Picture of the day.

[ARTESH]

تیمسار سپهبد عزیزالله ضرغامی
رئیس ستاد ارتش در شهریور ۱۳۲۰

Timsar Sepahbod Azizollah Zarqami
Chief of Army Staff, Sep. 1941.

Sepahbod = Lieutenant General / 3 star General

 

[ARTESH]

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amazing photo.

 

[ARTESH]

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آسایش گیتی ، تفسیر این دو حرف است:
چای پشت سیگار، سیگار وشت چای.

The world is defined into these 2 words:
Tea after cigarette, cigarette after tea !!!

 

[ARTESH]

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sniper?

 

[Wurger]

Rather a mortar guy.

 

[ARTESH]

Rather a mortar guy.

I meant they are killed by sniper !!!

 

[Wurger]

Oh.. yes that's possible these two could be killed by a sniper.

 

[michaelmaltby]

if they had been taking mortar fire, wouldn't they close up their bomb case? my money is on a sniper in a hole in the sod ... dropped completely in the midst of setting up to fire.

 

[michaelmaltby]

 

[Wurger]

 

[Shortround6]

apparently it was quite common for the German 50mm mortar crews to duck their heads and use the helmet as a shield against the muzzle balst fo the mortar.

"After the bomb was loaded, the loader would operate the trigger, by pulling it slowly to the rear, with both crew members lowering their faces to the ground."

 

[Wurger]

 

[michaelmaltby]

.. are you saying that mortar crew isn't dead?

 

[Wurger]

IMHO it's very likely. To be honest it was my first idea when I saw the shot. The pic could have been taken while they were firing.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Hope the bombardier was down the back making a brew when the shell hit!

Sadly the bombardier was killed, the navigator was seriously injured but did survive if I remember correctly.

 

[Airframes]

That's what I was thinking too.

 

[CAVU Mark]

Tribute N2S-5 for flight crews on 9-11.

 

[Wurger]

 

[fastmongrel]

HMS Triumph running on the surface in rough weather.

 

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