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jwhc said:
Good day fellow Gunnutz :) New day new picture :)

Chindit-officers.jpg


Cheers
Joe
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Dark Alley Dan said:
I would not care to owe these gentlemen money, or anger them, or give them the impression that I was someone they didn't care for.

They look scruffy enough to be Australians (I have a deep and abiding respect for the Australians and their innate sense of equality and distate for any sort of "classist" bahaviour) but there's something about 'em screams "Merrill's Marauders". Were Aussies involved with that lot?

Alternately, this is a picture taken in Kentucky in 1949. Somewhere nearby there are several pigs, a body or two, and a pretty nice still. And Ezekiel there, the feller with the nice hat, got hisself a fair to middlin' car-been from the last Revenooer made the mistake of comin' up the holler without so much as a howd'ydoo...
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The fellow on the left with the slung Lee Enfield is Brigadier Micheal "Mad Mike" Calvert, with Major Shaw of the Ghurkas, and Major Lumley. Taken at a place called Mogaung with the Chindits during the Burma campaign.

Sorry for the late post, but I haven't been keeping up with the thread.
 
Don't underestimate the Russian or Ukrainian girls. I know someone who lived on the Prairies and knew one who could lift a full oil drum off the ground and onto the tailgate of a truck. Anyone know what a full oil drum weighs?

All those centuries of pulling plows back in the Motherland.
 
RRCo. said:
Don't underestimate the Russian or Ukrainian girls. I know someone who lived on the Prairies and knew one who could lift a full oil drum off the ground and onto the tailgate of a truck. Anyone know what a full oil drum weighs?

All those centuries of pulling plows back in the Motherland.
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Only ever seen that done once - by a bull moose of a man.
Wouldn't want to argue, at the wrong time of the month, with a woman who could manage it :sok2
 
RRCo. said:
Don't underestimate the Russian or Ukrainian girls. I know someone who lived on the Prairies and knew one who could lift a full oil drum off the ground and onto the tailgate of a truck. Anyone know what a full oil drum weighs?

All those centuries of pulling plows back in the Motherland.
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Dear God...
 
RRCo. said:
Don't underestimate the Russian or Ukrainian girls. I know someone who lived on the Prairies and knew one who could lift a full oil drum off the ground and onto the tailgate of a truck. Anyone know what a full oil drum weighs?

All those centuries of pulling plows back in the Motherland.
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Oil drum full of what?

A full oil drum filled with liquid is closing in on 500 lbs. Doesn't sound too likely a story to me unless that drum was filled with feathers, or she looked like a muscled up rosie o donnel
 
Photo by Sgt Chef Flament. The last moments of Sgt Chef Sentenac, Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur, Medaille Militaire. The man had been awarded 13 medals, had been wounded 7 times and had managed to escape encirclement at Dien Bien Phu.

KIA November 21, 1957 in Timimoun Algeria

Your typical French "Surrender Monkey"
 
purple said:
I recently interviewed a former Halifax rear gunner, and later pilot, who survived a full tour of duty in 1943/44. While serving as a rear gunner his main effort was to watch for enemy night fighters and instruct the pilot when to take evasive action. He only fired his guns on one occasion after being engaged by an enemy fighter. Basically the idea was to avoid firing unless fired at because in doing so your tracer lit you up for any night fighter in the vicinity. He described his eyes aching from the effort to remain constantly vigilant throughout a night mission. His bomber went unscathed except for one time when it was hit by AA fire and he was wounded. He described the stress and fear levels as very high and remarked that he had watched a lot of young men grow old in a short period of time.
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My Grandfather was a bomb aimer in a Halifax in 44-45. When he was still kicking he told me some stories that sound pretty close to what you've just described. :cheers:
 
Kevin M. said:
Oil drum full of what?

A full oil drum filled with liquid is closing in on 500 lbs. Doesn't sound too likely a story to me unless that drum was filled with feathers, or she looked like a muscled up rosie o donnel
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I don't know, I can ask. POL most likely. I can get the name, address and probably the date at least to the year. Anything else we'd need?
 
I see MN's,Madsen MG,Suomi SMG but what is that semi (2nd from left)?

I have few similar pictures of Finnish airmen in my books but sadly no scanner...
 
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