Comments to 100 Years Ago Today
 

Maybe its me that wear small shoe(Danish sayings) when things goes against you or you make a little thing to a big thing.

I made this thread..here you can freely make comments on and about 100 Years Ago Today.

Feel free to remove this thread if not needed or say I'm very wrong.

Markus.

Keep wearing those ruby slippers, aktung and somebody will drop a house on you.:huh::03::O::haha:

After three major earthquakes...not much 'curls my toes' these days:shucks:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...4px-Wicked.JPG

You're not wrong Markus but there are now three posts which are arguably off topic and certainly not appertaining to what happened 100 years ago today.

The reason to why I made this thread isn't new, have had it on my mind for weeks.

The thread 100 years ago..is like watching Das Boot at cinema or on DVD and then suddenly a commercial break occur now and then..

Friends try to stay on topic

WWI is historical new to me, my knowledge about this war isn't the best, that's why I love that thread and I want to read discussion about the war here in this thread.

Thanks

Markus

Fire away Markus, I know Steve and I will certainly be amongst anyone wishing to contribute here.

Have been listening to A WWI podcast and in that podcast, there were several episode about Churchill life and his engagement in WWI and I have read your posting in 100 years ago..

I get the feeling that there were more fighting in almost every were in Africa in WWI than in WWII.

Also that Turkey was more involved than in WWII.

Markus

Pégoud also was the first pilot to make a parachute jump from an airplane. He also became a popular instructor of French and other European fledgling pilots.:timeout: On 31 August 1915, Pégoud was shot down by one of his prewar German students, Unteroffizier Walter Kandulski, while intercepting a German reconnaissance aircraft. He was 26 years old. The same German crew later dropped a funeral wreath above the French lines. That's why we call 'em the Knights of the Air-they kept it civil ...at times...:hmmm:

Thank you, this was new to me, now I have learned something more today.

Markus

I guess you both missed it the first time around.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...&postcount=573

My excuse ? I'm getting old, my memory isn't what it once was.

Markus

Hey!
No poking the ParaTroopers!!
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https://s3.amazonaws.com/lowres.cart...crn231_low.jpg:O:http://home.hiwaay.net/~magro/Cartoons4c.jpg "I knew I forgot something"

Paratroppers was first after the WWI and if I remember correctly it was the russian who was first to use soldiers to jump from airplanes. Edit. If my memory isn't playing with me, I say it was in the middle of the 20's

That was a little detour from the thread.

Parachuting was quit new when WWI started-please correct if I'm wrong.

Seem to remember a sentence-not all pilot had parachut and those who had didn't alway survive a jump, due to bad parachute etc.

Markus

The thread of 'small shoes' detours'
 

The Italians did the first true paratroop drop in 1927. Two Folgore and Nembo divisions. Although these would later fight with distinction in World War II, the divisions were never used in a parachute drop. Men drawn from the Italian parachute forces were dropped in a special forces operation in North Africa in 1943 in an attempt to destroy parked aircraft of the USAAF. Ol' Ben Franklinhttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ew100front.jpg besides being on the world's favorite currency, also first conceived of the idea as a vertical envelopment. "Where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense, so that ten thousand men descending from the clouds might not, in many places, do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?" —Benjamin Franklin, 1784 ominously foresaw the whole thing while observing the first leaps from hot air balloons in Paris. #1 Pierre Blanchardhttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._Blanchard.jpg Folgore http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...rigade.svg.png is 'lightning'; I recollect ol' Ben messed with that too.:hmmm:

Indeed and in addition to the above there was an incorrect report that two weeks later Kandulski was shot down by the French pilot Roger Ronserail. In fact Kandulski survived the war.

That question is still hotly debated in certain circles to this day.

I wasn't going to mention it, but since the spoilers are already out of the bag...

Minnesota (II) 21,000 tons at 15 knots
 

The great dining saloon, which can seat 200 passengers, is at the forward end of the deck house and is furnished in mahogany. Just above the dining saloon is the library on one side and the ladies’ boudoir on the other. While on the bridge deck is the smoking room, furnished in leather and Flemish oak. There is also an airy nursery and children’s play rooms on the promenade deck. The number of passengers provided for is 218 first and 68 third class, while below deck accommodations are provided for 1,300 troops (one regiment) or 2,400 steerage passengers. A unique feature is the opium den astern for the use of Orientals. 66 American officers over-saw 216 Chinese crew members who worked for wages far less than Americans.” :up: how PC is that BBY!
The ship was built for J.J. Hill, the Great Northern Railroad magnate, to become part of the Great Northern Steamship Company. His intention was that it would serve as competition with the Japanese as part of his dream to carry passengers but mainly import the highly prized commodity of Asian silk. It was an economic money-grabbing risk that ended in a boondoggle for Hill She was also used in 1919 as troop ship and renamed SS Troy to avoid confusion with USS Minnesota, a battleship. In November 1923, although converted to oil-burning, she was sold to Germany for scrapping. SS TROY in camo paint for WWI>http://www.atlantictransportline.us/images/49ice.jpgAKA SS Minnesota>http://www.atlantictransportline.us/...9fromabove.jpgDining for 200 http://www.atlantictransportline.us/images/49dining.jpgThe bottom line: She never made money, and the 43 voyages of the Great Northern Steamship Company’s ships left it with a deficit of $2,887,982.19.-in early 1900's dollar$