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[fsn]

Not anything particularly military, but lovely photos nonetheless.


Portrait of a Lakota Native American girl, 1890.


Portrait of a Navajo woman, circa 1904.
Source: Photographed by Edward S. Curtis, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.


Portrait of O-o-be, a Kiowa Native American, circa 1895.
Source: National Museum of the American Indian.


Sorry for my absence, which none of you seem to have noticed, but I've no been weel.

[paulr]

Hope you are getting better Nobby, I was wondering why the forum seemed a bit more 'normal'

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Hugs Nobby

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Nowt serious I hope Nobby ?

[Techno II]

Nowt serious I hope Nobby ?

Get well soon, chum.....Must admit I thought you were having a busy time work wise.
Like Ian.....Hope it's nothing serious.

All the best - Phil.

[Steve J]

Hope you feel better soon!

[fsn]

Thank you gentlemen.

I had a bit of a 'flu. Couple of days in bed feeling very sorry for myself.

Much better now.

[Steve J]

Glad to hear you're on the mend

[Westmarcher]

Thank you gentlemen.

I had a bit of a 'flu. Couple of days in bed feeling very sorry for myself.

Much better now.

A worrying time, with Covid at large. Take it easy.

[fsn]

Is that an RPG stuck in the bumper?

[Techno II]

Stroll on !

I certainly wouldn't want to be the mechanic trying to remove that.

Cheers - Phil.

[Ace of Spades]

Perhaps it's a booster rocket?

Cheers,
Rob

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Shows how tough those old Toyotas are!

[Raider4]

Shows how tough those old Toyotas are!

Well, if it does not detonate toughness doesn't really come into it

[Orcs]

Hope you feel Better Nobby.

[Orcs]

It does look as though they captured, and brewed up the tank.

They only did that just in time, and a little poignant, as PAN AM- brewed up (Collapsed in 1991).

[fsn]

INDIAN ARMOURED CORPS IN THE MIDDLE EAST, 1944.
Sherman tank crews of the Scinde Horse Regiment, part of the Indian 31st Armoured Division in Iraq.
In the foreground, a party of Sikhs is being given instruction on stripping and cleaning a Browning gun, by a Viceroy's Commissioned Officer.
Part of: MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION.
Source: © IWM K 6692

[fsn]

They say necessity is the mother of invention, and the last decade of wars and insurgencies across the middle east has certainly produced some unexpected conversions.  This is one of the more unusual – a humvee fitted with the turret from an old BMP-1 IFV seen in Yemen

[Orcs]

INDIAN ARMOURED CORPS IN THE MIDDLE EAST, 1944.
Sherman tank crews of the Scinde Horse Regiment, part of the Indian 31st Armoured Division in Iraq.
In the foreground, a party of Sikhs is being given instruction on stripping and cleaning a Browning gun, by a Viceroy's Commissioned Officer.
Part of: MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION.
Source: © IWM K 6692

Interestingly, the tanks all have uniform camouflage

[fsn]

I hadn't noticed that!

What intrigued me was their uniforms.