Picture of the day

[Buckmastr]

German prisoners of war captured by Canadian forces during the raid on Dieppe.

 

[x westie]

German prisoners of war captured by Canadian forces during the raid on Dieppe.

A mixed group of Canadians , Canada flash on shoulder , and Brit Commandos, the cap comforter was associated with the Commandos, one fellow has his SMLE rifle and a captured German Mauser 98K

 

[Chas]

USS Sable (IX-81) was a United States Navy training ship during World War II, originally built as the passenger ship Greater Buffalo, a sidewheel excursion steamboat.
She was purchased by the Navy in 1942 and converted to a training aircraft carrier to be used on the Great Lakes.
She lacked a hangar deck, elevators, or armament and was not a true warship, but she provided advanced training of naval aviators in carrier takeoffs and landings.
On her first day of service, 59 pilots became qualified within nine hours of operations, with each making eight takeoffs and landings.
Pilot training was conducted seven days a week in all types of weather conditions.
George H. W. Bush, later president of the United States was one of the aviators who trained on Sable.
Sable was decommissioned on 7 November 1945.
She was sold for scrapping on 7 July 1948 to the H.H. Buncher Company.
She and her sister ship USS Wolverine – which together were used for the training of over 17,000 pilots, landing signal officers and other navy personnel – hold the distinction of being the only freshwater, coal-fired, side paddle-wheel aircraft carriers used by the United States Navy.

PBS has an hour long show on these two converted sidewheelers - definitely worth the watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDnEPpjrIlY

 

[tokguy]

British soldiers manning a gun whilst wearing women's dresses. (1940)
This is Shornmead Fort and it is a BL 6-Inch Naval Gun.
They were interrupted during a drag show at the Fort.
The SAAF did the same (drag show) during the Border war as a joke



https://www.vintag.es/2020/01/soldiers-in-drag.html

British soldiers march to the beat of a different drum. I grew up on the South Boundary of CFB Suffield, seeing a squadie in drag wasn't regular...but not incredibly uncommon either.

 

[bogusiii]

A mixed group of Canadians , Canada flash on shoulder , and Brit Commandos, the cap comforter was associated with the Commandos, one fellow has his SMLE rifle and a captured German Mauser 98K

Notice the Lieutenant top left? He's wearing Van Doos flashes putting him in the Canadian 1st Division. Dieppe was tasked to the 2nd Division so I wonder what he's doing there.

 

[ipscgraz]

I hope these aren't repeated reposts...

 

[Buckmastr]

 

[Buckmastr]

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

German prisoners of war captured by Canadian forces during the raid on Dieppe.

Kinda puts a crap day in perspective.

No matter how bad things get at the job, I'm never going to have a day when I'm blinded, taken prisoner, dragged off a beach under substantial "friendly" fire, and then dragged off a boat some time later in the day and straight into jail, all while wearing carpet slippers.

Just what is the poor bugger wearing? No shoulder boards, no insignia? Did the lads bring back a cook?

 

[XRCD011]

^ Carpet slippers, hmmmm..........................must be air force.

 

[x westie]

^ Carpet slippers, hmmmm..........................must be air force.

Lol, lol,lol

 

[steamy teabag]

^ Carpet slippers, hmmmm..........................must be air force.

you mean "chair" force.

 

[bearhunter]

DAD, That may have been his K98 on the shoulder of the trooper. It still has the muzzle cover in place.

 

[Buckmastr]

59th Expeditionary Rescue Squadron on the Tarnak Range, BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, 2005.

 

[Buckmastr]

SS grenadiers in captured Soviet positions on the Kursk Bulge during Operation Citadel.

 

[diopter]

Soviet Trainers working with MPLA, SWAPO, PLAN members.
MPLA (People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola)
SWAPO(South-West Africa People's Organization)
People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) was the military wing of the South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO)

 

[CV32]

Kinda puts a crap day in perspective. No matter how bad things get at the job, I'm never going to have a day when I'm blinded, taken prisoner, dragged off a beach under substantial "friendly" fire, and then dragged off a boat some time later in the day and straight into jail, all while wearing carpet slippers. Just what is the poor bugger wearing? No shoulder boards, no insignia? Did the lads bring back a cook?

Likely taken directly from a field hospital infirmary.

 

[diopter]

Portuguese monument in Lisbon for the soldiers who did not get back home from overseas wars.

 

[Buckmastr]

Colorized image of the indigenous Wooden Leg, a Cheyenne warrior in 1927. He fought Colonel Custer in the legendary Battle of Little Big Horn where a coalition of indigenous peoples massacred US Army troops. Wooden Leg was born in 1858 and died in 1940 aged 82.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

The face of a man one should not trifle with. His autobiography is available on Amazon. Apparently transcribed from conversations using sign language almost exclusively, which makes the depth of the subject matter a bit iffy to my critical eye. One wonders how much of the book sprung from the imagination of the fellow reading the signs...

I've been to the Greasy Grass three times. Sad place. Plenty of ghosts. Many depictions of the fight exist, several of them downright fanciful, but Paxton's rendering is pretty good. It hangs in the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody.

No one had fight songs like the Sioux. Bet this one sounds good on a dark night around the fire when the lads are well and truly roused:

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Long Hair, Long Hair,
I was short of guns,
and you brought us many.
Long Hair, Long Hair,
I was short of horses,
and you brought us many...