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Tank destruction lessons... looking at the instructor’s sleeve, he might know a thing or two what he’s talking about.
Note the captured class room teaching aid in the background.
Note the captured class room teaching aid in the background.
German troops captured at some point, showing their wooden legs.
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German worker operating a boot making machine for the Wehrmacht. Herzogenaurach, Germany, 1940.
Unique photo Louis, thanks for posting. 
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Makeshift WC aboard the U-460.
Apparently German 6th Army soft-skin vehicles handed over to the 80th Division of the 3rd Army of the United States after surrendering near Reisen, Austria, on May 16, 1945
I'll be some of those cars, motorcycles and kublewagons would be worth a pretty penny today.
And it’s my understanding that the German Army was primarily a horse-drawn army.
Given they had no fuel the horses pulled the trucks.
Even so, that probably not even the vehicle park of ONE armoured division.
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Canadian soldier inspects the propulsion unit of a V-2 rocket; Belgium, Nov 1944.
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Aboard Ju-52, Erwin Rommel sleep in his way to occupied Warsaw, 1939.
Jeez, you think the guy would loosen his collar.
But then maybe it's too much of a hassle to get it back in proper order again and it's easier to just let it be.
Great pic Louis.
Louis I have to get the sound of your name right in my head.
I probably asked this before and promise I won't again so have patience, do you pronounce your name Lou-iss or Lou-ee?
I've heard pronounce both ways.
But then maybe it's too much of a hassle to get it back in proper order again and it's easier to just let it be.
Great pic Louis.
Louis I have to get the sound of your name right in my head.
I probably asked this before and promise I won't again so have patience, do you pronounce your name Lou-iss or Lou-ee?
I've heard pronounce both ways.
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Erwin Rommel poses for a photo with the officers of the Italian minelaying submarine Zoea (Libya, May 1941)
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Boston, 1943, Captured German officers of the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe sit in a train carriage in the port of Boston awaiting transportation to an American prisoner of war camp.
I have always thought that no one person did more to ensure Germany's defeat than Hitler. He inserted himself into all kinds of armaments decisions for which he had no background, and nobody could tell him "no" when he wanted something stupid. Thickness of tank armor, specific caliber guns to be mounted on tanks, etc. At least Churchill and Roosevelt and presumably Stalin had the good sense to get out of the way of the professional weapons designers. Here he is with Speer and others inspecting or reviewing tank ammo.
