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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #930 on: 11-09-2009, 08:09:02 »
Is that a glider in the back?

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #931 on: 11-09-2009, 08:09:27 »


French ss soldiers on the eastern front.


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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #932 on: 11-09-2009, 09:09:56 »

Long Range Desert Group taking a breather in the hot Africa sun

More pictures here: http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=66094

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #933 on: 11-09-2009, 10:09:24 »
Is that a glider in the back?
Yup, Horsa glider.
"Force answers force, war breeds war, and death only brings death.
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #934 on: 11-09-2009, 13:09:08 »
Yup, Horsa glider.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #935 on: 11-09-2009, 13:09:08 »
I know.. Mixing the names :P
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #936 on: 11-09-2009, 22:09:01 »

- German paratroopers on the Eastern Front

Found over at this Eastern Front picture collection -> http://www.user.dccnet.com/russianfront/mainpage.html

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #937 on: 11-09-2009, 22:09:46 »

The Finnish SS volunteer battalion in its poignant good-bye march in Ruhpolding, Upper Bavaria, Germany, June 1943. The battalion had suffered huge losses in battles and was being disbanded. About 800 heroic volunteers -- out of 1200 -- died or were wounded battling against Bolshevism.
The unit or its members were never accused of any war crimes.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #938 on: 11-09-2009, 22:09:28 »
And as they were disbanded and sent back to finland, they continued to fight alongside their "regular" finnish colleques on all different finnish fronts in continuation war. But for some reason these men didnt keep serving together but were dispersed all over different units and not having them all sent to fullfill into one unit. I guess it was because they bare a lot of field experience which became very vital in the upcoming struggles only year later...

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #939 on: 11-09-2009, 23:09:16 »
My first POTD for some time now:


American Dodge Ambulance (T214-WC54, Truck, ¾ ton, 4 x 4) carrying wounded from front line positions, passes a knocked-out German Tiger tank that is being repaired on a road near La Gleize, Belgium, two miles from the front, so that it may be transported back to the United States.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #940 on: 12-09-2009, 00:09:23 »
And as they were disbanded and sent back to finland, they continued to fight alongside their "regular" finnish colleques on all different finnish fronts in continuation war. But for some reason these men didnt keep serving together but were dispersed all over different units and not having them all sent to fullfill into one unit. I guess it was because they bare a lot of field experience which became very vital in the upcoming struggles only year later...

IMO, its because the Finnish army weren't big fans of the SS, and having the guys who served in the SS dispersed over a wide area was a way of getting rid of them and burying them....

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #941 on: 12-09-2009, 12:09:09 »


French cruiser "gloire" april 1944

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #942 on: 12-09-2009, 13:09:23 »
LOVE that paintjob :D

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #943 on: 12-09-2009, 15:09:33 »
eheh it works just like the one on a zebra  ;D

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #944 on: 12-09-2009, 15:09:34 »

Hitler walking over traditional Finnish board bridge in a forest, Mannerheim's birthday 4th June 1942.