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- Thu Aug 16, 2012 2:49 pm
- Forum: Soldatenheim
- Topic: Reenactors
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6411
Re: Reenactors
Strawman argument. The article doesn't say that he is a reenactor, just an imposter with criminal intent. Calling him a reenactor is a slur against the reenactment hobby. While the hobby has its share of clueless weekend warriors, the absolute majority are serious about their depiction of fighting m...
- Sun May 06, 2012 3:12 am
- Forum: Campaigns and Battles
- Topic: Winter of 1941/42 and the lack of proper equipment
- Replies: 46
- Views: 26752
Re: Winter of 1941/42 and the lack of proper equipment
Some weak reasoning there, ljadw. It wasn't as if 100% of the soldiers were standing out in the snow 100% of the time. To claim that 96% of the troops received winter clothing because they weren't incapaciteted by frostbite is laughable, and flies in the face of known facts abut the supply of the tr...
- Tue Apr 03, 2012 2:22 pm
- Forum: Soldatenheim
- Topic: What If?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 15256
Re: What If?
The party rally in Nürnberg: "Can you please tweet after der Führer's speech, bitte?" Somewhere in the USSR, 1941: "We've been marching for weeks now, and it is impossible to phone home because the Commies haven't got 3G yet." Normandy, June 6, 1944: "There's a shitload of A...
- Thu Feb 02, 2012 3:37 am
- Forum: Weapons and Equipment
- Topic: Arty Luger?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3768
Re: Arty Luger?
About a year ago I met a man who had dived on a German wreck off the Swedish west coast in the early 1970's. It had sunk during the invasion of Norway. He found a sealed box containing a dozen wrapped and oiled artillery Lugers in near perfect condition. As it happened, German veterans were in the h...
- Tue Nov 15, 2011 5:45 pm
- Forum: Photographs
- Topic: Can't identify uniform
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6198
Re: Can't identify uniform
Looks like insignia for an employee at the railroads. Doesn't look German, though.
- Thu Sep 29, 2011 4:16 pm
- Forum: Photographs
- Topic: Fallschirmjager Photos - Fake, Reprints or Real ??
- Replies: 21
- Views: 18813
Re: Fallschirmjager Photos - Fake, Reprints or Real ??
I have seen photos from this series on eBay and dismissed them as fakes - splinter A knockensacks - never made, the brickwork looks just like the buildings in USA European training combat villages, the soldiers are too well fed, too clean and too casual, in fact I cant see anything 'right' about th...
- Tue Aug 02, 2011 12:03 pm
- Forum: Books and Reviews
- Topic: Need A Book!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2515
Re: Need A Book!
Nafziger's books might be what you are looking for. Hard to get and pricey, though, but more reliable than Tessin from what I understand. As for insignias, do you mean unit insignia?
- Tue Aug 02, 2011 11:59 am
- Forum: Luftwaffe
- Topic: Mistake in the trailer for the new movie Red Tails
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6558
Re: Mistake in the trailer for the new movie Red Tails
I noticed it, too. Not German practice, AFAIK.
- Mon Jul 04, 2011 7:43 am
- Forum: Foreign Volunteers, Collaboration and Axis Allies
- Topic: First swedish KIA in the 5 SS-Div. Wiking
- Replies: 9
- Views: 13829
Re: First swedish KIA in the 5 SS-Div. Wiking
Could it be that this unknown man was of mixed nationalities, like a Swedish father and German mother and raised in Germany? That might explain why there's no known trace of him in Swedish records.
- Thu Jun 23, 2011 4:29 am
- Forum: Translation Requests
- Topic: Translation please
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3002
Re: Translation please
Happy to be of help! :)
- Tue Jun 21, 2011 8:20 am
- Forum: Translation Requests
- Topic: Translation please
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3002
Re: Translation please
Here's a shot at a translation: "NSKK [something] Wriezen, 3rd Wehrmacht course. Inspection by Generaloberst Guderian and Corps Leader Krauss. From left to right: Generaloberst Guderian, Corps Leader Krauss, a NSKK Knights Cross winner, our schoolmaster Standartenführer Edelmann and Oberstleutn...
- Fri May 27, 2011 9:40 am
- Forum: Books and Reviews
- Topic: Hells Gate
- Replies: 35
- Views: 17477
Re: Hells Gate
Just use a magic marker!Doug Nash wrote:Me, I like to take out a pencil and scribble in the margins when I find something particularly noteworthy and that's hard to do with an Ebook
- Sun May 22, 2011 1:17 pm
- Forum: Verboten! - Off topic content
- Topic: A friend of mine put this together and painted them. He
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8802
Re: A friend of mine put this together and painted them. He
Nice! Scale? Looks like 1/72.
- Tue May 10, 2011 3:28 am
- Forum: Photographs
- Topic: Some vehicle model/unit ID requests
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5498
Re: Some vehicle model/unit ID requests
I've done some research, and it has boiled down to probably be a vehicle from one of the following units: Pionier-Bataillon 9, Pionier-Bataillon 29, or Pionier-Bataillon 49. I haven't been able to find any unit signs used by them, and the sign doesn't match those of the divisions they were attached ...
- Mon May 09, 2011 7:53 am
- Forum: Photographs
- Topic: Some vehicle model/unit ID requests
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5498
Re: Some vehicle model/unit ID requests
Another SdKfz with a unit marking I haven't been able to identify:
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Any help is greatly appreciated.