Bill in VA Posted April 22, 2016 Share #26 Posted April 22, 2016 The thing that always struck me about that first photo is how absolutely pristine those weapons look... like they didn't get much use before they were captured. I am not seeing a US weapon in the second photo. Can somebody point it out please. The Second photo of the thread? It looks like an M1 Carbine is in the hands of the soldier on the right Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linedoggie Posted April 22, 2016 Share #27 Posted April 22, 2016 Damn! Thank you for posting that. Did that photo have a location listed??? Those were used very sparingly by the Marines only up until Saipan... Lack of stowage boxes for grousers behind the air filters and the civilians makes me guess Philippines 1942 Provisional Tank Group USAFFE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Backtheattack Posted April 22, 2016 Share #28 Posted April 22, 2016 Second picture, soldier with M1 Carbine, Ardennes 1944 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corpsman_1941 Posted April 22, 2016 Share #29 Posted April 22, 2016 A few images from the Polish BAR, in German hands... That's Polish Browning M1928, as you said it's our version of BAR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwb123 Posted April 22, 2016 Share #30 Posted April 22, 2016 The Second photo of the thread? It looks like an M1 Carbine is in the hands of the soldier on the right No, not the second photo of the thread, the second photo in post #8, which is after the one of the pristine M-1's I was referring to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViewfinderGyrene Posted April 23, 2016 Share #31 Posted April 23, 2016 Lack of stowage boxes for grousers behind the air filters and the civilians makes me guess Philippines 1942 Provisional Tank Group USAFFE Yes I actually found reference to this captured M3 being used against the 4th Marines at Bataan in a book while researching term paper! VFG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted April 24, 2016 Share #32 Posted April 24, 2016 Here's a M1 being used, a German Grenadier of an unidentified unit during the Ardennes Offensive. This is a still I was able to scan just now from The After the Battle book, The Battle of the Bulge Then and Now. The actual footage I do believe is seen in full in The World at War, the 1944 ETO episode. He eating a candy bar there, Hmm might be German, not sure if it's American. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted April 24, 2016 Share #33 Posted April 24, 2016 On that German with the M1 rifle, I just noticed, he's wearing GI gloves too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McDermut99 Posted April 24, 2016 Share #34 Posted April 24, 2016 Here's one from after the battle. I don't like to be morbid but of all these photographs, some of that weaponry was probably taken off of dead GIs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Normandy1944 Posted April 24, 2016 Author Share #35 Posted April 24, 2016 tscan0002.jpg Here's a M1 being used, a German Grenadier of an unidentified unit during the Ardennes Offensive. This is a still I was able to scan just now from The After the Battle book, The Battle of the Bulge Then and Now. The actual footage I do believe is seen in full in The World at War, the 1944 ETO episode. He eating a candy bar there, Hmm might be German, not sure if it's American. Nice find! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted April 24, 2016 Share #36 Posted April 24, 2016 Nice find! Yeah I've been looking at this photo literally for 31 years, got that book in April 1985, so it's burned into my memory bank, that and seeing the footage two or three times during the same period. The footage, it could very well be on You Tube, but I would know where it begin to look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garandomatic Posted April 24, 2016 Share #37 Posted April 24, 2016 Is it from that very frequently seen clip where the SS jokers are attacking this way then that for the propaganda camera during the Bulge? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill in VA Posted April 25, 2016 Share #38 Posted April 25, 2016 No, not the second photo of the thread, the second photo in post #8, which is after the one of the pristine M-1's I was referring to. Heh! Dunno....maybe an AE US test Luger??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted April 25, 2016 Share #39 Posted April 25, 2016 Is it from that very frequently seen clip where the SS jokers are attacking this way then that for the propaganda camera during the Bulge? Yeah, and there from Illinois too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Normandy1944 Posted April 25, 2016 Author Share #40 Posted April 25, 2016 Here's some footage with some brief shots of an SS soldier with an m1 carbine. Probably taken from the convoy that they attacked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Normandy1944 Posted April 25, 2016 Author Share #41 Posted April 25, 2016 A few more planes ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garandomatic Posted April 25, 2016 Share #42 Posted April 25, 2016 Yeah, and there from Illinois too The worst kind... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squad leader Posted April 25, 2016 Share #43 Posted April 25, 2016 Here's some footage with some brief shots of an SS soldier with an m1 carbine. Probably taken from the convoy that they attacked. The scene took place on the road between Recht and Poteau, on Dec. 18, 1944. A group of the 18th Cav. Rec. Squadron (CCA 7th Armd Div.) was ambushed by the leading elements of Kampfgruppe Hansen (1st SS. Panzer Division). Dan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bodes Posted April 25, 2016 Share #44 Posted April 25, 2016 Yeah I've been looking at this photo literally for 31 years, got that book in April 1985, so it's burned into my memory bank, that and seeing the footage two or three times during the same period. The footage, it could very well be on You Tube, but I would know where it begin to look. Yeah, I do remember that footage now.....I'm thinking it was on the World At War series with Laurence Olivier.....Bodes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bodes Posted April 25, 2016 Share #45 Posted April 25, 2016 Yeah, I do remember that footage now.....I'm thinking it was on the World At War series with Laurence Olivier.....Bodes Episode 19 (World at War) "Pincers" shows the footage about 35 minutes in.....Bodes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7wS8ffO5Pw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted April 25, 2016 Share #46 Posted April 25, 2016 The worst kind... :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted April 25, 2016 Share #47 Posted April 25, 2016 A few more planes What are these planes, they look like Trainers, if so how did they fall in enemy hands? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garandomatic Posted April 25, 2016 Share #48 Posted April 25, 2016 I wondered the same... T-6 Texan doesn't seem to be the most likely plane to be overseas, comparatively speaking...! Say... isn't that Illinois Nazi using a captured CB radio?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atb Posted April 25, 2016 Share #49 Posted April 25, 2016 I wondered the same... T-6 Texan doesn't seem to be the most likely plane to be overseas, comparatively speaking...! Say... isn't that Illinois Nazi using a captured CB radio?? French use or British (maybe Canadian built)? A lot of exporting of US aircraft to Europe went on in the late 30's-early 40's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted April 25, 2016 Share #50 Posted April 25, 2016 Thanks on that World at War episode Bodes, I knew I seen it there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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