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How depressing it must have been...

By The Armorer on January 17, 2007 | | Comments (4)

...to be a German soldier in late 1944/early 1945, with broad experience in the West and East to find yourself on the Eastern Front facing these.

Soviet Scouts in US White Scout cars, Austria, 1945.

Soviet Scouts in US White Scout cars, Austria, 1945


US-built White M3 Scout Cars (Armorer want!), with a US-made M2 .50 cal machine gun and a M1919A1 Browning .30 cal machine gun... and realize that your enemy on the Western Front has *so* much materiel and industrial capacity that he's giving huge numbers of vehicles and small arms to the guys on the Eastern Front. Then you duck because you're getting strafed by P47s and P39s and P40s with the Avirex (Red Star) on them...

That musta been a real morale crusher - if you had time during it all to think about it.

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By MajMike on January 17, 2007 10:35 AM
i feel a Persian Corridor train shipment of Lend Lease goodies whatziss coming on...
 
By Roger Ritter on January 17, 2007 11:46 AM
I'm reading a book about the Battle of Kursk, and the authors mention that even decades after the war you could get old Russian soldiers nostalgic about the Studebakers and "Willies". They weren't as impressed with the M3 light tank, but, then, nobody was.
 
By dick on January 17, 2007 4:50 PM
THis is the prototype of the Humvee at the alpha stage.
 
By BillT on January 18, 2007 12:11 AM
Judging from the assorted dents, dings, scrapes and the addition of the field-expedient tow hooks, the operator of "Onward to Berlin!" wasn't the Honor Grad in the Red Army Drivers' Ed course. Hail, hail, the gang's all here... Heh.
 
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