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A French soldier with a Modèle 1937 50mm mortar, France, 1940.
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A French soldier with a Modèle 1937 50mm mortar, France, 1940.
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Talking about mortars, does anyone knows which this one is?
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I agree there... though I've no idea what mortar they're using! On a lighter note, look at this photo of a marine with a kitten, PTO.
That is the Dutch army and the 81mm mortar in the picture is described in the link.
81 mm mortar [mortier van 8] [War over Holland - May 1940: the Dutch struggle]
81 mm mortar [mortier van 8] [War over Holland - May 1940: the Dutch struggle]
I´m suprised we even had mortars..
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RIP Hungarian soldier.
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Finnish soldier with an LS/26, Finland, February 1940.
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Westerplatte forest after battle. 7 days of fighting.
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That forest looks like no-man's-land of the Great War.
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"Easy, Johann! A Little lower!"
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Knocked out 105mm Wespe.
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A Königstiger in Budapest, Hungary, October 1944.
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Stonne, a village in the Ardennes, changed hands no less than seventeen times from 15th to 17th May, 1940, with the Germans eventually prevailing. One Char B1 bis heavy tank, under the command of Pierre Bilotte, single-handedly destroyed no less than two anti-tank guns, two Panzer IVs, and eleven Panzer IIIs, and though his tank was hit by 140 shells, it survived.
During the battle for Stonne, the Char B1 bis in the photo was fired on by German soldiers. This was a mistake. The tank turned on them an opened fire, killing many. In their panic, many Germans attempted to hide in shallow ditches along the road, but the tank just ran the ditches over, crushing the Germans underneath. When Germans encountered the same tank later during the battle and saw its tracks covered in human entrails, they dubbed it the Butcher of Stonne.
The battle was called the Verdun of 1940 by the French, and a German officer ranked it as memorable as Monte Cassino and Stalingrad.
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Despite its 56 tons, this Tiger I was lifted upside down by the bombardment preceeding operation Goodwood, near Manneville, France, 1944.
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