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This was not the first time someone thought up an armored shield. They tried this on the Western Front during WW I with equal lack of success.
1 posted on 10/27/2016 6:20:25 AM PDT by C19fan
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General Winter won.

Great post.


2 posted on 10/27/2016 6:23:23 AM PDT by Ueriah
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The WWI museum at the Somme shows several varieties of german and Allied “portable” armored shields ... and several have been shot through. The high-speed bullets were just too powerful.

Even “tank” armor on the early WWII light tanks could be pierced by large rifle and machine gun bullets.


3 posted on 10/27/2016 6:23:52 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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Hell of an idea though & kept a few factory workers busy making them. Those Finns were just too stupid to understand they would be defeated by an overwhelming force.


4 posted on 10/27/2016 6:27:19 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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president ubama and perhaps Mrs. Clinton, will strangle our military with ideas as equally silly.

If Mrs. Clinton was able to so easily kill a number of good folks as Secretary of State, think what she can do as POTUS. It should scare us all.

Oldplayer


10 posted on 10/27/2016 7:03:27 AM PDT by oldplayer
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president ubama and perhaps Mrs. Clinton, will strangle our military with ideas as equally silly.

If Mrs. Clinton was able to so easily kill a number of good folks as Secretary of State, think what she can do as POTUS. It should scare us all.

Oldplayer


11 posted on 10/27/2016 7:03:27 AM PDT by oldplayer
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Yep...WW1 stuff.


13 posted on 10/27/2016 7:19:42 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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The Finns and the Poles are inspirations for defiance in the face of overwheling odds. I only hope those guts haven’t been bred out of them like so many other Europeans.


14 posted on 10/27/2016 7:21:25 AM PDT by IronJack
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When I was in elementary school our area didn’t have those nuke drills the rest of the country had. In 5th grade during “social studies” class another student asked why we didn’t have those. Teacher told us it was because we were within 20 miles of the largest army post in the western hemisphere and it would be one of the first targets. We did not have a chance of surviving.

That pretty much freaked me out so that night I brought it up at our supper table. My daddy told us about the winter war that night. (I learned a lot of the best history from my daddy at the supper table.) Since the social studies class in school was requiring some kind of report about communist Russia I decided to write about that war.

It is Texas and my teacher was what I considered an old lady at the time. There was no liberal crap taught in that classroom. She did talk about my report to the rest of the class, telling all that the Finn’s were an example to how our mindset should be in fighting commies. Use every sneaky weapon both mental and physical against them, bring out all age groups, men and women, but they must be defeated.

These days I shudder to think what Mrs. Brown would think of her own country.


15 posted on 10/27/2016 8:15:32 AM PDT by Wneighbor (Deplorable, livin in a swamp of crazy and lovin it)
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One Red Army General stated after the armistice was signed; they had conquered just enough of Finland to bury their dead.


18 posted on 10/27/2016 2:17:48 PM PDT by Bull Snipe
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Stalin killing off his best generals got a lot of Soviet soldiers killed.


24 posted on 10/27/2016 4:33:28 PM PDT by dfwgator
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