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that's a lot of spare airframes and parts tucked up in the rafters
Was this taken on the Lexington or Saratoga by chance?
Gotta love this pic!https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/battle-of-the-gothic-line
The glory of accepting the Axis surrender fell to the Brazilians, as the Canadian fire brigade was sent to Walcheren in early 1945. It seems the strategic Axis priority was to keep an escape route into Austria open until the very end.
Its just as well. Can you imagine the further cost if Allied forces had to fight uphill along the Po River Valley and into the Alps?
Believe it or not, it's used on the front cover of Herbert McBride's book "A Rifleman Went To War".........a book about his service in the Great War!
Obviously, the printer wasn't too knowledgeable.....
Gotta love this pic!
Believe it or not, it's used on the front cover of Herbert McBride's book "A Rifleman Went To War".........a book about his service in the Great War!
Obviously, the printer wasn't too knowledgeable.....
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/battle-of-the-gothic-line
The glory of accepting the Axis surrender fell to the Brazilians, as the Canadian fire brigade was sent to Walcheren in early 1945. It seems the strategic Axis priority was to keep an escape route into Austria open until the very end.
Its just as well. Can you imagine the further cost if Allied forces had to fight uphill along the Po River Valley and into the Alps?
I hadnt noticed this before but the reference to “fire brigade” is curious. If it meant 5th (fifth) Cdn Infantry Brigade — they were not in Italy but they were in Walcheren … if it refers to 1st (first) Cdn Infantry Brigade … they were in Italy and at Gothic line .. in fact the whole works from Pachino… but they were not at Walcheren … 1st Cdn Inf Bde did end up in Holland though via Livorno and Marseilles etchttps://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/battle-of-the-gothic-line
The glory of accepting the Axis surrender fell to the Brazilians, as the Canadian fire brigade was sent to Walcheren in early 1945. It seems the strategic Axis priority was to keep an escape route into Austria open until the very end.
Its just as well. Can you imagine the further cost if Allied forces had to fight uphill along the Po River Valley and into the Alps?
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The Marder III, or Sd.Kfz 139:
A classic example of making due with what you have at hand.
Here's one stuck in the squoosh for which Russia is famous:
A German tank hunter, bult on a Czech chassis, sporting a Russian gun. Here's one captured by the British, thus completing the grand slam:
All it needs is an Irish mechanic, fueled by Italian vino rosso.
A classic example of making due with what you have at hand.
Here's one stuck in the squoosh for which Russia is famous:
A German tank hunter, bult on a Czech chassis, sporting a Russian gun. Here's one captured by the British, thus completing the grand slam:
All it needs is an Irish mechanic, fueled by Italian vino rosso.
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A Regimental Sergeant Major of the 11th Battalion, Royal Scots, hands out Mills bombs to a raiding party at Meteren. This raid was abandoned just when the party was ready to start because the leader was killed. Photograph taken on 12 July 1918.
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19-year-old Marine Pfc Jerry W. Garner, a machine-gunner attached to “F” Company, 2nd Bn., 1st Marine Regt., wears the helmet that saved his life when his gun team assaulted an enemy position 10 miles south of Da Nang. (Sgt. A. V. Huffman/U.S. Marine Corps)
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Hauptmann (Captain) Friedrich Konrad Winkler was the Kompanieführer (Company Commander) of the 6. Kompanie/Grenadier-Regiment 577 during the battles at Barrikady Gun Factory in Stalingrad. In January 1943, his regiment was destroyed and Winkler was captured in February and he died shortly after his capture, at the age of 34 in POW camp Beketowka. Good shot of him showing his field glasses (only NCOs and officiers were issued with these), his Eisernes Kreuz I (EK I/Iron Cross first class), his Verwundetenabzeichen (Wound badge) underneath, and to the left, his Infanterie-Sturmabzeichen (Infantry Assault Badge). You can clearly see that he was wearing a broken Infantry Assault Badge. Breaking the assault badge was commonly done by the Stalingrad veterans as an indication that earning the assault badge in Stalingrad was a different level of achievement than earning it somewhere else
