Picture of the day
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West meets East.A little commradery before the Cold War starts.
Russian on the right looks like KD Lang...?
Interesting photo of a captured "Korean" Wehrmacht soldier in Normandy.I recently watched a movie called "My way" about Koreans pushed into the Japanese army to fight the Russians who in turn capture the "Korean" Japanese and send them off to fight the Germans who capture the "Korean" Russians and reenlist them back in the Axis as "Korean" Germans!
Very good movie if anyone is interested.
Very good movie if anyone is interested.
Staghound armoured car which appears to be in use by the 1st Polish Armoured Div at some time during the liberation of Holland. This unit was under command of the 1st Cdn Army during the fighting in NW Europe.
German pocket battleship narrowly escapes a catastrophic hit!
Looks more like Billy Mitchell sinking the USS Indiana. Admirals are said to have wept to see it!
Charles Bedaux, that slightly nutty French adventurer who did those expeditions with the Citroen half-tracks in the 1920s?
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I note no evidence of a wake, or bow-wave....nor exhaust from the boilers.
I suspect that ship is dead in the water (no headway)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indiana_(BB-1)
That USS Indiana doesn't look quite the same...
In fact, if you look carefully at the photo above, you can see the shape/shadow of the three (3) funnels 'midships.
The bulges look suspiciously more like this ship, the SMS Ostfriesland:
I suspect that ship is dead in the water (no headway)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indiana_(BB-1)
That USS Indiana doesn't look quite the same...
In fact, if you look carefully at the photo above, you can see the shape/shadow of the three (3) funnels 'midships.
The bulges look suspiciously more like this ship, the SMS Ostfriesland:
Got your "green goggles" on eh boys?
Staghound alright but that's not the 1st Polish Armoured Division.
The formation sign on the left fender is for the XII Corps but I can't figure out what the insignia in the center represents. Nor do I see a recce sign on the right fender. It might be a HQ vehicle.
Or it might be a vehicle of the 1st Royal Dragoons which was the XII Corps Reconnaissance Regiment but the sources I have found indicate the Dragoons used Daimler ACs and Dingos.
Photo credited to Ron Axford http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/04/a2270404.shtml
So according to the write up it could be a Staghound of the 112th Regiment RAC, the former 9th Battalion of the Sherwood Foresters Regiment that converted to armour (the other being the 13th which became the 163rd RAC) However other sources say the 112th was disbanded in 1944. Photo is captioned Denmark 1945.
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