th_battleaxe
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A Panzer IV C of the 8. Kompanie, Pz.Rgt. 22, 21. Pz. Div., Normandy, August 1944.
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th_battleaxe
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Flight Lieutenant Baron Jean Selys de Longchamps, a former Belgian cavalry officer turned Typhoon pilot. He is best known for his Rhubarb on the Gestapo HQ in Brussels, a blatant gesture of contempt against the occupying forces. He feigned he was about to crash, luring everyone in the building to the windows. He then opened fire on the upper and lower windows, killing 30 Gestapo. When he pulled up, he opened the side window and threw out Belgian and British flags. For this, he was demoted to Pilot Officer and he received the Distinguished Flying Cross.
th_battleaxe
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Demoted. The action wasn't sanctioned by the RAF.
Miller786
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amazing! thank you very much!
Roughbeak
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VonMudra
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He was demoted for recklessness and disobeying orders, but awarded a medal for the action. Is a very British thing to do.
Skr13
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On D-Day, 6/06/1944, the 507th PIR of the 82 Airborne expected to parachute around the La Fiere bridges west of Ste Mere Eglise and hold them against an expected German counterattack.
Paratrooper Robert Warner from Binghamton NY was one of the 82nd Airborne paratroopers on this day with his machine gun and 81 mm mortar platoon.
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Paratrooper Robert Warner from Binghamton NY was one of the 82nd Airborne paratroopers on this day with his machine gun and 81 mm mortar platoon.
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Caption reads: Three GIs inspect a launch ramp north of Brix on June 20, 1944 - two weeks after the D-day landing
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An Armstrong-Whitworth Albermarle transport plane.
The Albermarle is one of the lesser-known aircraft of WWII. It was first intended as a bomber, but proved inferior to existing types, such as the Vickers Wellington. So it was repurposed as a transport plane and glider tug. It could carry 10 troops and extra drop canisters in the bomb bay. Curiously, the rear section of the fuselage is partly glazed. This was used by a "fire controller" for giving instructions to the gunners. This plane was also the first plane designed and built in Britain to have a tricycle landing gear.
On D-Day, six Albermarles of 295, 296, and 297 Squadron dropped 60 pathfinders of the 22nd Independent Parachute Company. Their mission was to clear the Dropzones and Landing Zones between the Orne and Dives rivers.
The Albermarle is one of the lesser-known aircraft of WWII. It was first intended as a bomber, but proved inferior to existing types, such as the Vickers Wellington. So it was repurposed as a transport plane and glider tug. It could carry 10 troops and extra drop canisters in the bomb bay. Curiously, the rear section of the fuselage is partly glazed. This was used by a "fire controller" for giving instructions to the gunners. This plane was also the first plane designed and built in Britain to have a tricycle landing gear.
On D-Day, six Albermarles of 295, 296, and 297 Squadron dropped 60 pathfinders of the 22nd Independent Parachute Company. Their mission was to clear the Dropzones and Landing Zones between the Orne and Dives rivers.
Roughbeak
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British airborne troops hold Pegasus Bridge.
In the distance a bit, to the right, you can see three Horsa Gliders that came crashing down in the night - taking the Germans by complete surprise. The first Glider at 00:16, the German guards thought it was bomber plane debris flying down.
However, the Germans were expecting an attack, somewhere in the summer of 1944. One of the obstacles they planted was "Rommelspargel" (Rommel's Asparagus") to rip the bellies of the Horsa Gliders. Even worse, the British pilots could not see these at night.
In the distance a bit, to the right, you can see three Horsa Gliders that came crashing down in the night - taking the Germans by complete surprise. The first Glider at 00:16, the German guards thought it was bomber plane debris flying down.
However, the Germans were expecting an attack, somewhere in the summer of 1944. One of the obstacles they planted was "Rommelspargel" (Rommel's Asparagus") to rip the bellies of the Horsa Gliders. Even worse, the British pilots could not see these at night.
Koenigstiger
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If I recall correctly you have to blow some of those up in Brothers in Arms
Skr13
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If I recall correctly you have to blow some of those up in Brothers in Arms
Correct,
Nah, I searched and in fact was in Road to Hill 30, Rommel's Asparagus - Brother in Arms Wiki
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