Picture of the day.

[michaelmaltby]

Typhoons and artillery do their work on an escaping German army at Falaise ....

 

[v2]

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[Shinpachi]

Lloyd George warned Chamberlain "Don't commit the eastern Europe."
This is what a German historian Rudolf van Weert told Japanese in 1940.

 

[michaelmaltby]

Ike surveys the destruction ...

 

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[Capt. Vick]

Falaise?

 

[Wurger]

 

[michaelmaltby]

"...Falaise?"

Falaise Gap or Pocket .... Google is your friend, Cap

The Polish Army was very instrumental in the operation as well as the Canadians and the supporting British armour.

Falaise Pocket - Wikipedia

 

[michaelmaltby]

Polish armour ....

 

[Wurger]

 

[michaelmaltby]

close quarters ....

 

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[Robert Porter]

Falaise?

Yep Falaise Pocket!

 

[Wurger]

Canadian soldiers , 1944 ...

 

[Robert Porter]

No doubt discussing where they can acquire enough ice to build a hockey rink!

 

[Capt. Vick]

You beat me to it!

I was going to paraphrase the Monty Python skit about the Vicker: "Anyone can tell he's not a proper Canadian, he isn't holding a hockey stick!"

 

[buffnut453]

But the one on the left is probably working out how to use his rifle as one! There's even a hockey puck in the lower right corner of the image - needs some cleaning and perhaps some slight modification, but it's a puck (I'm sure of it!).

 

[Robert Porter]

I do believe you are correct, looks like a puck to me!