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Are those Japanese troops in Alaska? Or Italians in North Africa? I can't tell if that's snow or sand and I don't recognize that machine gun.
Or could they be Japanese troops landing on Guadalcanal, New Guinea or on some other Pacific island?
Or could they be Japanese troops landing on Guadalcanal, New Guinea or on some other Pacific island?
He's holding the liner of the helmet, you can just make out the damage by his hand. And they are in the 75th Infantry Division, likely sometime soon after they were rushed to the Ardennes to help stem the German advances.
I think I dropped a few "empties" there too...glass n' aluminum mostly though, no brass.
Any idea of when and where?
OP: Gptta say/type...this has been an awesome thread! I have slow dialup, and worth every second. ESP how other CGn'ers "covered" you too. You put up pics of different sides on different fronts.
85 pages, and I'm finally through!
Thank you
85 pages, and I'm finally through!
Thank you
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So where did they store the bbq and lawnchairs?
Sorry, no idea.
Having some difficulty in finding the scanner, but once I do, I'll post those pictures
As for the Russkies, the all have PPSH41 aka Burp Guns
It is entirely possible that they ARE on a roof.
Likely it was done for the purposes of the photograph; hard to take a picture of the Jeeps with 91000 people trying to put their grungy hands all over the poor things. Be worse than taking pictures at a Ukrainian wedding when the photographer is the only one sober (not racist at all: it was my brother's wedding and I was the photographer!).
Factories "back then" were not built like the flimsy shopping-malls of today: they didn't fall down, you had to bomb them. The "Cleveland" motorcycle company (in Cleveland, of course) actually road-tested their big 1000-cc motorcycles on the factory roof before crating and shipping them. In Milwaukee, Harley-Davidson is still building engines in the plant they built almost 90 years ago. Only in bad movies and Russia did buildings fall down for no reason other than that they were underbuilt.
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Likely it was done for the purposes of the photograph; hard to take a picture of the Jeeps with 91000 people trying to put their grungy hands all over the poor things. Be worse than taking pictures at a Ukrainian wedding when the photographer is the only one sober (not racist at all: it was my brother's wedding and I was the photographer!).
Factories "back then" were not built like the flimsy shopping-malls of today: they didn't fall down, you had to bomb them. The "Cleveland" motorcycle company (in Cleveland, of course) actually road-tested their big 1000-cc motorcycles on the factory roof before crating and shipping them. In Milwaukee, Harley-Davidson is still building engines in the plant they built almost 90 years ago. Only in bad movies and Russia did buildings fall down for no reason other than that they were underbuilt.
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