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[Njaco]

Battle of Stalingrad: German mortar crew preparing the 81mm mortar for action under cover of a destroyed T-34 Soviet tank. Fall 1942.

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[Gnomey]

Excellent shots guys!

 

[Crimea_River]

Clean uniforms and smiles. If they only knew......

 

[Capt. Vick]

Yeah, still looks warm...hot even.

 

[Lucky13]

Battle of Stalingrad: German mortar crew preparing the 81mm mortar for action under cover of a destroyed T-34 Soviet tank. Fall 1942.

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Diorama!!

Fallschirmjäger, Monte Cassino...

 

[Glider]

Barracuda about to be ditched from HMS Indomitable after being stripped of spares after a heavy landing

 

[Capt. Vick]

Great shot! Wasn't there a guy in Australia looking for Barracuda's that were dumped off a carrier post war?

 

[vikingBerserker]

Very cool!

 

[Njaco]

Finnish fighter Fokker D.XXI airfield Vilyakkalan.

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[fubar57]

Canadian author Farley Mowat who passed away in May. He served with The Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment and participated in Operation Husky and Ortono attaining the rank of Captain. In early '45 he worked as an intelligence agent in the Netherlands and went through enemy lines to start unofficial negotiations about food drops with General Blaskowitz. The food drops, under the codename Operation Manna, saved thousands of Dutch lives.

Geo

EDIT: added regiment

 

[vikingBerserker]

A big to him!

 

[fastmongrel]

Firing the Ordnance ML 4.2 mortar at Monte Cassino 1943

 

[N4521U]

OSHA where are you when ww need you?

 

[Njaco]

A wounded Luftwaffe officer is being attended by a US Army medic at an unidentified location in Germany, 1945. The incident apparently involved the staff car as well -- bullet hole in the lower left of the rear window.

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[Capt. Vick]

An Italian Seaplane...

 

[Njaco]

Wow, that is...ummm....graphic. Wow.

 

[GrauGeist]

A wounded Luftwaffe officer is being attended by a US Army medic at an unidentified location in Germany, 1945. The incident apparently involved the staff car as well -- bullet hole in the lower left of the rear window.

You can also see a bullet hole in the roof (over back seat) and one in the trunk (near the license plate)

An Italian Seaplane...

I see the guy (body? can't determine their condition) in the water, but is that another guy sitting on the port wing??

 

[Lucky13]

 

[Glider]

Someone was looking after him that day. How did he walk away from that.

 

[vikingBerserker]

Dam!