Saab J35F Draken 35483 - '31'
Flygvapnet - Saab J35F Draken 35483 / '31', of F10 wing at RAF Leuchars in August 1972.
(Flygvapnet - Swedish Air Force). Date: 1998
A guy I know in Germany recently took his beautifully polished Ercoupe to an airshow in Poland, where it was very well received. He had added a smoke system to it. Nice period in history, huh, where a German from Berlin can take his 1940's American made airplane to Poland and be welcomed warmly. That would have been unthinkable back when that Ercoupe was built. On on the anniversary of the start of WW2, as well.
Ernst Mathias Peter von Vegesack (June 18, 1820 – January 12, 1903) was a Swedish Army officer and volunteer in the Union Army during American Civil War and later on was a member of the parliament of Sweden. After his return to Sweden, he was awarded the brevet grade of Brigadier general of volunteers and in 1893 he received the Medal of Honor for bravery in the Battle of Gaines's Mill.
Rank and organization: Major and Aide-de-Camp, U.S. Volunteers. Place and date: At Gaines Mill, Va., 27 June 1862. Entered service at: New York, N.Y. Birth: Sweden. Date of issue: 23 August 1893.
Citation:
While voluntarily serving as aide-de-camp, successfully and advantageously charged the position of troops under fire.
FOOD FOR POWDER Give a glance at these seventeen men, who, for some reason that we cannot tell, have chosen to stand before the camera and be taken. Note one thing first—there is not one smiling face nor one look of the holiday soldier about this little group. Able, grim, stern-hearted veterans—their faces show it. Among them all there is not a single merry-maker. These men have faced death often, they have seen their comrades die. They have looked across the sights of their muskets at the ragged men in gray, and peered through the enveloping smoke to see if their shots have told. These are not the machine-made soldiers of the European armies. They are the development of the time and hour. The influence of emigration is plainly shown. Here is a Scotchman—. FEDERAL TROOPS AT CORINTH An old soldier of the Queen, perhaps, who knew the Mutiny and the Crimea. Here are Swedes and Germans, Irish and French; but, predominating, is the American type—the Yankee, and the man of many blends from the mid-West and the North woods. There are two or three regulars standing in the center—artillerymen with bell buttons. On the extreme right are two men of the saber, with short jackets. Beyond them is the battle-field of October. It is now winter, but these men saw that field shrouded in battle smoke.They saw Price and Van Dorns brave troops come yelling and charging across the railway track and the road beyond up to the very guns of Battery Robinett, which we see rising like a mound or hillock beyond the line of the railway shed.
You have to keep in mind the exposure time required in that time frame to take a photo. Most people could not hold a smile for the time it took to take the photo, that is why most people look grime in photo's of the era. I am surprised at how still they must have stood for that picture, there are no blurred faces, or ghost movements of hands or arms.