23 rare photos, riding on a donkey to repair a plane, Hitler fishing for peas, the German emperor standing next to Churchill in a military parade, Figure 22 Tough guys eat real airplanes
01, May 15, 1944, Britain, 54-year-old Allied commander Eisenhower and 70-year-old Churchill armed with M1 carbine targets, look at the age to know whose target ring is high. The M1 carbine was developed by the United States in 1940 and produced 5.5 million units. The first draft design of the carbine was done by the criminal in prison, and the final design was completed 13 days after his release.
02. On June 8, 1946, in London, England, King George V of the United Kingdom watched the Victory Parade of the British Army, and behind him sat Princess Elizabeth, who is now the Queen of England. Sitting in the audience were then Prime Ministers Attlee and Churchill, who defeated Churchill in 1945 to become Prime Minister and lost to Churchill in 1950. Can anyone see what the name of this oncoming tank is?
03. In 1906, in Breslau, Germany (assigned to Poland after World War II), German Emperor Wilhelm II stood next to diplomat Churchill, who was the grandson of Queen Victoria and the cousin of George V (now the Queen's grandfather). Churchill was a petty diplomat at the time, and somehow the two fought so fiercely? A few years later, the two became old enemies again.
04. In 1916, German cavalry patrolled wearing gas masks, still holding the "long guns" of the cold weapons era. Although tanks and Maxim machine guns had come in handy at the time, the new weapons did not match the new tactics, and many armies relied on old equipment.
05. In September 1918, Kaiser Wilhelm II visited the Krupp Arsenal for the last time, helped the workers and said: The German army can still hold out for two months at most, or think about how to change the line. In November 1918, the German army surrendered, and World War II ended, and Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated and went into exile in the Netherlands. Kaiser Wilhelm II continued to support Hitler financially and personally during his time in the Netherlands, and after the surrender of the Netherlands in 1940, Churchill wanted to invite Kaiser Wilhelm II to England, but William refused. Wilhelm II died in the Netherlands in 1941, and Hitler originally wanted to drag Wilhelm II back to Berlin for the state funeral, but because of William's will, he had to send German military representatives to the Netherlands to attend the funeral.
06, the picture on the left is Hitler during World War I, when he was 25 years old, wearing a pointed hat, a big beard, and a pawn who delivered letters on the battlefield. Pictured on the right is in June 1940, 51-year-old Hitler stands in front of the Eiffel Tower, resenting the people who destroyed the Eiffel Tower elevator.
07. During World War II, when Hitler went to the front line labor, he took a spoon to catch peas to drink, as to why he liked to drink pea soup? It is said that there are two reasons, one is: during the First World War, the Food of the German Army was also very average, and Hitler was still a pawn and did not even have the qualifications to drink pea soup, which is called bittersweetness; the other is that Hitler had a chronic disease of the digestive system, and drinking pea soup helped to exhaust.
08. In April 1945, when Hitler was about to perish, he still looked at the urban planning model with great thought. The place in front of us is not Berlin, but Linz, Hitler's birthplace in Austria, and Hitler wants to make Linz better than Vienna.
09. In 1941, during the Soviet-German War, the Ukrainian front, the German army was unable to advance for a long time, Hitler in order to improve the morale of the German army, specially invited friends to fly to the front line of labor. After receiving this information on the same day, the Soviet army also intensified the bombing of warplanes. Who was this bald friend next to Hitler?
10. German pilots also like to "playthings" when they are idle, and they are soon shot down by the Soviets and become prisoners of war. The German soldier successfully escaped from prison and returned to Germany by cleverness until he was shot down and killed by an airplane in 1942.
11. In 1943, the Germans shot down bombers, and it turned out that "Lady Luck" also had a nap time. Judging from this beautiful graffiti, which country's fighter is it?
12, the U.S. B-26 "Marauder" bomber during the flight, this fighter has 7 crew, in addition to 3 people to fly the aircraft, there are four machine gunners, all of which are Browning 12.7 mm machine guns, which can be described as 360 degrees without dead angle fire coverage. The machine gunner at the nose of the machine was not in the mood to look out the window, but he had been smoking anxiously, not knowing whether he was dead or alive in the next second.
13. During World War II. The B-17 bomber's flanked flank of the bomber's abdomen can be seen from the shell casing on the ground, and the cruelty and intensity of the war can be seen. This US fighter dropped 600,000 tons of shells on the Western Front, which shows how easy it is to use.
14. On May 29, 1944, the aircraft carrier "Hornet" photographed by American photographers on a frigate was being repaired in the Marshall Islands. In addition to the Hellcat fighter on the deck, there used to be artillery under the deck, which was known for the first time.
15. On September 2, 1943, at the Royal Naval Base in the southwest of the United Kingdom, female soldiers were reloading ammunition for hurricane aircraft. Judging from the skin color and posture of the female soldiers, it should be a temporary look for female soldiers to pose
16. In 1944, in California, female soldiers were riveting P-38 Lightning fighters. This female worker is still quite beautiful, wearing makeup, this is the company arranged the posing? Although Monroe was only 18 years old in the same year, she had been married for 2 years and worked in an aircraft factory to earn more money.
17. On March 9, 1945, in New York, American logistics women were maintaining and overhauling B29 bombers. The most powerful thing about this fighter is that the U.S. military fired two atomic bombs at Japan.
18. In 1949, the U.S. military practiced flying airplanes on a specially made pilot bed, which is said to reduce flight fatigue.
19, 1949, Palestine, engineers on donkey maintenance planes, do not look strange behavior, but very practical, engineers can ride on it to facilitate the change of position, to provide convenience for maintenance.
20, 1968, Yugoslavia, this is not an air force pilot, but a pose of Miss Pageant, which fighter is behind it?
21, 1984, Denver, the United States, the use of helicopters to transport dinosaur models, 10 meters long and weigh half a ton, this idea is quite novel.
22, in 1978, the Frenchman Lotito was eating a real plane, he spent two years to eat a 700 kg plane, but also broke the Guinness Book of Records. According to Lotito's family, he had pica since childhood, eating glass and metal at age 9, performing raw metal at age 16, eating an airplane between the ages of 28 and 30, eating 9 tons of metal by age 47, and dying naturally at the age of 57.
23. Who is this smoker on the plane? Not like a flight attendant