McDermut99 Posted July 18, 2015 Share #326 Posted July 18, 2015 U-Boat officers being captured - check out the double barrel shotgun held on them! What weapon is the sailor at far left holding? Short and with a box magazine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garandomatic Posted July 18, 2015 Share #327 Posted July 18, 2015 Looks like a Reising smg. That sawed off double barrel is wicked... Pretty nonstandard there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted July 18, 2015 Share #328 Posted July 18, 2015 Yep, Reising. The shotgun is a standard weapon aboard US warships, not good to have long rifle rounds pinging around the steel bulkheads and passageways. Great photo of a Coast Guard crew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garandomatic Posted July 18, 2015 Share #329 Posted July 18, 2015 That makes sense, but is THAT shotgun standard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted July 18, 2015 Share #330 Posted July 18, 2015 At the time it was, now (as of the 1950's) we use pump action Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwb123 Posted July 19, 2015 Share #331 Posted July 19, 2015 Great photo... the Germans look calm, cool, collected and very stylish. The Americans on the other hand look a bit unnerved and fashion challenged. The master at arms is doing his best Jimmy Cagney imitation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linedoggie Posted July 20, 2015 Share #332 Posted July 20, 2015 U-805 (Type IXC/40) crewmen May 12th, 1945 Surrendered to USS Varian (DE-798) & USS Otter (DE-210) http://uboat.net/boats/u805.htm http://www.uboatarchive.net/U-805.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-805 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryant U. Posted July 20, 2015 Share #333 Posted July 20, 2015 Amazing photos! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWIIBuff1945 Posted July 21, 2015 Share #334 Posted July 21, 2015 From my collection: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gauthieb3sxz Posted July 21, 2015 Share #335 Posted July 21, 2015 Please make sure to cite sources for photos. The photo of the Reising and the sawed off is from my collection and was cropped to cut out the source watermark. Not a big deal, but it's nice to get some visitors to my website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artu44 Posted August 11, 2015 Share #336 Posted August 11, 2015 A couple of Radom M35 pistols in #49 post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
338thRCT Posted August 19, 2016 Share #337 Posted August 19, 2016 I'm figuring that evryone in the picture is thinking..."I'm glad the war is over !" No date on this photo that I picked up last week, but guessing that it's post war. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USCapturephotos Posted August 20, 2016 Share #338 Posted August 20, 2016 From my collection: img464.jpg img463.jpg I love this photo! So great seeing the paperwork being filled out to bring home the souvenirs. Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawdog Posted August 21, 2016 Share #339 Posted August 21, 2016 SSgt Barney Major (wearing jeep cap) and fellow 82nd AB paratroopers with a captured German Schwimmenwagen somewhere in France shortly after D-day. Sent from my LG-LS995 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USCapturephotos Posted August 21, 2016 Share #340 Posted August 21, 2016 SSgt Barney Major (wearing jeep cap) and fellow 82nd AB paratroopers with a captured German Schwimmenwagen somewhere in France shortly after D-day. Sent from my LG-LS995 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USCapturephotos Posted August 21, 2016 Share #341 Posted August 21, 2016 Great shot Lawdog. I only have one shot of GI's in a schwimmwagen in my collection taken during the Bulge. I think many of these vehicles were actually SS used. Thanks for sharing. Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MP25 Posted October 28, 2018 Share #342 Posted October 28, 2018 VC prisoners at the 25th Div POW Collection Point - Cu Chi -1967 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MP25 Posted October 28, 2018 Share #343 Posted October 28, 2018 MP with Japanese prisoner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USCapturephotos Posted October 28, 2018 Share #344 Posted October 28, 2018 Haven't posted here in ages. Thought this shot would be appropriate. This was listed strangely on Ebay. Lucky for me...it's a GI wearing an SS generals uniform and Luft dagger. It says "All dressed up and nowhere to go" on the reverse. Sadly, no id on the GI. Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MP25 Posted October 31, 2018 Share #345 Posted October 31, 2018 VC POWs in the back of a 3/4 ton truck - Cu Chi 1967 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobrahistorian Posted January 20, 2019 Share #346 Posted January 20, 2019 Still hunting for a photo of this airplane. My granddad served in the 83rd from Normandy to the end. I've gotten a few shots of 109s from other Association legacy members, but so far no one has found a photo of the flyable 109. I definitely want to build a model of this airplane.Here's my addition to the captured 83rd vehicles. Photo by 1Lt. Julius Goldman, F/330th. One infantry division comes to mind using captured enemy vehicles, the 83rd Infantry Division and/or "The Rag Tag Circus From Omaha Beach To the Elbe"."The Last Battle". Cornealius Ryan "One unit, the illustrious 83rd Infantry Division, which was moving asfast as an armored task force, had recently been nicknamed "The Rag-TagCircus" by the correspondents. Its resourceful commander, MajorGeneral Robert C. Macon, had given orders to supplement the division'stransport with anything that moved; "no questions asked." Now theRag-Tag Circus was going flat out in a weird assortment of hurriedlyrepainted captured German vehicles: Wehrmacht jeeps, staff cars,ammunition trucks, Mark Very and Tiger panzers, motor bikes, buses andtwo cherished fire engines. Out in front, with infantrymen hanging allover it, was one of the fire trucks. On its rear bumper was a large,flapping banner. It read, Next Stop: Berlin. ""On its right flank, tenaciously pacing the 2nd mile for mile andfighting all the way, was a wildly assorted collection of vehiclescrammed with troops. From the air it bore no resemblance to either anarmored or an infantry division. In fact, but for a number of U.s.Army trucks interspersed among its columns, it might easily have beenmistaken for a German convoy. Major General Robert C. Macon's highlyindividualistic 83rd Infantry Division, the "Rag-Tag Circus," was goinghell-for-leather toward the Elbe in its captured booty. Every enemyunit or town that surrendered or was captured subscribed its quota ofrolling stock for the division, usually at gunpoint. Every newlyacquired vehicle got a quick coat of olive-green paint and a U.S. starslapped on its side; then it joined the 83rd. The men of the Rag-TagCircus had even managed to liberate a German airplane and, harder, hadfound someone to fly it, and it was spreading consternation all overthe front. First Sergeant William G. Presnell of the 30th InfantryDivision, who had fought all the way from Omaha Beach, knew thesilhouette of every Luftwaffe fighter. So when he saw what wasobviously a German plane heading in his direction, he yelled "ME-109!"and dived for cover. Puzzled when there was no burst of machine gunfire, he raised his head and stared as the fighter sped away. Theplane was painted a blotchy olive-green. On the undersides of thewings were the words "83rd Inf. Div."Anybody have any "Circus" pictures of the 83rd I.D. in action? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gawronik Posted July 8, 2020 Share #347 Posted July 8, 2020 On 10/9/2011 at 10:16 PM, R Michael said: a nice photo of a liberated Kubel with the AK palm cut of door. Mike Hi Mike, Quite interesting photo - it seems like this Kubelwagen was fitted with jeep wheels. AFAIK such a makeshift is entirely unfeasible since the lugs spacings in VWs and jeeps were totally different - 5x205mm vs. 5x5,5in. It needed quite an overhaul then and it seems most unlikely in "wartime conditions" I guess. So, do you (or anybody else here) know the story behind this particular vehicle? How this wheels shift was achieved? It seems that original VW wheel hubs were kept. Were there new holes for bolts drilled and threaded or new threaded pins welded then? Technically, it is quite interesting. Pozdrawiam, / Best regards, Maciej Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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