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https://x.com/Maavoimat/status/1182280888836661249

https://www.reddit.com/r/MilitaryPorn/comments/nmu59g/british_special_forces_support_group_sfsg_during/

https://www.instagram.com/p/DLxh4MTMDDz/?igsh=MTNpN3RtcWsxNGN3bg==

Pictured at front is Vympel operator Oleg Gennadievich Ilyin, callsign 'Mayachok'. Who would be killed in action on the 3rd of September 2004 during the events of the Beslan hostage crisis due to a bullet ricochet from the plate of his redut vest

o hell yeah

This is a little memey but i'll approve it because it exposed me to this bullshit: https://war-time.ru/images/blog/strelkovoe-orujie/vintovki-karabiny/rossiya-sssr/ptrs-41/dop/ptrs-41-siriya.jpg

https://pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/pby/cusick.html

Mission History
On June 3, 1942 took off from Dutch Harbor Seaplane Base piloted by Lt(jg) Jean C. Cusick on a patrol mission. At roughly 10:00am over the Bearing Sea this Catalina was spotted and intercepted by A6M2 Zeros from Junyō 1st chutai led by Lt. Yoshio Shiga and claimed as shot down by pilots Kobota and Hasegawa. This aircraft crashed approximately 200 miles southwest of Dutch Harbor. Six of the crew died in the crash and presumably went down with the aircraft. Three of the crew survived the crash or bailed out and deploy a life raft.

Fates of the Crew
The three surviving crew: Hunt, Creamer and Brown were at sea for approximately five hours before they were spotted and rescued by Takao and became Prisoners Of War (POW) and were transported to Japan and detained at Ofuna. Afterwards, the Japanese photographed one of the prisoners, likely Creamer after capture and published in Japan.

At the end of the Pacific War, Hunt was detained at Osaka Main Camp Chikko Osaka 34-135. Creamer was detained at Tokyo POW Camp Branch #2 (Kawasaki) Tokyo Bay Area 35-139. Brown was detained at Zentsuji POW Camp (Hiroshima #1) Shikoku Island 34-133. All three survived captivity until the end of the Pacific War and were liberated and returned to the United States.

Creamer passed away on August 23, 2012. He was buried on August 28, 2012 at Jacksonville National Cemetery in Jacksonville, FL.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/world_armies/11313524033

trench raider? if so, we have a tag for that.

this is clearly a still from a film, can you find the film?

Eastman said in comment #87:

this is clearly a still from a film, can you find the film?

Digged a bit in the japanese NHK archives and found it! https://www2.nhk.or.jp/archives/movies/?id=D0001300380_00000&chapter=002

Type100KikanTanju said in comment #90:

Digged a bit in the japanese NHK archives and found it! https://www2.nhk.or.jp/archives/movies/?id=D0001300380_00000&chapter=002

This may be of interest to you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_Yontan_Airfield

Looks like a WWI-era Stahlhelm.

Those look awfully long for K98ks. They might be K98bs or Gewehr 98Ms.

Edited the tags to include the following; T-55A and T-series.

Updated the tag to include T-55, T-55A and T-Series. T-54/55 tag got removed as its a regular T-55A.

Updated the tags to include the tank model, T-55M (t-55m_finland, specified as finnish due to alot of T-5x tanks having the M designation) as well as added the t-series tag.

Updated it to include the tank model, T-64B (t-64b)

Updated the tags to include the specific tank model, "T-72B Model 1985 (t-72b_1985)"

Leftovers from the USSR/Pre-Maidan era? https://www.facebook.com/S21K.Co/posts/ulbrichts-titanhelm-us-95-helmets-in-ukrainian-usebeen-meaning-to-do-a-post-on-t/595053625956337/

(btw, do those green synthetic smershes have a specific name? newgen i think)

Eastman said in comment #89:

Leftovers from the USSR/Pre-Maidan era? https://www.facebook.com/S21K.Co/posts/ulbrichts-titanhelm-us-95-helmets-in-ukrainian-usebeen-meaning-to-do-a-post-on-t/595053625956337/

(btw, do those green synthetic smershes have a specific name? newgen i think)

I'm not sure, likely captured from Ukraine, yeah, I don't think Russia ever made use of these. Thanks for that post, I've never seen it before. And yeah, the ranger green smershes are commonly called 'newgen'