Picture of the day.

[michaelmaltby]

 

[michaelmaltby]

 

[javlin]

So is the barrel bent on that Rifle?I first thought G-43 by the handguard shape but it's not and it looks long as I look at mine now.Strap looks heavy for a carbine

 

[Wurger]

 

[javlin]

Is that you in the middle Wojtek? a good looking Lad at one point.

 

[Wurger]

Nope. Judging by these berets I would guess that's Terry.

 

[Crimea_River]

Nope. Missing moustache.

 

[Wurger]

True... moustache.

 

[javlin]

Nope. Judging by these berets I would guess that's Terry.

Terry never looked that good if he did he would of had not had to settle for Hippo's

 

[flypaper2222]

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now watch....when I light the match and Hans farts...let there be light.....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Room for one more I think.View attachment 383770

German version of the classic Clown Car.....

 

[Hansie Bloeckmann]

now watch....when I light the match and Hans farts...let there be light.....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ja, wir sind der blau flammen gruppen??"

 

[Wurger]

 

[michaelmaltby]

Leningrad front

 

[michaelmaltby]

 

[Wurger]

 

[Hansie Bloeckmann]

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Same fate that took out Lt. Chapman in the movie: "The Bridge on the River Kwai"-- But Bill Holden's character had never jumped (being a USN deck hand- Not Lt. Cmdr Shears-) and he and the rest of the team survived the jump into the jungle. Lots of hazards involved in a parachute drop, and this picture shows in detail one of them. Damn shame, to lose troops in this manner--Hansie

 

[michaelmaltby]

Wurger that is one powerful image ... invokes past battles ... Napoleonic and before.
Would it be accurate to assume the Soviets were caught by a withering artillery barrage before a German attack ....?

 

[Hansie Bloeckmann]

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'Und Ve are two wild and crazy guys, Ja!!""

 

[Airframes]

Post #10215.
The para isn't dead or injured, he's about to use his reserve canopy, opened and dropped below him, to be able to climb down from the tree, as the one on the right has done, and was standard procedure in such cases.
British paras didn't get reserve parachutes until the early 1950s, and if caught up in a tree, used a toggle rope, attached to their webbing equipment, which was worn during the jump, under the parachute harness.
BTW, tree landings hurt !!

 

[at6]

Leningrad front
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Why am I always digging latrines?