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  They’re definitely enjoying a deserved rest, but nice enough of Leclerc not to ask them for a proper salute. Probably also kind of a staged photo for then newspapers.

  • Yesterday at 8:41 PM
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  A German soldier trying to dig himself out after being buried after a bombardment. He became a POW soon after. Normandy, 1944.
  
  The soldier was from the Müller combat group, which defended the settlement of Quineville in Lower Normandy. This improvised combat group consisted of three battalions...

  • Yesterday at 7:37 AM
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  General Leclerc inspecting troops of the French 2nd Armored Division.

  • Tuesday at 7:38 PM
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  BMP-2

  TheKiwi said:

  Pretty sure the Finns bought BMP-2's from the USSR and well prior to the fall of East Germany.

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  As per wiki: 20 were ordered from USSR in 1988, delivered by 1989. Further 84 were ordered from the USSR in 1991, and delivered by Russia in 1992.
  
  BMP-1s were bought about ten years earlier...

  • Tuesday at 1:02 PM
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  BMP-2

  Pretty sure the Finns bought BMP-2's from the USSR and well prior to the fall of East Germany.

  • Monday at 8:31 AM

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