Picture of the Day

[Kading]

Then you simply dont have fun. I prefer to take the underdog, and then rub it in there faces when i am performing well with it

Keep trying to kill a Panther with a Grayhound

In FH1, I would indeed do just that all the time.  I actually kept a tally of german heavy tanks that I destroyed with the Greyhound.  Was going into the double digits for Panthers, Stugs, and PzIVs.  I also love taking light tanks like the Pz2 and toying with heavys with them.  Knocking out M3 Grants on Mersa Matruh  with the Pz2 is awesome.

Not AS impressive. But I once finished a round in FH1 BotB in a Puma with 106 kills and 2 deaths. I say not as impressive because it was an early morning crowd and my gun was better than that of a Greyhound.

[THeTA0123]

making kills with puma=not so impressive

making kills with a PZII ripping apart tanks or a greyhound=Thats impressive

[Yustax]

And that's why always I kill more Greyhounds than any other vehice 

Vehicle rambo commandos are easy shooting.

[THeTA0123]

im not listening anymore to you blasphemers and non believers

therefor i present italian tanks

[Butcher]

hardly a "tank" by september ´43 standards. by that time most german tanks were equipped with the long 75mm/L48. (the better compared to the italian tanks) Panzer III production was halted and russians would soon equip their T34s with the 85mm gun. not to speak of the shermans who outgunned those fiats anyway.

[Yustax]

In Africa maps, the sherman is perhaps one of the best tanks. Even the 50mm has much problems hurting the frontal armor.

[Torenico]

Yeah but these piece of crap Sherman is much more expensive than my cute M13/40, so suck it up Sherman.


Literally.

A quiet haven of peace not yet reached by the war: the Lake Iseo (or Lake Sebino), in Lombardia, on Summer of 1940. The all whit seaplane is the prototype, military code MM27193, of maritime reconnaissance aircraft Caproni Ca.316 built by Cantieri Aeronautici Bergamaschi, Caproni Group, powered by two Piaggio PVII radial engines (each with 480 HP of power) which flew for first time at Montecollino (Iseo) on 14 August 1940. A dozen of Ca.316s were built for the naval components (Marinavia) of Italian Regia Aeronautica mainly employed at Orbetello by 3rd Squadriglia of Scuola Osservazione Marittima (Maritime Reconnaissance School) for training of the Italian Navy’s air observer. The production of Ca.316 ceased on 15 January 1942. Switched at Portorose, in Istria (today Portorož, Slovenia) on Summer 1943, after the Armistice of Italy the surviging Ca.316s were damaged by the Italian personnel to avoid their seizure by Germans.

[THeTA0123]

the following picture is WW2 but also not WW2
Kudos who can identify things here

[IrishReloaded]

swizz:
why: helmet

[THeTA0123]

Quickly edited your mistake eh

Irish has answerd it=

these are swiss troops training again right after Germany invaded france. The soldier on the left is armed with a Karbiner 11(I think, its not a K31 because the magazine is not located at the trigger housing)
To the left the Furrer M25 light machinegun. A very awesome MAGAZINE FED LMG

[SirGutz]

Italy soldiers with Fiat 14/35 with 50 round strips
do want <3   

[THeTA0123]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x7JyWyWxxg

yes its that epic 

[Torenico]

Three Italian Air Force’s NCOs standing up in front of a former French Air Force bomber Lioré-et-Olivier LeO-451 seized by Italians after the Vichy Government’s fall on November 1942. Location unknown.

[hOMEr_jAy]

After going through my Imageshack account I found a bunch of photos my grandfather took prior to and during WW2. He was drafted into the "Reichsarbeitsdienst" (some pseudo-military working service that was mandatory for German young men before they joined the Wehrmacht) in 1938 and joined the Wehrmacht half a year later.
Because of basic training he missed the Polish campaign and he first saw action in France, as part of Army Group South.
He was an enlisted soldier in a signals unit and an enthusiastic photographer who took lots of photos and spend lots of time developing and sorting his photos.
I´ve decided to post them in a loose order here in this thread (or in the "other eras" thread if pics were taken before WW2) so they can be shared.

The first photo was taken at the German-Swiss border. The Swiss were very accurate when it came to shooting down planes that violated their air space wether they were Allied or Axis.
This photo shows German and Swiss soldiers talking during a ceremony where the bodies of shot down German pilots were returned back to Germany:


If time permits I´ll continue uploading other photos during the coming days. I hope some might find them interesting.

[THeTA0123]

Some? dude these kinds of photo's are always 10 times more intresting! MOAR PLX!