Picture of the day
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Dark Alley Dan
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Dude on the left looks like Jacques Cousteau.
"Today, I failed in my attempt to poison the Boche. Too much salt."
Speaking of French kit in German service...
"Today, I failed in my attempt to poison the Boche. Too much salt."
Speaking of French kit in German service...
The USSR agreed by treaty in 1920 to respect for all time the independence of the Baltic Republics, but just a bourgeois "scrap of paper", to use the German phrase for their agreement to respect Belgian neutrality before 1914.
The Finnish frontier being 20Kms from Leningrad would be a serious problem, for Finland. For the Soviet Union the only problem would be people escaping over the frontier too easily.
The Finnish frontier being 20Kms from Leningrad would be a serious problem, for Finland. For the Soviet Union the only problem would be people escaping over the frontier too easily.
I love my service rifle!
I had a love hate relationship with mine, I loved to shoot it and I hated to give it up.
He looks like an Aussie. They used the SMLE in WWII.
SMLE
Dude on the left looks like Jacques Cousteau.
"Today, I failed in my attempt to poison the Boche. Too much salt."
Speaking of French kit in German service...
LOL!!!! "Es shmeckt gleich SCHEISS!"
They can keep the cheek slapping FAL's as well.
If you shot an FN FAL with the correct length of butt stock, there was no "cheek slapping".
fat tony
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Not sure but my guess is this painting depicts some of the fighting around the Chosin Reservoir when US troops fought their way to Hungnam to escape the Chinese counterattack. From dawn to dusk, bombs, rockets, shells & bullets rained down on the Chicom troops from UN fighter bombers & artillery. When the weather closed in and when night fell, it was constant infantry attacks against UN forces. It was an operation similar in scale to the invasion of France, but in reverse.
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Eaglelord17
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Not sure but my guess is this painting depicts some of the fighting around the Chosin Reservoir when US troops fought their way to Hungnam to escape the Chinese counterattack. It was an operation similar in scale to the invasion of France, but in reverse. Colossal amounts of artillery were used up & thousands of sorties were made in support of this operation.
Is it just me or does that Chinese soldier have a 1903 Springfield?
fat tony
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More of this artists work at the link:
http://laststandonzombieisland.com/category/world-war-two/page/2/
^If you scroll down, you can see the link to the pic I posted here. You can zoom & pan around in the original pic link.
I am guessing it is supposed to be a Type Zhongzheng rifle.
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It's the National WWII Museum in New Orleans. The 'interactive' museum part was so-so (lots of big photo's and buttons to push but very light on artifacts) but the Boeing building with the vehicles and aircraft was superb. Also got to Mobile to crawl over and through USS Alabama and USS Drum. Last pic is of Drum's rear torpedo room. Across the street from the WWII museum was the Louisiana Civil War museum. Beautiful old building crammed with Confederate battle flags, uniforms, firearms and every manner of well documented kit. Now THAT was a real treat.
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Beauty and the beast ..... ?
Sadly Roza Shanina was one of the three-in-every-four. Killed in Lithuania, 28 January 1945.
looks like a fairly new Buck knife in her belt.
