You're evil....you DO realize what a black hole that web site is going to be to my schedule here.

Bunners

*smiles innocently and hugs da Buns...

V.

Very interesting photo!

thank you...

V.

If that were a modern picture, there would be a dude making a peace sign and MLP rocks spraypainted on the side. :)

*laughs....

probably so...

V.

I wonder what he was thinking at the time. :)

probably concentrating on keeping the camera still...

*smiles...

V.

I wonder if that's the same U-124 that sunk the Gleaves and the Ingham. part of the ONS-92 convoy clash in 1942

More Info : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_pack_Hecht

It might not be cause it says it was built in 1930

From what I read, this one never had any success as it was captured shortly after it was put into commission.

V.

Wow

that's what I said...

V.

Das boot!

Love these pictures, Vixyy!

and to think - this picture is close to 100 years old. I was explaining to an office mate (these kids know absolutely nothing to the point of scary) that in the beginning the submarines would surface and give the crew of the ship being attacked a chance to abandon ship and then use the deck gun to sink it.

how things change...

V.

Its sad vix. they did do that when war was a "Gentlemen war" and people would give others the chance to live another day. But as the years passes, it slowly became more and more informal and soon the two sides wouldn't give a second thought of even shooting the guy near you. It lasted from around 1916 was when it finally broke down to an actual war.

I was reading an account of an allied pilot defending his practice of shooting enemy pilots in their parachutes, explaining it was war and he was not about to give him another chance to kill his friends and yet, when Ernst Udet (German) met Georges Guynemer (French) the pair dueled at 16,000 ft and when Guynemer saw that Udet's guns had jammed, he waved to him and departed as the fight had become unfair.

There are countless times not recorded by history when man had been kind to his enemy.

V.

YO!!!!

I will take that as a compliment...

V.

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