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Offline Torenico

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1995 on: 08-01-2010, 22:01:00 »
Now really..

If i knew the meaning of these medals..



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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1996 on: 08-01-2010, 22:01:10 »
Damn....


Well, he's a Hungarian General, He's got the EKII and EKI, Hungarian Knights Cross, Pilots Badge, and just a shitload of medals...probably some could be WW1 Austrian awards.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1997 on: 09-01-2010, 03:01:38 »
i was kinda hoping he was some sort of austro-hungarian Audie Murphy.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1998 on: 10-01-2010, 08:01:30 »


11th AD tank covering infantrymen advancing on burning enemy position near Neufelden, Austria, May 4, 1945.


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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1999 on: 10-01-2010, 19:01:07 »

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #2000 on: 10-01-2010, 20:01:40 »
Going with the Kfz 13 theme from Seth...:


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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #2001 on: 10-01-2010, 20:01:02 »
The only photographs my grandfather could carry back to Venezuela after the war.

1st; in a refit and rest before the Ardennes offensive.





2nd grandpa and his lafette, circa 1943 at the eastern front.


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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #2002 on: 10-01-2010, 20:01:00 »
i always love seeing photos people post of their relatives. thats probably the first "combat" photo of a ww2 relative i have seen.
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #2003 on: 10-01-2010, 20:01:07 »
Are you sure on that Yustax?  I've seen that EXACT photo, the second one, plastered around the net many, many times....  :-\

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« Reply #2004 on: 10-01-2010, 20:01:23 »
Are you sure on that Yustax?  I've seen that EXACT photo, the second one, plastered around the net many, many times....  :-\

That came exactly in a very old family photo album and a very valuable item for me. The second photo was given to my grandfather after a news reel soldier snapped the picture.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #2005 on: 10-01-2010, 20:01:30 »
I don't mean the first, I'm not questioning it.  But I mean the second.  Now if it is snapped be a news reel guy, that would explain why its common on the net...means your grandfather is a star of sorts.

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« Reply #2006 on: 10-01-2010, 20:01:44 »
I don't mean the first, I'm not questioning it.  But I mean the second.  Now if it is snapped be a news reel guy, that would explain why its common on the net...means your grandfather is a star of sorts.

Star? Meh, theres plenty of pictures like look like that. Bet I could just write german soldier and 10000000+ with the same phose will appear somewhere.

And grandpa told me that after 2 hours of the photo, commies attacked!!!!

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #2007 on: 10-01-2010, 21:01:29 »
Venezuela? Sorry for asking this but did your grandfather sort of fled to there after the war? Not that I disapprove, if I was in that situation I would get the fuck out of Germany too.
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« Reply #2008 on: 10-01-2010, 21:01:34 »
Venezuela? Sorry for asking this but did your grandfather sort of fled to there after the war? Not that I disapprove, if I was in that situation I would get the fuck out of Germany too.

No, my family its german and has been in Venezuela like 3 generations. My grand father just answered the call; joined Wehrmacht, but after a battle that was short of supplies and equipment in 1940; he heard that the Waffen SS was better equipped and were given the best equipment. Joined, trained and in 1941 was shipped to the Eastern Front; he was a MG42 gunner. After the war ended, he was a prisoner of war for 4 to 5 months; he was cleared and he got the hell out of Germany. He didnt have any family in Germany so he got back here in one piece.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #2009 on: 10-01-2010, 21:01:08 »
Now I understand, thanks. So Germany even asked Venezuelian citizens to enlist in their army? I knew that they where desperate but asking non-occupied countries to supply troops..
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