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Dark Alley Dan
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This is awfully grainy, but the mix of weaponry is interesting. Soldiers and partisans, Ostfront, 1943:
That '98 with the trench mag was a real find. if only they could talk.
These lads came a long way to get into the chow line:
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Must have been REALLY hungry.
That '98 with the trench mag was a real find. if only they could talk.
These lads came a long way to get into the chow line:
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Must have been REALLY hungry.
Towards the end of the Second World War the "master race" was having a hard time meeting the recruiting targets and started taking just about anyone.......or anything. But in defense of the new soldat on the right he is a German Sheppard so he may have gotten a bit of a pass on getting the "aryan" box marked off on the checklist.
Seriously it was more common then they let on back in the day.
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Lots of instances of "non aryans" in the Wehrmacht. Case in point: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Kyoungjong
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They were captures we took off some insurgents in Afghanistan. The "Original" was an end of WWII dated pistol. The other one I have no idea where it got "updated".
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It was IIRC...The ported slide is odd. Might have been a Pak produced pistol from the gun markets.
It was taken just days before I was repatriated so I dont really recall much more about it
Korean labourers captured in 1940 from the Japs and impressed into Red Army then captured by the Wehrmacht and impressed into an Ost battalion and then captured by the US where they finally became free men. There's a book.
There was a lot on non-Aryans in Wehrmacht.Some of them willingly,a lot were conscripted and a lot were there because alternative was death.
Google "Jews in Wehrmacht".Same applied to Russians,Poles and other Slavs.
It was a lot more common than today's historians care to admit.
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There's a movie too! I think it was in Korean.
Dark Alley Dan
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"Pip-pip, lads - off we go to war in an armoured phonebooth..."
Vickers Light Tank Mk. 4. And yes, they were serious.
Vickers Light Tank Mk. 4. And yes, they were serious.
Double shot from a carrier!!
Don't think so. F8U is too far away to just come off the catapult and the two catapults track converge, so no room for an A5 wingspan and another plane at the same time.
My guess is F8u did a flyby for a USN Navy recruiting photo. There would have been hell to pay for an actually simultaneous catapult launch even if the steam catapult was capable of it. More likely F8 came from launch on angled flight deck.
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