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Offline Baumer

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Hmm..... I think there's something in my boot.
« on: September 21, 2010, 06:23:20 PM »
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Re: Hmm..... I think there's something in my boot.
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2010, 06:25:59 PM »
Silly Marine. :D
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Re: Hmm..... I think there's something in my boot.
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2010, 07:18:56 PM »
I hope that didn't end like I am thinking it did..... :bolt:
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Re: Hmm..... I think there's something in my boot.
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2010, 07:34:27 PM »
Awesome pic! Thanks for sharing Baumer! :)
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Re: Hmm..... I think there's something in my boot.
« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2010, 07:57:59 PM »
wow amazing it wasn't more buried
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Re: Hmm..... I think there's something in my boot.
« Reply #5 on: September 21, 2010, 08:07:22 PM »
He's even smoking on it. :lol :aok

(I know that won't set it off, just struck me as funny)
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Re: Hmm..... I think there's something in my boot.
« Reply #6 on: September 21, 2010, 08:12:00 PM »
thats a cool pic, and one BIG round lol.   is that a battleship round?  16"?
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Re: Hmm..... I think there's something in my boot.
« Reply #7 on: September 21, 2010, 08:14:51 PM »
Me thinks its pre-disasterized but to be sure he should give her a swift kick in the nose when he gets that thar boot on
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Re: Hmm..... I think there's something in my boot.
« Reply #8 on: September 21, 2010, 08:19:16 PM »
Quote from: IrishOne on September 21, 2010, 08:12:00 PM
thats a cool pic, and one BIG round lol.   is that a battleship round?  16"?

Think it might be from one of the IJN naval shore guns.

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Re: Hmm..... I think there's something in my boot.
« Reply #9 on: September 21, 2010, 08:30:52 PM »
I suppose surviving a Marine landing on a pacific island defended by the Japanese might make a guy oblivious to common dangers.
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Re: Hmm..... I think there's something in my boot.
« Reply #10 on: September 21, 2010, 08:43:09 PM »
I wonder if he banged his shoe on it.
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Re: Hmm..... I think there's something in my boot.
« Reply #11 on: September 21, 2010, 09:06:22 PM »
"Marine Pfc. Raymond Hubert using unexploded 16-inch naval shell for resting place while shaking 3-day accumulation of sand from his boondocker, during WWII."

Location:    Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands

Date taken:    July 04, 1944

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Re: Hmm..... I think there's something in my boot.
« Reply #12 on: September 21, 2010, 09:16:58 PM »
Quote from: Baumer on September 21, 2010, 09:06:22 PM
"Marine Pfc. Raymond Hubert using unexploded 16-inch naval shell for resting place while shaking 3-day accumulation of sand from his boondocker, during WWII."

Location:    Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands

Date taken:    July 04, 1944


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Re: Hmm..... I think there's something in my boot.
« Reply #13 on: September 22, 2010, 07:01:03 AM »
I do not think that round was ever fired.  There is no scarring on the round itself, the fuze is completely intact.  If you just dropped the thing on its nose, it would damage the fuse some.  It looks to me like the round was placed there for this picture.

Edit:  Then again, I could be an idiot.
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Re: Hmm..... I think there's something in my boot.
« Reply #14 on: September 22, 2010, 07:07:51 AM »
That picture is used on the cover of the Stephen Ambrose book "Americans at War" which I just happen to be reading.
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