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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #585 on: 16-07-2009, 16:07:17 »


U 166, Type IX-C submarine, most likely in the Kiel Canal. The officer on bridge with the white cap is lieutenant Kuhlmann. Sunk by depth charges from USS PC 566 on June 30th 1942 in the Gulf of Mexico, 70km from New Orleans. 51 casualties, no survivers.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #586 on: 17-07-2009, 01:07:03 »



Hitler and Goebbels signing autographs


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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #587 on: 17-07-2009, 11:07:37 »

Anti-tank rifle M39 in the winter. The report of this gun was quite loud, so the shooter has protected his hearing by placing empty cases in his ears.
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #588 on: 17-07-2009, 12:07:26 »


German convoy destroyed by Polish soldiers in "Korytarz Śmierci" (the "Corridor of Death"):

Sorry if I broke the rules by posting to pictures but it gives a better perspective of the damage the Polish 1. Armoured Division did to the Germans at Hill 262(Mount-Ormel).

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #589 on: 17-07-2009, 16:07:28 »


Another Tom Lea painting, of a chaplain at an aid station on Peleliu.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #590 on: 17-07-2009, 18:07:01 »


U 166 Lieutenant Kuhlmann

Edit:// The wreckage has been declared as sea grave.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #591 on: 17-07-2009, 20:07:42 »

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #592 on: 18-07-2009, 00:07:39 »
You've posted that pic earlier.. or it was in this forum or in Filefront.

Still i like it



Soldiers from the 12th SS Hitlerjugend salvage a shot down Allied fighter bomber pilot in Normandy. A quite interesting photo since these particular pilots weren't too popular with the German troops permanently haunted by the "Jabos".

I dont wanna be shot down and fall into SS Hands... consider yourself lucky if they dindt shot you at the moment.
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #593 on: 18-07-2009, 10:07:07 »

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #594 on: 18-07-2009, 11:07:38 »
You've posted that pic earlier.. or it was in this forum or in Filefront.

Filefront :p

same goes for this one:


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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #595 on: 18-07-2009, 12:07:04 »
I am sorry to break the one picture rule, but these two are from same thing and additional picture gives more perspective.




Morane MS-650 of 1/HLeLv 28 was damaged on 25 may 1944. In front is the pilot Capt R. Turkki, who escaped all injuries.

Can anyone guess which plane made the damage?
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #596 on: 18-07-2009, 14:07:07 »
Actually, the 12th was known for being ok with prisoners, unless they were Canadian, who they pretty much gave no quarter.
Whats wrong with the canucks?

No one really knows.  The 12th SS and the Canadians both had almost no quarter to each other, and when they did take prisoners, they were often still brutally beaten.  Its hard to say who started it, but what is known is hundreds of 12th SS and Canadians were killed by the opposite in cold blood.

The 12th SS killed them because SS-Standartenfuhrer Kurt Meyer specifically ordered on June 7th that no prisoners were to be taken at the Juno beachhead. The first killings took place on June 7th and continued over the next month (Meyer was battlefield promoted to division commander on June 14th). 20 of the killings took place inside Meyer's headquarters at the Abbey d'Ardenne in Caen.

At the time, the reason Meyer gave for ordering the killings was because the division was low on food and he didn't want to have to feed prisoners.

Meyer was later brought to trial for war crimes, convicted and sentenced to hang. His sentence was later commuted to life in prison but he was released after 9 years.

As far as I know, the only person to ever claim that the killings were in revenge for Canadian killings of Hitlerjugend troops was Meyer at his trial. He also claimed he knew nothing about the killings of 20 POWs that took place inside his headquarters.

http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=memorials/ww2mem/ardenne
http://www.valourandhorror.com/DB/ISSUE/Abbaye/

Now, for today's picture.



American and Chinese troops put flags on the first vehicle to cross the Ledo Road, Burma, January 1945.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #597 on: 18-07-2009, 20:07:03 »



Japanse officers inspects a Tiger I 88mm Cannon, in november 1943.


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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #598 on: 18-07-2009, 21:07:23 »

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #599 on: 18-07-2009, 22:07:54 »