505th, 82 Airborne
IN ENGLISH BELOW THE LINE
Foto presa amb una Leica IIIb fabricada el 1938; objectiu Leitz Elmar f3.5 / 50mm fabricat el 1936; pel·licula Adox HR50, caducada de fa uns mesos.
Al poble vell de Corbera d'Ebre ens varem trobar amb tota una colla que anaven amb jeeps Willys, majoritariament models de la Segona Guerra Mundial. Aquí estan, en un camp de batalla, però aquesta no era la seva guerra (encara ni existien).
Aquest està marcat com a part del 505 Reg. de la 82 Divisió Aerotransportada, la que va llençara-se sobre Normandia i Holanda.
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willys_MB
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Picture taken with a Leica IIIb made in 1938; Leitz Elmar f3.5 / 50mm lens, made in 1936; Adox HR50 film, expired some moths ago.
In the destroyed village of Corbera d'Ebre, part of the Ebre battlefield, from the spanish civil war, we meet with this gathering of Willy's Jeeps, mostly WW2 era models. There were at least four more off camera.
So there you have US Army Willys in a battlefield, but this was not it's war (they even did not exist, in 1938).
This one his marked as being part of the 505th Regiment, of the 82 Airborne Division, of Normandy and Market-Garden fame.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willys_MB
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/505th_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States)
505th, 82 Airborne
IN ENGLISH BELOW THE LINE
Foto presa amb una Leica IIIb fabricada el 1938; objectiu Leitz Elmar f3.5 / 50mm fabricat el 1936; pel·licula Adox HR50, caducada de fa uns mesos.
Al poble vell de Corbera d'Ebre ens varem trobar amb tota una colla que anaven amb jeeps Willys, majoritariament models de la Segona Guerra Mundial. Aquí estan, en un camp de batalla, però aquesta no era la seva guerra (encara ni existien).
Aquest està marcat com a part del 505 Reg. de la 82 Divisió Aerotransportada, la que va llençara-se sobre Normandia i Holanda.
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willys_MB
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Picture taken with a Leica IIIb made in 1938; Leitz Elmar f3.5 / 50mm lens, made in 1936; Adox HR50 film, expired some moths ago.
In the destroyed village of Corbera d'Ebre, part of the Ebre battlefield, from the spanish civil war, we meet with this gathering of Willy's Jeeps, mostly WW2 era models. There were at least four more off camera.
So there you have US Army Willys in a battlefield, but this was not it's war (they even did not exist, in 1938).
This one his marked as being part of the 505th Regiment, of the 82 Airborne Division, of Normandy and Market-Garden fame.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willys_MB
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/505th_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States)