stirlingsmg
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Notice the has his officer on the right, has shoved his handgun into his battle dress tunic, rather than carry it in a holster,..officers were always the first target of snipers
Picture of the day
- Thread starter jwhc
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- Leduc County, Alberta
Pretty much!
What luck to have enemies like the Brits, Canucks, and Yanks! Getting to work on a farm and have 3 meals a day!
Webly&Scott
It could also be for a Browning Hi-Power. It's a black leather flap-topped holster for a self-loading pistol with a pouch for a spare magazine in front and what looks like the circular top of a cleaning rod just showing behind that. (I used a photo editor feature to expand the photo and try to brighten it up to see details - of course, to see the holster, I had to make the faces white out...).
Regarding resolution - a lot of these old photos were originally newsphotos, and that's about as good as they get.
No hi rez in '42 Recce. don't like 'em, don't look!?
You know I mean pixilation from a crappy internet copy plinker but thanks for the advice.
And for the record, photography in the 40's WAS high resolution. See below.
Good Internet Copy
Bad Internet Copy
Dark Alley Dan
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Lotta fear in those boats, and with good reason. What a horrible job to have to do.
Reminds me of this:
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Reminds me of this:
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it is neat that most of the footage and pictures from d-day and shortly after was canadian, we were the only ones to bother sending cameras over. watch for canadian uniforms in documentaries about americans on d-day
Dan; any idea how many men those landing craft would hold? Those guys just kept rolling out! Thank Chr1st an mg42 wasn't trained in on that area, those tight quarters could have been (I'd imagine there were occasions) nightmarish for those on the receiving end.
Lest we Forget.
Lest we Forget.
Kayser Sose
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B26 Marauder, w/.50 cal gun packs mounted, for ground attack iirc
Dark Alley Dan
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A slightly sharper version. Looks retouched, no?
Dark Alley Dan
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Took enormous balls to get in those LC, watch those doors open on France, and not crap yourself. Quite the experience for boys from Hanna, Alberta, or 100 Mile House BC, or Thunder Bay, Ontario. This particular load had a pretty easy time of it from what we can tell, but apparently the Saving Private Ryan experience of having the ramp drop and everyone getting badly lit up was not uncommon. I noticed these guys initially kept one door closed against that contingency. Seems wise to me.
I'm no expert by any stretch, but this website tells me the Landing Craft Assault held 30+ guys:
http://www.dday-overlord.com/eng/landing_craft_assault.htm
The doors don't look right, though.
Higgins Boats (the reason the US D-Day Museum is in New Orleans of all places) held 35:
http://www.dday-overlord.com/eng/landing_craft_vehicle_personnel.htm
Either one of these had about the right capacity for the number of troops we watch leave the boat in the movie, but the doors are again not right.
Hopefully Smellie weighs in on this one - I'm beginning to suspect there is nothing he doesn't know
