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The pride of VVS and a scourge of Luftwaffe on the Eastern Front. Soviet aces from the famed 16th Guards Fighter Regiment
Photo was taken in the Summer of 1944
From left to right:
Captain Aleksandr Klubov 31 confirmed kills. Captain Klubov was killed on November 1st, 1944 in a training accident piloting La-7 fighter.
Captain Grigory Rechkalov 56 confirmed kills.
Leutenant Andrei Trud 25 confirmed kills.
Major Boris Glinka 27 confirmed kills. His younger brother, Dmitriy has been credited with 50 confirmed kills.
P-39Q in the background was a mount of Grigory Rechkalov
Photo was taken in the Summer of 1944
From left to right:
Captain Aleksandr Klubov 31 confirmed kills. Captain Klubov was killed on November 1st, 1944 in a training accident piloting La-7 fighter.
Captain Grigory Rechkalov 56 confirmed kills.
Leutenant Andrei Trud 25 confirmed kills.
Major Boris Glinka 27 confirmed kills. His younger brother, Dmitriy has been credited with 50 confirmed kills.
P-39Q in the background was a mount of Grigory Rechkalov
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Looks like 3 are Heroes of the Soviet Union - can't tell about the 4th.
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All four are Heroes of the Soviet Union. Andrei Trud got his in April of 1944.
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U.S. Marines aim their rifles at the entrance to a cave after hurling an explosive charge to force out Japanese troops hiding on Okinawa, main island in the Ryuku chain, 375 miles from Japan. U.S. forces landed on Okinawa on March 31, 1945.
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On March 31, 1892, General Stanisław Maczek was born. He was the commander of the 1st Armored Division of the Polish Army (fighting alongside the British army), which took part in the Battle of Falaise. He died in 1994.
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Kind of the whole story of the war. The germans had the biggest and best, the Allies had the most.
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3 April 1940
Men of the 1st Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, 4th Infantry Division enjoy a tot of rum in a section of trench named 'Pudding Lane', near Roubaix, a commune in the Nord department in northern France.
The 1st Battalion was part of the 10th Infantry Brigade, 4th Infantry Division of the British Expeditionary Force in France in 1940, returning to Britain via Dunkirk. After returning to the United Kingdom, the 1st Queen's Own was transferred to the 12th Infantry Brigade, still part of the 4th Division. It remained in Britain until 1943, leaving to take part in the Tunisian Campaign, the Italian Campaign and the Greek Civil War that broke out after the German withdrawal in 1944.
War Office official photographer - Lt. L A Puttnam
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Men of the 1st Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, 4th Infantry Division enjoy a tot of rum in a section of trench named 'Pudding Lane', near Roubaix, a commune in the Nord department in northern France.
The 1st Battalion was part of the 10th Infantry Brigade, 4th Infantry Division of the British Expeditionary Force in France in 1940, returning to Britain via Dunkirk. After returning to the United Kingdom, the 1st Queen's Own was transferred to the 12th Infantry Brigade, still part of the 4th Division. It remained in Britain until 1943, leaving to take part in the Tunisian Campaign, the Italian Campaign and the Greek Civil War that broke out after the German withdrawal in 1944.
War Office official photographer - Lt. L A Puttnam
(© IWM F 3551)
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They all appear to be the same class, why is the one in front longer?USN destroyers in San Diego, 1941
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