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One of the two Panther turrets installed by the Germans to protect the Miramare airfield near Rimini. The turret was knocked out by Lieutenant Collins of 18th NZ Armoured Regiment in the fighting for the Gothic Line in September 1944, and he is pictured next to it with the shell holes visible in the side.

Pantherturm installed on the airfield were dominating:

"On 17 September the Seaforths of Canada supported by a squadron of 145th Regiment RAC put in an attack on San Martino. The attack started well, but soon six of the supporting tanks were knocked out. These it was believed were the victims of the second Panther turret located at the northern end of the airfield. This was engaged by artillery and ground attack aircraft but neither succeeded in silencing the turret. The only alternative was a direct attack by the tanks of 18th NZ Armoured Regiment. But so complete was the turret's command of the terrain that it was decided that the best way of silencing the menace was an attack by a single tank. Covered by smoke the tank, commanded by Lieutenant Collins, advanced to within range of the turret and with its fourth shot knocked it out before escaping under another smoke screen. For his bravery in the battle for Rimini airfield Collins was awarded the Military Cross."

You can read the Seaforth's War Diary here: https://map.project44.ca/

17th of Sept:

"During the night the companies and BHQ came under fairly heavy enemy shellfire, but casualties were not high.

0830 The CO Lt-Col S.W. Thomson DSO MC held an "O" group at "D" coy HQ at FOXBOROUGH. He ordered "A" and "C" Coys to prepare for an attack on KESTREL that afternoon. It appeared that the enemy were reinforcing this strongpoint as,during the morning,Tiger tanks were observed approaching it.

1000 The CO Lt-Col S.W. Thomson DSO MC,accompanied by the IO Lieut. F.R. Perrett,went to 2nd Cdn. Inf. Bde. HQ to discuss the fire plan for the impending attack on KESTREL.

1200 "A" Coy,u/c Major H.W.J. Paterson,and "C" coy u/c H.L. Glendenning were teed up for an attack on KESTREL.

During this period all coys came under extremely heavy shellfire and the casualties were evacuated through the RAP at GLENCOE.

1330 Forward BHQ moved to a large house at FOXBOROUGH. The area and road near there were evidently an enemy DF task as heavy and incessant shellfire was experienced there during the ensuing few days.

1355 "A" and "C" coys moved off for the assault on KESTREL after a 25 minute artillery barrage.Forward troops of these coys reached the village after running the gauntlet of enemy crossfire from both tanks and dug-in positions. Our supporting armour suffered heavy casualties and was unable to keep up with the infantry. Our own casualties were heavy and the OC "A" coy Major H.W.J. Paterson was killed. It was learned that 1 Bn 1 Para Regt,plus some supporting tanks,had been given the task of defending this important feature.

1600 The situation at KESTREL had deteriorated considerably and "A" and "C" coys started to withdraw. Our tanks were no longer a fighting force and "D" and "B" coys,who had taken over the positions of the assaulting coys,came under heavy fire. A coy of the PPCLI had moved up to FOXBOROUGH with their tanks. These tanks the CO Lt-Col S.W. Thomson DSO MC moved slightly forward around the feature in order to firm up our own position against the possibility of an enemy counter attack which was reported developing.

1700 "B","C" and "D" coys were dug in on the crest of the feature with "A" coy in its original position below FOXBOROUGH.

1800 The CO Lt-Col S.W. Thomson DSO MC left to visit the brigade commander. On his return he said that "B" and "D" coys would make a further attempt to take KESTREL that night.

1930 Stretcher parties went out to search the ground above KESTREL. All wounded from this sector were evacuated through the 48th Highlanders RAP.Our own RAP,which was then located at FOXBOROUGH,were accepting casualties from all neighbouring units.

Enemy shellfire was still heavy and continued so throughout the night. The BHQ's of the Seaf of C and PPCLI were both located in the same building at FOXBOROUGH. This was a huge three storey building with walls so thick that they were able to withstand very many direct hits from the enemy's artillery."

Pragmatically, it seems like they were suffering from artillery fire and infiltrating fire, maybe from this Pantherturm, while trying to assault a feature referred to as Point Kestrel, an elevated observation point which was a cast iron prick to attack. Its to the point that Thompson, the CO of the Seaforth commented that they shouldn't have been directly attacking it. Frankly, I'm currently working on producing something for a lecture:

I have been focusing on the battle due to a family connection, and came across this photo hidden in a PDF on German defences in Italy, I thought it was worth sharing on its own. There isn't a ton of open-source photos of the battle, and it's novel to see a TC standing with a target his tank knocked out personally that was incredibly dangerous to the Allied Forces facing it.

https://88thinfantrydivisionarchive.com/germany/germandefencesinitaly-osprey-68pgs.pdf

Um, I sometimes not the best at writing for social media or reddit in particular, I wanted to retry this?

I wasnt sure about a positive response overall and kinda got surprised.

Frankly I find user on reddit glich at how I write? I often use ai llm as a translator being autistic/adhd with hyperverbalism, I just say google those?

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I wanted to share that adult amateur football does exist, I find there is a lack of exposure and the sense the game ends at high school when there is options. On reddit I see it commonly a lot of negative stuff about it, and I totally get why. The politics and behavior of adult amateur or semi-pro players can be a total mess sometimes. Even our league is having trouble finding refs, which is jacking up the cost this season. But I just steer clear of all that, and luckily, my teammates are awesome, even though I'm a clumsy, autistic social oddball. I think it's partly because I'm an ol; there aren't many of us in adult leagues, honestly. I don't mind the repetitive grind of my position; I already beat myself up as an ice hockey goalie.

I might come across the wrong way sometimes because my interest in equipment makes me seem flashy, but I've also become an expert in it after working with equipment in high school.

I'm actually trying to write a grant application to create a helmet bank and issue helmets like youth teams do, because adult football equipment standards are so terrible. We don't issue helmets or have any reconditioning standards. I'm one of the few who, for example, will recondition his helmets with the company and understands that they've made huge strides in helmet engineering for anti-brain strain properties in the last five years hence my collection.

I probably need to update this document for football helments engineering and data, it's out of date:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k6o4TcWcSQtrGo4TX7VlmYMlMdnEZ3hAYNTfAjBpB7Y/edit?usp=drivesdk

Honestly, I totally forgot to mention: I didn't think I'd be playing football in 2026 with my adult amateur team because of severe muscular chronic pain from chronic pain syndrome/central sensitization, and that's why I was sharing.

I barely made it through 2024, often dealing with 8/10 pain. My back completely gave out in 2025, and I was told to quit.

Honestly, I've been on disability and totally isolated with this physical disability, struggling mentally and often severely lonely, and football helps a ton with the loneliness.

I found a home for a while going back to my old high school coach, doing equipment for a season, which I loved. I loved working with kids and them handing me SpeedFlexs to take apart and put back together, fixing them even when they got disgusting from playing 5x a week and just shoving them into lockers without letting them dry with sweat 🫠

I ended up learning to read study data with the help of AI LLMs and self-advocating for neuro-affirmed pain management from the latest study data, collecting it and writing dissertations on it. I wish I didn't have to, but the study-to-practice gap is often 20 years.

They're currently linking chronic pain to neurodiversity (autism, autism+ADHD, ADHD) in depth, and S. Kasahara, in particular, has posted studies on treatment, which is pragmatically standard ADHD treatment—stimulants improving pain scores by 60%.

I started Vyvanse 6 months ago, and magically, I went from my back giving out on me in 2025 to now, after a football practice, I feel like I could literally go do a skate as a goalie right after if I wanted to, which is nuts.

It's wild!

II'm still in shock.

I'm still not 100%, my back muscles aren't quite firing right. My left shoulder is straining because the front muscles are overloaded from the back muscles not working correctly, and I need to rehab. I'm trialing pramipexole with Vyvanse, and we're still figuring out the dosage. Pramipexole has limited indications for ADHD but a lot for pain treatment in studies, so I'm hoping it helps more in conjunction with the Vyvanse.

I plan on filming FPV this season; I recently upgraded from the SQ11 to the SQ28 mini cube cam. I haven't had a chance to use it yet. I mainly use it for technical review but also as a keepsake of playing. I might share it on my channel.

I often see people on Reddit trash adult amateur or semi-pro football.

I don't know if it's just me finding the right team locally, but yeah, I'm obsessed with it and totally love it, even with some health issues from playing. My left shoulder is bothering me right now.

I have high anxiety/hypervigilance from being AuADHD+cPTSD. It's gotten better over the years and I'm much more functional, but it's also made me systematically reduce injury risk with high-impact mitigation helmets. I have the new SpeedFlex SF Echo, Light Apache, Vicis Zero2 Trench, plus things like a Kerr collar neck restrictor that can reduce neck loads by 30-50%. I even got the pro NXT model Guardian cap, not the XT model.

I'm just able to mentally accept doing contact more easily pragmatically by doing all that stuff.

The play schedule isn't super intense, but this year we do have some powerful D that bang up my helmets pretty quickly.

Moms hometown, USAF used base for air refuelling ops during cold war for B-52 Operation Chrome Dome until ICMBs or other means of nuclear deterrence took over.

The provincial government in the 90s made the decision to concentrate flights at the regional airport at Deer Lake, primarily large population centre of Corner Brook was nearby and on top of that tourist destinations were closer to Deer Lake.

The airport limped along in operation until the pandemic; no airlines returned. There was a scheme by an investor group to buy the airport that turned out to be a bit sketchy and ultimately led to the airport going into receivership.

Hasn't apparently had power since last year; the town has chronically wanted to see it succeed as an economic driver, and I don't blame them. I mean, the runway facilities were such that it could accommodate the space as an alternative landing site, and was also involved in Operation Yellow Ribbon but decisions made a decades ago probably won't allow that to happen.

I got bored on July 22nd, 2019, and have long had a military history background so I took the opportunity to drive around to a few of the different buildings that are dotted around outside boundaries that are established for the International Airport.

There is also abandoned hardened munitions storage facilities dotted around the town you can come across, I didn't seem to go looking for one browsing Google Photos.

Unfortunately, the town is sort of in an economic limbo, their paper mill closed in 2005. Pragmatically, it's mostly a transfer-dependent service economy with being a service centre regional monopoly. The immediate town population sits under 7,000 people, but it is the designated service center for a catchment area of roughly 25,000 to 35,000 people living across the rural southwest coast and the Port au Port Peninsula.

Newfoundland's Economy pragmatically also imploded in 1990s with a Cod Moratorium, which doesn't really help either:

https://youtu.be/V3u5lNzFoXU

This is of course, outside of areas of industrial production or economic centres like St. John or Corner Brook, offshore oil and gas has kind of had a rebound effect, a little bit for St John in the last two decades.

https://campingcdn.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-earnest-harmon-air-force-base.html

https://www.hiddennewfoundland.ca/harmon-air-force-base

https://youtu.be/SteE1CY5L_g

Thats a big goalie!

I am also adult amateur OL in semi pro team, goalie actually is great lower body and cardiovascular conditioning for ol ngl.