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MarkCNP said:
I can't imagine that they could keep those vehicles in service for very long without a source of spare parts.
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Don,t dismiss German resourcefulness at keeping captured vehicles and aircraft in the war. In 1945 the allies where finding vehicles captured in Dunkerque (May/June 1940) still serving the Wehrmacht.
 
gaff said:
I pity every one forward of the fellow on the back with the Bren, if there not deaf all ready.
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The fellow in front will alert any unwary corner-rounders. He's got the muzzle way out there. :)

Yeah, lots of "weight on target" in that crew. They're all authentically filthy, too. These are guys that live outside and don't get much of a chance to clean up.
 
That looks like a screenshot from the series Mighty Machines. I watched the one they did on the C5M (a rebuilt Galaxy) and it's a damned impressive machine.
 
Gibbs505 said:
I know nothing about this.

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Looks to me to be an American Air-force squadron equipped with Tropicalized Spitfires on a captured German Airfield. My best guess would be in either North Africa or Sicily. As far as I know there was 2 American fighter groups so equipped in the Mediterranean Theater, the 31st and 52 Fighter Groups which gave them a total of 6 squadrons.

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Maynard Harrison “Snuffy” Smith was such a screw-up, he joined the US Army to avoid jail. He earned the nickname, “Snuffy Smith,” because no one could stand him, either on base or off of it. That was the polite version. They also called him “Sad Sack”. Despite this, his first mission made him the first living recipient of the Medal of Honor in the European theater (after Jimmy Doolittle in the Pacific), as well as the first enlisted airman to receive it.
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Kman303 said:
Aside from the MP40 and M1 Carbine, their kit looks to be 100% British issue.
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Im very certain they are Brits, 4 of them are wearing what the Brits refer to as a "Cap Comforter", a wool toque type head dress, favored by Brit commandos also they are wearing Pattern 37 webbing
If you look up photos of Lord Lovat who landed with his No.4 Commando for the Dieppe Raid, his men wore the "Cap Comforter"
 
x westie said:
Im very certain they are Brits, 4 of them are wearing what the Brits refer to as a "Cap Comforter", a wool toque type head dress, favored by Brit commandos also they are wearing Pattern 37 webbing
If you look up photos of Lord Lovat who landed with his No.4 Commando for the Dieppe Raid, his men wore the "Cap Comforter"
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I believe I've seen that photograph in a recently published book on the Special Boat Squadron. It's available at Chapters.

Lots of good pictures. Many show the men carrying captured MP-40's and Beretta M38's. Also M1 Carbines.
 
If they are Brits...unless I am not seeing the photo properly...it would be highly unusual for the man with the cigarette in his mouth to have a pistol landyard around his neck unless he was on parade as these guys clearly aren't....absence of F-S knives?..although by late 43 they stopped being so popular after Germans ordered captured allied soldiers in possession of F-S to be shot as 'spies'...
 
AP said:
If they are Brits...unless I am not seeing the photo properly...it would be highly unusual for the man with the cigarette in his mouth to have a pistol landyard around his neck unless he was on parade as these guys clearly aren't....absence of F-S knives?..although by late 43 they stopped being so popular after Germans ordered captured allied soldiers in possession of F-S to be shot as 'spies'...
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At least two of the bren gun operators are carrying revolvers. The one with the cigarette and the one at the front! Can't see any knives at all unless they are all on the left hand side.

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Seafire on a low pass (Date and location unknown)
 
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