Picture of the Day

[Battlefieldfan45 (CroPanzer)]

Who's army is that?

[siben]

It is a French tank, with a Russian soldier on it somewhere on the eastern front. Again i cant say more then the absolute obvious.

[Fuchs]

Probably ex-Romanian then. IIRC those bought quite a few French light tanks, R35's.

[siben]

Looked it up, picture is taken in Znojmo, Czech Republic.

[Graf_Radetzky(CZ)]

Looked it up, picture is taken in Znojmo, Czech Republic.

You are right that it is in Czech rep., on rail wagon is ČSD-Czechoslovakian Railways

[Torenico]

Private Maurice White of the Loyal Edmonton Regiment watches German troops move up on his position. The Loyal Edmonton Regiment was comprised of Farm boys, trappers, and store clerks drawn from all over northern Alberta, Canada. They saw fierce combat in Italy, especially Ortona where they were involved in house to house and hand to hand combat with German Paratroopers.

[Zurich163]

Guess this belongs here.

Happy 88th Hartman, Black Devil of the Ukraine. RIP

[Yustax]

My WTF-moment of the day :



But luckely it turned out to be a photomontage of this :
http://www.beute.narod.ru/Beutepanzer/su/t-34/t-34-85/t-34_85_12.JPG

 

This was a proper variation from captured T34's used by the germans. It was called Flakpanzer T-34(r).

[Dnarag1M]

There is information of such an attempt by Kampfgruppe Kienast in Saxony to modify T34 with a Flak88.
However, there are no photos of this 'thing' and the only info we have is through veterans describing it.

The image you link is just one of the many impressions of how it could look. It is too high compared to the compositional sketch that was done after the war based upon veteran interviews.

I prefer to stick to real things :

[siben]

[THeTA0123]

Achtung fire!

21 CM morser karl about to open fire

[Rawhide]

The "Morotai Mutiny" was an incident in April 1945 involving members of the Australian First Tactical Air Force based on the island of Morotai, in the Dutch East Indies. Eight senior pilots, including Australia's leading flying ace, Group Captain Clive Caldwell, tendered their resignations to protest what they perceived as the relegation of Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) fighter squadrons to strategically unimportant ground attack missions against Japanese positions that had been bypassed in the Allies' "island-hopping" campaign. A government investigation vindicated the "mutineers", and three high-ranking officers at First Tactical Air Force Headquarters, including the commander, Air Commodore Harry Cobby, were relieved of their posts.

George Odgers summed up the cause of the incident in the official history of the RAAF in World War II as "the conviction of a group of young leaders that they were engaging in operations that were not militarily justifiable—a conviction widely shared also by many Australian soldiers and political leaders." Odgers concluded that the ensuing inquiry "made it clear that almost everyone concerned acted from the highest motives, and was convinced that, in the crisis, he acted wisely".[1]

Caldwell (fourth from left) talking to No. 452 Squadron Spitfire pilots at Morotai in January 1945

1TAF Headquarters following the Japanese surrender. One further strike was flown after this picture was taken.

[hOMEr_jAy]

Theta, are you sure it´s a 21cm Karl mortar? AFAIk "Karl´s" had a calibre of 60 cm and the gun shown in your pic looks like a sFh 15 (heavy field howitzer 15 (cm)).
Good pic though, looks like it fires on a relativly short range.

[THeTA0123]

Theta, are you sure it´s a 21cm Karl mortar? AFAIk "Karl´s" had a calibre of 60 cm and the gun shown in your pic looks like a sFh 15 (heavy field howitzer 15 (cm)).
Good pic though, looks like it fires on a relativly short range.

It was just a nickname. It is still a 21CM MRS18 gun though.

The one you mean is the 60CM Karl Gerät
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Gerat

This one is the 21CM morser 18 wich was nicknamed sometimes morser karl

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_cm_M%C3%B6rser_18

[hOMEr_jAy]

Alright, thanks for the clarification