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Tango01 | 17 Feb 2020 10:08 p.m. PST |
… never-before-seen look at the war-weary soldiers braving the frigid weather as they fight off Nazi Germany's last major offensive of World War II See here link Amicalement Armand
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Bunkermeister | 17 Feb 2020 10:32 p.m. PST |
While I recognize several of those photos others were quite good and new to me. Thanks Tango. Mike Bunkermeister Creek Bunker Talk blog |
Marc33594 | 18 Feb 2020 6:19 a.m. PST |
Nicely done. I remember reading that color photography was much more prevalent during WW II than many knew. |
Tango01 | 18 Feb 2020 11:48 a.m. PST |
Happy you like them boys!. (smile) Amicalement Armand |
d88mm1940 | 18 Feb 2020 12:44 p.m. PST |
That shot down plane reminded me of my Father-in-Law. My Father-in-Law told me some great stories about his involvement in WW2 and the Battle of the Bulge. I think that he liked me because none of the other kids wanted to hear his tales. He was a Major in the AAA and his unit was on the northern shoulder of the 'bulge'. Germans went passed just south of him only a couple of hundred yards away. As long as they didn't fire, the Germans wouldn't fire. His main task became intelligence gathering. He would send accurate daily reports of the goings on. One day they shot down a 'secret' German fighter and it crashed into an open field, about halfway between the lines. Shortly after, an intel guy came up to him and said,"Hey Ralph. Let's go take a look." So of course he went with him. The two of them crawled all over that plane and my Father-in-Law decided he wanted a souvenir so he took a chunk of the cockpit. After the battle, he took that cockpit glass to an armorer and had him make a pistol grip for his .45. In the grip he put a picture of his wife (my Mother-in-Law). And then, that night, he showed my his pistol! Wow! |
Condotta | 18 Feb 2020 2:47 p.m. PST |
d88mm1940, too cool. What was the "secret" fighter? |
d88mm1940 | 18 Feb 2020 3:45 p.m. PST |
Unknown. I've speculated maybe a late model Focke Wulf, but not sure. I kind of remember asking him, but he didn't know. I guess that it was so new that even he didn't know. |
donlowry | 18 Feb 2020 6:51 p.m. PST |
The first picture is not of a Sherman but of an M36 TD. So how do you get "new" pictures of something that happened over a half-century ago? Time machine? |
Tango01 | 19 Feb 2020 10:53 a.m. PST |
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Marc33594 | 19 Feb 2020 12:40 p.m. PST |
Don; They are new as in previously unreleased "The pictures were released by Life Magazine on the 67th anniversary of the start of the grueling battle." And it is an old item being recycled: "UPDATED: 19:18 EST, 17 December 2011" |
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