johnny1984
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Damn, those 104's were pretty... too bad they weren't so trustworthy!
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Donny Fenn1
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Some version of which is used by the jawas in Star Wars etc
fat tony
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USO performer Millie Hamm putting on a show for troops in a field adjacent to the Laos - Cambodia frontier in February 1965.
From:
http://www.gazzarridancers.com/home.html
This is an old http 'frames' website, no ssl. . .
From:
http://www.gazzarridancers.com/home.html
This is an old http 'frames' website, no ssl. . .
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Dark Alley Dan
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'I can see from your eyes you have the legs of a dancer..." Pretty girl.
Is that Bert Hoffmeister?Discharger, Smoke Generator, 4-in., No. 2, x2:
Older pic. I think I was around $900 invested in arctic birch at the time, but only because the M44 set me back 3 bills. The bayo on the SVT would almost go for that now. I have two, the one in the pic, that came free with the gun, and another one with "blonde" scales that I got later from a batch of imports that became controversial about their authenticity.
. Nice rifles!They would be with today's technology, but they aren't very stealthy.
They'll remember the smell of that burning banda for the rest of their lives.
Dark Alley Dan
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The only aircraft in USAF service to intercept a Constitution Class starship.
That's pretty quick.
Fallshirmjager, maybe part of a flag, or unit banner
Dark Alley Dan
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For you, the war is over.
I wonder how many were ever released. This batch looks reasonably well fed anyhow.
There's that scene at the end of the World at War episode about Stalingrad that shows an emaciated, bearded, empty-eyed man in German uniform shuffling into captivity wearing a set of those woven reed "winter boots". He's in no condition to be going anywhere, but he's likely being marched to a railhead some distance away to be put in a boxcar and shipped north to the site of a camp he'll be tasked with helping build on limited rations and a steady dose of abuse and neglect. You look at this poor sonofa##### and you know he didn't last the day they took the footage. He's doomed. He knows it. Hard stuff to watch.
And yeah, I know what they did. I know they had it coming to them and earned less mercy than they received. I know they were ruthless and supported a scheme that would have done a lot more evil things had it been allowed to persevere. I'm thankful the Soviets (and everyone else) were there to roll them back and bleed them dry. But at the end of it, he's a man, shuffling to his death, wearing an inadequate trenchcoat and baskets on his fvcking feet. And I feel for him.
I wonder how many were ever released. This batch looks reasonably well fed anyhow.
There's that scene at the end of the World at War episode about Stalingrad that shows an emaciated, bearded, empty-eyed man in German uniform shuffling into captivity wearing a set of those woven reed "winter boots". He's in no condition to be going anywhere, but he's likely being marched to a railhead some distance away to be put in a boxcar and shipped north to the site of a camp he'll be tasked with helping build on limited rations and a steady dose of abuse and neglect. You look at this poor sonofa##### and you know he didn't last the day they took the footage. He's doomed. He knows it. Hard stuff to watch.
And yeah, I know what they did. I know they had it coming to them and earned less mercy than they received. I know they were ruthless and supported a scheme that would have done a lot more evil things had it been allowed to persevere. I'm thankful the Soviets (and everyone else) were there to roll them back and bleed them dry. But at the end of it, he's a man, shuffling to his death, wearing an inadequate trenchcoat and baskets on his fvcking feet. And I feel for him.
Given that they were captured by the Soviets around Konigsberg/Kaliningrad, statistically, two of them (out of 9 faces at least partially visible) made it out of the POW camps alive.
This young lad faired better:
You can go down quite the rabbit hole on young Hans-Georg Henke, trying to figure out the truth of his capture and immediate aftermath. You can believe the journalist who took the photo (actually a whole series of photos of Henke), or the personal account of Henke himself.
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/hans-georg-henke.html
One point of contention is that Henke claims he was crying because of "His whole world collapsing around him" after his position had been over-run, whereas John Florea, who took the photo, says it was combat shock. I don't see those two explanations as mutually exclusive.
Thanks I will look into those.
