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Hangar tube on board giant Japanese submarine *I-401 *which housed three floatplane *Aichi M6A *type Seiran “Clear Sky Storm” (no allied reporting name for this one).
The Sentoku-class submarines were built to launch a surprise air strike against Southern California. The Japanese conceived *Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night *through the drop of infected flea bombs from five I-400 submarines and her three *Seiran *in the San Diego area.
The plan was scheduled for September 22nd but the war ended before. Submarine was taken over by the US Navy shortly after Japan’s surrender Sasebo Naval Arsenal. Photograph taken mid September.
This heartbreaking photo, taken on June 13, 1944, in Carentan, Normandy, shows an elderly couple (Mr and Mrs Lecanu) laying flowers on the body of an American hero killed during the Battle of Carentan. This French couple lived 300 yards from where this photo was taken.
Original caption where I found the picture.
"A nice portrait of a smiling member of No. 3 Commando on exercises in the field at Largs, Ayrshire, Scotland, circa 1942.
His face is blackened and he wears what was known as a "Balaclava"... a type of wool-knit helmet which had its origins back in the Crimean War of 1853-6.
It could be worn as a warm winter "helmet" as seen here, or rolled down around the neck as a muffler.
He is armed with a Thompson SMG with a British issue web sling.
(IWM)"
I'll have to go with that since I never met the man.
Enfield sling BTW
"A nice portrait of a smiling member of No. 3 Commando on exercises in the field at Largs, Ayrshire, Scotland, circa 1942.
His face is blackened and he wears what was known as a "Balaclava"... a type of wool-knit helmet which had its origins back in the Crimean War of 1853-6.
It could be worn as a warm winter "helmet" as seen here, or rolled down around the neck as a muffler.
He is armed with a Thompson SMG with a British issue web sling.
(IWM)"
I'll have to go with that since I never met the man.
Enfield sling BTW
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Original caption where I found the picture.
"A nice portrait of a smiling member of No. 3 Commando on exercises in the field at Largs, Ayrshire, Scotland, circa 1942.
His face is blackened and he wears what was known as a "Balaclava"... a type of wool-knit helmet which had its origins back in the Crimean War of 1853-6.
It could be worn as a warm winter "helmet" as seen here, or rolled down around the neck as a muffler.
He is armed with a Thompson SMG with a British issue web sling.
(IWM)"
I'll have to go with that since I never met the man.
Enfield sling BTW
They look like dress gloves that he's wearing and the balaclava like something Granny would make ?
Grizz
That was my take as well ... also the pack straps looked padded ... never seen padded pack straps from that era .... I have an old Bergen rucksack (and lots of webbing items) of my fathers with leather straps but no pads ...also have a number of WWll ‘balaclava’s’ but mostly they are either ‘skull caps’ or much tighter knitted full balaclava’s .... however they could have been knitted by ‘granny’ as several also still have a cotton label saying Red Cross inside (well at least thats how you know its the inside)
Russian Pre-Dreadnought Battleship Tsesarevich pictured Interned at Qingdao in 1904 showing some of the battle damage inflicted following the Battle of the Yellow Sea (Aug. 10 1904) illustrating the vulnerability of French-designed Battleships of the pre-dreadnought era.
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