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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #17010 on: 12-11-2019, 09:11:56 »
One interesting thing also for what you asked :

After the battle of Lille (May 25th - May 31st) which delayed the germans from rushing to Dunkerque, the germans made the honor to the french troops there, allowing them to parade with their weapons (June 1st).



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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #17011 on: 12-11-2019, 09:11:41 »

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« Reply #17012 on: 12-11-2019, 17:11:15 »
Hey guys, I gotta sourcing question for yah.

I need a good photo of fallen French soldiers in 1940.  Something that shows the idea of determined, even heroic, defense in 1940.  Using it for a lecture for my students.  Appreciate any help you can offer <3

Same as Cpt35, i'm not fond of showing dead person especially nowadays because people have become insensitive to violence.
But here, a link with a picture and name of the 2 dead soldiers and their actions:
http://www.picardie-1939-1945.org/le-sacrifice-de-deux-artilleurs-a-amiens/

Imo, you should try to get the daily loss and compare it to american casualties during normandy, etc ...

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #17013 on: 12-11-2019, 19:11:50 »
I'll note that my lectures involve plenty of violence and carnage when I do war lecture (I refuse to glorify any of it) so my students are used to seeing death.  The point is just for the slide I do on invasion of France for my WW2 lectures as a reminder that France did fight and hard, and fallen soldiers tend to have the most emotional impact for that kind of message.

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Re: Picture of the Day
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #17015 on: 13-11-2019, 18:11:20 »
What Seth found is really nice, since you have all the history behind the picture, it's really great...
The events i had on my mind were Villy La Ferté (where all the unit of the Maginot Line ouvrage died) and also the Saumur Cadets, but i didn't find any picture depicting the fights and the sacrifice spirit.

Some croquis made by Geoffrey de Navacelle, during the fights at Saumur, Aunis & Montsoreau, with the retreat of the surviving cadets honored by the german troops to the Demarcation Line. Note that he only sketched (due to the fights) and finished them later by adding details etc.




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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #17016 on: 14-11-2019, 06:11:45 »


Belgium, February 1945

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #17017 on: 15-11-2019, 09:11:40 »


StuG IV (late prod.) wreck that used to belong to Panzerjäger-Abteilung "Brandenburg". Koło (ex-Warthbrücken) 1945.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #17018 on: 15-11-2019, 16:11:54 »

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #17019 on: 16-11-2019, 05:11:24 »
Stug III with MG151/20.




Bonus! of a different tank :D
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #17020 on: 16-11-2019, 08:11:24 »
Not that different  ;)

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This was likely one of a number of improvised Flak gun mounts assembled at SS-Artillerie-Schule I at Trebbin (further experiments at Sturmgeschütz-Schule "Burg"). Even Mr. Takiguchi wasn't quite sure if these were wartime composition images... anyway, pics are coming the estate of Otto Schwab.

Btw - I hope the devs will have some Blitzkrieg fun with the StuG III Ausf. A - in terms of max. speed and the ammunition types.



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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #17021 on: 17-11-2019, 06:11:20 »


Geilenkirchen, 8 December 1944.

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Re: Picture of the Day
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #17024 on: 19-11-2019, 08:11:48 »