Snautzer01
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- Mar 26, 2007
the whole plane.
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Due to attachment point of the jump harness and the diving exit required the only weapon carried was a pistol. Each stick was followed by a weapons container. Upon landing the troops would grab there weapons, ideally BEFORE entering into combat. Also at the earliest possible time they would change from their jump boots into jack boots.Also didn't the Jerry's jump without weapons?
He is also to bleeding clean!!!That's an interesting photo and almost has a re-enactor "feel" to it.
He has the magazine smock on, but the pouches are empty.
I don't see a belt (though that may be hard to see) and he has no gear or pack.
An 82nd Airborne casualty lies among the ruins of a glider, France, June 1944.
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Sailor in the foreground on the right has a seriously ripped shirt.....someone pulled a little hard to get him out of the way perhaps???A Brewster F2A-3 Buffalo fighter rests in the flight deck gallery walkway after suffering landing gear failure while landing on board USS Long Island (AVG-1), off Palmyra Island, July 25 1942. This plane is from Marine Fighting Squadron 211 (VMF-211), the last Navy or Marine Corps unit to operate the F2A in a front-line capacity.
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Taken after the surrender as she is flying the US flag.The Prinz Eugen German ship.View attachment 361398
Here we see the funeral procession for Hans the Giant, sadly taken from us at a young age.
"Left a bit, left a bit more....almost on target...."
"I count to 3 then we push the bucket......1....2....."