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Thursday, November 14, 2024

3 comments:

Stephen said...

Machine guns....close range. Pity their hearing in that room. When I was touring the coastal fort and realized how strongly my voice echoed in it, I can't imagine how LOUD coastal guns would have been inside.

CyberKitten said...

Oh, guns are *way* louder IRL than in the movies [grin] My primary school best friend's dad was a gunner in the Navy on a battleship in WW2. He was deaf as a post!

The photo is of a French resistance group during the liberation of Paris in 1944. The guy in the background is using a German MP-40. The guy in the foreground is using a Russian SMG. Which is **interesting**. Where did he get it? Presumably the unit is Communist but still... How did *Russian* machine guns get to Paris in 1944???

Stephen said...

Ve haff ways, comrade, of makink you armed...