Finnish Lt Esa Seesta and a USA volunteer 2nd Lt with captured Soviet PPD-34 SMGs near Koivisto Municipality, Finland - September 30, 1941
When the Winter War broke out, many Finnish immigrants in the USA & Canada traveled to Finland to join Finland’s armed forces.
Koivisto is now Primorsk in the Leningrad Oblast Russia
SA-Kuva - Sa-Picture 54382 - Lauri Bacon Photographer
A bit late, but October 2 was the 80th anniversary of the end of the Warsaw Uprising. On this day the Polish insurgents surrendered to the German army
A major rebellion in Warsaw by the Polish Home Army, it was launched in late August 1944 as the Soviets approached very close to Warsaw. Despite the Poles counting on Soviet help (having informed them in advance), little help was given (for disputed reasons), even from the First Polish Army fighting with the Soviets.
I always wonder what would’ve happened had the Soviets put all of their effort towards liberating Warsaw instead of clearing out the Balkans during August-September 1944 and leaving them out to be destroyed by the Germans.
Or even crazier, what if the Allies, foregoing Market Garden, used Soviet airfields to send the entire First Airborne Army to help out the partisans?
October 4 1943: Panzerkampfwagen VI ‘Tiger’, Ausf. E, Sd.Kfz. 181,
#332 of 3./Schwere Panzer-Abteilung 503 (3./s.Pz.Abt.503), stuck in the mud on the banks of a river near the town of Znamenka, Tambovskaya oblast, Soviet Union.
In October 1943, the battalion was in a rest area near Znamenka, where it had time to maintain and repair vehicles and conduct training.
guess that little bridge couldn’t hold it, so it tried going around ?
@barnee I’m guessing they put the bridge in after the first one got stuck
Where I live, today marks the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Battle of Debrecen.
Throughout October 1944, the Soviets conducted an offensive with twin pincers in Hungary, one aimed at capturing Budapest, and the other focussed on Debrecen, Hungary second largest city. Despite advancing 160 kilometers, the Soviets were unable to decisively break the German-Hungarian defense and capture either city.
It would be one of the last times German troops would be able to prevent a Soviet offensive from reaching its goals.
Despite the Germans achieving a favorable casualty ratio against the Soviets, the Red Army would capture Budapest in 1945.
Finnish patrol at the Rukajärvi area, October 7, 1942.
Sa-kuva / colorized by jhlcolorizing
October 10, 1945, saw the official abolishment of the Nazi Party. The Allied Control Council issued their Law #2 to formally end the existence of the NSDAP and 60 related Nazi organizations.
The full text of this law and other proceedings is available in this rather large scanned document.
Law #1, issued September 20, concerned the repeal of Nazi laws.
It’s a strange thought that Nazi law and Nazi organizations formally continued to exist for months after the war had ended, even if clearly inoperative.
@KaLeu said in On this day during W.W. 2:
It’s a strange thought that Nazi law and Nazi organizations formally continued to exist for months after the war had ended, even if clearly inoperative.
My guess is that they were still digging out of the rubble before they could get together to do any formal stuff :)
But, yea, half a year. Guess the russians buried them deep lol
Good info!
Knocked-out German Jagdpanzer IV ® and a knocked-out US Sherman Tank near Bezaumont, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France - October 12, 1944
NARA - 148727540
US Soldiers with Company L, 26th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, pass a city limits sign of Aachen, Germany - October 13, 1944
US Army Signal Corps - SC 195646
Moran Photographer
Cool!
GIs with Company M, 26th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, advance behind two Sherman Tanks in Aachen, Germany - October 15, 1944
US Army Signal Corps - SC 195638
wonder who the guys without helmets are ? Looks like they have different boots too. Maybe British ? That would seem unusual
@barnee the guy on the left looks like he’s wearing a beret. The other guy looks like he’s wearing German boots…it is kind of odd.
well maybe his boots didn’t fit very good :) Both hatches are open. Maybe Tank Commanders got out on the ground ? That would seem unlikely Idk though
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They don’t have any gear either like the GIs do. Wonder if they’re German prisoners ? Pointing out where to go ?
@The-Captain what do you think ?
I have this picture in one of my History books - I’ll have to check.
If I remember correctly, the guy without helmet on the right is a German POW - he is wearing German boots (Knochelbrecher - Bone Crusher) and a German Army belt.
I’ll be back, when I find the picture…
Captain
iger II “234” of the 503rd Heavy Panzer Battalion during Operation Panzerfaust, Budapest, Hungary, October 15th or 16th, 1944
@captainwalker now that’s a Tank.
Nice pic; thanks .
