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johnniewc68

(56 posts) Sun Apr 3, 2016, 09:54 AM Apr 2016

Winter operations of the Luftwaffe

I share with you this amazing, impressive and interesting collection of photos showing the various types of winter camouflage applied in Luftwaffe aircraft during World War II, especially in the Theater of Operations of the Russian front. Visiting the link below you will find a lot of pictures, some rare and colorful. Some of them I did not know and had never seen. No doubt an excellent source of research and references.

http://aviacaoemfloripa.blogspot.com.br/2011/01/camuflagens-de-inverno-da-luftwaffe.html

Best Regards!

John

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Thank you. CompanyFirstSergeant Apr 2016 #2

JohnnyRingo

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Sun Apr 3, 2016, 11:15 AM

Apr 2016

Thanx for the link! WWII aviation is fascinating because by the end of the war propeller driven planes reached their pinnacle of development.

I never saw a bf109 on skis before.

CompanyFirstSergeant

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Sun Apr 3, 2016, 03:41 PM

Apr 2016

I am very interested in the Hitler vs. Stalin theater of operations.

It could be because I have ancestry on both sides.

Or that the level of brutality is unimaginable, and it makes me appreciate being American even more. (Russia was not a signatory to Geneva (which the US and Germany were) and there are American POW accounts of looking right across into the Russian POW camp and witnessing things that the Germans would never do to Americans.)

There are still vast killing fields on what was known as the Ostfront where bones are still coming up through the ground each spring.

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