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screwtape said:
Wasn't he a Stuka pilot?
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Hans Erich Rudel. Remarkably gifted pilot, never said die, ardent lifelong unapologetic nazi and thus, douchebag. Sank ships, killed about a bazillion tanks, finally hung it up after the surrender and flew short one leg, which makes him half as awesome as Bader. :)

Stuka Pilot is a very interesting read.

Speaking of pilots missing appendages, does anyone know about Colin Hodgkinson? http://www.rquirk.com/Behague/hodgkinson.html

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Dark Alley Dan said:
Hans Erich Rudel. Remarkably gifted pilot, never said die, ardent lifelong unapologetic nazi and thus, douchebag. Sank ships, killed about a bazillion tanks, finally hung it up after the surrender and flew short one leg, which makes him half as awesome as Bader. :)

Stuka Pilot is a very interesting read.
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Should have known Dan would have been the one to figure out it was Rudel.

9 air to air victories in a Stuka is actually a pretty impressive feat. But the rest of his stats from the war, really bring home what he was capable of as a pilot. 519 tank kills, 1 battleship, 1 destroyer, 1 cruiser, 70 or so other ships of varying descriptions, 4 armoured trains, 150+ artillery/anti-aircraft/anti-tank emplacements. Over 2500 sorties over the course of the war. Injured on Jan 1, 1945, requiring the amputation of his right leg. Was back flying missions by the end of March, and flew right up until the surrender of German forces.

And yes, very much a douchebag. After the war he kept busy smuggling key Nazi officials to Argentina and hiding their identity (including Mengele), did some gun running for pretty much anyone who would pay (upstanding world leaders like Pinochet and Peron among them), was a spokesman/candidate for various German "We're not Nazis, really..." nationalist right wing parties right up until his death in 1982.

Strikes me as someone who didn't enjoy being bored.

buzzmagoo said:
Near the end there's an officer that's on crutchs ( one leg) I thought that forearm ( Canadian ) Style crutches were invented or rather weren't in use before the 1950s?
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There's some speculation that that's Rudel, too proud to catch a ride, walking back to Germany.
 
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Tintype Civil War Enlisted Man With Hardtack

1/6 Plate Tintype Union Civil War Enlisted Man Displaying his Very Large Hardtack.

Unidentified soldier wearing a frock coat with tabs, posing for the photographer with his hardtack in hand, cutlery Bowie style knife, navy percussion revolver and has a OVM (Ohio Volunteer Militia) belt buckle. This tintype photograph is housed in a very fancy brown thermoplastic frame.

Hardtack, the food staple that Union soldiers called jawbreakers and worm castles. A cracker/biscuit flat-bread used during long sea voyages and military campaigns before the introduction of canning as a primary food-source.
 
grelmar said:
Should have known Dan would have been the one to figure out it was Rudel.

9 air to air victories in a Stuka is actually a pretty impressive feat. But the rest of his stats from the war, really bring home what he was capable of as a pilot. 519 tank kills, 1 battleship, 1 destroyer, 1 cruiser, 70 or so other ships of varying descriptions, 4 armoured trains, 150+ artillery/anti-aircraft/anti-tank emplacements. Over 2500 sorties over the course of the war. Injured on Jan 1, 1945, requiring the amputation of his right leg. Was back flying missions by the end of March, and flew right up until the surrender of German forces.

And yes, very much a douchebag. After the war he kept busy smuggling key Nazi officials to Argentina and hiding their identity (including Mengele), did some gun running for pretty much anyone who would pay (upstanding world leaders like Pinochet and Peron among them), was a spokesman/candidate for various German "We're not Nazis, really..." nationalist right wing parties right up until his death in 1982.

Strikes me as someone who didn't enjoy being bored.



There's some speculation that that's Rudel, too proud to catch a ride, walking back to Germany.
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It was Ulrich
He sounds like he would fit right in with Reagan, 'Ollie' North and more recently Kerry, McCain and Nuland - mmmm nice guy !
 
Gibbs505 said:
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Tintype Civil War Enlisted Man With Hardtack

1/6 Plate Tintype Union Civil War Enlisted Man Displaying his Very Large Hardtack.

Unidentified soldier wearing a frock coat with tabs, posing for the photographer with his hardtack in hand, cutlery Bowie style knife, navy percussion revolver and has a OVM (Ohio Volunteer Militia) belt buckle. This tintype photograph is housed in a very fancy brown thermoplastic frame.

Hardtack, the food staple that Union soldiers called jawbreakers and worm castles. A cracker/biscuit flat-bread used during long sea voyages and military campaigns before the introduction of canning as a primary food-source.
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That guy is awesome he looks like a Newfie.
 
Stupid comparison. None of the men named were anti-Semites or advocates of the "Final Solution". Were they right wing in their politics? - yes. Racist extremists? - No.


dryfire said:
It was Ulrich
He sounds like he would fit right in with Reagan, 'Ollie' North and more recently Kerry, McCain and Nuland - mmmm nice guy !
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Gibbs505 said:
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Tintype Civil War Enlisted Man With Hardtack

1/6 Plate Tintype Union Civil War Enlisted Man Displaying his Very Large Hardtack.

Unidentified soldier wearing a frock coat with tabs, posing for the photographer with his hardtack in hand, cutlery Bowie style knife, navy percussion revolver and has a OVM (Ohio Volunteer Militia) belt buckle. This tintype photograph is housed in a very fancy brown thermoplastic frame.

Hardtack, the food staple that Union soldiers called jawbreakers and worm castles. A cracker/biscuit flat-bread used during long sea voyages and military campaigns before the introduction of canning as a primary food-source.
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He must have been a tough dude in his day
 
Sharps '63 said:
Stupid comparison. None of the men named were anti-Semites or advocates of the "Final Solution". Were they right wing in their politics? - yes. Racist extremists? - No.
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And the measures taken by the last three precipitated the overthrow of an elected government to be replaced with a regime whose military arm has vowed the annihilation of all pro-Russian peoples in the Donbass. Pushing the wedge or at the thin end amounts to the same thing.
 
I'm with screw tape. No swastikas. Must have been a schmozzle sorting out what was to be done next. A lot of people to feed, no matter which side they were on a few days before.
 
You guys realize they didn't just paint swastikas all over their transport trucks and tanks, and no one except for Party officials and Political/Police SS Officers wore Swastika Armbands...

Especially this stage of the war/peace, it was camo paint schemes, maybe a Baltic Cross or two. German State Flags or Kriegsfahne would only be draped on top of trucks/tanks to identify by air by friendly forces, but at this stage, there wasn't much Luftwaffe up above.
 
Looked like a lot of captured Soviet vehicles in that mix and even a Swimmervagen. The only tracked utility trucks I've seen from WWII were Soviet Zils. Also surprised to see how many retained their pistols or at least their holsters.
 
collector67 said:
Note the upright posts mounted on the front bumpers of the Jeeps in the first part of the video. Used to break neck high wires stretched across the road by Nazi resistance fighters.
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mostly fitted because it was much more common to run into a strand of barbed wire or even field phone wire while driving in blackout conditions. Tanks can pick up barbed wire and drag it trailing out a long way...pulling it across wheeled echelon vehicles accidentally
 
Yep, and because a few wing nuts use guns to shoot up unarmed victims, ALL gun owners are tarred with the same brush.


dryfire said:
And the measures taken by the last three precipitated the overthrow of an elected government to be replaced with a regime whose military arm has vowed the annihilation of all pro-Russian peoples in the Donbass. Pushing the wedge or at the thin end amounts to the same thing.
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I've been meaning to share for a while.

My great uncle served as a royal marine during WW2, and would often talk about the time he spent aboard HMS Dido, and most notably having witnessed the German naval surrender in Copenhagen. Last year around the anniversary of VE Day I decided to search online for photos and came across some Marines at a surrender ceremony for the Prinz Eugen. I forwarded the photo below to my uncle and asked if he may be one of the men in the picture.

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Here is his response:

"Yes, I was one of those marines in the picture! I was the one on the extreme left. This was the final act of surrender when the German captains (Eugen & Nurnberg) with their first officers & senior engineer officers lines up opposite their British counterparts on the quarterdeck of the Prinz Eugen when Captain Elkins of Dido read out the surrender terms in flawless German (much to the surprise of the Germans - he had been an interpreter before the war and was later a prisoner, but escaped). The German officers handed over their ceremonial swords to their British counterparts and the ceremony was over. Each of the British officers had a Royal Marine 'minder' so that is how I happened to be there."
 
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