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[swampyankee]

It takes a huge pair to go into combat dressed like that.

As if the uniform would even slow down bullets.

He was one of the recruits for the SS Berserker Regiments. Most would be issued with swords and, of course, fight completely naked. after the first test, in January 1942, near Kursk, the nazis noticed this didn't work well in winter.

 

[swampyankee]

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Hans: We should have paid attention in class.

Adi: Ja, then we'd have a proper tank.

 

[michaelmaltby]

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Stalingrad, 1942

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[nuuumannn]

Glider troops loading bicycles for D Day landing

" Gahddamned environmentalists! Now we have to go by glider and cycle our way there!"

 

[Snautzer01]

WW2 Photo 535th AAA Battery D Bofors V1 Rocket Kill Markings Original GI Picture | eBay

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[Wurger]

USS Cowell (DD-167)

the pic source: the Internet.

 

[Gnomey]

Good stuff guys!

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[Tieleader]

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Licence and registration please...
Do you have any idea of how fast you were going?

 

[Wurger]

the pic source: the Internet.

 

[Snautzer01]

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Feldgendarmerie - Wikipedia

So I have... 4 burgers , 1 Pepsi, 3 diet Cokes and a Milkshake...

 

[Snautzer01]

Press Photo: TERRIFIC! British RAF Airmen Tending Farm by Avro Anson Bomber!!! | eBay

 

[Snautzer01]

1945 WWII TWO 7x8 wire photo Okinawa, Marine shares with little girl, Festivial | eBay

 

[Snautzer01]

WWII photo German soldier captured by the Allies in Junkersdorf a104 | eBay

The German must be a veteran of many battles. Tired but no fear at all in his eyes.
Quick interrogation of German POW captured in Junkersdorf, Germany by the US 9th Infantry Division, Dec 12, 1944.

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[michaelmaltby]

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[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

"USS Nevada (BB-36) at anchor, circa June 1945." No photo credit available.

 

[Snautzer01]

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