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Quote: Originally Posted by dr greg Then again of course you have utter rubbish churned out as propaganda such as that dreadful blot on Errol Flynn's career, Objective Burma, which completely ignored the fact that Burma was primarily a British/Indian theatre, and made it look like a few Yanks saved the day there. The resultant uproar from Commonwealth troops wherever it was shown caused much inter-Allied bitterness and I think it had to...

Luger pistol linked to the Danish Resistance group "Lightflash". http://www.nordisk-forum.dk/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=15027

Quote: Originally Posted by p51 Amen, it's always someone who's "seen" the photo but can no longer produce it. I agree, I'd love to see this ETO photo, as I'm willing to bet any amount that the photo mentioned either was taken after the war or doesn't have the lug at all (or conveniently got "lost somewhere" and now can't be found). This is because no such photos exists of...

...check out this website and the artwork tab! Beautiful stuff! http://www.luijken.com/?page_id=454 -dixon cannon

Yeah I notice that site, has update things since 2001. The have statements like "... for the upcoming HBO special, Band of Brothers" on their website. So I wonder if there still in business, plus if they having update their site, those prices may be real old, and out of date

He could well be Mexican- no attempt at a joke. His breeches definately look German but the hat a little less "Germanic". I've seen a few images of Mexican officers in the 1920-40 period as observers here in the US. The men were officers, with khaki cotton uniforms, with very "Germanesque" breeches and boots. Here's a good image of the Mexican hat of the period... knew I'd seen something in...

So who's going this year?

Quote: Originally Posted by dr greg Care to enlighten those of us with merely a casual interest in such matters, what is so wrong with the picture, apart from what looks like partly-finished roof framing in the background, no doubt an unlikely sight in the Ardennes at the time...... I'm assuming he's referring to the fact that the G.I. in the shot is using a British Enfield .303 rifle, rather than an American issue one.

Published on: 3/7/2005 Last Visited: 7/7/2006 The leader of the dozen-man 595 was Capt. Mark D. Nutsch.Throughout the Afghanistan operation, the Pentagon insisted that reporters identify Special Forces personnel by their first names only, claiming this was necessary to protect their families back home from possible terrorist reprisals.But the Army waived that concern in April, when,at the instigation of his Army superiors,the Kansas state...