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Admiral William Halsey (1882/1959) one of four officers to have attained the rank of fleet admiral of the US Navy.
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Smile for the camera, please...
Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus (1890/1957) being filmed by Soviet propaganda after his capture of him in Stalingrad on Feb, 1943.
Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus (1890/1957) being filmed by Soviet propaganda after his capture of him in Stalingrad on Feb, 1943.
You find the most amazing pictures.Smile for the camera, please...
Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus (1890/1957) being filmed by Soviet propaganda after his capture of him in Stalingrad on Feb, 1943.
Yes indeed!
Many of Louis's pics lead me to investigate or look up more on whatever subject the pics are about.
I was curious about Paulus post war life and looked around
A Wikipedia page has a lot of information.
It ends:
"From 1953 to 1956, Paulus lived in Dresden, East Germany, where he worked as the civilian chief of the East German Military History Research Institute. In late 1956, he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and became progressively weaker. He died a few months later, in Dresden, on 1 February 1957, aged 66. As part of his last will and testament, his body was transported to Baden-Baden, West Germany, to be buried at the Hauptfriedhof (main cemetery) next to his wife, who had died eight years earlier in 1949, not having seen her husband since his departure for the Eastern Front in the summer of 1942."
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Many of Louis's pics lead me to investigate or look up more on whatever subject the pics are about.
I was curious about Paulus post war life and looked around
A Wikipedia page has a lot of information.
It ends:
"From 1953 to 1956, Paulus lived in Dresden, East Germany, where he worked as the civilian chief of the East German Military History Research Institute. In late 1956, he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and became progressively weaker. He died a few months later, in Dresden, on 1 February 1957, aged 66. As part of his last will and testament, his body was transported to Baden-Baden, West Germany, to be buried at the Hauptfriedhof (main cemetery) next to his wife, who had died eight years earlier in 1949, not having seen her husband since his departure for the Eastern Front in the summer of 1942."
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Tehran Conference, Nov 28-Dec 1, 1943. The strategy meeting of Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt at the Russian Embassy at Tehran, Iran, looked at from another angle. Note, all the reporters and staff not usually seen.
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A luncheon meeting of great chiefs on Washington DC, circa 1943. Left to Right: Gen. Henry H. Arnold (1886/1950), Admiral William D. Leahy (1875/1959), Admiral Ernest J. King (1878/1956), and Gen. George C. Marshall (1880/1959).
The chairs are as shined as their shoes.
I’d hate to be photographed while I was eating.
I'd probably spill the soup on my tie and the pic would go down in history.
I’d hate to be photographed while I was eating.
I'd probably spill the soup on my tie and the pic would go down in history.
"Let me show ya' all how this here spoon works."
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A Erwin Rommel (1891/1944) in tourist version, Paris, 1940.
I never did get why the puffy pants.
Was the fashion of the day.
I wonder if, at that time, armor was perceived to be cavalry?
George still has his riding crop.
George still has his riding crop.
How to you think he got those tanks to roll so fast?
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My friend, I had the same doubt when you mentioned it. This is what I found on a Spanish site: "They are called jodhpurs, originally a style worn by northern Indian cavalry soldiers. They are tight in the calf and looser around the thigh and hip to allow greater freedom of movement while riding.
They became fashionable in England when Indian polo players wore them in exhibition matches during Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in the 1890s. They were adopted by English polo players and later by fox hunters. , show riders, and army cavalry officers (of ten the same people, since those were all "upper class" concerns).
Modern jodhpurs tend to be tighter, but the flared style persisted in military uniforms until World War II. It was imitated in some police uniforms, especially for officers "mounted" on horseback or motorcycle, and persists to this day in their dress uniforms".
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Marshal Konstantin Rokossowsky (1896/1968) surveys a strategic map alongside Marshal Filipp Golikov (1900/1980) during the war.
Rokossowsky was one of the premier Soviet general officers during the war, after a brief falling-out with the Soviet government and his temporary imprisonment in the late 1930s. After the war, he became the minister of national defense of the Polish People's Republic, but retired in 1956.
Rokossowsky was one of the premier Soviet general officers during the war, after a brief falling-out with the Soviet government and his temporary imprisonment in the late 1930s. After the war, he became the minister of national defense of the Polish People's Republic, but retired in 1956.