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A camouflaged road in Finland durning WW2 ....

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".. Is that Wittmann...?"

Honestly can't tell ... photo didn't identify ... but one of the three tankers has suffered a horrendous facial wound.

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Well this pic is defo Wittmann. A lot of people credit all to him and its justified, but his gunner was one of the best in the business. I dont think he would have racked up anywhere near the number of kills without him.
 
Statistics for the 588th Night Bomber Regiment/46th "Taman" Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment "Night Witches," Part 1. The regiment completed 23,672 missions. Among them: • Battle for the Caucasus - 2920 sorties, • Kuban, Taman and Novorossiysk - 4623 sorties, • Liberation of Crimea - 6140 sorties; • Liberation of Belarus - 400 sorties; • Liberation of Poland - 5421 sorties; • Battle in Germany - 2000 sorties. Which leaves 2168 sorties unaccounted. Not sure how accurate these stats are, from another source than my own research.
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Whitman, like Rudel, was a good East Prussian lad ... both had Lutheran pastors for fathers
 
A camouflaged road in Finland durning WW2 ....

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Took me a minute. Couldn't see the forest for the trees.
 
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The flight deck crew prepares planes for launch from the USS Lexington (CV-16), en route near New Guinea, early April, 1944.
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