19 old photos: Germans holding barefoot girls from the Soviet Union, American female soldiers killed by mines
01, 1988, Moscow's Red Square, who is wearing Soviet uniforms? Looking at his appearance, he was in his 40s, and he always felt that he was not a Soviet.
02, the above picture of the salute is the "God of War" Marshal Zhukov, in the first place of the ten marshals of World War II. He became famous in the Battle of Nomonhan against the Japanese army, and later commanded the Battle of Stalingrad, the Battle of Leningrad, the Battle of Berlin, and he captured Hitler's Chancellery. Zhukov was awarded 61 medals in his lifetime, and only a few representative medals hung on his chest. Zhukov died at the age of 77 and was buried under the kremlin walls of Red Square. In addition to Zhukov, which Soviet gods of war do you admire?
03, 1942, the Soviet Union, the German army took a photo of hypocrisy, a corporal and a first class soldier are helping a Ukrainian girl wipe tears. The Germans on the right, to amuse her, took out their boat hats and put them on for the children. Even hypocritical "goodwill" is better than "benevolent slaughter."
04. Around 1942, in the Ukrainian region of the Soviet Union, the Soviet union girl with barefoot in the German army was triumphant, and the four girls had different expressions. What is the custom of Soviet girls wearing costumes but no shoes? Still poor and have no money to buy shoes. In 1941, 5.5 million German troops attacked the Soviet Union in three ways, of which 39 divisions of Army Group South were commanded by Marshal Lundstedt to attack Kiev, Ukraine, defeating the Soviet Southwestern Front and capturing 650,000 Soviet troops.
05, 1942, the Soviet Union, the Soviet female sniper who was captured by the German army, from her determined eyes can be seen, directly ignoring the Surrounding Germans. During the Soviet-German War, she was one of 800,000 Soviet female soldiers. More than 2,000 female snipers fought throughout the Soviet-German war, killing 12,000 Germans, the most of whom were 309. Despite their glorious achievements, once the captives were not protected by the Geneva Convention of Prisoners of War, the end of their capture was tragic!
06. In August 1941, after the Battle of Uman in the Soviet Union, Hitler and Mussolini inspected the officers of Army Group South and mobilized the enthusiasm of Marshal Lundstedt, although 100,000 Soviet troops were captured here, the main force of the Soviet army withdrew to Kiev. In order to end the Battle of Kiev as soon as possible and turn this place into a post-war granary, Hitler had no choice but to mobilize Army Group Center to fight with Army Group South.
07. In 1943, outside Leningrad on the Soviet-German battlefield, two members of the Tiger tank were ready to board the tank and leave after receiving treatment. The two Germans belonged to the second Tiger tank battalion, --- 502nd Panzer Battalion, which was equipped with 71 Tiger tanks at most, and had not been able to figure out the question, why didn't soldiers camouflage tanks with leaves in World War II paint army green at the beginning?
08. On May 19, 1944, in London, before the skydiving performance began, Queen Elizabeth personally came to the front line of condolences. These British troops then participated in the Normandy landings, and a large number of paratroopers became air targets for the Germans.
09. In March 1945, recruits from the British barracks, numbered 230873, were showing Queen Elizabeth a newly repaired truck, during which time she learned to load and unload wheels, repair engines, and drive ambulances and other vehicles. The recruit's best thing about it was that she had never taken a driver's license in her life, but she could drive anywhere in the UK, and at the age of 92 she was still driving around Sandringham Manor.
10. On July 6, 1949, at an exhibition in the United Kingdom, a group of female soldiers greeted the arrival of Princess Elizabeth here, because the weather was hot and she was sunburned. Looking at the armbands of these female soldiers are all recruits, the princess is also very young, and it is indeed humiliating to see that no one has gone up to help in the face of unexpected situations!
11. In April 1945, on both sides of the Elbe In Germany, after the United States and the Soviet Union met, everyone was showing off their weapons, and the American troops on the right were holding captured Ruger pistols. The U.S. troops on the left weigh the Soviets' Bobosa, how does it compare to the U.S. Thompson submachine gun? What is the name of this one that the Soviet army took?
12. In 1962, American girl Maria Fletcher demonstrated the SEMI-AUTOMATIC RIFLE AR-15, and the same type of rifle used by the US military was the M16 carbine (automatic)
13. In 1940, in the United States, engineers were testing the effects of anti-tank mines with Renault FT-17 tanks. When the 7-ton Renault FT-17 tank pressed on a 5 kg anti-tank mine, it only blew up the tank tracks, if on the battlefield, the crew would abandon the tank as quickly as possible to escape.
14, around 1943, the U.S. military on the battlefield to open the wooden box, take out a pile of anti-tank mines, do not look at this weapon is not proud, although it can not blow up the tank, as long as it can destroy the tank's tracks. The cost of anti-tank mines is about $300, while a German Tiger tank costs $150,000, which translates to a very good value for money. According to the statistics after the second world war, 20% of the Tanks of the Allied Countries were destroyed by anti-tank mines, if a single soldier stepped on the anti-tank mines, would they explode?
15. Can you see at a glance what kind of car the US military is driving? This was the black technology against the German anti-tank mines, pressing three large steel rudders to the front of the Sherman tank, using this device to detonate the mines on the main road. It is said that this mine clearance effect is much stronger than that of the sappers, and the efficiency of thieves is high!
16. In October 1944, during the Battle of Leyte Island in the Pacific, the American army was armed with minesweepers to find mines planted by the Japanese army. After this battle, MacArthur finally defeated Yamashita Fengwen with the humiliation of a bloody 3 years ago, and the Japanese army opened the "kamikaze mode" from then on. Since Leyte Island is in a key position in the lifeline of the Japanese army at sea, in addition to 4 aircraft carriers at sea, there are Type 95 tanks on land, as well as mines everywhere.
17. On November 4, 1965, Vietnam, a female American soldier who was killed by a mine during Operation Sable, was 44 years old. Her name was Dickie Shaper, she belonged to the photography department of the U.S. Military Logistics, became a field photographer during World War II, and was imprisoned by the Soviets for 7 weeks.
18. During the Vietnam War, North Vietnamese mines caused the U.S. military to suffer heavy losses. No, the US military used force to force local residents to walk hand in hand with mines, and when they blew up, they exploded, without any humanitarian spirit.
19, 1969, Vietnam, The female guerrilla captured by the South Korean army also hung a gun around her neck and played a game of "cat and mouse", which is the nature of the South Korean army. By 1973, the ROK army had invested more than 300,000 soldiers in Vietnam, making it the largest foreign army unit besides the US military.