Miscellaneous

[Louis]

1935, the then Germany's Minister of War, .Gen. Werner Eduard Fritz von Blomberg (1878/1946), poses for Swedish sculptor Gustav Adolf Hedblom (1898/1972).

 

[Louis]

German officers study maps in a military academy, 1935.

 

[Gunner]

"And this is where the pub is where I met that attractive fräulein."

 

[steve]

"And this is where the pub is where I met that attractive fräulein."

.....and this is my planned route of retreat from meine frau.....

 

[Louis]

They had no idea what was being ventured...
During the Anschluss of 1938, Viennese salute Adolf Hitler.

 

[Louis]

Argentine Army in the 40s. Sympathy for the German government was notorious.

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[Louis]

Reenactments maybe?
Member of the Spanish Falange (or Spanish Phalanx) in Burgos.
I had to look up what the "Spanish Falange" was, something like the "Made in Spain" version of fascism. In other words, it was a party that would embody the principles of fascism in Spain, active between 1933 and 1934.
Anyway, that Astra 900 pistol looks nice!

 

[Nathangun]

Reenactments maybe?
Member of the Spanish Falange (or Spanish Phalanx) in Burgos.
I had to look up what the "Spanish Falange" was, something like the "Made in Spain" version of fascism. In other words, it was a party that would embody the principles of fascism in Spain, active between 1933 and 1934.
Anyway, that Astra 900 pistol looks nice!

Amazing how they restore those old photos, the detail really pops out.

 

[Gunner]

The pistol made me think of a pistol in the Clint Eastwood movie "Joe Kidd" from 1972. I thought it looked so cool looking.
Great scene with him shooting things up so I researched it.

Turns out it was a Mauser C96.

"The Mauser C96 (Construktion 96) is a semi-automatic pistol that was originally produced by German arms manufacturer Mauser from 1896 to 1937.[13] Unlicensed copies of the gun were also manufactured in Spain and China in the first half of the 20th century."

Mauser C96 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Louis]

Spanish Flu prevent in USA, 1918. (colorized)

 

[Gunner]

"The pandemic broke out near the end of World War I, when wartime censors in the belligerent countries suppressed bad news to maintain morale, but newspapers freely reported the outbreak in neutral Spain, creating a false impression of Spain as the epicenter and leading to the "Spanish flu" misnomer.

The pandemic is conventionally marked as having begun on 4 March 1918 with the recording of the case of Albert Gitchell, an army cook at Camp Funston in Kansas, United States...."

Spanish flu - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Louis]

Today, July 9, Independence Day is celebrated here. In the image you can see members of the Armed Forces parading in commemoration of that national day but in 1943.

 

[Gunner]

Do you know where that is?
Can you do a today pic?

And Happy Independence Day!!

 

[Louis]

Do you know where that is?
Can you do a today pic?

Yep man... The place is in the city of Buenos Aires, more precisely in front of the government house - here it is called Casa Rosada - (to the right of both images and not visible in the photos).

 

[mTk]

Excellent!

 

[Gunner]

Nice!

 

[Louis]

Captain Arthur Henry Rostron, the hero on the night of the Titanic sinking.

Born in 1869 in Bolton, Capt Arthur H. Rostron was a British Sailor and a Seagoing Officer. He is best known for his role as the Captain of the RMS Carpathia when it rescued the survivors from the RMS Titanic after the ship sank in 1912.

On April 15 at approximately 12:20 am, the ship received a distress call from the Titanic, which had struck an iceberg and was sinking. Capt. Arthur H. Rostron ordered the Carpathia to the Titanic’s position, which was about 58 miles (107 km) away, and began preparing the ship for any survivors. Despite the presence of icebergs, the ship traveled at top speed (some 17 knots), arriving at approximately 3:30 am. The Titanic had sunk more than an hour earlier, but the Carpathia rescued 705 people in lifeboats. The actions of Rostron and the Carpathia’s crew were credited with preventing further loss of life, and Rostron was awarded a U.S. Congressional Gold Medal.

On 1940 Rostron developed pneumonia and died on 4 Nov, aged 71.

 

[Gunner]

The Carpathia made her maiden voyage in 1903 from Liverpool to Boston and continued on this route before being transferred to Mediterranean service in 1904. In April 1912, she became famous for rescuing survivors of the rival White Star Line's RMS Titanic after it struck an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean. The Carpathia navigated the ice fields to arrive two hours after the Titanic had sunk, and was referred to by some fans as Titanic's Hero after the crew rescued 705 survivors from the ship's lifeboats.

The Carpathia was sunk during World War I on 17 July 1918 after being torpedoed three times by the German submarine U-55 off the southern Irish coast, with a loss of five crew members.
The name of the ship comes from the mountain range of the Carpathians in Central Europe.

Survivors from the Titanic on the deck of the Carpathia:

 

[Louis]

The Carpathia was sunk during World War I on 17 July 1918 after being torpedoed three times by the German submarine U-55 off the southern Irish coast, with a loss of five crew members.

 

[Gunner]

Nice find, Luis!
I'm surprised it took three torpedo's to sink her and that it took over two hours to sink.