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by Gusbucket13
Thu Sep 22, 2011 1:09 pm
Forum: Photographs
Topic: Fallschirmjäger Luftwaffe Combat Group Where? Translate Pse
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Re: Fallschirmjäger Luftwaffe Combat Group Where? Translate Pse

I think it says rough translation = Our Heavy Machine Gun gruppe in 4th Machine Gun Company in frontservice under command of Unteroffizier XXXX (dont recognise the letter for name) The guy on the rights rifle looks like it might be a rare G 41 or W 41 semi auto rifle with protruding fixed box mag. C...
by Gusbucket13
Thu Sep 22, 2011 12:52 pm
Forum: Photographs
Topic: Heer or Luftwaffe Splittertarn What Weapon ??
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Re: Heer or Luftwaffe Splittertarn What Weapon ??

Looks like a Splinter A snipers smock - Tokarev SVT40's were often used as sniper rifles by the Whermacht, the man far left seems to have a jaw wound, whilst the sad man on the right has a shrapnel injury to the cheek, I would agree its probably a casualty evac situation, the mix of Jackboots and an...
by Gusbucket13
Thu Sep 22, 2011 12:41 pm
Forum: Photographs
Topic: Fallschirmjager Photos - Fake, Reprints or Real ??
Replies: 21
Views: 18661

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 the...