Tank Destroyer Branch actually in the US military, at the time, anti-tank guns were part of the Tank Destroyer branch not the Artillery Branch.
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Tank Destroyer Branch actually in the US military, at the time, anti-tank guns were part of the Tank Destroyer branch not the Artillery Branch.
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Haw!
Those fender skirts are horrible.
Those fender skirts are horrible.
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Like lipstick on a pig.
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They be bulletproof!
BTW-- I'm not even going to ask how a Frenchman won the Iron Cross!!
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Maybe it was the mustache?
BTW-- I'm not even going to ask how a Frenchman won the Iron Cross!!
^ |Maybe it was the mustache?
They be bulletproof!
BTW-- I'm not even going to ask how a Frenchman won the Iron Cross!!
Maybe it was the mustache?
I suspect he is a member of the Foreign Legion and not necessarily French.
Quite a few ex-Whermacht and even SS went from POW camps straight into the Legion Etrangere.
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Yes, I remember reading that some time ago. That could explain the Black Shirt as well.
Too bad the fine print is blurred.
Too bad the fine print is blurred.
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Well, OK, that's interesting about 'Signaal' being Wehrmacht. Subject not SS. But what kind of German would wear one of those silly gendarme caps?
Ah, IIRC the SA did. Maybe it was a nostalgia parade? ("Die Fahne hoch...")
Ah, IIRC the SA did. Maybe it was a nostalgia parade? ("Die Fahne hoch...")
Airborne artillery?
Now THIS is how you cross a minefield
Signal - August 16, 1943
This is the cover: A French in 1943.
Captain Dupuis, a former soldier of the wars of 1914-18 and 1939-40.
Member of the "French Legion Volunteers" (German army), fighting in Tunisia from 1942 to 1943 with "African Phalanx"
Awarded the Legion War Cross with Palm and the Iron Cross - Officer of the Legion of Honour
The "Waffen-Grenadier-Brigade der SS Charlemagne" replaces the "Legion of French Volunteers" (LVF) from July 1944.
"One in the ground and two on the loose" is the slogan on the rocker panel.
You really have to wonder about the loyalty of the soldiers that enlisted in the German military formations from the conquered countries. Once the war ended, where were they going to call "home"? The record of treatment for soldiers who fought on the losing side was not great.
The Stalinist regime was even distrustful of Russian ethnics who fought with the Allies, incarcerating many of them out of fear that they had been influenced by western democratic ideals.
The Stalinist regime was even distrustful of Russian ethnics who fought with the Allies, incarcerating many of them out of fear that they had been influenced by western democratic ideals.
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Oh those crazy Nazis!
Diversity and cultural pluralism sure worked for the Nazis, didn't?
An element of "if you can't beat 'em - join 'em" might have motivated some to sign up under the Swastika, others may have seen it as a means of settling old ethnic rivalries.
There must have been a "notwithstanding clause" written into the racial purity laws that allowed "untermenschen" into elite units like the SS.
An element of "if you can't beat 'em - join 'em" might have motivated some to sign up under the Swastika, others may have seen it as a means of settling old ethnic rivalries.
There must have been a "notwithstanding clause" written into the racial purity laws that allowed "untermenschen" into elite units like the SS.
