‘Panther’ seems a logical successor to the preceding ‘Leopard’, but as far as animals are concerned, ‘panther’ isn’t a separate species - it’s a term often used for black leopards. And the official Latin names of all the big cats start with Panthera, including Panthera tigris. So from that perspective, a Tiger is a Panther.
Famous historical pictures
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Here is the deal:
Someone posts a faomus picture, then we all try to find personal information about the person. This idea came to me after seeing the picture of a German machinegunner from WW2. The picture is spposed to be from the ardennes offensive. Ill post it and see what you guys can find about him. So far I havent found anything.
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Who was the person to lift the russian flag on the reichstag?
http://www.schicklerart.com/auto_exh/Khaldei_Ex_2005?id=18564587&from=1
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Who was the person to lift the russian flag on the reichstag?
http://www.schicklerart.com/auto_exh/Khaldei_Ex_2005?id=18564587&from=1
Holy crap, look how bombed out Berlin is in the background…
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Who was the person to lift the russian flag on the reichstag?
http://www.schicklerart.com/auto_exh/Khaldei_Ex_2005?id=18564587&from=1
lol that’s a great story, it almost a mirror of the story of the flag raising on Iwo Jima.
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the first pic to begin with we can see he’s SS. its right about his knife on the collar. second, we know he’s just a soldier. 3rd i know that he’s on the western front, and i have seen this picture before in a battle of the bulge book. so i’d go with that. now to find which SS units were in the battle of the bulge.
this could take a while. what if they dont have any photos for a database?
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well, thats why its hard. I will keep searching
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the 6th panzer army under Sepp Dietrich fought the battle of the bulge.
only two SS divisions were in the battle of the bulge.
the 1st panzer division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler and the 12th SS panzer division Hitlerjugend.
the 1st division was created initially as hitlers private bodygaurd but they changed into an elite infanty and special forces division.
the 12 division is a the SS hitler youth division. and they were armored.
that kid in the picture, or young man, isnt above a private, just a grunt. we have that to work with. he looks armed to the teeth.
is that a vehicle behind the second soldier? if so, we may guess armored. that makes 12th SS
is he young enough to be in the hitler youth, or was hilter youth division made from guys who got out of the hitler youth?
Can anyone find a unit insignia?
what would help is if we knew who took the picture. research on him would let us know where and who he was with at the time.
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anyone know if thats a hitler youth knife?
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Well definetly SS, hard to tell age, but a private in the 12th ss would be a teenager. the knife, from what I can see is not an HJ knife. again it’s hard to see though. HJ knife would have a crest in the handle and a metal hilt cap. He apears to be a machine gunner, not just the ammo, it looks like he has mg pouches on his suspenders. both soldiers are lightly geared probably not leg infantry.
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maybe the number on the bottom has something to say…
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