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I thought everyone had forgotten Nipa's birthday, but the previous thread had hit the image limit without me noticing. My bad.
>>4461199Extremely pretty red dress
>>4461208thinking cap
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>>4461206Everyone loves Nipa
>>>/wsg/6170164>>>/wsg/6170167>>>/wsg/6170173>>>/wsg/6170175>>>/wsg/6170178As a show of love to my waifu on her birthday I have uploaded a 5 part animated movie that was commissioned by the Canadian Government and Animated by Walt Disney, on how to operate a Boys Anti tank rifle. The first section is an introduction, but everything else is actually quite technical even when animated. I think its quite an interesting piece of history.
>>4462479Very nice! Interesting it shows the Mk.I even though the film was released in March the same year the Mk.I* Lynne uses was introduced, 1942. Plus the Mk.I* improvements were developed in Canada, so you'd assume they'd have had earlier access to them. I guess they started production on the film before the upgrades were formally accepted.The upgraded Mk.I* muzzle brake was a big deal too. The original Mk.I brake deflected so much of the blast downward that it kicked up a bunch of dust, not only potentially blinding you but making it very obvious where you were. It was a big part of why the gun had such a bad reputation, to the point that they made the film to show its usefulness.
Visiting the fleet:
>>4462579I find it interesting that even in the video they make it clear that yeah its an anti tank gun, but its only really good against light tanks at close range. I also appreciate it since highlights one of the key aspects of the Canadian forces success in my opinion. The ability to disseminate knowledge and train soldiers. It turns out if you can train troops to survive a battle, they end up being really good at surviving and then winning battles.
>>4462601Very true. I haven't read/watched a lot about the Canadians specifically, but all of the Anglosphere forces seemed to have had solid training programs, especially the air forces late-war. Contrast that with the Luftwaffe's fighter program, which had structural problems that worsened mid-war on top of the late-war attrition and resource shortages that really hosed it. Galland was furious and tried to improve it, but couldn't really do much between the powers that be meddling and the wartime situation itself.Which I really only mention as an excuse to post Galland. Man I wish we got more of her.
>>4462626The Canadian Experience in ww1 is really interesting to me. Basically it starts in 1915, with a division that are barely militia arriving at the front 1 week before they would experience the first ever major Chlorine gas attack, They fight off the germans in a brutal 1 month long battle with piss soaked handkerchiefs being the only defense against any gas attacks. Later they would be at the somme and see that horror, vow never to let it happen again, and then insist on having all canadian divisions act together as one so that they can better plan out their next assaults. This need to plan out their assaults personally, ends up with the Canadian corps becoming so good at assaults that they become the British high commands first choice in leading any major assault. All of this, not because they were planning on killing more of the enemy, but because they approached the battle planning on the basis of losing the least amount of soldiers. Also yeah I definitely did a deep dive into training hours on air crew and its almost direct correlation to survivability. Turns out pilots who don't have much flying time, aren't as good pilots and pilots with more flying time.
>>4462479This makes me so happy. Bless you anon.
>>4462646That's pretty interesting. I bet the other nations considered soldiers cannon fodder which is supposed to die to be useful.
>>4462701The Britannian Witch style of thigh-highs combined with the blazer is so good.
>>4462730Initially yeah, I will say that there's this perception that it was the British nobility sending the commoners to their deaths, which is true, But not all nobs were bad, many junior officers were nobles and they had to go over the top just as much as any commoner, also Julian Byng was a friend of the King and his Aristocratic nickname was Bungo, but he was the commander of the Canadian corps and he actually did care and was a great commander.Anyways if you want to know moreHere' a video about vimy ridge. I especially like this video since it goes over the vimy memorial which, during ww2 when Nazis were knocking down ww1 memorials all over france, Hitler visited and decided that is was too moving to destroy. https://youtu.be/tjvCCcqYOP0Also this video at this time. Puts a bit more context of the corps during the war and it features a lot quotes from Arthur Curries memoirs, who was Byng's second in command. https://youtu.be/c-TLvrRaUT4?list=PLStWk-YC9AL-qlQv5TqvcMpii6t5i2HLV&t=809
>>4462735Virginia is so cute.
>>4462767I love the addition of headphones to her design; it's so cute.
>>4462775Nora was such a cute one-off character.
Cute brown idol witch
>>4462626Oh I actually just remembered one of my favorite Canadian WW2 stories. Its a short video. https://youtu.be/Us_NcYGFD4w
>>4462817Brown cute
here's a strike witches doujin i'm working on. Its actually a spin off with OCs because that way i can have more creative control but also not overstep established things.The website is unfinished, the art and translations are AI, but the story is 100% written by hand to ensure perfect symbolism and care to the original source. The AI concept art is just to show what the characters and scenes look like. I could use some feedbackhttps://themorriganswitches.lol/Also I remember a few years ago, the last christmas card exchange, it was the only exchange I was able to participate it, but i got fired from my job right after signing up and I was unable to give gifts with my cards, and I always felt guilty that everyone was so generous to me, so accept this as my belated gift. If you spot any inaccuracies i'd like to see them.
>>4462837Interesting video! After fighting through D-Day, that final race across Germany must've felt so surreal. Further south, it's amazing to think that after crossing the Rhine, it took barely a month for the Western allies to meet the Soviets at the Elbe.Also had a chance to read a bit about the Canadian Corps. I definitely see the emphasis on training and development you mentioned. Interesting stuff.
