WW2 photos
 

Does anyone have large/high quality pictures (digital) of a WW2 era GI with a 1911 or M1 Carbine and a German with a Luger or P38? Ideally these would be action photos of the guns being aimed/held and recognizable (no holster or gore photos, please). Post them here or email to: slash5bmw @ yahoo.com

Many Thanks
Matt

p.38

M1 Carbine

A German soldier who saw too many movies:

http://forum.lugerforum.com/lfupload/duitser_01.jpg

And slightly earlier. 1937 Luftwaffe photo:

http://forum.lugerforum.com/lfupload...force_1937.jpg

Those are great!

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v3...guns/03986.jpg

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v3...guns/03988.jpg

Love the Pics guys! Keep em coming!

Slightly late, yet I noticed this photo of Himmler with some sort of Luger, and thought it may be of some interest!



http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/2307/60456xm9.jpg

Great pics guys. I really enjoyed them. All looked liked good soldiers except Himmler.

Here is a SOLDIER.
 

Meet First Sergeant (U.S. Army Retired) Larry Faulkner, I am justly proud to call him my friend.

A man who fought shoulder to shoulder with my late father in the 39th Infantry Regiment, during WW2, through North Africa, Italy and 6 other major campaigns from D-Day to the end of the war...and then went on to combat in Korea, and finally Vietnam...

No need to go into detail on the medals I don't recognize... but I do see the Combat Infantryman's Badge (CIB), Three Bronze Stars, Two Silver Stars, and Two Purple Hearts...

This soldier's soldier is now about 88 years old, and I hope to visit with him this summer at the next reunion of the WW2 9th Infantry Division Association in Grand Rapids Michigan...

At last count, we are losing between 1200 and 1700 WW2 veterans a day... the world will be a darker place without them.

Our current generation is no less brave... May God bless the sons and daughters of this forum, and all proud Americans that are today protecting freedom around the world.

http://forum.lugerforum.com/lfupload/1sgfaulkner.jpg

I use this as the desktop on my computer. Some nice Carbines, a Thompson and a little drama.

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j2...n/Carbines.jpg

I have any pictures from my opa, he shot the pictures whil he was in rushia, on the pictures you can see rushian tanks. He keep this photos in his cigarette case which he wear in his left breast pocket above his heart, But there is a hole in it. Unfortunally there are no Lugers to see.

But this pictures (or the cigarette case) saved his live. A splitter from (supposably) a tank grenade hit him, and he notice nothing while the battle.

Bob,

That is a mesmerizing photo. It's hard to stop looking at it.

Roman,

That's a very interesting story. Can you post some of the photos?

Ron

Sadly my grandfahter is died a few years ago. So I had to ask my father.

Short-time before he died we found a carton whit many items.

There was a Eisernes Kreuz erster Klasse whith the matching distinction, a rusty barrel from a MG42, a steel helmet whit an black/white/red emblem on it, an rushian bayonet, a wallet whith Reichsmark in it, an poster which everybody had to hang out in his house, and an book which everybody becomes in the third Reich when he gets married.


But he wasn't willingly in the war, so he dosn't like to speak abouth it and hide this items.

Only twice times he tell me somethin, onece time when I saw his frozen black toes, and a secound time when he saw me playing a game whit aeroplanes, then he tell me, when he escape of the imprisonment from the rushians, he operate a FlAK on a ship by Norway. And there was so much bombers in the air, that it was dark on a sunny day, nobody have the heart to fire on the bombers. So they fly along to them operation and do nothing.

And once time he swarming, becose he was in Germany in furlough and there was the first escalator in the world.


Unfortunately my two uncles assert them claims to the thinks also, so this items are far-flung in the hole family.