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You are most welcome. It blows me away that the Government of France honors this man -even going as far as issuing a postage stamp bearing his name and image- but in his home country he is virtually a complete unknown.
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C-47, Gibraltar, 1943:
That is one awesome photo!!! Any link to an original hi-def source. I may want to make that a poster or a larger framed picture.
C-47, Gibraltar, 1943:
The nazi flag captured there still hangs in their briefing roomMay 8th 1945.
Men of Easy Company celebrate V-E day in Hitler's private residence of the so-called Alpenfestung.
Alfred Zech, also known as Alfred Czech was a German child soldier who received the Iron Cross, 2nd Class at the age of 12 years.
In early 1945 Goldenau was under attack by advancing elements of the Soviet Red Army. Zech, then aged 12 years, witnessed a dozen German soldiers injured by mortar fire. Against the wishes of his mother, he commandeered his father's farm cart and drove it to where the wounded men had been pinned down by Soviet fire, ferrying eight of them to safety. Zech then made a return trip to rescue the four men left behind.
According to Zech, a German general appeared at the family farm several days after the incident and invited the boy to travel to Berlin for an audience with Adolf Hitler. There, on 20 March, he joined a number of other Jungvolk members from across Germany and was decorated by Hitler with the Iron Cross, 2nd Class.
At a celebratory banquet held that evening, Zech was asked if he wanted to return home or join German military forces at the front. According to Zech, he volunteered for frontline service.
Following an accelerated training program, Zech joined a German unit fighting in Freudenthal in what is currently Czech Silesia. He was shot and wounded in combat and made a prisoner of war, but was released in 1947 at the age of 14 years. After release, he walked the nearly 400 kilometres (250 mi) back to his family home, on arrival learning that his father had been killed while fighting in the Volkssturm during his absence.
In early 1945 Goldenau was under attack by advancing elements of the Soviet Red Army. Zech, then aged 12 years, witnessed a dozen German soldiers injured by mortar fire. Against the wishes of his mother, he commandeered his father's farm cart and drove it to where the wounded men had been pinned down by Soviet fire, ferrying eight of them to safety. Zech then made a return trip to rescue the four men left behind.
According to Zech, a German general appeared at the family farm several days after the incident and invited the boy to travel to Berlin for an audience with Adolf Hitler. There, on 20 March, he joined a number of other Jungvolk members from across Germany and was decorated by Hitler with the Iron Cross, 2nd Class.
At a celebratory banquet held that evening, Zech was asked if he wanted to return home or join German military forces at the front. According to Zech, he volunteered for frontline service.
Following an accelerated training program, Zech joined a German unit fighting in Freudenthal in what is currently Czech Silesia. He was shot and wounded in combat and made a prisoner of war, but was released in 1947 at the age of 14 years. After release, he walked the nearly 400 kilometres (250 mi) back to his family home, on arrival learning that his father had been killed while fighting in the Volkssturm during his absence.
Evgeny Stepanovich Kobytev: The face of a soldier after four years of war, 1941-1945.
These two photographs are displayed at the Andrey Pozdeev Museum. Caption reads: ′′ (Left) Artist Yevgeny Stepanovich Kobytev on the day he went to the front in 1941. (Right) In 1945, when I returned ".
This is a human face after four years of war. The first image looks at you, the second, through you.
In 1941 he was a young man willing to start his creative life as an artist. But his plans were truncated when Germany invaded the Soviet Union and had to join the army. Four years later, the difference in her face is eye-catching. A thin and tired face, deep wrinkles, anxious look: This man has completely changed after four years of war.
Evgeny Stepanovich Kobytev was born on December 25, 1910 in the village of Altai. After graduating from a pedagogical school, he worked as a teacher in the Krasnoyarsk field. Her passion was painting portraits and landscapes of everyday life. The dream of higher art education came true in 1936, when he entered the Kiev State Art Institute in Ukraine.
In 1941, he graduated with honours from an art institute and was ready for a new creative life. However, all his dreams were truncated on June 22, 1941, when Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union. The new artist voluntarily became a soldier and enlisted in one of the Red Army's artillery regiments. The regiment fought a fierce battle for the city of Pripyat, which lies between Kiev and Kharkov.
In September 1941, Kobytov was injured in the leg and taken prisoner. It ended up in a notorious German concentration camp operating from Khorol, which was called Khorolskaya Yama (Dulag No. 160). In this camp, close to 90 thousand prisoners of war and civilians were killed.
Kobytev managed to escape captivity in 1943 and rejoined the Red Army ranks. Participated in several hostilities in the territory of Ukraine, Moldova, Poland, Germany. At the end of World War II, he received the Hero Medal of the Soviet Union for his excellent military service in battles for the liberation of the Brave and Korsun regions in Ukraine. However, the high command refused to give him the Victory medal over Germany because his military career was ′′ broken ′′ by being a prisoner of war.
Evgeny Kobytev died on January 29, 1973 in Krasnoyarsk.
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These two photographs are displayed at the Andrey Pozdeev Museum. Caption reads: ′′ (Left) Artist Yevgeny Stepanovich Kobytev on the day he went to the front in 1941. (Right) In 1945, when I returned ".
This is a human face after four years of war. The first image looks at you, the second, through you.
In 1941 he was a young man willing to start his creative life as an artist. But his plans were truncated when Germany invaded the Soviet Union and had to join the army. Four years later, the difference in her face is eye-catching. A thin and tired face, deep wrinkles, anxious look: This man has completely changed after four years of war.
Evgeny Stepanovich Kobytev was born on December 25, 1910 in the village of Altai. After graduating from a pedagogical school, he worked as a teacher in the Krasnoyarsk field. Her passion was painting portraits and landscapes of everyday life. The dream of higher art education came true in 1936, when he entered the Kiev State Art Institute in Ukraine.
In 1941, he graduated with honours from an art institute and was ready for a new creative life. However, all his dreams were truncated on June 22, 1941, when Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union. The new artist voluntarily became a soldier and enlisted in one of the Red Army's artillery regiments. The regiment fought a fierce battle for the city of Pripyat, which lies between Kiev and Kharkov.
In September 1941, Kobytov was injured in the leg and taken prisoner. It ended up in a notorious German concentration camp operating from Khorol, which was called Khorolskaya Yama (Dulag No. 160). In this camp, close to 90 thousand prisoners of war and civilians were killed.
Kobytev managed to escape captivity in 1943 and rejoined the Red Army ranks. Participated in several hostilities in the territory of Ukraine, Moldova, Poland, Germany. At the end of World War II, he received the Hero Medal of the Soviet Union for his excellent military service in battles for the liberation of the Brave and Korsun regions in Ukraine. However, the high command refused to give him the Victory medal over Germany because his military career was ′′ broken ′′ by being a prisoner of war.
Evgeny Kobytev died on January 29, 1973 in Krasnoyarsk.
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When Jennifer Parcell graduated high school, she followed in her older brother's footsteps and joined the Marine Corps. The Marines made her a landing support specialist, stationed out of Okinawa. Her first deployment involved the opposite of combat. In 2005, following the Kashmir earthquake in Pakistan, Parcell flew to the region to help distribute relief supplies to the millions of people impacted by the disaster.
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The following year, Parcell deployed again to Iraq in support of combat operations. She spent her first month in country with her older brother, who was wrapping up his tour overseas. She volunteered for the Corps' Lioness program, where female Marines assisted in searching Iraqi women at checkpoints, a task strictly forbidden to men under Iraqi customs.
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On February 7, 2007, Corporal Parcell conducted searches at another check point when a woman approached. As Parcell began to search her, the woman detonated a concealed suicide vest, killing Parcell. She was 20 years old at the time of her death. She posthumously received a Purple Heart.
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The following year, Parcell deployed again to Iraq in support of combat operations. She spent her first month in country with her older brother, who was wrapping up his tour overseas. She volunteered for the Corps' Lioness program, where female Marines assisted in searching Iraqi women at checkpoints, a task strictly forbidden to men under Iraqi customs.
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On February 7, 2007, Corporal Parcell conducted searches at another check point when a woman approached. As Parcell began to search her, the woman detonated a concealed suicide vest, killing Parcell. She was 20 years old at the time of her death. She posthumously received a Purple Heart.
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August 27, 1979, 11 men who had been convicted of being “counterrevolutionary” by the regime of Iranian ruler Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini were lined up on a dirt field at Sanandaj Airport and gunned down side by side.
No international journalists witnessed the killings. They had been banned from Iran by Khomeini, which meant it was up to the domestic press to chronicle the bloody conflict between the theocracy and the local Kurds, who had been denied representation in Khomeini’s government.
The Iranian photographer Jahangir Razmi had been tipped off to the trial, and he shot two rolls of film at the executions. One image, with bodies crumpled on the ground and another man moments from joining them, was published anonymously on the front page of the Iranian daily Ettela’at.
Within hours, members of the Islamic Revolutionary Council appeared at the paper’s office and demanded the photographer’s name. The editor refused. Days later, the picture was picked up by the news service UPI and trumpeted in papers around the world as evidence of the murderous nature of Khomeini’s brand of religious government.
The following year, Firing Squad in Iran was awarded the Pulitzer Prize—the only anonymous winner in history. It was not until 2006 that Razmi was revealed as the photographer.
No international journalists witnessed the killings. They had been banned from Iran by Khomeini, which meant it was up to the domestic press to chronicle the bloody conflict between the theocracy and the local Kurds, who had been denied representation in Khomeini’s government.
The Iranian photographer Jahangir Razmi had been tipped off to the trial, and he shot two rolls of film at the executions. One image, with bodies crumpled on the ground and another man moments from joining them, was published anonymously on the front page of the Iranian daily Ettela’at.
Within hours, members of the Islamic Revolutionary Council appeared at the paper’s office and demanded the photographer’s name. The editor refused. Days later, the picture was picked up by the news service UPI and trumpeted in papers around the world as evidence of the murderous nature of Khomeini’s brand of religious government.
The following year, Firing Squad in Iran was awarded the Pulitzer Prize—the only anonymous winner in history. It was not until 2006 that Razmi was revealed as the photographer.
Captured prisoners of the WWI from eight different nations at an unknown German prisoner of war camp. From left, Annamite (Vietnamese), Tunisian, Senegalese, Sudanese, Russian, American, Portuguese and English. 1917.
Abu Tahsin al-Salihi; (Arabic: أبو تحسين الصالحي 1953 – 29 September 2017) was an Iraqi veteran sniper. A volunteer in the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces, he is credited with killing over 384 ISIS members during the Iraqi Civil War, receiving the nicknames “The Sheikh of Snipers” and “Hawk Eye.”
