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michaelmaltby
Colonel
Crimea_River
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Rat Patrol!
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syscom3
Pacific Historian
The axis never had a chance. B-17F bombers under construction at a Boeing Factory in Seattle 1942.
bdefen
Senior Airman
That grill reminds me of the new BMW 4 series.
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
Without the stupid dialogue!
at6
1st Sergeant
Now they would all say "Made in China".
Snautzer01
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Great shots.
michaelmaltby
Colonel
Андрей
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Pyotr Antipov went through the whole war - he burned three times in a tank. In January 1945, his tank came under enemy fire in Poland ... Hoping to save himself, he jumped into a small trench. He recalled, "I jumped up and there was a frightened German with a machine gun - he shot me point-blank and cut off my left arm, it was hanging on the strings. The trench turned out to be a camouflaged passage to a dugout filled with Germans. They didn't waste bullets on me, but hit me with rifle butts. To be sure they shot me in the head with a pistol."
Petya lay unconscious in a trench for five days. By what miracle he survived - no one knows. Doctors had to cut off the 24-year-old's left arm to the root, his right hand and both legs... After returning home, Peter began to master prosthetics, learned to walk, and even to write by clasping a pencil in the split stump of his right hand.
And then he got married, graduated from a technical school and academy, and worked in forestry all his life. He created an oak forest, unique for the Leningrad Region, which in his lifetime was named after him!
Petya lay unconscious in a trench for five days. By what miracle he survived - no one knows. Doctors had to cut off the 24-year-old's left arm to the root, his right hand and both legs... After returning home, Peter began to master prosthetics, learned to walk, and even to write by clasping a pencil in the split stump of his right hand.
And then he got married, graduated from a technical school and academy, and worked in forestry all his life. He created an oak forest, unique for the Leningrad Region, which in his lifetime was named after him!
vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
That is one tough dude!
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syscom3
Pacific Historian
B-17D Flying Fortress of the 19th Bomb Group being loaded with 100 and 500lb bombs. The date of the photo is 1942.
michaelmaltby
Colonel
Escuadrilla Azul
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What a pity that isn't in colour. It must be wonderful.
michaelmaltby
Colonel
I believe it is L-L Soviet ... and wanted to write a lyrical caption for it, such as
"moonlit night off Taganrod ..."
colorization has come a long way ... i remember posting this in B&W (I believe) .... the color 'takes you there'
"moonlit night off Taganrod ..."
colorization has come a long way ... i remember posting this in B&W (I believe) .... the color 'takes you there'
Андрей
Banned
Soldiers of the 9th Guards Rifle Brigade, 11th Guards Rifle Corps, 9th Army, Transcaucasian Front: Scouts of the Guards Red Army Konstantin Antonovich Kadach (1922-18.04.1943) and Yury Dolubekov (1924-01.11.1942). 28.08.1942 . They were 20 years old. Maybe .
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