Cool indeed, As a pic collector I adore them and I'll search my collection and post some. Having fun with a captured German railway gun. Too bad the mighty Schwerer Gustav didn't survive the war. Wing commander Robert Stanford Tuck (29 aerial victories) and General der Jagdflieger Adolf Galland (104 aerial victories) sit in a dual Messerschmidt 109 as tactical advisers for the movie Battle of Britain (1969). Galland and Tuck were close friends, another excellent example of wartime enemies that became friends. Galland and Group Captain Douglas Bader (20 aerial victories) were also close friends. Major John Howard, leader of the coup-de-main operation on Pegasus Bridge on the night of June 5-6, 1944; sergeant Jim Wallwork, a glider pilot on the Pegasus operation and Colonel Hans von Luck, panzer division commander, on a D-Day tour. One nice story about their friendship is "When Howard went to the cafe [in Benouville at probably the first building in France to be liberated from German occupation, café Gondrée] in the seventies and early eighties, he sometimes brought Hans von Luck with him. Howard told Madame that von Luck might look suspiciously like a German, but that he was in fact a Swede [Because the owners were severely anti-German]." Ambrose, Stephen: Pegasus Bridge, p. 198.
I was always impressed with this picture; you know you've been in combat too long when you sit on an unexploded 16" round, to smoke a cigarette and shake the sand out of your boondockers.
I believe you're right now that you've pointed that out. Thanks a bunch! Maybe that was the crew of that Panther, with the shell shocked look after being hit with all those rounds.
Hey pal, this is my thread and I post what I think is cool. I've been watching "WW2 in Color" on the Military Channel a lot lately, and those colorized news reels and combat footage looks pretty dang cool. But what is cool to me doesn't have to be cool to you dude. Nice pix nevertheless. The B&W versions too.
Erich "Bubi" Hartmann's best friend and Crew Chief Heinz "Bimmel" Mertens, taking a nap on the propeller. In an interview after the war Hartmann said: "My closest relationship was with Heinz Mertens, my crew chief. You rely on your wing men to cover you in the air, and your team mates in aerial battle, but the man who keeps your machine flying and safe is the most important man you know. We became best of friends, and none of my success would have been possible if not for Mertens." Italian gunners in a field of Tunisian cactus, on March 31, 1943. At first I thought its a scene from a Franco e Ciccio movie! Hans-Ulrich Rudel, whose leg was amputated below the knee after a 40 mm shell hit his aircraft on 8 February 1945, is welcomed back by Major Karl Kennel. Lighting a cigar with a flammenwerfer! Remnants of an Italian Savoia-Marchetti SM.79. Come on, Sergeant Jackass!
WRT photo #1 - "German" mechs with KV-2 turrets...Now that is too funny! Or are those Soviet mechs escorting German prisoners?
Those pics of robots in WWII reminds me of MOH Underground's Panzerknacker Unleashed level, which was very cool and funny at that time.
Soldiers treating a wounded combat dog in Orote peninsula, 1944 Japanese Zaikaku Carrier Crew giving the last Banzai cheer before it sank, 1944. American Soldiers return home after the victory in Europe. A lone man not saluting Hitler, 1936. A veteran who wore this sign on his back, traveling from place to place, hoping to find some work, c. 1930.
Opening day for the Golden Gate Bridge. I wonder if those are the same planes that attacked King Kong on the Empire State Building?