Rommel plays with Minatures for D Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRuzjs9T_dw&t=29s
On this day during W.W. 2
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@captain-walker The 109 is my favourite WW2 Ft. I think those might be K4s. They were the bsst and last mass produced ones. They only had a 30mm cannon and two heavy Mgs (in The nose). They could reach 440 mph. They were the best 109 built and a match for the Allied planes. The problem was the inexperience of the late War pilots.
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you should start doing these again.
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I want to and need to along with the “What if’s”. I still cant send you a notification or a chat
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January 13, 1945
Sgt. Clearance Pfeifer and Pfc. Sherman Maness of the 11th Armored Division bringing back two captured German prisoners, Longchamps, Belgium.
Notice the .45-cal. M3 SMG ‘Grease Gun’ and .30 cal. Browning MG mounted on the Jeep.
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14th Jan. 1941
Italian submarine Cappellini and British auxiliary cruiser Eumaeus engaged in a gun fight for three hours 100 miles west of Freetown, British West Africa. Cappellini suffered three casualties and was badly damaged, but was able to sink Eumaeus, killing 27.
Source: ww2dbase
Photo: Italian submarine Comandante Cappellini
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January 16, 1941. Malta
80 Luftwaffe Stuka dive-bombers attack Valletta Harbour, Malta, trying to finish off British aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious which was badly damaged by Stukas while escorting the Excess convoy on January 10. HMS Illustrious, destroyer HMS Decoy (on the day when repairs from bomb damage in November 1940 are completed) and Australian cruiser HMAS Perth are hit or damaged by splinters from near misses, but none sink. British steamer Essex is also damaged. 10 Stukas are shot down.
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I love the picture of the crashed Stuka because it’s pitched forward at an angle that makes it look exactly like an airborne Stuka that’s diving for an attack.
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@CWO-Marc How funny: I thought it was really sad!
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@Wittmann said in On this day during W.W. 2:
@CWO-Marc How funny: I thought it was really sad!
I guess the perspective depends on which side of a Stuka attack a person is on: delivery or receipt. :)
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@CWO-Marc said in On this day during W.W. 2:
@Wittmann said in On this day during W.W. 2:
@CWO-Marc How funny: I thought it was really sad!
I guess the perspective depends on which side of a Stuka attack a person is on: delivery or receipt. :)
Heh Heh Yea cool pic.
Must’ve been destroyed on ground ? Certainly not an air crash. Kinda hard to tell, looks like burn marks by the engine ? Possible training accident ?
What do you guys think ?
Or I guess it coulda been shot down and when he tried to land, it ended that way ?
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@barnee it could have been hit while trying to take off also…
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January 18, 1944. Monte Cassino
In Italy the assault on the Cassino lines continues. The days following the 17th January saw some of the deadliest fighting of the campaign as first the French, then the British – a term which encompasses the Canadians, the Indians and the New Zealanders – and then the Americans, tried to break through.
Photo: British 5.5 inch medium artillery in action during the night barrage which opened the assault on the Garigliano River by the British 10th Corp
Source: WWII Today
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On this day in 1942, Malaya, a 2-pounder anti-tank gun from Australian 2/4 Anti-Tank Regiment destroyed 9 Japanese tanks.
Source: RG Poulussen
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@captain-walker said in On this day during W.W. 2:
On this day in 1942, Malaya, a 2-pounder anti-tank gun from Australian 2/4 Anti-Tank Regiment destroyed 9 Japanese tanks.
That same 2-pounder anti-tank gun would not do much against the tanks running around on the Eastern Front…
-Midnight_Reaper
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@Midnight_Reaper That is a mad statistic. Thanks for the post.
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@Midnight_Reaper yeah…no kidding. The armor plate on that anti tank gun is probably thicker than those Japanese tanks.
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@captain-walker yea there hand grenades weren’t very good either : )
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@barnee another pic of that engagement…
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January 20, 1942. Eastern Front
180 miles west of Moscow, Soviet 11th Cavalry Corps pushes south from Rzhev towards Vyazma, attempting to isolate German 9th Army at Rzhev. 50 miles further west, Soviet 4th Shock Army finally reaches the German supply dumps at Toropets after several days without food. They attack and capture 6 tanks, 723 trucks, artillery with 450,000 shells, small arms with millions of rounds of ammunition, 1000 drums of fuel and much food.
Source: worldwar2daybyday
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