Allied ww2 soldiers

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2/10 More aussies, this time fighting the japs at Papua New Guinea.

>>33302324
I don't know whats worse fighting in 40+ degrees celsius or fighting in -20 degrees celsius, guess if you can find shade and you have a decent supply of water heat beats cold any day

anyone got any experiences with this?

>>33302324
>>33302333
allieboos out

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3/10 Yet another powerful ally against the Japanese; our friend Ho Chi Minh. Here posing with his buddies in the American OSS. What a pity that the French looked at the relationship with some sourness.

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>>33302333
Not even 'strayan but the slouch hat is the greatest piece of military headwear ever. Its shade is most based.

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4/10 Mean while in England, the population was getting ready to defend their beaches and their fields and their mountains. If only their wives could keep their hands off them.

>>33302416
Pretty damn well equipped for Home Guard. He must be a veteran of the Boer War

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5/10 US troops were also a bit uneasy about the whole island thing for a while. Here, US and Filipino soldiers are surrendering to the nippons at Corregidor Island.

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6/10 The British, like the Germans, were having problems with their supply and reinforcement lines. Here, surrendering at Tobruk.

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7/10 Captain Nieves Fernandez, a school teacher and the only known female Filipino guerrilla leader shows to an American soldier how she used her long knife to silently kill Japanese soldiers during occupation, 1944.

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8/10, Ben Kuroki, one of my favorite American war heroes. He was born of Japanese parents and volunteered for the military right after Pearl Harbour. The US military was not very keen on letting him into the system, never mind allowing him into combat, but he eventually managed to get into the Airforce. Before the war was over he'd been shot down once and flown 58 missions. Kuroki is the only Japanese American known to have participated in air combat missions in the Pacific Theater of Operations during the war. In all he got 3 DFC, one Air Medal and one DSM.

I can't wait for Hollywood to pick up that one.

>>33302591

Woops, I spoke too soon. He also got a Presidential Unit Citation, the Good Conduct Medal, the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with one silver and three bronze campaign stars, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with two bronze campaign stars and the WW2 Victory Medal.

>>33302335
Western desert of Iraq, hottest days there I remember where close to 48-49C. I basically had to wear gloves because the steering wheel and gear knob would give you blisters on bare skin, you cover up as much as you can (despite it being uncomfortable) unless you want severe burns from the sun and hydrate every hour or you will be unconscious in about 6 hours and need an IV in your sorry, oh so sorry body.
After a while you just turn off the pain and get on with it. Pain won't kill you, but heat exhaustion will so it just stops being a factor... funny thing about the human mind when the body's under duress. You simply stop giving a damn

About 10000ft up, Afuckingainistan, gets down to about -15 to -20, snowing sideways in a gale that would throw a mountain goat off the side of a hill. Sleeping on rocks in little crevices, no fire, no light and oh boy, that shit is pretty fucking real because the cold will kill you. But the upside is the enemy isn't that fucking stupid either to go out in that kind of weather most of the time, so that's one less thing to worry about. Mostly survival comes down to wicking sweat away from contact with the skin, so we'd have a porous thermal layer, cotton or wool over that and then our cammys over the top. You might not think it would work very well as its not very much, but it does to a certain point and there's only so much shit you want to drag along with you on a long walk.
Altitude and cold is nasty- dehydration, altitude sickness and lack of hunger will cause the body to shut down and you'll just die. So its critical to verbally slap the shit out of people regularly so they drink and eat.

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9/10 More oddballs of history. Chiang Kai Sheck, everybody's Chinese warlord with his German-trained and -equipped army, became an Allied partner as well. Here's a few of his soldiers. Yes, the guy in front is ten years old and he is not the mascot.

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1/10 Wrapping off this fousilade at least, with a French-Moroccan goumier. A right bunch of throatslitters, but they were our throatslitters.

>>33302335

Norwegian, so more used to the winter than the tropics, but I have had a taste of both.
Cold isn't really an issue as long as you have warm clothes and can remain dry. There are hassles, like your canteen content freezing or having to drop some of your clothes when taking a piss or crap, or all warm food getting cold before you get a chance to eat it. Lots of little things.

By comparison, being in a jungle place means being dazed by the constant heat and wanting to shower ten times a day. The bugs, even when they aren't interested in you, are huge. And just when you drop your pants to take a leak you discover a two foot long lizard three feet away. I'll take the cold, no contest.

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The Brits were allowed to buy Tommyguns at the start of the war, until the US got to participate in a war as well. Kinda surprising to see in the hands of a Home Guard though. I am half suspecting this is a propaganda picture.

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>>33304378
oops, didn't realise it was krauts, thumbnail made me think it was Tommies or Canucks wearing Turtle helmets.

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Some good pics above, keep them coming. I'll dig up some more oddballs.

These are Samoan Americans.

>>33304340
Isn't that the Age 40 guy in Hearts of Iron 4? If so wow I need to get out more.

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Tuskegee Airmen. Fighting the germans were the least of their problems.

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US Army nurses, 1942. As the war progressed their workplace on the front was some times cloe enough to the front to be within a bullet's reach. Not counting aerial, arty and mine dangers.

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Among my favorites: the Russian Airforce's own stealth weapon: the Night Witches. They flew slow open biplanes into German lines, in the middle of night because if they were seen by the ackaks they were dead.

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Soviets showing an American how the PPSH-41 works

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White phosphorus smoke screen for Americans to cross the street, France.

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....and that's when Rommel realized the campaign was over. The Maoris had arrived.

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This is an Indian sikh in the British army, North Africa. Or so I think. There were Indians on both sides.

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>>33304390
Why was WW2 the most atmospheric war ever? I mean I know it would have sucked ass if you were on the ground just post D-Day and life expectancy was less that you'd like but I mean just the settings, the scale, the aesthetic and technology of the era and the grand importance of it all just made it cool as fuck. Taking

>>33304641
Would fuck the shit out of the one with the medal on her chest

>>33304961

I have some trouble understanding you there. Atmospheric? For most of the people back there, it'd be more like being a mailman in Aleppo. Everything you are familiar with, from clear sky to gardening sheds, can fall apart or explode. You live in constant knowledge that there could be bombs falling any time, there hasn't been any taste in your food for the last three years and you already know that half the officers above you are complete nitwits. It's fear, dullness, pain and not enough sleep. Even if you don't get to carry a gun. If you do, you are expected to walk twice as far on the same rations and the food guys are not necessarily delivering that week. Aesthetics, that's for computer games and movies.

>>33305037
I mean looking back on it, obviously. I would have been an adventure though to be part of it, and many first hand accounts I've read have called it just that even if it wasn't a particularly nice one. It just seemed to give off that "this is the last time the world is wide" vibe.

>>33305058

I'm not going to club you down on this. For most soldiers in a war, it's a few percentages of terror and 90% waiting. An American soldier would probably then as now be secure that no matter how badly things is going for his unit, the survivors will eventually get home again and there will be no ruins, no shortages and making dos, mostly everyone will be alive as they were before the war. There'll be apple pie and horn music and pretty women ready to receiver them. Unless you return on a stretcher with limbs missing because then you are put on a train without windows that doesn't stop because civilians hate to see that sort of thing.

Compare this with say a French soldier in ww2. His own country is invaded and half the leaders and officers say they should side with the enemy. If you are sent home on leave you get to hear that there are no eggs. Butter. Coffee. Jam. Your home might be a burning ruin, and noone knows where half your relatives are. I doubt he thinks of it as an adventure.

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What the heck. Let's find a few Allies happy war pics.

Soviet and US troops meeting in Germany, 45

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US, that's all I know.

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Soviets.

>>33304718

Is that a young Mark Hunt

>>33305239

This.

For the average soldier in the Anglosphere, the war was something you were drawn to. You fought through someone else's streets and fields.

If you were a patriot in central Europe, you might come home from an operation to find your whole family raped and hung.

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Yeah, I'd look happy as well.

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No definite date for this.

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Russki does the victory lap in Berlin.

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Brave , happy French soldiers celebrate Paris' freedom by cutting and shaving all the hair off women who had consorted with Germans.

It doesn't look pretty. But the men who had collaborated with the Germans in any way were shot.

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These women get to make the Americans happy instead.

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>>33305800
Definetly looks like a date to me.

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Someone's looking forward to try out their new linguistic skills.

>>33305456
>CanYouSmellWhatTheRockIsCooking?.png

>>33304555
The trips must confirm it

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Okay, enough fun and games. It was strangely more difficult to find pics of happy germans than happy Allied forces.

>>33306010

Sigh. I meant, it's harder to finds pics of Allied soldiers having fun than Axis ones.

>>33304559
This thread is 50% SJW shit

>>33304718
You smell like a left strayan or kiwi

I found this article. After reading it I was ready to dismiss the information. Then I noticed the name of the writer. Anthony Beevor.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/event/article-2656189/WW2-The-British-Tommy-fight-frequent-cuppa-breaks-SS-sadistic-fanatics-True-false-Britains-leading-war-historian-tackles-greatest-myths-WW2.html

>>33306055
allieboos are either cucks or shitskins

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Propaganda, but manly propaganda

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I was reading about the British Army and Indian Army in WW2 today, and was surprised by the sheer number of divisions raised by the British during the war. Obviously with a high rate of capture and lots of fronts to think about there was a very high rate of divisions being formed, reformed, disbanded or renamed, but it's still crazy that so many men were put under arms. The Indian Army raised well over 20 infantry divisions plus armoured and airborne formations, while the British Army raised over 40 divisions during the war (albeit never at the same time). Considering the massive manpower issues they were having, that's some feat.

>>33306231

Well. The UK had a pretty vast empire they were trying to keep control over. And after WW1, they were used to thinking big in military matters. It became more a matter of economics than to find the men. If the US had not been ready to 'lend' the UK vast amounts of supplies those divisions would hardly had pants to stand in. Which makes it really fun to think of the politicians who argued strongly for siding with the Germans instead, like jolly Joseph Kennedy. If that side had won it would have been a US-German alliance of a special kind.

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Free French Forces.

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How weird is your life if you are a young Polish man and find yourself in a British uniform, with a German machinegun, defending a North African city.

>>33305870
kek

>>33306346

that's a promo photo from saving private ryan.

but goddamn they got the wardrobe and photography on lockdown.

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>>33306510
Not as weird as being a young Korean man in a German uniform, defending a French coast.

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One of my favorite pics. The Americans and the Wehrmacht guys who fought on the same side against an SS unit holding french politicians hostage at Castle Itter at the last days of the war. Probably the most unlikely battle of the war and I can't understand why this have not been made into a movie yet.

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Don't forget the best one.

>>33306892

Is it just me but are all those guys just wearing their helmet liners?

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British Home guard. Somewhat bemused at the weapons they have been issued.

>>33302860
i agree
why have a tommy gun in use with the home guard?
serves much better to have in field
the guy could also be high ranking retired officer from previous war so had the connections to get the best shit

>>33302324
Does Russians really count as Allies? They fought Germany, but they wasn't in any kind of alliance with West.

I just can't understand this. They start the war by attacking Poland with Germany, but for some reason back then everyone just pretend that it never happend, and declare war only on Germany.

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>>33307082
Not just that, in the early stages of the war the Home Guard have a general lack of weapons. I remember reading in a british book that for each seven mans of the Home Guard they only had one rifle.

>>33307082

If he had been a retired high ranking officer he'd not have been taken in as a private, but rather something not far below his old rank. Brits used to be a teensy bit sensitive about stuff like that. Probably they'd have given him a bureaucratic function, something in logistics. Also an officer would be given a revolver, not a trench sweeper.

>>33307119

Let's see, where was that big meeting again - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Conference_(1941)

From then on, Sovietskis were friendskis.

>>33306730
who controls hollywood?
i see why they wouldnt make a movie about the evil nazis working with the sole reason for victory US
more people would look into history and have there fairytale level of understanding shattered

>>33307213

Meh. Most big recent military movies have been made with the direct support of the US military.

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Kinda reminds me - we have had bugger all pics of gurkhas yet. Now there's guys you want on your side in a war.

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>>33307179
That´s ok to me, even more because I just now noticed that the majority of my images and photos saved are of germans or soviets.

But that's also brings the question: should early war poles also count on this thread or only poles from after the invasion of Poland?

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2/5

3/5 The bagpipes? Your guess is as good as mine.

>>33307119
>but for some reason back then everyone just pretend that it never happend, and declare war only on Germany

Yes, exactly. Because they wasn't suicidal. It would lead to Soviet-German alliance.

>>33307313

Well, the invasion of Poland was what officially triggered WW2 in Europe, since they - unlike the Czechoslovakians - were part of a shaky defense union with France and England. But if you can dig up pics of Polish soldiers in the uniform they wore up to and until ww2, that's great.

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>>33307327

Fuck, forgot the picture.

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Some Dutch.

>>33307352

Also, the Allies really wanted the Soviets to keep on fighting the Germans. Noone else were, really - the British barely had strength to do raids for a while, and things were going straight to hell in the places where they were doing serious fighting. Stalin was not wrong in continously yelling for a second front, because he was having the first one all to himself.

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4/5

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5/5

>>33307313

By the way, I have a thing for the Polish solders of ww2. They fought the Soviet and the Germans in their own country at the same time, then fled to France, and enlisted for new Polish units, then fought in Norway with navy and army units, then went to England and got British gear then went back to fight the Germans AGAIN in North Africa and then in France and Netherlands. All this in spite of considerable losses. That is an admirable fighting spirit. And how did the Allies thank them? By disarming them at the end of the war and sending them back to the Polish quays where Stalin's boys were waiting. Too bad about the gulags, but thank you for the all Polish pilots during the Battle of Britain. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

In the London Victory parades in 45, the only units not represented were the Polish. They were not wanted any longer.

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Forgot the pic again.

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Prewar Polish soldiers, looking grim.

Shit never stopped hitting the fan for the Polish soldiers. Those who had been captured by the Soviets, went from one type of problem to another for the Sovietskis after the Germans attacked them as well. The soldiers were given 'amnesty' then sent off to Iran to be an army somewhere, anywhere else.

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>>33307579
I also have some respect for the poles. They passed through a lot of shit in their recent history, 18th century to late 20th century, but always maintained stubborn and resilient defence of their culture and nationality. Funny fact: my grandpa had a friend who was a field officer of the Wehrmatch during the invasion of Poland, that killed a pole in a melee fight, cutting off the top of his head.

>>33302449
Why do americans left the filipinos when they most need you, I thought they are your little brown brothers and your most important colony?
If you haven't focused too much in africa and europe they could has been saved from the japs.

>>33304559
I bet you love Battlefield 1's "diversity"

>>33308142
your grandpas friend sounds like he's full of shit

>>33308266
We went out of our way to save them though, it probably delayed the end of the war against Japan by a good year and a half.

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>>33306627
Conscripted by the Japanese, captured by the Russians, forced into service against the Germans, where he was captured again, then put into an OST Battalion to defend Normandy only to be captured once more by Americans. My God.

>>33308671
It is possible, but it was also war and lots of people killed each other in a variety of ways, so, it is not like it was improbable either. I probably shouldn't have used the term "Field officer", in reality.

The full story was something more in the lines that the guy, a officer, maybe a NCO maybe a lieutenant, gramps never specified it, and his unit, dont know what branch, entered a partialy destroyed urban area. Somewhere there a polish soldier jumped from nowhere into him, and the guy cut the pole forehead with his saber. Now, I have no idea if german officers carried sabers with them to combat in the early stages of the war. Grandpa had a really good memory, so is difficult that his friend had said that he used something like a bayonet and gramps mistook it to a saber. Anyway, the guy then said that soon after killing the soldier he got a horrible chill down in his spine. He got himself mourning his kill until the end of the day, when he finally got to eat something, then the mourning simply passed and he found himself proud that he killed that pole, and carried on with his life.

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>>33302416

Little did they know that Jewish infestation of their government would result in a globalist cesspit where Pakis groom thousands of white children for sexual slavery, and the Labour Party suppresses it.

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>>33307332

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Here's a picture of some Mongolians and Russians that I assume is from WWII

>>33302752
Are these the ones that raped whole villages in Italy?

>>33309215
go away platyposter

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>The military's standard uniform will never be this /fa/ again

>>33304559
the movie about them was pretty good. Those guys have some hard hard faces.

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>>33302333
>behind every shitpost

Also checked

>>33306730
>>33307213
But it is being made
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5138232/

>>33306819
Goddamn, that's about as British as it gets. It's a shame their nation turned into an Orwellian nightmare.

>>33307046
>one rifle between seven guys
>four daggers
>a skinning knife
>a felling ax
>two kukris
I didn't know Britain was in such a sorry state at the beginning of the war. I know the Home Guard literally issued guys bayonets welded to pipes and relied a lot on improvised tank traps and hand grenades because they were really only meant to slow an invasion down, but damn. You'd think there would have been more rifles in Britain.

>>33302365
I really wish we could've just been buds with Ho Chi Minh. Dude loved us for a long time, and thought the best path for Vietnam was to basically be a US protectorate. The only problem was the whole communism thing. If we had overlooked that or talked him down to some mild socialism, we could've had them as a staunch ally.

>>33302842
Ah, but see, you're comparing the cold to jungle heat when you should be comparing it to desert heat. Two totally different beasts.

>>33306150
Fuck you, I'm an Allieboo, and I'm annoyed that half the posts have been the minority fringes of the allied military. I came here for that glorious Olive Drab GI aesthetic.

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>>33307081
Thats a e s t h e t i c s as fuck

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Royal Netherlands East Indies Army LMG team, armed with a Italian Breda 30 light machine gun.

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Scot sniper scouting for sauerkraut.

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Soldiers of the First Canadian Army and the liberation of the Netherlands.

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Two Polish-Jewish partisans, one armed with an StG 44.

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>>33308266

Not being an American, I can only guess that it took some while before they were able to first recover from the Pearl Harbour blow, then start building a military force capable of doing any fighting at all om the ground. Digging out all the ww1 uniform gear was one thing, but there was a huge shortage of things like weapons. Many marines did not get more than three weeks of training for a while, and did not touch a real rifle until they were actually deployed.

The rifle on the picture is a Parris training rifle. More than half a million of these were used in the US military training camps, as real ones could not be spared. Shooting practice must have been odd.

>>33308142

Sounds like a rough fight. I assume you mean the polish guy got scalped, because that could happen. Especially if that was an NCO wielding an entrenching tool.

>>33308305

I would not know. I have not played it. What I love is deviation from the normal, quirks and anomalies that so easily get slipped out of the history books because those are facts that complicate things for the teachers. Go look in an American school book and find out which politicians supported the nazis before it got out of fashion. Go look in a British school book for information about how much the UK took from India. Look in a German one to find how many kids they fathered in the occupied areas. I could go on not just all day but the rest of the month.

So, when I find something they don't show on the front of the history books, I rejoice.

>>33309215

I do not know the details. I do know that after ww2 the careful net of British colonial outposts in the Middle East was shrinking rapidly. British politicians probably thought it was absolute genius to hang on to Jerusalem by populating it with English-related white non.muslim guys and a lot of refugees they didn't particularly want themselves either. Everyone loves a quick easy solution.

>>33309449

You are probably right about them being ww2. I am no arty expert but those guys in front are commissars, judging by their star badge belts.

>>33309896

It looks like they had the reputation, and clearly shit happened. And on scale. I have this stuff on hand right now:

However, the military achievements of the Goumiers in Italy were accompanied by widespread reports of war crimes: "...exceptional numbers of Moroccans were executed—many without trial—for allegedly murdering, raping, and pillaging their way across the Italian countryside. The French authorities sought to defuse the problem by importing numbers of Berber women to serve as "camp followers" in rear areas set aside exclusively for the Goumiers."[2] According to Italian sources, more than 7,000 people were raped by Goumiers. [3] Those rapes, later known in Italy as Marocchinate, were against women, children and men, including some priests. The mayor of Esperia (a comune in the Province of Frosinone), reported that in his town, 700 women out of 2,500 inhabitants were raped and that some had died as a result. In northern Latium and southern Tuscany, it is alleged that the Goumiers raped and occasionally killed women and young men after the Germans retreated, including members of partisan formations.[4].

On the other hand a British journalist commented, “The Goums have become a legend, a joke… No account of their rapes or their other acts is too eccentric to be passed off as true.”[12]

The CEF executed 15 soldiers by firing squad and sentenced 54 others to hard labor in military prisons for acts of rape or murder.[11]In 2015, the Italian state recognized compensation to a victim of these events.[13]

Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moroccan_Goumier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marocchinate

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>>33310700
>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5138232/

Woah, Makes my day, right there!

Pic: Major Josef Gangl, the Wehrmacht officer who fought with the Americans at Ittel. He fell, fighting the SS. One weird Ally.

>>33310972

Yeah, it is odd. I think they were distributing a lot of gear after ww2 to their allies and armies in the Middle East, India, Far East and so on. Lots of imperial henchmen to keep armed.

>>33311596

Fuck no, it wasn't the communism that was the US' problem with Minh. It was the fact that France wanted Vietnam, what with being their colonial masters, and America has always loved the French. Until the 80s anyway. It was far easiler to stab Minh in the back than the French, and they had to pick one.

>>33311642

Point taken. I have never set foot in a desert.

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American POWs. Ardennes, 1944.

>>33313432
Thanks for the reply m8. Pretty bad that ittook so long for compensation to be given.

>>33302324
>Let's take a look at the winning side. Just for variation's sake.

But /k/ is a Nazi autist forum and we can pretend they win.

>>33313550
Just enjoy the pictures you humongous cocksucker

>>33304559
>tfw I met a Tuskegee Airman at my Grandpa's nursing home
He was in the bed right beside him. He passed away a little while after my Grandpa.

>>33313545

One of the uglier faces of war. This kind of shit happened from Africa to Northern Russia, with highly varying consequences. Germans ranged from full on genetic cleansing to upholding the standards of Berlin Police. Here in Norway, during the occupation, if a woman was as much as touched unwillingly by a German soldier he risked being courtmartialed and executed before the day. And this happened,often enough, that discipline was high. In the far north in the combat areas where SS was passing through to and from the Soviet fighting, things were not as civil.

>>33305572
There were hundreds of thousands of desertions, so many that Britain had to amnesty the lot after the war because they had basically created a criminal underclass since they couldn't very well rejoin normal society with a charge hanging over them. Otherwise good troops would desert from combat when they hit their breaking point. Some more than once, but the problem was so severe their units often took them back if they returned freely.

>>33305993
Nicely restored.

>>33306010
Too old.

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More American POWs, Ardennes.

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By contrast, here's American MP's preparing the execution of SS prisoners. I don't remember that part from the movie 'Battle Of The Bulge'.

>>33313633

Hang on, this is more interesting than I thought. These are Otto Skorzeny's boys, captured in Allied uniforms.

>>33313473
>Fuck no, it wasn't the communism that was the US' problem with Minh.

The US at the time was obsessed by the Cold War and rightly so though they chose unwisely to intervene in Viet Nam. "Communism" was an excuse for a vast variety of military and CIA ventures.

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Bastogne, Christmas Day.

>>33313640
So spies.

>>33313648

Well, 1966 was something else. By then, Minh had been fighting with the colonial French in Vietnam for close to 20 years.

>>33313654
The US was obsessed by anti-Communism since the end of WWII. Red scares etc were common long before we got aggressively involved in Viet Nam.

http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/red-scare

>>33313653

Yeah. So legal enough, but short sighted. That's a lot of potential intel going down the drain.

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Ardennes. That's one lonely fox hole.

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Still Ardennes.

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According to the background info, the cook is a Chinese American...

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British soldiers, surrendering at Arnhem.

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British paras, before landing.

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After landing...

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British troops near Caen. That is a shitty trench.

This is a special photo. Caption is 'dead Marines at Buna Beach.' When it was published in 1943 in Life Magazine it was the first time of the war that the government had allowed the publishing of a pic of dead US military personnel. This was done because the govt was in sore need of selling more war bonds.

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>>33313761

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Polish troops. Monte Cassino.

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Gurkha Batallion, although these are clearly sikhs. Monte Cassino.

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Brits and rangers, on the road to Anzio.

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Polish bugler at Monte Cassino.

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Greek soldiers; now there is a little used theme.

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More greeks.

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Greeks, now in British uniform.

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Greek soldiers. Damn if I know what Nero Wolfe was doing there.

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>>33313855
Greeks fought and died very hard in the battle of Crete with crazy arse civilians picking up farm implements, old ww1 guns and killing German paratroopers whenever they could, then continued to die in large numbers to German firing squads during the occupation.
Always had a lot of respect for them as during my time in the military they where one of the few minorities in my country that actually enlist in any numbers

Here's an often unmentioned member of the allies- Mexican Expeditionary Air Force
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuerza_A%C3%A9rea_Expedicionaria_Mexicana
Actually did pretty well for themselves

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One more greek

>>33313928

Greece, and Crete, had a harsh war and paid dearly for their resistance. I too have great respect for them

Good tip about the MEAF, I'll go read. Frankly I thought Mexico were neutrals.

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Throwing in a few pictures from the battles for Narvik, Norway in 1940. On one side a mixed German bag: Dietl's gebirgsjagers, Kriegsmarine ratings from the sunk German fleet, Fallschirmjagers and Luftwaffe pilots and air crews. To supply everybody, they took local Norwegian military supplies and used both weapons and uniforms. On the other side: Norwegian soldiers, British soldiers, Polish soldiers, and the French Foreign Legion. It was a cold and snowy winter and only the Norwegians and FFL had skis, but the FFL could not actually ski. The Gebirgsjagers on the other hand were superb skiers.

Things looked so bleak for the Germans near the end that Hitler authorized Dietl to retreat to Sweden. Then at the last minute France was invaded and all the Allies left Norway within a couple of days. Dietl promptly occupied Narvik again.

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Polish soldiers at Narvik. They were fighting the Germans for the second time, after fighting them in Poland. These guys were reequipped by the Brits and motivated as hell.

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As far as I can see this is one Lapp, one French soldier, and one Norwegian.

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Brazilian soldiers in italy.

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Polish soldiers at Narvik. These guys were reequipped in France.

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French patrol, Narvik

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French chasseurs d'Alpine, Narvik.

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British soldiers at Narvik, wondering if that thing will explode if they kick it...

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Fucking allied cucks. Reminder that if the white allied soldiers who landed in Normandy would have seen how Europe and USA look today they would have shot their jewish commanders and joined the based axis. Reminder that we took out a shit ton of your jewish slave soldiers before the based axis went down. FUCK THE ALLIES

>>33313928

Interesting article. Did the Aztec Eagles become the nucleus of Mexico's postwar airforce, or did they actually have a prewar one?

>>33308266
we came back you nig.

also macarthur was kind of dumb.

>>33314211
Don't think they had much of one pre-ww2, but the unit itself is still a functioning, active air group which probably makes it one of the oldest continuing ones in the world. My Mexican history is pretty fucking terrible at best though, I heard about them many years ago when I was an exchange student there and was talking to others about my family history during WW2

Continued here as pic limit has been reached. New thread is for Allied and Axis women in uniform, though.

>>33314709

>>33314147
>tips stahlhelm

>>33306055
>>33308305
>>33306150

pol get out

>>33313855
is that colin farrell on the right?

>>33309215
>>Labour Party
>Conservative government

congrats lad ur a mong

>>33306055
>being this annoyed that someone could even dare to acknowledge the fact that people who volunteered to fight for your freedom were hindered in this largely basis of race alone

I bet you're one of those people who complain about 'oversensistive sjws' aren't you