Today is 78 years since the BF-108 Taifun D-NFAW that was carrying plans for Fall Gelb started the Mechelen Incident when it crash landed in neutral Belgium.



The Mechelen Incident was typically citied as one of the driving factors that led Hitler to agree to the revised plan that called for the main German attack through the Ardennes. It’s also was citied as part of the reason that the French and British commanders were reinforced of their idea that the Germans would have their main force attack through Belgium as a repeat of the Schlieffen Plan of 1914.  In actuality, modern research has shown that the delays and plan changes previously tied to the Mechelen Incident had, in fact, already occured and were being finalized beforehand, with OKW and OKH making a series of amendments and plan alterations before and after the Incident.  Thus, the Mechelen Incident more affected Allied planning than any actual German operational or strategic changes, which were already taking place.

Fixed it for yah

The haircuts you see there are the standard reg haircuts.  There were many cut types worn, but those are all pretty much norm regulation cuts.

Quote from: Sander93 on 19-10-2018, 09:10:57

Quote from: nysä on 19-10-2018, 08:10:48

It must've been such a surrealistic experience for some regular German soldiers. Enlisting with pride to serve their fatherland and being hailed as heroes and mighty conquerors during the first years of the war, only to slowly start realising their leader is a madman that is leading the nation into its defeat and that they are actually serving an evil party that is exterminating people by the millions.

Heh, they kinda knew it since the beginning.

Not only knew, but by and large, they supported it.

"A specialized bunker version was also produced in very small numbers (a total of 500 built) in 1941, the barrel shroud end of which was thinner and flattened to allow firing through the narrow ports of defensive bunkers.[5] This version had no shoulder stock and was equipped with a pistol grip."

This is what you're seeing- the grip for it if it was mounted in a plane.  These guys are just dicking around/training on it.

The M1C and M1D did not see service in WW2 until very late in the Pacific campaign (literally in the final days of Okinawa).  As such, it is totally inappropriate for the mod.