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ipscgraz
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I know this is a pics thread but the loudest sustained noise I ever experienced was as a #2 on a GPMG for bout three belts.
In order to keep a hold on I the belt I was about a foot + forward of the gunner, with my right ear right next to the receiver. And as has been mentioned the steel helmet didn't help matters at all.
In order to keep a hold on I the belt I was about a foot + forward of the gunner, with my right ear right next to the receiver. And as has been mentioned the steel helmet didn't help matters at all.
Dark Alley Dan
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Miss Leningrad 1943:
Miss Leningrad 1943:
Looks like a crackhead from the East End....
Dark Alley Dan
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YOU tell her that. 
She ain't pretty, but after six months of sleeping in the bush, shooting at (and being shot at by) folks and living on whatever you could find to eat, she'd look like Marilyn Freakin' Monroe.
She ain't pretty, but after six months of sleeping in the bush, shooting at (and being shot at by) folks and living on whatever you could find to eat, she'd look like Marilyn Freakin' Monroe.
fat tony
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Not known if this person was a real Soviet soldier or if she was an actress in a propaganda shoot. Looks like she has a P-14 or maybe an M1917 rifle? She has a look reminiscent of Barbara Stanwick.
I have no idea about this one, but I require several of those! Looks like some Oktoberfest dealio.
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Dark Alley Dan
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Here is more pictures of proud Soviet lady comrades who defend Rodina at all costs.
I have no idea about this one, but I require several of those! Looks like some Oktoberfest dealio.
http://www.oktoberfest.info/en/events/gun-salute/
Sporting Lad
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Roza Shanina
Roza Shanina. Deadly sniper and Hero of Soviet Union.
Nice face, man hands.
Survived the war and lived to become an old Baba.
Oblah-dee, oblah-dah...
Roza Shanina. Deadly sniper and Hero of Soviet Union.
Nice face, man hands.
Survived the war and lived to become an old Baba.
Oblah-dee, oblah-dah...
Roza Shanina. Deadly sniper and Hero of Soviet Union.
Nice face, man hands.
Survived the war and lived to become an old Baba.
Oblah-dee, oblah-dah...
Spend enough time outdoors in all weather, and every gal ends up with "man hand" syndrome.
I remember reading somewhere that Soviet snipers in WWII had about a 1 in 4 survival rate over the duration. There was no such thing as a "rotation" - you served until victory or death/disability. And the Germans would go out of their way to get snipers.
Dark Alley Dan
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Sadly Roza Shanina was one of the three-in-every-four. Killed in Lithuania, 28 January 1945.
Sporting Lad
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Roza died.
Holy smokes, I just checked with Wiki, so it must be true!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roza_Shanina
But the pic I posted must've been mislabled cos it doesn't look like the same woman as the one in the previous post, nor in the ones
shown in the wikilink. Whomever that woman in the pic I posted is...that's the one who lived to be an old lady,
IIRC....
Holy smokes, I just checked with Wiki, so it must be true!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roza_Shanina
But the pic I posted must've been mislabled cos it doesn't look like the same woman as the one in the previous post, nor in the ones
shown in the wikilink. Whomever that woman in the pic I posted is...that's the one who lived to be an old lady,
IIRC....
German guards from Bergen-Belsen, Saxony.
http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=1922
And I belive that most were hung!
Dark Alley Dan
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"Easy there, big fellah. Anything in your pockets? Maybe an anti-tank gun or a small French village?"
