Free French pilots of the RC Normandie-Niémen return to Le Bourget on June 20th 1945

[hw97karbine]

Free French pilots of the Régiment de Chasse Normandie-Niémen return to Le Bourget on June 20th 1945 in their Yakovlev Yak-3 fighters donated by the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin decreed that combatants could return home with their arms

 

[Gnomey]

Good one!

 

[Snautzer01]

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[MIflyer]

A friend of mine, Pat Brady, was there. He was in Paris and heard engines roaring. He went looking for the source of the noise and saw a bunch of Yaks following each other in a big loop.

It was a French tradition that soldiers got to take their horses home with them after the war and Stalin was informed of that. When I was at the Pentagon we were told we would be getting new desktop computers and I brought up that tradition relative to what to do with our old ones.

 

[Snautzer01]

Thank god you didn't work with Minuteman.

 

[bf109xxl]

A friend of mine, Pat Brady, was there. He was in Paris and heard engines roaring. He went looking for the source of the noise and saw a bunch of Yaks following each other in a big loop.

It was a French tradition that soldiers got to take their horses home with them after the war and Stalin was informed of that. When I was at the Pentagon we were told we would be getting new desktop computers and I brought up that tradition relative to what to do with our old ones.

In the Soviet Army, too, there was a similar tradition, the keepers of which were usually warrant officers who served in warehouses - they did not have war horses, but they considered it their duty to take home everything that could be stolen unpunished. There was a joke that a special uniform with one epaulet was introduced for them - to make it easier to carry a heavy sack home on the second shoulder.