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16-214 Garand Picture of the Day - Munich
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I think it was the book Company Commander, by Charles B. MacDonald, that described the odd feeling of whizzing down both lanes of the Autobahn into Germany
with the throngs of Wehrmacht soldiers walking the opposite direction into captivity.
Bob
"It is said, 'Go not to the elves for counsel for they will say both no and yes.' "
Frodo Baggins to Gildor Inglorion, The Fellowship of the Ring
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The same picture was conveyed in the movie BOB when Webster started shouting at the Germans...that would be something a man would not forget, even years after when driving the autobahn in peacetime.
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Would be very depressing for an army to be heading into captivity and seeing an all day procession of the opposition passing them inbound. Still in Berlin, Hitler was preaching to the young that he was going to turn this around and defeat the enemy...so they fought to the death.
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I wonder if the picture in post 1 is taken at an airfield and the "road" is in fact a taxi-way or perimeter road???
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Originally Posted by
Flying10uk
taken at an airfield
An airfield with a downgrade? Looks like the halftrack is going down a bit of grade. Hard to say, why do you think it's airfield?
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There are no ditches, fences or hedgerows to the "road" and to the right of the half track there appears to be a large area free of trees. I also wondered if what looks like it could be a hard surface on the far side of the dip could be the main runway?
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I believe the 'mile marker' at the road's edge suggests that bit of pavement is not a taxiway or runway of an airfield.
We used to have the same sort of markers adjacent to many of our older main roads in Australia. There were still a few along Parramatta Rd. the last time I looked.
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Airfields don't have to be level or paved..
Originally Posted by
Flying10uk
I wonder if the picture in post 1 is taken at an airfield and the "road" is in fact a taxi-way or perimeter road???
I've landed on grass/mud strips with as much as a uphill 6% uphill grade. Took off from them as well down hill. Ive done it on the snow as well. Most of the time the horizontal angle was far from "level".
Keep in mind the Pilot can't fly. It's the aircraft that flys. The pilot merely directs the aircraft..oh damn that human factor again
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