White Men with Guns
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The "Beast of Omaha", Heinrich Severloh. He claimed to have killed over 1,000 Americans on Omaha beach, and as many as 2,000 possibly. He ran his MG-42 for 9 hours straight, only taking breaks to reload or cool the weapon down.
East German border guards, Berlin, 1961
Forwarded from [DB] Footage Archive (Hyder)
How losing a bet saved a camp full of soldiers.

German soldier Erich Maultier is seen here with a donkey equipped with a Panzerfaust and other weapons after he lost a bet. The photo is a known photo, but the history behind it seems to have been forgotten.

Amazing story, more in the comments : )
Forwarded from Smoke Pit V
Lieutenant Colonel Robert Brown, founder of Soldier of Fortune magazine during his tour in Vietnam. There is no doubt that SOF has had a massive impact on generations of young men who wanted to live a life of adventure
SS Nederlands on patrol, Eastern Front, Circa 1942
Latvian Waffen SS, Latvia, circa 1940s. Little known fact, Latvia provided the most foreign Waffen SS recruits during ww2
East German Soldier on a field exercise, circa 1975, calendar picture
British troops during the Aden Emergency, 1967
"The Glorious Glosters" during the Battle of the Imjin River from April 22-25 1951.
Red Army soldiers sitting on the throne of the last Chinese emperor, 1945
SADF soldier with a Vektor R4
Peter Burley of the 32 Battalion after Operation Super, 1982

Operation Super was a military confrontation during the Border War in March, 1982 to prevent SWAPO guerrillas infiltrating into South West Africa through the Kaokoveld, it involved 10 men from the South African Recces and several platoons from the 32 Battallion and some Helicopters.

197 Communists died, for only 3 men of the 32 battalion, while SWAPO guerillas failed to infiltrate South West Africa, their base of operations was not found
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Ulster Volunteer Force c. 2004
Ulster Volunteer Force, could not find date
Texas Rangers, 1898
Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, who heroically killed 16 Afghans and was unjustly prosecuted for it
Australian soldiers during the Battle of Long Tan during the Vietnam War, 1966