gillymor - yeah.. for a pacifist, I have a very keen morbid curiosity for warfare, and militay hardware..

Probably because I was a boy in the 1960s growing up brainwashed on a diet
of heroic war movies, TV series, and comics...

One of the earliest books I remember looking through was my Dad's big collection of WW2 photo journalism..
titled something like "Greatest War Photos"

It was completely graphic and uncensored..
No one seemed to mind me seeing those images of reality in the early 1960s..
Unlike today's utterly sanitised, over protective and non offensive mass news media...