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[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

US Marines ashore on Guam, 21 July 1944. No photo credit available, the mark in the upper right indicates the individual who colorized the photo.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Infantrymen passing through the hedgerow landscape of Normandy, 1944. No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

US Private Charles Preston brushes snow from a 30-caliber machine gun mounted on his jeep. His unit is moving against the German counterattack in the Ardennes during the Battle of the Bulge, which is barely a week old. 21 Dec 1944. No photo credit available.

 

[XBe02Drvr]

sounds like Russia

No surprise. US and Russia cover pretty similar climatic zones, north to south.

 

[michaelmaltby]

Christmas in Ortona [Toronto Sun]
ROSE: One girl's survival story at the Battle of Ortona

 

[Tieleader]

Christmas in Ortona [Toronto Sun]
ROSE: One girl's survival story at the Battle of Ortona
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Ok, everyone remember the plan. We gun down the reindeer for the mobilty kill and then nick all the prezzies from that fat bastard for ourselves !

 

[tyrodtom]

No surprise. US and Russia cover pretty similar climatic zones, north to south.

If you exclude Alaska, about 80% of Russia is north of the northernmost point of the continental USA.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

North American XAJ-1. No photo credit available.

 

[XBe02Drvr]

If you exclude Alaska, about 80% of Russia is north of the northernmost point of the continental USA.

Understood. BUT Alaska is part of the US (as is Hawaii) and if you notice, I didn't say latitude, I said climatic zone. Much of the Eurasian land mass is influenced by ocean current-driven climate patterns that don't mirror the climate/latitude relationship of North America. The parts of Siberia that mirror the northern tier of CONUS are 15 - 25 degrees further north.
Cheers,
Wes

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[at6]

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"Last one in is a Frenchman."

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

New Zealand members of the Long Range Desert Group in the North African desert. Photo/Alamy/Coloured by Harry Burgess

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

As a Japanese fuel dump burns, infantrymen and armor of the 41st Infantry Division advance forward from White Beach 1 in Hollandia, New Guinea. 22 April 1944. No photo credit avail able.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Members of the US 823rd Tank Destroyer Battalion, Company C pose in front of a M10 Wolverine. These men were credited with knocking out four Tiger IIs belonging to the SS 501st Heavy Tank Battalion, at or around Stavelot, Belgium, 19 Dec 1944. No photo credit available.

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[syscom3]

A deck full of P38's are being transported to theater by way of an escort carrier acting as a ferry. My guess this was in the pacific where the threat of Japanese air attack was nil.
Note the crewman lounging on deck and soaking up the sun.

 

[Tieleader]

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Members of the US 823rd Tank Destroyer Battalion, Company C pose in front of a M10 Wolverine. These men were credited with knocking out four Tiger IIs belonging to the SS 501st Heavy Tank Battalion, at or around Stavelot, Belgium, 19 Dec 1944. No photo credit available.[/QUOTE}
4X T2 kills? That's impressive!=D>

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[swampyankee]

Roger that! Up here the year has five seasons: spring, summer, autumn, winter, and mud (aka sugarin') season, when the warm sunny day and the exercise seduces you into heading out dressed light, then the sun goes down, the mercury plummets, and you freeze.
Cheers,
Wes

Northern New England?