Interesting historical photos

[Deadstick]

The British Long range desert group in WW2 they were a long range recon unit in the Western desert they also worked with the SAS by inserting them as close as possible to the targets such as Nazi airfields and when possible withdrawing them.

 

[westwall]

The British Long range desert group in WW2 they were a long range recon unit in the Western desert they also worked with the SAS by inserting them as close as possible to the targets such as Nazi airfields and when possible withdrawing them.
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That picture is of David Stirling and his SAS guys. The jeeps were used for raids on German airfields.

The LRDG used Chevy trucks and avoided contact wherever possible. Led by Bagnold, who had extensive pre war Sahara Desert experience, the unit was mainly made up of Kiwi's.

 

[Deadstick]

That picture is of David Stirling and his SAS guys. The jeeps were used for raids on German airfields.

The LRDG used Chevy trucks and avoided contact wherever possible. Led by Bagnold, who had extensive pre war Sahara Desert experience, the unit was mainly made up of Kiwi's.

You are probably correct they did indeed Chevy trucks but i don't see Stirling in the image.

 

[Litwin]

Soviet Jewish writer, Guards Major Ikhil Shmulevich Falikman at the Reichstag wall.
The inscription on the wall reads:
“The Germans killed 38 people in my family. I am in Berlin - so I took revenge!”.
Germany, Berlin, 1945.

Kurapaty - Wikipedia

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KURAPATY – THE ROAD OF DEATH – Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic

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Kurapaty (Belarusian: Курапаты, IPA: [kuraˈpatɨ]) is a wooded area on the outskirts of Miensk, Belarus, where a vast number of people were executed between 1937 and 1941 during the Great Purge by the Soviet secret police, the NKVD

Memorials Honoring Victims Of Soviet Repressions In Belarus Vandalized

The Investigative Committee of Belarus has launched a probe into the vandalizing of a memorial site at Kurapaty, a wooded area on the outskirts of the capital, Minsk, where at least 30,000 people were killed and buried by Soviet authorities in 1930s and 1940s.

www.rferl.org

 

[Ringo]

During the Anglo-Zanzibar War, an interesting incident occurred.

The deposed Sultan Khalid ibn Bargash took refuge in the German embassy in order not to be arrested by the British, who were constantly on duty at the embassy.
The Germans then had to go to a trick to get the Sultan out.

On October 2, 1896, the German cruiser Orlan docked at the port. The German sailors carried a dinghy to the embassy, in which the Sultan was placed, and brought it back to the ship in the same way.
The essence of this event is that according to the laws of the time, the boat was part of the ship and formally the Sultan was on German territory and the British did not dare to arrest him.

 

[Ringo]

1956, New York City Zoo.
A girl went to see the funny animals.
She was rescued by future comedian George Carlin. The girl was future Hollywood star Nancy Allen.
In 2008, she brought a wreath to Carlin's grave: "From a little girl - too stupid to be afraid of crocodiles."

 

[gipper]

When the republic died.

 

[Ringo]

To keep the socks from slipping off, the girl fixes them with colorless varnish. 1944.

 

[Ringo]

1930-е. Silk stockings. US

 

[Zebra]

The inscription on the school blackboard: "Russians must die in order for us to live." October 2, 1941
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USA, Great depression reality

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Members of the Soviet militia, summer 1921. . Can you name the models of pistols they are holding?
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Soviet sailors of the Northern Fleet with lend-lease Thompson submachine guns.
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well taken

 

[Ringo]

One second before death. Damansky Island. March 1969 .

Private Nikolai Petrov, who was tasked with photographing everything that happens during the border conflict between the USSR and China, took a picture seconds before his death.

On it the commander of the Chinese branch Wu Yungao makes a conventional sign with his hand, which is a signal to the ambush to open fire on the Soviet border guards. The camera is found in the coat of the murdered Nikolai Petrov. It was these pictures that became documentary evidence of the first minutes of the battle on the border.

 

[Litwin]

One second before death. Damansky Island. March 1969 .

Private Nikolai Petrov, who was tasked with photographing everything that happens during the border conflict between the USSR and China, took a picture seconds before his death.

On it the commander of the Chinese branch Wu Yungao makes a conventional sign with his hand, which is a signal to the ambush to open fire on the Soviet border guards. The camera is found in the coat of the murdered Nikolai Petrov. It was these pictures that became documentary evidence of the first minutes of the battle on the border.

 

[Ringo]

Now that's trolling.
Brezhnev shows German Chancellor Schmidt a photo of himself at the 1945 Victory Parade

During World War II Helmut Schmidt participated in the defense of Bremen, fought on the Eastern Front. From 1944 he was an artilleryman on the Western Front, in March 1945 he was taken prisoner of war