Saturday, December 22, 2018

night witches


NIGHT WITCHES
I probably watch way too many YouTube video’s.  They are great for some things but by and large they are the “USA Today” version of books ( I can’t imagine any of you too young and missing the reference, but just in case, when that newspaper came out, short on text and long and graphs and pictures, it was derided by “real” fish-wraps for being a dumbed-down product ).  You can, usually, read more information in a shorter period of time.  Alas, this is where most of the condensed information is.  At least you can use it as a podcast or radio and do other tasks as you play the videos.
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One guy I’m rather enamored with is “The History Guy” with his series “history that deserves to be remembered”.  I love history, as he does, and if you all had a history teacher like him you would love it too.  He takes rather obscure facts and weaves interesting tales.  For instance, did you know that in WWII there were fifteen thousand air force training deaths in the US?  I had no idea, until The History Guy.  That prompted me to look up other facts on the Internet.
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The US built a quarter million aircraft for the war.  Granted, some were for the allies to use, but that is how good our industrial economy was.  You know how many aircraft we have in today’s air force?  Barely over five thousand ( now, obviously, you would have to add in the Army aircraft to the air force numbers, as back then we only had the Army Air Force-but this just illustrates how much of an industrial economy we are NOT ).  Between allied country use, some going to the Navy, etcetera, eighty thousand planes were in use by our air force.
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We had two and a half million men JUST in the Army Air Force ( today’s number is 300,000 ).  We were throwing away planes and pilots just in training that would have depleted today’s service three times over.  A lot of pilots had plenty of stateside training, but then had as little as one hour behind the stick in their issued plane at the front ( models were constantly upgraded ).  But as fascinating as this cannon fodder tale is, I like the Soviet’s version better.  Again, from The History Guy.
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“The Night Witches” were a female Soviet air force unit that used dumpy old fabric biplanes.  They got their name from the Germans, as when the engine was cut ( while running, they sounded like a sewing machine to ground troops ) and they coasted in to their target, the whistling reminded them of the tales of witches flying by on their broomsticks ( northern Europeans had wicked good fairy tales to scare the crap out of the little coneheads.  Brothers Grimm complete tales for only a buck on Kindle: https://amzn.to/2QBoaUO ).  The Soviet gals proudly adopted the moniker. 
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Now, a biplane against modern aircraft would seem to be suicidal.  But the stall speed on the German planes was above the regular speed on the biplanes.  The Soviets planes were going so slow it was hard to fight them, IF they were used correctly.  Instead of trying to run during the day and get picked off like fish in a barrel, they only ran night missions.  At treetop level.  They would climb, cut the engine and them coast down to their target and drop their ( usually ) single bomb.  Then go back for another mission.  For most of the night. 
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Now, I wasn’t fascinated by this because I enjoy aircraft.  I’ve always been fond of infantry action, history wise.  Boats and planes leave me cold.  And I understand perfectly how well the Soviets butchered history in favor of state propaganda.  The tale of the AK is an obvious one ( look at the SVT-38 and 40.  Those numbers denote the years of design. Kalashnikov was largely a living Soviet Hero myth ).  No, what got my attention was how, with proper tactics, primitive weapons were not only adequate, but in some cases superior to the modern ones ( hint, cough, semi’s verses bolts ).   
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I’m sure the Soviet officers, cut from the same cloth as the American Yankee Blue Blood Ivy League Elite officers, always happy to send the unworthy deplorables to their deaths, at first tried to send out the biplanes during the day.  And no one cared that all the pilots died.  What they DID care about was there weren’t enough planes to be wasting on moronic tactics, which is how someone could have suggested night time flights and was actually listened to ( one of the head female pilots was pre-war famous and actually had Stalin’s ear ).
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I don’t think Herr Officer Dumbass is an anomaly.  I think they are pretty universal.  And the ones directing troops in the field today might be good officers, they might care about their men, but they take orders from those mule member masticators way above their pay grade.  Who seemingly go out of their way to actually get the troops killed. And THOSE are the people you want to learn to fight from?  The people that decide it is more important to churn out much more crap than quality so our Socialist Brethren overseas get their planes, and 15,000 training deaths are just the price they are willing to take.
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Which is probably why the Night Witches story is so interesting, also.  Theirs was a success story of being able to use actual tactics that worked, rather than tactics ordered by their incompetent leaders which characterized most of the rest of the fighting.  You are only given primitive equipment?  Use it to your advantage.  Less speed, less engine power, limited bomb capacity, limited ceiling?  Make them outperform the enemy by using them to your advantage.  So much wailing and gnashing of teeth over here, with the Gear Queer penis envy.
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Oh, I want high capacity plastic poodle shooters!  I want to carry hundreds of rounds and bulletproof vests and tactical helmets to look as cool as our Blackwater Buddies!  If I don’t have it I shant ever be truly prepared!  Where are my MRE’s and FLIR scopes?  I can’t use a biplane to attack my countries invaders when they have all of the Big Boy Toys fighter aircraft!  But commies did it, didn’t they?  Sure, it was pure propaganda, female fighters and female snipers, the Proletariat Pussy Partisans against supposedly superior Teutonic forces, but it did show how it could be done.
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The Polish Warsaw Uprising saw all the fighters dead in the end, but with a few crappy guns it only took balls and brains to at least make a go of freedom.  The Germans ended up needing to reduce the entire ghetto to rubble to “win”, against a few guys who started out with a revolver and a few “militarily obsolete” firearms.  They didn’t try to go toe to toe with superior forces, but changed tactically to reflect the weapons they had.  Just like the Night Witches.  Learn from history. 
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17 comments:

  1. With that, I think your minion cadres will fit such a role quite well. The types that have attributes that "carry over" into other areas well. (Can use hammer on nails and drive screws manually, without power pack toys, cooks and eats well from cupboard scratch ingredients, can stay in the compound long time and keep occupied without social blankey clinging, skims a company rule book then tosses it aside knowing may have to go rogue anyway, only watches tv news for weather forecast and body count field reports then switches channels quickly back to cowboy movies, just enough formal education for work or finance purposes relies on genetic intelect coding family and tribal social cues and street smarts) The post collapse and die off survival hall passes won't be issued liberally.

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    1. My in/out temperature do-dad ( I call him "Mr. Barometer" ) does a better job forecasting the weather than any other TV asshat douche. The Weather Channel USED to be really spot on. Then in 2013 they were completely full of crap for weeks on end during our Arctic Vortex. Now they are actually doing staged Gore Warming stunts. What is wrong with people? Who Culture Wars the weather? Humping dingus lickers.

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  2. The whole story of the night witches is wonderful. I had read about them 30 years ago but not much further info was available until the last 15 years. I have an Amazon book that covered them very thoroughly and it is indeed a wonderful tale. One of the statistics that we in the west seem to forget is the HUGE number of deaths the russians endured during WW2. It makes our 500,000 look like a rounding error, and we still think they want to start a war?

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    1. By "our" I assume you mean the War Of Northern Aggression? Some of the "Innocent Southerner" authors claim it was closer to 750k, but that of course is a grain of salt number. If you added civilian disease and malnutrician numbers it might go higher though. Anyway, back to the Russkies, do you have the book title so I can check it out?

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    2. Actually the "our" was related to our losses during WW2. The book , which is a novel, but accurate as far as I know was "Daughters of the night sky" by Aimie K Runyan.

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    3. My apologies. For some reason the number 350k was stuck in my head. Looking it up now I'm seeing 420. You were closer than me. I'll look up that book. Thanks.

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    Curiosity insatiable

    I clicked your link to Wilder. Hours later, after reading his blog back a couple-three years, I was grinning. Good call!

    One Wilder link was to the MultiPlayerGame called METAL GEAR FIVE. Although I have zero interest in computer games, a YouTube video impacted me deeply:
    (search for) "Quiet's Theme" performed by Dutch actress Stefanie Joosten.
    YouTube has several versions. One has lyrics, helpful to geezers with headphones. [points to self]
    Another five-minute version has the characters 'Venom' and 'Quiet' on a helicopter ride.

    I was blown-away by the intricacy of Japanese myth and legend. There is far more depth and breadth than meets the first glance.

    I am very very impressed, words I rarely get to say.

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    1. Well, I tried, but I don't like music enough to listen if not immediately hooked. Which I wasn't. I know, damn savages around here :) But thank you all the same.

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  4. 1920's biplane technology is WOOD and DOPED CANVAS, which not only is low-tech to manufacture/source materials, flys low and slow and not-least is nearly invisible to radar. The Soviets have a model of agricultural-multi-purpose biplane called AN-2 that seats 12 commandos made on these lines. It is one of the main aircraft of North Korea, because the Norks can not mess around with anything short of MAXIMUM bang for the buck in machines or tactics. They plan on these men/machines making a single flight South as a suicide mission to wreck strategic points then add general mayhem behind the lines of the retreating S. Korean civilians and military during a push South.
    How many AN-2's full of skinny Nork Commandos can you buy for the price of a grounded F-35? I'm thinking hundreds of aircraft and thousands of men.
    pdxr13

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    1. Think about the starving children that cannot be fed without free market private defense contractor cost overruns and Cost Plus guarantees.

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    2. We have met the enemy and it is us. Walt Kelly, creator of the comic strip Pogo

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    3. Only thing I remember about that cartoon. And I'm sure its creator was glad for the impact of that one thing. How many have been helped just from that?

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  5. It seems as if the cracks in the dike (of the water holding back variety, as opposed to the hitlery variety :D ) are growing bigger by the day Jim. We’re pulling a good many troops out of Syria, and it seems that there’s talk about doing the same in Afghanistan. Not sure what our leaders were thinking when a non-pc military such as the former Soviets, couldn’t succeed over there. Apparently we never planned on winning in the first place, and it was only a money maker. Craig B. Hulet was on coast to coast am the other night. He leans to the right, but he’s an independent thinker, and doesn’t align with the modern neo-conservative idiots. He flat out, and unabashedly stated that we’d get our asses kicked in a conventional war up against a formidable adversary.

    I heard this morning on the news, that the main utility company here in the west, PG&E, is in a bit of trouble, and is looking to replace its leadership. If they’re smart, they’ll also cut out the dead weight affirmative action hires, such as the overpaid fat hillbilly chick that I know.

    Also heard that the parents of that Otto Warmbier dude are trying to sue North Korea for a billion dollars. I just about fell over laughing. It takes a special kind of stupid to go to a shithole like North Korea, and so much as spit on the side walk. Actually, it takes a special kind of stupid to go to a shithole like North Korea in the first place. You know, when you can choose from a variety of other countries that won’t beat your head in for removing a poster from a hotel wall :D I don’t mean to sound like a totally heartless bastard, but I find it hard to have too much sympathy for the dude. The same way that if I decided on a whim one day, that it would be prudent to head over to downtown Oakland Ca, and scream the N word at the top of my lungs, and no one would have any sympathy for me :D

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    1. The list of countries where it's dangerous to be a white man (let alone a white woman) is only surpassed by the list of nations where it's dangerous to be a white American.

      The number of countries I'd be willing to visit is very few. Hell, I'm trying very hard to ensure I am never more than a days walk (leisurely... I'm a fatty after all) away from my Prepper Fortress (suburban house)

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      It's why I have zero sympathy for those two broads murdered in Morocco. WTF were they thinking? Two very attractive young females travelling to a shiphole? They drank the feminist go-grrrl koolaid and whadya know? Stupidity does have consequences

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    3. 5:24 here. My zero sympathy isn't from a nasty place. It's from a "lots of people warned of the danger. The danger is well documented. They really do hate you. The ones who act nice do so in order to deceive you. Their book tells them to kill you. but no, you knew better"

      Last point. Everyone keeps referring to them as young girls. They were 28 & whilst that's half my age its not the age of a child

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  6. It's impressive that you are getting thoughts from this
    paragraph as well as from our argument made at this time.

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