Nice period photos (all jackets except A-2's)

[Shanghai-Mayne]

First Afghanistan disaster.

The rise of Jihads

 

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[Grant]

Where’s P-47 when you need one to target that juicy Swastika.

 

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Where’s P-47 when you need one to target that juicy Swastika.

Most likely, a Japanese Mitshubishi A5M Fighter.
This pic was taken at 1938, before WW2 broken out.

 

[Pilot]

Where’s P-47 when you need one to target that juicy Swastika.

You dont shot at your allies or friends.. I dont!.
Reading history books helps

Alexander von Falkenhausen - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[ZuZu]

Where’s P-47 when you need one to target that juicy Swastika.

You dont shot at your allies or friends.. I dont!.
Reading history books helps

Alexander von Falkenhausen - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Especially today we don't shoot at swastika bearing vehicles! They're our friends!

 

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Robert Gysae, wearing captured denim BD jacket.

 

[Pilot]

Mine …
Pat 37 British Battledress reconverted after Dunkirk in June 1940.
Worn by U-Boot Crew members from U-111 ( POW in GB ).

 

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Thanks for that! Is that German and Soviet troops fraternizing - what is that, in Poland 1939 maybe?

 

[Pilot]

Thanks for that! Is that German and Soviet troops fraternizing - what is that, in Poland 1939 maybe?

Its at a German/ Soviet military parade on 1939 September 22nd in Best-Litovsk/Belarus on the Polish border.

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

Thanks for that! Is that German and Soviet troops fraternizing - what is that, in Poland 1939 maybe?

Yes, after Soviets invaded Poland from other side.

 

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1927， 4th Marine arrived Shanghai

 

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1941 , 4th Marine withdrew from Shanghai, more than a week later, it was Pearl Harbor.

 

[geedee]

Its at a German/ Soviet military parade on 1939 September 22nd in Best-Litovsk/Belarus on the Polish border.

I guess they'll all get along just fine for many years to come.....

 

[Pilot]

The get along lasted until 22nd of June 1941.

Operation Barbarossa - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

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Kapitän-Leutnant Günther Prien and Ingeborg Prien.