La Segunda Guerra Mundial en Color

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A senior Wehrmacht NCO rests a Maschinengewehr 34 (MG.34) on the shoulder of a Spiess (Hauptfeldwebel) who is holding a Soviet SVT-40 rifle, somewhere on the Ostfront (Eastern Front) c.1942

"From official German field regulations, firing over No2s shoulder was a quick expedient to engage low flying enemy aircraft. Otherwise it´s not mentioned anywhere, but one can assume that it was also applied in other situations, when quick engaging targets was required and no other rest for the gunner available. (....LMG team in wheat field, engaging Russian Cavalry few hundred metres away and such)." (Battlefront.com)

(Nb. this MG 34 tripod and sling are absent which suggests that it could have been removed from a Sonderkraftfahrzeug (APV)

 

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Generalleutnant Kurt von Briesen (Kommandeur 30. Infanterie-Division) witnessing his troops parading in the Avenue Foch, Paris on the 14th of June 1940.

Days earlier, 30. Infanterie-Division had been approaching Paris from the north, with the intention of by-passing the city and continuing the pursuit of the French troops who had retreated to the south.
When Briesen heard the news that Paris was declared as an "Open City", he decided to send a small patrol to the city to confirm the rumour.
On their return, the patrol reported that there was no resistance and that all French military had left.
With that, Briesen decided to change the intended route of his troops and head directly for the city of Paris.
When Briesen arrived at the Champs-Élysées, he ordered the 30. Infanterie-Division to march through the Champs-Élysées accompanied by a full military band with him on horseback, saluting them as they passed.
The incident received widespread press coverage, and was often misunderstood as a German forces victory parade after a French Army surrender.

 

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M4 Sherman "Hurricane" (Nº3033967), 'H' Company, 66th Armored Regiment, 2nd U.S. Armored Division, having a Continental R-975-C4 engine change at a repair depot near the front lines, Le Teilleul, Normandy.
16th August 1944.

During 'Operation Cobra', a Ward LaFrance / Kenworth Heavy Wrecker M1 / M1A1 pulls the radial engine from a 2nd Armored Division M4 Sherman tank.

(During the preparation for "Cobra" in late July '44 prominent markings disappeared with the introduction of black or red brown as a second camouflage color after the earlier overpainting of the big white stars. Interesting is the fact that the nicknames on the tanks weren't overpainted, e.g.: Hurricane, because they often began with the coy. letter.)

(Source - US Army Signal Corps)

 

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Catholic mass atop Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, for American Marines. February 1945.

On February 23, Chaplain Suver (who was part of the 5th Marine Division) joined with the men raising the flag on Mount Suribachi and said mass prior to the raising of the flag.
This mass was said in the very teeth of death. Japanese resistance was still very much alive on Mount Suribachi.
While he was saying mass Father Suver could hear Japanese talking from caves nearby. For whatever reason, maybe by divine intervention, the Japanese did not attack the mass, and the flag was raised.
A controversy developed as to whether the mass occurred before the first flag raising, or after the second flag raising which was immortalised by the photograph taken by Joe Rosenthal.

The battle continued to rage until March 26, 1945 and the Marines suffered most of their casualties in the days following the flag raising. Throughout it Father Suver continued to aid the wounded and give spiritual aid to the dying. Although his own life was constantly at risk, in his letters home he said that he had it easy and all his attention was directed to the combat Marines who he said were going through hell.

(Photographer - Louis R. Burmeister)
(Source - United States Navy Naval History and Heritage - NH 104583)

 

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A Panzer crew, belonging to 1./s.SS-Pz.Abt.101 "Leibstandarte-SS-Adolf-Hitler" are here seen camouflaging their Panzer VI 'Tiger' tank with tree branches in the vicinity of Villers-Bocage, Normandy, in June 1944.

Date unconfirmed but possibly taken on the 14th of June, on the Ancienne Route de Caen (the old Caen Road), where Michael Wittmann's company spent the night of 12/13 June.

(Source - Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-738-0275-09A)

(Colourised by Royston Leonard UK)

 

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1st Lt. John H. Reeder of RHQ/506th (PIR) Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st US Airborne Division stands by the road sign on the D913 indicating the direction to St. Come du Mont in Normandy, sometime shortly after the 8th June 1944.

Lt. Reeder had earlier taken a photo of an American Stuart light tank (M-5) of Company 'D', 70th Tank Battalion, at a junction just south of this spot, it had been knocked-out nearly in front of a large house on the 7th of June and remained there for days afterward. The burned body of the tank commander could still be seen in the turret, and soldiers started to use it as a reference point, saying, "Go to the corner where the dead man is in the tank".
This was soon shortened to "Dead Man's Corner".

'The Dead Man's Corner Museum' is now located in that house, on this highly historical ground between Carentan and Saint-Côme-du-Mont. The house and surrounding land (1 hectare) are property of the Carentan Historical Center.

(Nb. Lt John Reeder was seriously wounded in an operation on "the Island," a five-kilometer area bordered by the Lower Rhine to the north and the Waal River to the south in October 1944)

(Colorised by Johhny Sirlande from Belgium)

 

[BIGUA82]

Gracias Bigua por esas fotos. Magníficas

lo que muestra la foto que posteaste y que ahora repito es lo que me habría gustado hacer. Ser el bombardeo y volar en la nariz de un avión como ese, sobre todo en vuelo bajo.

Estimado Ciclista
Tuve esa experiencia deseada por vos operando el SDA MK-62 CANBERRA,los modelos MK-62B2 tienen el morro vidriado para Bombardero en Altura (BOH).
Esta fotografia es dedicada a vos...

 

[BIGUA82]

B-25

B-26

Curtiss Seamews on USS Biloxi, 1943

P-40, Nth Africa

P-40, Nth Africa

Operation Torch, Nth Africa Nov 1942

P-51's Martlesham UK, 1944

 

[BIGUA82]

Hellcats on USS Cowpens, Jan 44

Devastators, fleet manoeuvres off Hawaii 1941 prewar

Fleet manoeuvres off Hawaii prewar 1941

Dauntlesses armados con bombas PG.

 

[BIGUA82]

P-47 pilot Ed Fisher, 1944

C-47's 1942

 

[Tronador II]

Pónganse las pilas...la última del Dakota pertenece a un avión preservado

 

[MIGUEL]

Pónganse las pilas...la última del Dakota pertenece a un avión preservado

La sospecha siempre se genera en los detalles. La baliza del timón de dirección es demasiado moderna. Es un avión preservado. No es foto original de la SGM...

 

[BIGUA82]

Pónganse las pilas...la última del Dakota pertenece a un avión preservado

Tronador II
Ya la he borrado,tenía mis dudas que fuera un preservado, a estos nobles aviones los ví volar en la Segunda Brigada Aerea y realicé unos pocos vuelos para usar un viejo sistema de navegacion,el derivometro óptico ,ya que en el Curso de Navegador Militar se lo describía como un elemento de navegacion de la Segunda Guerra Mundial...
Siempre tengo las pilas puestas....me parece que no me conoce.
EJD

 

[BIGUA82]

Tronador II...
PARA LEVANTAR EL APLAZO!!!!
Fotografos de B-26

B-25's, Tarawa

A-36 pilot in India, 1945

B-25's and A-20's

P-47 and B-17

P-47

EJD

 

[lucas lasota]

manosmanosmanosmanos

 

[Tronador II]

Tronador II
Ya la he borrado,tenía mis dudas que fuera un preservado, a estos nobles aviones los ví volar en la Segunda Brigada Aerea y realicé unos pocos vuelos para usar un viejo sistema de navegacion,el derivometro óptico ,ya que en el Curso de Navegador Militar se lo describía como un elemento de navegacion de la Segunda Guerra Mundial...
Siempre tengo las pilas puestas....me parece que no me conoce.
EJD

BIGUA82....sólo fue una broma, empezando que haberla puesto no es nada grave ni mucho menos.....jamás voy a dudar de usted, sinceramente le pido disculpas si lo ofendí.
Yo a los Dakota los veía siempre volar sobre mi casa de Lanús allá por fines de los 70´s inicio de los 80´s (no sé por qué tanto los veía...irían del Palomar a Quilmes?)

Le mando un abrazo Malvinero y Patriótico (aprovechando la semana de Mayo)

 

[Tronador II]

Tronador II...
PARA LEVANTAR EL APLAZO!!!!
Fotografos de B-26

B-25's, Tarawa

A-36 pilot in India, 1945

B-25's and A-20's

P-47 and B-17

P-47

EJD

y vuelvo a repetir....jamás estuvo aplazado!!

Eso sí.....nunca me gustó el P47....gran máquina de guerra...pero feo.

 

[BIGUA82]

BIGUA82....sólo fue una broma, empezando que haberla puesto no es nada grave ni mucho menos.....jamás voy a dudar de usted, sinceramente le pido disculpas si lo ofendí.
Yo a los Dakota los veía siempre volar sobre mi casa de Lanús allá por fines de los 70´s inicio de los 80´s (no sé por qué tanto los veía...irían del Palomar a Quilmes?)

Le mando un abrazo Malvinero y Patriótico (aprovechando la semana de Mayo)

Estimado TRONADOR II
Retribuyo el abrazo Malvinero y Patriotico en la Semana de Mayo,tan cargada de PATRIA como similar Semana de 1982,que gracias a Dios me tocó vivir..
Con respecto a Quilmes,el Area de Mantenimiento de los DC-3/C-47 era Rio Cuarto,seguramente los vistes pasar rumbo a Quilmes,transportando rotables para ser reparados en dicha unidad,ya que los DC-3/C-47 cumplian la funcion de avion de enlace y logistico en las Brigadas y Bases en las que estaban asignados.
Con respecto a los P-47,no son de mi estima...soy Bombardero ,Transportero,Reabastecedor y de "tareas especiales:SIGINT/ELINT/LOROP...) siempre volé en tripulacion, y como minimo dos motores,si son cuatro mucho mejor!!!!
Seguimos con las fotografias color de la WWII...


Dauntless...el artillero muy fotogenico para la ocasion...

P-47's

Kingfisher

B-17...de los que me gustan,más si es un Boeing

A-20

Helldiver

Hellcat on Yorktown

Hellcats

P-61

B-25, California

 

[Argos]

Agrego un video del Black Widow. Belleza exótica

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[Tronador II]

Agrego un video del Black Widow. Belleza exótica

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Belleza exótica=Engendro incogible