Picture of the Day

[Torenico]

Kids looking a german prisoner. Moscow Area.

[cannonfodder]

That is so cool...

[Rawhide]

EU and Torencio, great and interesting pictures, thank you.



- No caption

[THeTA0123]

German soldiers + Ushanka's +MG 34 Lafette=ow shit

[Captain Pyjama Shark]

Crusher caps are kick-ass.

[Eat Uranium]

Salerno, 9 September 1943 (Operation Avalanche): During Operation AVALANCHE, a night photograph taken from the battleship WARSPITE during the landings, showing the effect of anti-aircraft fire from Allied warships in response to low level German aerial torpedo attack. It lasted for two hours and the destroyer INGLEFIELD shot down one of the raiders. WARSPITE successfully dodged two torpedos.

[Invincible]

Look what I found on Wikipedia, cool photo:

[Rawhide]

Ah, the FG42. That gun has since the early days of DoD always amazed me.

Today's Rawhide papers then:



- No caption, drilling practice. Present arms.

[VonMudra]

Hm, that's not present arms...looks more like the 2nd step of shoulder arms.

[Eat Uranium]

A light Bofors gun and crew which were in action on the Goubellat Plain near Medjez-el-Bab, against enemy aircraft during operations against Tunis.

[Rawhide]

- Some paratroopers, chilling.

[Seth_Soldier]

[Fuzz]

hmm i have seen this picture on the flickr galery, this is a 60mm belgian mortar i think.

[rattovolante]

I must agree...many italian soldiers did wear van dykes

General Bergonzoli after his capture by the Australians at Beda Fomm.
Nicknamed "barba elettrica" (electric beard)... although the "electric" part wasn't due to the beard cut but to his restlessness and aggressiveness in combat.

too bad I couldn't find better versions of the pics (the first is heavily cropped, too)

[Thorondor123]

Search-light operator from the Finnish Anti-aircraft Regiment 1, 14th Searchlight Battery. They were the only armed all-female unit in the Finnish army. Like all the other AA-soldiers, they were armed with the lovely Carcano carbines.