Important stuff, and easier to read when you've got a decent depth of knowledge with which to evaluate it.

And then there are the first-person battle accounts, stirring and engrossing.

But, since I spent a 5th of a century as a pistol (and one submachinegun) totin' RLO (Real Live Ossifer, for newbies to Argghhh!) I also really appreciate the pictures that show how most of us spent most of our time, in those long periods of tedium between the short periods of butt-clenching fear.

I've got a buddy I work with who does paper airplanes. Not the kind you tossed in class in school - the kind you download, print onto card stock, and then cut out and assemble. And they are really some pretty sophisticated models in their engineering.

I thought of him and laughed out loud when I came across this picture of German soldiers making paper models for vehicle recognition purposes during the build-up for Operation Zitadelle, better known as the Battle of Kursk to we westerners.

If the pic tickles you - here's a larger version.