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Niegs wrote: Sun Apr 13, 2025 7:17 pm

Jock42 wrote: Sun Apr 13, 2025 8:38 pm

Niegs wrote: Sun Apr 13, 2025 7:17 pm

I can feel that picture

Any context behind it?

Date : 15 April 1945
Photographer: Capt. Jack H. Smith,
Source: Library and Archives Canada

Pte. N.J. Ingram, of the Perth Regiment (attached to the 11th Canadian Infantry Brigade, 5th Canadian Armoured Division) stops for a rest during the Ijsselmeer campaign, in which his regiment advanced 25 miles in three days from Arnhem to Harderwijk to cut off enemy troops in the western part of Holland during the liberation of the Netherlands. North of Arnhem, Netherlands, April 15, 1945.

Niegs wrote: Sat Apr 12, 2025 12:49 am She looks a bit like Scar Jo.

Enzedder wrote: Mon Apr 14, 2025 1:16 am Found my father's "Top Secret" debrief statement after he was released from a POW camp in 1945. In Ancestry of all fucking places.

Page 2 is more private so I left that one out. It tells the story of his capture, escape and recapture.

Dad Debrief 1.png

Enzedder wrote: Mon Apr 14, 2025 1:16 am Found my father's "Top Secret" debrief statement after he was released from a POW camp in 1945. In Ancestry of all fucking places.

Page 2 is more private so I left that one out. It tells the story of his capture, escape and recapture.

Dad Debrief 1.png

Original color
Panzerbefehlswagen III of brigade commander Colonel Richard Koll (1897-1963) and Phänomen Granit 25H ambulances of the Panzer Brigade Koll move along the road near Vyazma, Smolensk region, October 2, 1941.
A group of soviet POWs walks along the side of the road towards the column
©Helmut Ritgen

Niegs wrote: Sat Apr 26, 2025 4:30 pm

Sturmtiger? Like something out of Super Mario.