Picture of the day

[purple]

That king sized Kraut would have made a great candidate for a "Wichita lineman" in the German army signal corps. No ladders or poles needed to string wire in the treetops.

 

[MarkCNP]

 

[AP]

is that a French 1916 trench knife the guy in the foreground is poking with?

 

[kjohn]

Doesn't this look like fun. Winter War.

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[kjohn]

Give it to 'em!

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[Eaglelord17]

Doesn't this look like fun. Winter War.

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Is that a AVS-36?

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Give it to 'em!

Alaska?

 

[purple]

Alaska?

Korea.

 

[RRCo.]

Although they often volunteered rather face probable death in a POW camp, the Germans did not treat POW's captured in the east as well as they did western POW's.

Not quite so well...

http://pictureshistory.########.ca/2010/07/how-did-germans-treat-pow-in-russia.html

(There are some pictures for those who don't like to read more than a paragraph or two)

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Some serious lookin' Finns, Summer, 1944:

 

[big bear]

AVS-36, too cool

Is that a AVS-36?

Sure looks like an AVS-36. What nationality are the troops?

 

[tjsudbury]

This guy's got some nice war trophy's to bring home, doesn't he?

 

[Surplus1]

This guy's got some nice war trophy's to bring home, doesn't he?

Thats my grown up idea of Santa

 

[pw58]

What's the ride in the back behind him? dragon tank mover?

 

[purple]

M20 armoured car.

 

[MarkCNP]

Calgary Highlanders

 

[Suomi]

Sure looks like an AVS-36. What nationality are the troops?

Finnish.

 

[Savage]

Doesn't this look like fun. Winter War.

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Looks like German soldiers

 

[diopter]

Many countries used the Stahlhelm(steel helmet).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stahlhelm

Many uniforms were also very similar to the German pattern

 

[my72jeep]

Home defence 4 pack. now on sale at Cosco.