*
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
April 25, 2024, 06:51:47 AM

Login with username, password and session length

Donate

We Appreciate Your Support

Members
Stats
  • Total Posts: 1690597
  • Total Topics: 118339
  • Online Today: 840
  • Online Ever: 2235
  • (October 29, 2023, 01:32:45 AM)
Users Online

Recent

Author Topic: Apparent Photo of German Recruits at Anti-tank training  (Read 929 times)

Offline Metternich

  • Scatterbrained Genius
  • Posts: 2580
Interesting photo I found on the internet of ten very young German soldiers, posed around an obviously wooden mockup of a (somewhat undersized) British Mk 1 tank.  They probably were being familiarized with the weak points/blind spots of the tank, how to attack it, etc.  You can see the apparent youth of the soldiers posing (I believe at training - either a basic course, or training at the Erzatz Depot of their new unit) - some of them look 17 or even 16.  Also of interest is that you can see all three styles of tunic being worn:  the 1910 tunic; the 1915 transitional tunic (1910 with simplified cuffs); and the Bluse. 

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/70/70/8d/70708de75d6baadf4751a56aaa2315c3.jpg

Offline fred

  • Galactic Brain
  • Posts: 4382
    • Miniature Gaming
Re: Apparent Photo of German Recruits at Anti-tank training
« Reply #1 on: May 07, 2020, 07:17:17 PM »
Wow, what a strange and interesting photo.


Offline FramFramson

  • Elder God
  • Posts: 10696
  • But maybe everything that dies, someday comes back
Re: Apparent Photo of German Recruits at Anti-tank training
« Reply #2 on: May 07, 2020, 07:59:00 PM »
What a truly odd image! Very, very interesting find.


I joined my gun with pirate swords, and sailed the seas of cyberspace.

Offline Driscoles

  • The Dude
  • Moderator
  • Galactic Brain
  • Posts: 4327
Re: Apparent Photo of German Recruits at Anti-tank training
« Reply #3 on: May 07, 2020, 08:31:57 PM »
Yep, very interesting find.
It might be a picture from some training ground or Grundausbildung.
, ,

Offline Baron von Wreckedoften

  • Mad Scientist
  • Posts: 871
Re: Apparent Photo of German Recruits at Anti-tank training
« Reply #4 on: May 09, 2020, 09:06:41 AM »
The lad kneeling in front of the side door of the "tank" looks like he could eat his way into it!
No plan survives first contact with the dice.