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Offline Seth_Soldier

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #16635 on: 09-04-2019, 19:04:34 »

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #16636 on: 09-04-2019, 20:04:00 »


I'm guessing near Petsamo, very motovski bay like

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« Reply #16637 on: 10-04-2019, 23:04:28 »


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Crossing the upper Kuyto. A group of Finnish soldiers make their way over the upper Kuyto with assault boats during sunrise, Karelia, 16 July 1941.

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« Reply #16638 on: 12-04-2019, 12:04:10 »


British patrol on the Italian Front with improvised camo smock/jerkin made from captured rolls of Italian M1929 telo mimetico used for tents/ponchos. I don't know any details and there is hardly anything on the internet. If anyone knows anything about that let me know, especially I would be interested who started this practice. There are more photos under a spoiler tag.

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Some pics of NZ soldiers



and Poles from II Polish Corps




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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #16639 on: 12-04-2019, 13:04:28 »
Great photos, check out the two Thompson’s as well. M1928A1 in the lead and M1A1 3 men back.

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« Reply #16640 on: 12-04-2019, 13:04:37 »
Great photos, check out the two Thompson’s as well. M1928A1 in the lead and M1A1 3 men back.

Yeah, it seems that there was very high number of both Thompson variants allocated to troops on that front. It's very common sight on photos. A least when it comes to Commonwealth forces, I haven't seen that many photos of US from MTO.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #16641 on: 12-04-2019, 14:04:18 »
They used the Thompson in the MTO because of the .45 ammunition. The Sten was used more in North Western Europe with 9mm. This made resupply easier.

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« Reply #16642 on: 12-04-2019, 14:04:58 »
Yeah, sorry I haven't made myself clear. My point was that allocation of sub-machine guns for Commonwealth units in MTO seems to be comperatively high. Sometimes you would see almost half of a squad having smg's.

But admittedly I could just stumbled upon some particular photos that clouded my perception of the way bigger picture. So maybe I'm wrong about that.
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #16643 on: 12-04-2019, 19:04:23 »


Sturmi "Aili" north of Viipuri, 2 July 1944.

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« Reply #16644 on: 12-04-2019, 19:04:06 »
Yeah, sorry I haven't made myself clear. My point was that allocation of sub-machine guns for Commonwealth units in MTO seems to be comperatively high. Sometimes you would see almost half of a squad having smg's.

But admittedly I could just stumbled upon some particular photos that clouded my perception of the way bigger picture. So maybe I'm wrong about that.

Commonwealth troops often had a pool of Stens or Thompsons at Battalion to issue on an ad hoc basis to patrols and recon mission.

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« Reply #16645 on: 13-04-2019, 12:04:02 »


New Zealand Valentine tanks of 3rd NZ Division Special Tank Squadron, during the campaign on the Solomon Islands. Squadron had 25 standard Mk III's and 9 converted ones with 3 inch howitzers, taken from Australian Matilda IV CS tanks.

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« Reply #16646 on: 13-04-2019, 12:04:39 »


Finnish soldier stands in front of wooden archway with the text: ”Long live this invincible banner. Long live Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin! Long live Leninism!” Riekkalansaari lake Ladoga, 29 July

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #16647 on: 14-04-2019, 10:04:59 »

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #16649 on: 16-04-2019, 18:04:32 »

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Jagdpanther, Fgst.Nr. 303 018 completed by M.N.H. in December 1944.

Trivia-bit: MIAG was the only factory that assembled Jagdpanther during the ambush scheme period (August-October 1944), but like some other manufacturers, MIAG never implemented the ambush camouflage.
M.N.H. applied the disc camo variant on their Panthers during the fall of 1944, until they switched to distinctive diagonal camo pattern, which was also applied on their newly launched Jagdpanther production - starting from November 1944 until the war's end.
("Panzer Tracts 9-3", R. MacDougall, M. Block: "Panther External Appearance & Design Changes")
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