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    • patches
      Kids with troops of the 34th Infantry Division, with two of them wearing toy helmets, they are with a full size toy 75mm Infamy Gun, the 7.5 cm leichtes Infanteriegeschütz 18. perhaps the men built it for them, photo from 1937 in The Eifel Region. The division itself has it's home depot in Trier.
    • Pinkgoatsarmy
      2nd iteam reminnd me a dust cover for rifle, french manifacture of '50. attached an example for MAS rifle  
    • earlymb
    • Salvage Sailor
      Indian Ordnance QF 18-pounder gun crew in action before capture of Keren     English: India in the war. Indian soldiers in action before the capture of Keren in Eritrea . This gun hurled approximately 24,000 shells a day. Note the shadow of camouflage on the field gun.   Date  1941 Source  Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, LC-USE6-D-008633 DLC  
    • Salvage Sailor
      The famous 'Atlantic Wall' photograph...     Naval Gun Battery Lindemann Cap Gris-Nez, France   Named after Ernst Lindemann, captain of the battleship Bismarck who had perished the previous year, this battery was begun at Sangatte, just west of Calais in 1942.   The battery was armed with three 406 mm. “Adolf” guns that had been  retrieved from Battery Schleswig Holstein in Poland. The standard shell for these guns weighed 2250 pounds, and could be fired up to 26 miles away. A second round weighed 1300 pounds, and could be launched up to 35 miles. The 65 foot long gun barrel had a life of 250-300 shots. The guns themselves were mounted in separate pillboxes, cast in reinforced concrete up to four meters thick. These guns regularly shelled south-east England. During the two years they were operational, they sent over 2200 shots across the Channel to England.       Defection or 'mental health day'?   Ich muss nach Hause gehen    
    • toitoine66
      There are some cool late indochina/ Algeria war stuff found during the begining of 2026:       2 early TTA 47/53 pants, both have an indigenous size and they are dated 1953 and 1954       1 early TTA 47 53 with a rare C1 camo   A sweet french paratrooper helmet with a US ww2 westinghouse helmet liner and nov 1944 shell  
    • toitoine66
      I love this set Scott, thanks for sharing
    • lmrobil
      Sorry I misspoke.  One of the opinions of the helmet I posted was that it may be a Finnish post war helmet, not Norwegian.  Attached is the post for your review,  possibly unrelated to yours but the lack of marks reminded me of it.   https://www.wehrmacht-awards.com/forums/forum/wehrmacht-uniforms-and-equipment/john-burnett-helmet-forum/15607078-unmarked   Lance   
    • FT.Monmouth1943
      I’m not aware of Norway making any M35 helmets, but I could be mistaken. The helmet shown above is an M35.
    • patches
      A rare view of the SS Poizei Divisional Symbol on a Vehicle on the way to Leningrad, this being it's first symbol, as per Bender 70s SS Series, it had ultimately others,
    • jmd62
      Excellent, thanks again Sarge!
    • SARGE
      Yes, non magnetic air vents is a good thing.  
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