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A friend made this up for me. I am very moved by it. It is actually a video but takes a little while to load .
this is Problety one of my favourite vigs ever! But a big thanks to my friend forhelp on finding pieces, and some ideas.
Hope you like it ;)
Out of focus but the Panzer collar tabs are interesting. Instead of the normal Pz skulls this fellow has applied the "Jolly Roger" tradition skulls used by Inf. Regt. 17.
The left one is a mechanic and the other 3 are regular soldiers. I don't have any German Brickarms weapons or helmets.
Company A, 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division.
Photographer: Lapidus, 163rd Signal Photo Co.
Taken at the WW2 Memorial in Washington DC ... looking through the Atlantic gateway across the pool and fountain to the Pacific gateway. Taken at sunset.
Yes, overused name <.<
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Anyway, here are some new troops with new decals (except Fallschirmjäger and germans that are in my ww2 dio :/) But, new decals anyway.
New decals, from left to right:
- American standard troop
- American paratrooper
- Finnish snowsuit
- Russian
- Fallschirmjäger, FG42 pouches
- German Wehrmacht, Kar98k pouches
- Gestapo officer uniform
- German Wehrmacht, MP40 pouches
And once again, until I get Kars, I have to use my only Garand as one. Feel free to offer me a brown Kar98k ;)
Also, all these decals are for sale. FM me if you are interested.
Fedor von Bock served as the commander of Army Group North during the Invasion of Poland in 1939, commander of Army Group B during the Invasion of France in 1940, and later as the commander of Army Group Center during the attack on the Soviet Union in 1941; his final command was that of Army Group South in 1942. Commons: Bundesarchiv.
I added straps and ammo pouches for a rifleman. Please give credit if used, for non-commercial use only.
Warsaw in Poland after WWII in June 1947
Dr Maurice Kaplan
Agfacolor
Powojenna Warszawa w czerwcu 1947.
Narożnik ul. Chmielnej i Wielkiej po lewej stronie.
Widoczny gmach PKO, Prudential i Dworzec Pocztowy.
Fot. dr Maurice Kaplan
taken inside a WW2 pillbox on the beach in Rye, East Sussex. used by soldiers in World War 2 to protect the shores against invasion. such a narrow view of the beach. just a spectacular abandoned piece of architecture i just had to get inside to shoot!
Winchester Repeating Arms M1 Carbine complete with sling, oiler, bayonet lug, 2-mag pouch (1943) on stock. Though a World War II dated weapon, this carbine has been refitted with a bayonet lug and an updated sight and safety mechanism as was seen on weapons in the Korean War.
Участники парада Победы 24 июня 1945 г. Из личного архива Кияница П.Х - участника парада, жителя Ипатовского района.
During WW2 the soviet Army enrolled about 2000 female sniper, about 1500 died during fighting. The sniper sargeant is armed with a Tokarev SVT-40 semi-automatic rifle with 3.5X telescopic sight.
Skirts were issued to the enlisted women, but on the field they wore the best fitted standard trousers of the Red Army.
My father served in the RAF in WW2 most of his 5 years were in Burma. He and 23 other officers were flown home at war's end.
This flimsy page records his flights.
It does not note which airbase he arrived at, only that it was "Blighty"
The Aircraft captains were :-
F/LT Budden
F/LT Lawson
F/LT Barrett
As a "Foolish" boy I never asked about his service and he rarely spoke of it, He went into the Airforce when he was 36, old by most standards then, he was 40 when "demobbed." He lived to 98.
The first British Liberators had been ordered by the Anglo-French Purchasing Board in 1940. After the Fall of France the French orders were in most cases transferred to the United Kingdom. The RAF found, as did the US, that global war increased the need for air transports and early-type bombers and seaplanes were converted or completed as cargo carriers and transports.
Requested by $Womack$. I might redo the ammo pouches for the MP44. Please give credit if used, for non-commercial use only.
I really liked the combos on this figure :-) The only custom of it is the helmet . Tell me what you guys think
A decal I designed to be a prize in a contest at LEGO WWII "The Eastern Front" group ( www.flickr.com/groups/1631783@N24/ )
The head is an original lego piece with a chin strap decal applied to it
Felixstowe WW2 invasion defences 1944. This photograph was taken from the pier looking towards the Spa Pavilion
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How did the Jeep get its name?
The origins of the name Jeep have been argued about pretty much since the vehicle appeared and are happilly still as obscure as ever. The top theory is: A contraction of the initials 'GP' from General Purpose although Ford say that 'G' stood for Government and 'P' for the wheelbase.
The Jeep was produced in response to a 1940 tender request for an initial 70 vehicles by the US Army Quartermaster corps. The companies tendering were required to produce a prototype four wheel drive quarter ton payload vehicle weighing less than 1300 pounds within an incredible 49 days. The American Bantam Car and Willys Overland Inc were the only two of the 135 invited companies to respond and 47 days after tendering Bantam delivered their prototype to the army for testing. Willys in the meantime had requested an extension to 120 days due to delivery issues with axle parts and thus, along with observers from Ford, had a golden opportunity to view the early testing of the Bantam.
The Bantam tested out reasonably well, but reservations were expressed about its power amongst as well as the ability of the Bantam Co to supply the number of vehicles that would be required by the army following the initial small batches.
The test Bantam was followed in late 1940 with the delivery of the first Willys Quad on 13th November and ten days later with the prototype Ford Pygmy. The Willys was some 500lbs heavier than the Bantam but outperformed it thanks to the Quads powerful 'Go Devil' 60 horsepower engine. Performance on the Ford model was good as well so the army decided to order 500 of each model for field testing.