Picture of the day.

[Old Wizard]

 

[at6]

Based on the writing, it must have been a German recon photo.

 

[Wurger]

Yep..

Here is the another image ..

 

[johnbr]

 

[v2]

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[Wurger]

Hitler visiting the Westerplatte , 1939..

 

[Crimea_River]

 

[michaelmaltby]

Tigers checking out before Kursk ... note the coiled barbed wire on on the ledges above the tracks ... to dissuade borders

 

[Wurger]

Russian civilians digging trenches near the Don river, 1942 ..

 

[fastmongrel]

Royal Navy 6th Flotilla on patrol 6th Feb 1942

 

[Gnomey]

Lovely shots guys!

 

[v2]

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[Wurger]

Still digging trenches at the Don River ...

 

[Wayne Little]

 

[michaelmaltby]

... neat work.

 

[michaelmaltby]

 

[michaelmaltby]

Free French ...

 

[v2]

At just after 04:45 local time on September 1, 1939, as the Germans launched their attack on Westerplatte and WWII officially began, another ferocious assault was just beginning at the small post office in the city's then-called Hevelius Square. Detachments of German police and SS units lay siege to the 50 Polish post office workers inside, who put up a brave struggle for over 17 hours until the casualties became unbearable, part of the building collapsed and the Germans began to attack with flame-throwers.

One month later on October 2, 30 of the surviving postal workers were sentenced to death and subsequently shot a few weeks later (their bodies were only discovered in Zaspa Cemetery in 1991), and the whole episode has become part of Polish history.

 

[michaelmaltby]

The Free World needs more Poland ..... right about now.

 

[Wurger]

1939, the captured by Germans , Polsih light recce tankettes TKS.