Picture of the day
- Thread starter jwhc
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I absolutely love these pics that are posted. I have some incredible pics taken by my great uncle who was a Spitfire pilot stationed in Egypt... These pics take my breath away and sends chills up my spine when i look at them. It's amazing to look at all these pics and know that all this actually happened!
Here's a challenge:
What type of tanks are these and where are they?
-Steve
That looks like a Marmon-Herrington CTLS-4TAC or 4TA.... and as to where they are... that i cheated on.. lol Alaska 1942...
To be clear; these guys weren't under fire...it was training exercises prior to D-day. Troon, Ayrshire, Scotland.
Here's a link to a U-boat found off the coast of Nova Scotia... The Germans sure did come a knock'n @ our door...
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2004/07/13/Uboat_040713.html
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2004/07/13/Uboat_040713.html
Here's a challenge:
What type of tanks are these and where are they?
-Steve
That looks like a Marmon-Herrington CTLS-4TAC or 4TA.... and as to where they are... that i cheated on.. lol Alaska 1942...
That's a cool (in more ways than one) pic!
Never seen those before. I'm assuming twin .30 caliber MGs in the hull. What was in the turret?
- Location
- Leduc County, Alberta
Very Nice.
An abandoned Panzerjäger Tiger Ausf. B! Otherwise known as the Jagdtiger.
Love the Zimmermit Anti magnetic paint and the Schürzen guarding the tracks!
Where was this photo taken? The Hürtgen Forest? The Ardennes?
An abandoned Panzerjäger Tiger Ausf. B! Otherwise known as the Jagdtiger.
Love the Zimmermit Anti magnetic paint and the Schürzen guarding the tracks!
Where was this photo taken? The Hürtgen Forest? The Ardennes?
Kampfhamster
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- Switzerland
Good morning Gunnutz new day new picture
Cheers
Joe
Interesting picture.
The germans are lucky guys, being captured by americans meant that they didn't get to take a very long vacation in Sibiria.
Very Nice.
An abandoned Panzerjäger Tiger Ausf. B! Otherwise known as the Jagdtiger.
Love the Zimmermit Anti magnetic paint and the Schürzen guarding the tracks!
Where was this photo taken? The Hürtgen Forest? The Ardennes?
Whoa, Whoa, Whoa!
You can't make statements like that without explaining it to the less educated like myself!
What's with the anti magnetic paint and what is a Schurzen and why would it be guarding the tracks?
***just found out from my co-worker that Shurzen is an 'apron'***
Tell us more about this tank...you seem to know a little about it.
Adrian
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Lucky in some respects only but there is more to it.
My grandfather was a German soldier captured in France sometime after D Day. He was handed over to the French. The French and Americans policy was to eliminate the Germans by starvation and disease. Not something you hear about often.
He was put into a camp for 2 years with little food, less shelter and minimal medical care. They were treated far below the Geneva convention standards. Many of his comrads died while in captivity.
After about 1947, I believe, he was to be sent home. Nope. As he was from East Germany (new designation after the Russians took over), he and what was left of his unit were loaded into locked box cars without food or water. While traveling east, they realised that they were heading east of the German border. My Grandfather and a couple of others escaped from the train and made their way home. ALL of the rest of the trainload of prisoners were shipped to Russia and never heard from again.
That is his story.
I guess it all depended on where you were captured.
O'Kelly's Boys
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- Location
- Grande Prairie
Ya, I know its a couple of pages back. Can't speak to whether or not thats Simo in the picture, unlikely, as he didn't like to use the scoped Swede, that given to him, in combat. It is widely known that Simo used his own personal M28. In the text below, Häyhä is presented by Finnish Army Colonel Svensson with a M28 (pystykorva) presentation rifle as a gift from Sweden in recognition of his sharpshooting accomplishments. Simo afterwards left to return to the front. Notice in the picture he is holding two M28s.
http://kotisivu.suomi.net/brantberg/Talvisota%2070.htm
”Tämä Ruotsista lahjoitettu kunniakivääri annetaan alikersantti Simo Häyhälle tunnustuksena hänen suurista ansioistaan ampujana ja aseenkäyttäjänä taisteluissa”, eversti Svensson sanoi. ”Tätä kunniakivääriä on pidettävä erikoisista ansioista annetun ansiomerkin veroisena.”
”Alikersantti Häyhä!”
”Herra eversti!” Häyhä vastasi ja otti asennon.
”Suomen armeijan ja erityisesti 12. divisioonan puolesta luovutan teille tämän kiväärin sekä siihen liittyvän kunniakirjan.”
Miehet kättelivät, TK-mies otti valokuvia. Simo Häyhä siristeli silmiään kirkkaassa auringonvalossa.
Simuna lähti takaisin linjoille uuden hopeakilvillä varustetun pystykorvansa kanssa.
O'Kelly's Boys
My uncle was captured by the English on retreat from murmansk back to Germany at the end of the war and they where starved for 14 days as well as POWs.
The British people starved for years during the naval blockade...no pity here friend
Hmmmmm??? All's fair in war then i guess eh?
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he is incorrect on the schurzen, it only has basic mud guards that are partly missing, schurzen or skirts are a thin armour plate or mesh that was spaced off of the tank to detonate shaped charges (like bazooka rounds) before they hit the main armour so they couldnt penetrate. this m113 has the same idea:
zimmerit is a paste seen on german vehicles, it was to prevent magnetic mines or charges from sticking
