Blake_E Posted January 4, 2010 Share #26 Posted January 4, 2010 Found it The pictured was named a 69th soldier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgtdorango Posted January 4, 2010 Share #27 Posted January 4, 2010 Heres a GI making good use of a German helmet!....mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blake_E Posted January 4, 2010 Share #28 Posted January 4, 2010 Hehe that's a cool photo, another i found P38 and an mp40 i think. I know, more souvenier than gear, but i suppose i'd rather add it, than nothing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunbarrel Posted January 4, 2010 Share #29 Posted January 4, 2010 Souvenirs!? I'll show you souvenirs! :packin heat: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Gregory Posted January 4, 2010 Share #31 Posted January 4, 2010 Operation Varsity and glider pilot equipped with MP-40 magazine pouch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MFortney Posted January 5, 2010 Share #32 Posted January 5, 2010 A picture of my Grandfather wearing a Browning 1922. He was a fairly small build so I'm guessing he liked a smaller weapon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwb123 Posted January 5, 2010 Share #33 Posted January 5, 2010 Here is a pic of a GI with a German canteen. This photo always makes me think of the song "Walk this Way!". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunbarrel Posted January 5, 2010 Share #34 Posted January 5, 2010 This photo always makes me think of the song "Walk this Way!". Too funny! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johan Willaert Posted January 5, 2010 Share #35 Posted January 5, 2010 Most pictures show GIs with German gear and/or weapons.... Here's a GI wearing a German camo parka.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OD MAN Posted January 5, 2010 Author Share #36 Posted January 5, 2010 Great pictures, way better than I expected to see. :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory Posted January 15, 2010 Share #37 Posted January 15, 2010 Wearing Fritz helmet could be deadly dangerous... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blake_E Posted January 15, 2010 Share #38 Posted January 15, 2010 Another slightly skewing off the case subject, but i just found it today and interesting enough to post Take your pick lol. Look at all those lugers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory Posted January 15, 2010 Share #39 Posted January 15, 2010 This German gadget was liked very much by all Allies both from West and East. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carbinekid Posted January 16, 2010 Share #40 Posted January 16, 2010 Here is a picture I found at local sale. Kyle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plankowner Posted January 16, 2010 Share #41 Posted January 16, 2010 Here is a picture I got off the Life Magazine site that was taken near Lemgo, Gremany showing two GI's armed with Panzerfausts. Staged picture............???. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyt44 Posted January 17, 2010 Share #42 Posted January 17, 2010 My Dad happened to be in the hospital in england (he was 8th AAF) when many wounded from the battle of the Bulge started arriving. He noticed that they all had German razors and blades for shaving-they told him they were much superior to the blue steel ones they normally had to use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory Posted January 18, 2010 Share #43 Posted January 18, 2010 Captured P-38 captures the Germans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capa Posted January 18, 2010 Share #44 Posted January 18, 2010 This German gadget was liked very much by all Allies both from West and East. There are a few photos of GIs with "goatee" or Van Dyke mustaches and beards. I had not seen this one before-very cool. It looks like he has been growing it for a while, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory Posted January 19, 2010 Share #45 Posted January 19, 2010 I apologize for little off-topic. In the battlefield circumstances van Dyck goatees were tolerated by the US Army. Below you have a view from Normandy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgawne Posted January 19, 2010 Share #46 Posted January 19, 2010 Keep in mind that most photos are taken for a reason. In most of the cases shown it seems to me the photos was taken BECAUSE the guy was holding something odd, in which case if it was a normal sight to see no one would bother photographing it. Having worn both German and GI gear over long periods of time I have no idea why anyone would want to wear German stuff... however from many vets I have been told that it was a fairly common thing to shoot prisoners caught with captured items. And officers/NCO's used to caution men about carrying stuff like that as it could mean a shot to the back of the head. This is why a lot of those photos with guys carrying captured stuff are rear echelon ones. However a few vets told me that one exception was a pistol which was looked upon by some differently- more as a tool and not so much a personal item. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Andrews Posted January 19, 2010 Share #47 Posted January 19, 2010 Re Panzerfausts: the 504th PIR (at least) of the 82nd Airborne captured a great number in Holland, then took them along to the French restcamps, then trucked up to The Bulge for widespread, active use. The book More Than Courage by Nordyke has several mentions of the 504 commonly using Panzerfausts, as late as Feb 1945, while piercing the Siegfried Line. They were used, one shot after another, against pillboxes and bunkers. The GI in the pcture having a van Dyke beard and carrying an M.P. 44 is IIRC from a Tank Destroyer unit. This is consistent with a story of an old boss of mine. He was an NCO in TD Bns. He said that the TDs "adopted" M.P.44's and M.G. 42's at every opprtunity and carried them in the turrets. The turrets were open-topped, so the crewmen could just poke whatever weapon over the sides and spray in any and all directions as needed. They liked to use the captured weapons for this because the M-10 and M-18 MGC's RESEMBLED German vehicles (at least more than a Sherman did), especially in poor visibility and when loaded with sandbags, logs, pine boughs and baggage. If, in nosing forward, they elicited enemy fire, they would back out and hose the area the fire was emanating from with the guns that "spoke with a German accent", hoping to get the shooters to take pause (and not shoot AT weapons their way). My ex-boss was himself of German ancestry and would scream "Nicht schiessen, schweinhunden! Wir sind Deutscher!". They would also toss one or two WP or HC grenades out to mask their hasty withdrawal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pluto Posted January 20, 2010 Share #48 Posted January 20, 2010 Re Panzerfausts: the 504th PIR (at least) of the 82nd Airborne captured a great number in Holland, then took them along to the French restcamps, then trucked up to The Bulge for widespread, active use. The book More Than Courage by Nordyke has several mentions of the 504 commonly using Panzerfausts, as late as Feb 1945, while piercing the Siegfried Line. They were used, one shot after another, against pillboxes and bunkers. The GI in the pcture having a van Dyke beard and carrying an M.P. 44 is IIRC from a Tank Destroyer unit. This is consistent with a story of an old boss of mine. He was an NCO in TD Bns. He said that the TDs "adopted" M.P.44's and M.G. 42's at every opprtunity and carried them in the turrets. The turrets were open-topped, so the crewmen could just poke whatever weapon over the sides and spray in any and all directions as needed. They liked to use the captured weapons for this because the M-10 and M-18 MGC's RESEMBLED German vehicles (at least more than a Sherman did), especially in poor visibility and when loaded with sandbags, logs, pine boughs and baggage. If, in nosing forward, they elicited enemy fire, they would back out and hose the area the fire was emanating from with the guns that "spoke with a German accent", hoping to get the shooters to take pause (and not shoot AT weapons their way). My ex-boss was himself of German ancestry and would scream "Nicht schiessen, schweinhunden! Wir sind Deutscher!". They would also toss one or two WP or HC grenades out to mask their hasty withdrawal. Hello, for your interest I attach an original 1944/45 press photo of, by contrast, a German soldier wearing US gear - This unfortunate soldier would have been one of Skorzeny's men who, fluent in English and dressed in US uniform, would have operated behind US lines during the Ardennes offensive. He is wearing HBT trousers and M-41 jacket, yet retains his aluminum German dog-tag. I don't wish to cause offense with this image, consequently it has been cropped accordingly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earlymb Posted January 20, 2010 Share #49 Posted January 20, 2010 They liked to use the captured weapons for this because the M-10 and M-18 MGC's RESEMBLED German vehicles(at least more than a Sherman did), especially in poor visibility and when loaded with sandbags, logs, pine boughs and baggage. If, in nosing forward, they elicited enemy fire, they would back out and hose the area the fire was emanating from with the guns that "spoke with a German accent", hoping to get the shooters to take pause (and not shoot AT weapons their way). My ex-boss was himself of German ancestry and would scream "Nicht schiessen, schweinhunden! Wir sind Deutscher!". They would also toss one or two WP or HC grenades out to mask their hasty withdrawal. For this same reason Skorzeny's unit used some Panther tanks masked up as US M10s in their Ardennes operation: Greetz David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunbarrel Posted March 17, 2010 Share #50 Posted March 17, 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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