Picture of the day
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Dark Alley Dan
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Fellow on the left just found a hole...
Hey Gunnutz sorry for missing a day there my computer is still not working right 
Time for a new one !! But I am also moving so that is taking alot of time as well. Not to mention my father had a stroke and needs help too So if anyone wants to throw a few pictures up for me for the next couple days ?? That would be alot of help
Cheers
Joe
Joe
Time for a new one !! But I am also moving so that is taking alot of time as well. Not to mention my father had a stroke and needs help too So if anyone wants to throw a few pictures up for me for the next couple days ?? That would be alot of help Cheers
Joe
Joe
Hey Gunnutz sorry for missing a day there my computer is still not working right
Cheers
Joe
Joe
I'll go, see how good some of you are at Identifing some of the personalities, more and less well known.!!
Hey Gunnutz sorry for missing a day there my computer is still not working right
Cheers
Joe
Joe
Joe, your Dad had a stroke and you're worried about posting photos??
Somebody (like Gibbs505) will cover that for ya.
Hope your Dad gets better soon!!
Thanks shredder
He is doing ok His main concern is his shooting lol he is a very avid trap,skeet, sporting clays and cowboy action shooter. Plus everything else that go's bang Thanks to Gibbs505 , sean69 And anyone else that will post pics Cheers
Joe
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Here is one for you all.
A "Kiwi", a soldier in the New Zealand Army, wearing a "Lemon Squeezer" hat,..interestingly, he is armed with a `P14 rifle, rather than the Lithgow SMLE as all Aussie & Kiwi troopies were usulally issued
Very good! He is standing on the Pancake Rocks, near the mouth of the Waikato River on the west coast of the North Island. It is interesting about the P14 but the "rules" do not always apply. This gentleman is doing some target practice and he has not even been issued a uniform! Must be early in the war!!
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??? What is this on his shoulder??? I recognize the buttstock, wrist, trigger guard, bolt handle and mag (+ mag cut off) as a SMLE... The sling swivel and front end of that gun isn't (look at that front sight!!), hang on...rear sight isn't SMLE either...Parker Hale rig or something?
Kampfhamster
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At least better then the germans. They had the italians as their allies
Haven't heard all that many positive reports about the italian performance on the battlefield.
Kiwis? Rommel considered them the best troops in the Empire, but of course he never fought the Canadians.
Spike Milligan's crew.
7.2" gun on updated carriage. Updated with pneumatic tires that is. They used to put great big wooden "wedges" behind the wheels to stop them rolling all over the place when recoiling. Rather 19th century!
British artillery was some of the best in training, discipline, fire control and accuracy, but they sure didn't get the guns they deserved in WWII.
Todays pic.
Spike Milligan's crew.
7.2" gun on updated carriage. Updated with pneumatic tires that is.
They used to put great big wooden "wedges" behind the wheels to stop them rolling all over the place when recoiling. Rather 19th century!British artillery was some of the best in training, discipline, fire control and accuracy, but they sure didn't get the guns they deserved in WWII.
At least better then the germans. They had the italians as their allies
Haven't heard all that many positive reports about the italian performance on the battlefield.
For some insight into how bad it was after the defeat at Stalingrad read the book, "Enemy at the Gates" by William Craig. Cannibalism was rampant among the Italian POWs. Here is an extract; " Prisoners who refused to eat human flesh used other tricks to survive. At Krinovaya, a group of Italian entrepreneurs retrieved excrement from huge latrine ditches and with bare hands, picked out undigested corn and millet, which they washed and ate. German prisoners swiftly improved the process. Setting up an assembly line of sieve-like tin cups, they strained the feces through them and trapped so much grain that they started a black market in it".
Life as a POW was no bowl of cherries, but based on accounts from WW2 and Korea I would not have wanted to be:
a. A German or Italian POW in Russian hands,
b. A Russian POW in German hands,
c. Any POW in Japanese hands,
d. Any POW in Chinese hands.
I hear you.
Years ago I read a book call 'The Fall of Berlin 1945". It was the of the Red Army advance from the Oder River to the end of the war. After the Soviets had crossed the river there was huge groups of Germans that started marching west in hopes of reaching the British and American lines to surrender to them. A lot of them didn't make it through the pincher move to encircle Berlin.
After the soviets were in Berlin, they raped anything from 12 years old to old women. Quite often in groups. There was a lot of said raped women that then begged to be killed but the Soviets would just laugh and leave.
