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Xanos Blackpaw
Amarr
The Firestorm Cartel
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Posted - 2009.02.08 22:50:00 -
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5 real life soldiers that make rambo look like a *****! |
Brea Lafail
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Posted - 2009.02.08 22:52:00 -
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 Originally by: Xanos Blackpaw
5 real life soldiers that make rambo look like a *****!
Fixed. |
Xanos Blackpaw
Amarr
The Firestorm Cartel
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Posted - 2009.02.08 22:56:00 -
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thx for the fix...it should have worked... |
Brea Lafail
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Posted - 2009.02.08 23:07:00 -
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Edited by: Brea Lafail on 08/02/2009 23:07:35
Filtered, including links.
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Dirk Magnum
Royal Hiigaran Navy
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Posted - 2009.02.08 23:13:00 -
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List needs more Yakov Pavlov, but still good. I hadn't heard of that British guy with the sword before.
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ceaon
Gallente
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Posted - 2009.02.08 23:45:00 -
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so there was no German hero?
. . .
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Surfin's PlunderBunny
Minmatar
MasterBlasters Inc.
CORPVS DELICTI
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Posted - 2009.02.08 23:51:00 -
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Needs more French war heroes 
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Putting the sensual in nonconsensual
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Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
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Posted - 2009.02.08 23:52:00 -
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Holy **** those guys are/were crazy 
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David Kang
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Posted - 2009.02.08 23:53:00 -
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Originally by: ceaon
so there was no German hero?
I bet there was.. just like Russian heros.
But we living in the western world means were the good guys.
and such everything is heavily biased on that perception.
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ceaon
Gallente
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Posted - 2009.02.09 00:02:00 -
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Originally by: David Kang
But we living in the western world means were the good guys
ppl should quite thinking like that there is not good and bad side just my interest vs your interest 
. . .
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Rikeka
Amarr
Eye of God
Intrepid Crossing
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Posted - 2009.02.09 00:06:00 -
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There was that German tank commander on WW2, that his tank alone, solo, got like 30 brit armoured vehicles, while being hunted inside a small town... I forgot the name. |
Kaeten
Hybrid Syndicate
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Posted - 2009.02.09 00:13:00 -
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Originally by: Rikeka
There was that German tank commander on WW2, that his tank alone, solo, got like 30 brit armoured vehicles, while being hunted inside a small town... I forgot the name.
Was in france this happened I belive.
That finish sniper is my favorite of all times! |
Dantes Revenge
Caldari
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Posted - 2009.02.09 01:00:00 -
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Originally by: Surfin's PlunderBunny
Needs more French war heroes
Actually, there were a few in the resistance movement. Unfortunately, France had a very small resistance movement. France's reluctance to fight in WWII earned them a reputation for a fast surrender.
Holland had the best resistance movement of WWII and they were tough nuts willing to take on any suicide mission if it helped the cause.
I remember a game based on WWII that had a lot of star wars parody. The "jedi master" was a little blind guy. When they came up against an enemy scout party, he convinced them with the jedi mind trick that they were french and they surrendered and ran away.
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TraininVain
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Posted - 2009.02.09 03:26:00 -
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Edited by: TraininVain on 09/02/2009 03:33:26
http://www.pegasusarchive.org/arnhem/robert_cain.htm
^^ This chap had a stiff upper lip.
There's also this bloke who probably deserved a VC:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Blair_Mayne
If you read about his life he makes most Hollywood action movie characters look like Mary Poppins.
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Gneeznow
Minmatar
North Eastern Swat
Pandemic Legion
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Posted - 2009.02.09 05:30:00 -
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Michael Wittmann |
Toshiro GreyHawk
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Posted - 2009.02.09 06:48:00 -
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Actually, the list of men who have done extraordinary things is neigh on to endless.
That's one of the things that got me into being a History Major. If you just made up a story about any one of these guys people would laugh at you and say it could never happen.
One thing to keep in mind about all this though - is that all the thousands of incredible stories of things real people have really done - are merely the ones someone found out about and wrote down. There is no knowing how many things happened that no one knows about because no one wrote it down ... or every one involved died ... and there was no one to write it down.
A recent thread included a quote from Blade Runner which made me think of this just now.
As Roy said: "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tan Hauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain ... Time to die."
Of course here we have an example of fiction written by someone who knew how to tell a story. But then this is exactly the problem with much of what has happened. Even if they lived, many of those who saw extraordinary things weren't writers, so even though though they had incredible stories to tell, unless someone who was a writer came along and heard them they go untold.
Faction Schools
Orbiting vs. Kiting |
Rikeka
Amarr
Eye of God
Intrepid Crossing
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Posted - 2009.02.09 11:46:00 -
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Edited by: Rikeka on 09/02/2009 11:55:08
Originally by: Gneeznow
Michael Wittmann
Yep, that was the name. It's not he who was sieged in Villers-Bocage, but the enemy. He marched in, and owned them. Totaly badass.
Quote:
"During the opening phase of this battle, within a 15 minute period, he is credited with the destruction of between 10 and 11 tanks, 2 anti-tank guns and 13 personnel carriers"
BTW, it's not he was sieged in Villers-Bocage, but the enemy. He marched in, and owned them. Totaly badass.
Another german hero, Erich Hartmann, the highest scoring fighter ace in the history of Aerial warfare. He flew 1,404 combat missions during World War II resulting in 825 engagements,[49] and was never shot down. He was never wounded and never bailed out due to damage inflicted by enemy pilots. His kill tally included some 200 various single-engined Soviet-built fighters, more than 80 US-built P-39s, 15 Il-2 ground attack aircraft, and 10 twin-engined medium bombers.
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solidshot
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Posted - 2009.02.09 11:49:00 -
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Originally by: TraininVain
Edited by: TraininVain on 09/02/2009 03:33:26
http://www.pegasusarchive.org/arnhem/robert_cain.htm
^^ This chap had a stiff upper lip.
Jeremy Clarksons father in-law iirc (he did a BBC documentary on him a while back)
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Ruri Dant
Onorata Societa
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Posted - 2009.02.09 13:25:00 -
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AMAZING THX |
Rhatar Khurin
Minmatar
pSyChOTIC CareBears
BrightSpark Alliance
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Posted - 2009.02.09 13:33:00 -
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It's not hard tbh, considering 99% of Earths population is more badass than me. |
Slade Trillgon
Masuat'aa Matari
Ushra'Khan
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Posted - 2009.02.09 15:06:00 -
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"For his gallantry and sheer ballsiness, he was awarded the Param Vir Chakra, India's highest military award. Unlike the Medal of Honor, the Param Vir Chakra is only given for "rarest of the rare gallantry which is beyond the call of duty and which in normal life is considered impossible to do." That's right, you actually have to break the laws of reality just to be eligible."
This was my favorite quote.
Those guys and those that were not mentioned are definately the definitions of heros for their people.
Hats off tho them.
Slade
Originally by: Niccolado Starwalker
Please go sit in the corner, and dont forget to don the shame-on-you-hat!
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Micheal Dietrich
Caldari
Terradyne Networks
Terradyne Networks Alliance
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Posted - 2009.02.09 17:22:00 -
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Simo Hayha is definitely a bad ass but I have to say that the Russians cornered the market for snipers in WW2. While many of them do not have Simo's kill count they did have vehicle kills as well as personnel.
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Yoshimako
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Posted - 2009.02.09 18:16:00 -
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Edited by: Yoshimako on 09/02/2009 18:15:59
Originally by: ceaon
Originally by: David Kang
But we living in the western world means were the good guys
ppl should quite thinking like that there is not good and bad side just my interest vs your interest
Yeah because the N azis weren't bad? |
Gneeznow
Minmatar
North Eastern Swat
Pandemic Legion
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Posted - 2009.02.09 20:08:00 -
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this article about the soviet KV-1 tank also features a pretty pwn guy, he took a KV-1 and ploughed through a german column. (the section that starts with Krasnogvardeysk) |
Eran Laude
Gallente
The Aduro Protocol
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Posted - 2009.02.09 20:30:00 -
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Edited by: Eran Laude on 09/02/2009 20:31:33
I read about Simo on wikipedia sometime last year and my draw just dropped - I mean, he was one guy with a few cans of food living in -20 and down temperatures armed with a crappy Finnish licence-built Mosin-nagant, killing the very best of the Red Army.
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Nomakai Delateriel
Amarr
Ammatar Free Corps
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Posted - 2009.02.09 21:02:00 -
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Originally by: Eran Laude
Edited by: Eran Laude on 09/02/2009 20:31:33
I read about Simo on wikipedia sometime last year and my draw just dropped - I mean, he was one guy with a few cans of food living in -20 and down temperatures armed with a crappy Finnish licence-built Mosin-nagant, killing the very best of the Red Army.
Crappy finnish license-built Mosin-Nagant? Whut?
Ask any gun-nut collecting Mosin-Nagants and he'll tell you that the finnish-produced/modified Mosin-nagants maintained a much higher quality than the russian ones. Improved barrel, trigger, sights and extractor made the finnish rifles much more accurate and improved on the already outstanding reliability of the original mosin-nagant.
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P'uck
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Posted - 2009.02.09 21:05:00 -
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wooo oooo oooo camouflage
things are never quite the way they seem
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Irida Mershkov
Gallente
Noir.
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Posted - 2009.02.09 21:06:00 -
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No Zaitsev?
The Indian guy was pretty badass, jesus christ that is so awesome.
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Cmdr Sy
Appetite 4 Destruction
The Firm.
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Posted - 2009.02.09 21:18:00 -
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Originally by: Eran Laude
...killing the very best of the Red Army.
"Finland" and "killing the very best of the Red Army" does not compute. They were not even the very worst. They were barely army.
It was untrained conscripts without proper winter equipment forced into human wave attacks against static positions, armed with an ancient rifle and a few bullets if they were lucky, a revolver or bayonet if not. Behind them, lots of better-armed motivation. Of course that sniper clocked up that many kills. My grandfather took a bullet in the shoulder and lost 194 men out of 200 in one such engagement under Moscow up against maybe a three man German fire team. At the start of one offensive later in the war he saw 40 penal battalions of a thousand men each marched off to give his counter-battery and others perfect coordinates. You have to take the nature of the enemy into account. Yes it must have taken some balls, but name one other opponent in history that gave away so many kills as standard operating procedure just for the chance to see a muzzle flash.
Just trying to do history justice here.
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Irida Mershkov
Gallente
Noir.
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Posted - 2009.02.10 01:08:00 -
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Slightly off topic, but holy ****Bullet Ants? Africanzed Bees?! |
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