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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1785 on: 19-12-2009, 23:12:42 »
A for sale price?  Dude, I think there is exactly 2 copies left in the world, if that:

Fl 282 V-10 28368 Midland Air Museum, Coventry, England. Partial aircraft, frame with rotor head & wheels.
Fl 282 V-23 was at one time to be found at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, Dayton, Ohio.


So no, it wouldn't even BE for sale.  You'd be better off building from scratch, like the Colorado guys did with their Panzer 3 xD

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1786 on: 20-12-2009, 00:12:50 »
A for sale price?  Dude, I think there is exactly 2 copies left in the world, if that:

Fl 282 V-10 28368 Midland Air Museum, Coventry, England. Partial aircraft, frame with rotor head & wheels.
Fl 282 V-23 was at one time to be found at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, Dayton, Ohio.


So no, it wouldn't even BE for sale.  You'd be better off building from scratch, like the Colorado guys did with their Panzer 3 xD
That's the exact conclusion I gathered.  ;D I wasn't looking to buy one, there is no way in hell I could aford it, I was just curious.  ::)

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1787 on: 20-12-2009, 00:12:42 »

This well known photo of a blown-up armored car in Berlin was actually one of the Schwedish Kompanie's vehicles in the Nordland Division. It could have been company commander Pehrssons command vehicle that was shot up on the Friedrichstrasse just south of the Hitler Chancellery on the 1st of May, 1945. The fallen Unterscharführern to the right of the armored car is in that case identical with the driver in the car, Ragnar Johansson from Stockholm, that was killed by a Russian handgrenade. It's most likely that the armored car had participtaed in the attempt to break out of the city on the night to the 2nd of May. The picture was taken by the Russian reporter Mark Redkin. At a picture reconstructuion, at place in Berlin, the researcher Lennart Westberg positioned the place for the photo to be Friedrichstrasse 107 with the walls of the guardhouse in the backround, 200m north of the river Spree.

This well known photo of a blown-up armored car in Berlin was actually one of the Schwedish Kompanie's vehicles in the Nordland Division.

lol?
It's Budapest, january 1945.

I doubt it is Budapest. This picture shows the same scenery. you can find the box marked with the arrow on both pictures. But on this second picture, there is a writing saying "Eis" in the background. Eis is german for icecream. I somehow doubt that you'll find german writings about icecream on a wall in Budapest.


I usually imagine my own sounds with it, like `tjunk, tupdieyupdiedee` aaa enemy spotted, ratatatataboom

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1788 on: 20-12-2009, 00:12:21 »
I'm interested in knowing just when the 5th SS Wiking actually made it to Budapest, Taranov.  Far as I can find, they never got to it in the battles in the area.  Can you offer any evidence other then your word?

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1789 on: 20-12-2009, 00:12:06 »
This well known photo of a blown-up armored car in Berlin was actually one of the Schwedish Kompanie's vehicles in the Nordland Division.

lol?
It's Budapest, january 1945.
Wrong. You can also see this pic in Erik Wallin's book(one of the survivors of Pehrsson's company).
Edit: found it


Another quote:
On the 27th of April, the remainats of the company was subordinated to the reichchancellery. The situation was hopeless. On the first of May, Pehrsson gathered his company for an escape attempt over Wedendammmer Brücke. Pehrsson said good bye to the survivors with the words: ”The war is over, save yourselfs”. The escape attemt took place the night between the first and second May. Soon after the start the unit came under heavy soviet fire and Pehrssons vehicle took fire. His driver SS-Unterscharführer Ragnar Johansson was killed in this incident. Pehrsson himself was wounded, but he managed to get away from the soviets and took cover in a compartment house. He hid himself in a closet for two days. Then he got out and meet a woman who promised to help him with some clothes. But when she came back, soldiers of the red army accompanied her.

Fortunately, Pehrsson had time to get rid of his uniform jacket and changed into a Wehrmacht one. He was sent to a prison camp, which he managed to escape from early. Somehow he managed to get civilian clothes and hide himself in an apartment in Berlin. After a while, he meet his old friend, SS-Unterscharführer Erik Wallin and together they walked to the British occupation zone and from there they were able to get back to Sweden.
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1790 on: 20-12-2009, 01:12:55 »
Exactly Venous.  Taranov is just blowing a lil hot air.  I caught him on the "wittmann" thing a lil while back.


That is def a berlin photo.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1791 on: 20-12-2009, 01:12:31 »


Unusual photo from 1939.A scene like that,was rarely taken by camera during the battle.The third soldier from left is holding a French LMG Chauchat.


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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1792 on: 20-12-2009, 02:12:31 »


Unusual photo from 1939.A scene like that,was rarely taken by camera during the battle.The third soldier from left is holding a French LMG Chauchat.

Where is this?

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1793 on: 20-12-2009, 02:12:43 »
probaly the french attack in the elzas
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1794 on: 20-12-2009, 02:12:00 »
Nope, sorry, poland. 1939


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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1795 on: 20-12-2009, 03:12:24 »
Were the poles using the Chauchat?  IIRC, they used their improved BAR, having replaced the Chauchat in the late 1920s....

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1796 on: 20-12-2009, 04:12:15 »
Desperate times call for desperate measures.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1797 on: 20-12-2009, 05:12:53 »
Yeah, but would they have even had the time to issue incredibly old weapons from storage?  IIRC, they never even were able to fully mobilize their entire army, and they had a full compliment of the wz28 BAR....

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1798 on: 20-12-2009, 05:12:47 »
What was the difference from the regular BAR?

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #1799 on: 20-12-2009, 05:12:13 »
BAR:



wz28:



Note the much more comfortable pistol grip, the changed sights, slightly elongated barrel, different bipod, different buttstock and forestock, and the fining on the barrel.  Also, the ammo was changed to the polish 8mm, and provisions for a quick change barrel, something the American BAR didn't have.
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