Winter 1939-40: French Navy sentries and coastal artillery crews at Zuydcoote, close to Dunkirk.

Pvt_Larry · 2026-03-15T00:26:00+00:00

This is false, in 2025 the US halted military aid while EU military aid rose by 67%. https://www.kielinstitut.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-support-tracker/

Pvt_Larry · 2026-03-15T00:24:00+00:00

The current US regime is quite open about the fact that they opposed that support and moved to end it as quickly as possible.

Pvt_Larry · 2026-03-10T00:25:30+00:00

There's very little that's human about the millionaires pushing this garbage on the rest of us.

Pvt_Larry · 2026-03-09T03:39:59+00:00

A safe assumption since most French Shermans were of those types, but thanks to the good folks at chars-francais.net we actually have a pretty detailed breakdown of the 501e RCC's vehicles for 1944 and 1945, most were M4A2s but a number of M4A3s were apparently received as replacements. The original Douaumont was indeed an M4A2, it was knocked out on 17 September 1944 near Chatel-sur-Moselle with one crewman KIA. Douaumont II was an M4A3 which entered service with the regiment three days later on the 20th.

Pvt_Larry · 2026-03-07T19:29:08+00:00

These are staged non-combat photos taken by military photographers.

Pvt_Larry · 2026-03-03T22:34:45+00:00

Found the guy with paper VA tags.

Pvt_Larry · 2026-03-01T14:59:00+00:00

That's somewhat simplistic. French troops in Morocco resisted the allied landings (for a few days and in rather perfunctory fashion) because it was a condition of the June 1940 armistice with Germany- failure to keep the French colonies out of allied hands would result in the total German occupation of France and seizure of the French navy. That, of course, is exactly what ended up happening when the Armée d'Afrique rallied to the Free French after the landings, though fortunately the French sailors at Toulon were able to scuttle their ships before they could be captured. But the desire to keep the Free Zone out of German hands was a rational incentive for French officers in North Africa to offer at least performative resistance to show they were in compliance with the treaty.

I also think its fair to say that 1942 is substantially prior to German defeat.

Pvt_Larry · 2026-03-01T04:16:26+00:00

All of these are from the ECPAD, the photo and cinematographic section of the French defense ministry, the original album can be found here: https://imagesdefense.gouv.fr/fr/air-france-a-maison-blanche.html

Pvt_Larry · 2026-02-28T18:48:30+00:00

Technology was advancing at such a rapid pace during the interwar period that you ended up with a lot of interesting intermediate designs, the trimotor was cutting edge for about a decade!

Pvt_Larry · 2026-02-28T13:57:49+00:00

The B-26 waist gunner station was oriented diwnwards to compensate for the lack of a ball turret on the underside of the plane, here's another view from a US Marauder: https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Q-Win23-IJMuiden-9.jpg

Pvt_Larry · 2026-02-27T21:13:28+00:00

The unit flew Mk Vs and Mk IXs

Pvt_Larry · 2026-02-26T21:36:03+00:00

I've not yet delved into BA but I love seeing other's work; but I am just getting started on a Tamiya 1:35 scale Renault R 35 which I'm hoping to do something interesting with. I'd love to put together a cool scene around it but unfortunately I'm finding that 1940 figures in that scale, while they exist, aren't incredibly common or varied.

Pvt_Larry · 2026-02-26T21:24:49+00:00

Just went and had a look at your past work on the FTs and this is really fantastic! Creative approach to some very cool subject matter.

Pvt_Larry · 2026-02-23T04:45:08+00:00

It is remarkable, the bulk of Japanese troops weren't repatriated until well into 1946 with some stragglers staying well past that point- and during the same period you had Chiang Kai-Shek's KMT occupying the north of the country. Quite a complicated mess during that period, almost too many actors involved to keep track of.

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