.aspx

    It's not impossible; the first air combats of WWI consisted of pilots taking pot shots at each other with pistols and carbines until someone thought of mounting a machine gun.

    Al_in_Ottawa

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  10. Gewehr982:16 PM, January 20, 2014

    I know of one instance where shooting a round or three of .45ACP into one's own jet allowed a F-80 Shooting Star to land safely.

    http://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/Above--Beyond-Shooting-Up-a-Shooting-Star.html

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  11. Charlie Foxtrot3:12 PM, January 20, 2014

    .45 -- is there nothing it can't do? Imagine if the made the bullets out of bacon...

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    1. Anonymous5:23 PM, January 20, 2014

      We'll call it the .45ACB. The ultimate weapon against Islamic terrorists.

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  12. Anonymous3:20 PM, January 20, 2014

    ".45ACP: It knocks out tanks."

    Worked for Captain Miller.

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  13. John A4:25 PM, January 20, 2014

    Another rabbit hole - http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=67090198072
    "Seven shots, five kills" with his .45.

    but warning about offensive language.

    As well as soldiers, posts gods and goddesses, priests and nuns, women holding castles while husbands off at "front" lines, and more.

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  14. Atom Smasher12:57 AM, January 21, 2014

    Most likely L35s. Still tanks, even though they were called tankettes. More armor than a shirt...

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  15. BryanP5:49 AM, January 21, 2014

    For a second I misread melatonin as melanoma. I immediately thought "oh no!"

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  16. Boat Guy9:30 AM, January 21, 2014

    Why GOTHIC SERPENT now?
    It comes up for me every October; do you have a project?

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  17. Tam11:23 AM, January 21, 2014

    Boat Guy,

    I was double-checking my math. It occurred to me that Red Wings is as far in the past now as Gothic Serpent was when BHD was in theaters.

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  18. Boat Guy4:44 PM, January 21, 2014

    Wow. Hadn't had that thought, but yeah...

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