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Forgive me the bad quality, it's an old pic of an even older X-Ray.

In 2003, at 15 years old, I held on to my buddies motor scooter while on my Skateboard. That's how we got around.

At one time, which, coincidentally, also happened to be my last time doing it, it got too fast. I slipped and broke both my fibula and tibia in my left leg. The impact punched my tibia through my skin, resulting on an open fracture.

Of course I instantly recognized my leg was broken. I also was bleeding badly. Yet I assumed the blood was just from a major abrasion wound. That hope was gone when my buddy, the driver of the scooter, lifted my baggy pants slightly as I watched all color draining from his face...

The Warsaw Uprising (Polish: powstanie warszawskie; German: Warschauer Aufstand), sometimes referred to as the August Uprising (Polish: powstanie sierpniowe),^([16]) or the Battle of Warsaw, was a major World War II operation by the Polish underground resistance to liberate Warsaw from German occupation. It occurred in the summer of 1944, and it was led by the Polish resistance Home Army (Polish: Armia Krajowa). The uprising was timed to coincide with the retreat of the German forces from Poland ahead of the Soviet advance.^([17]) While approaching the eastern suburbs of the city, the Red Army halted combat operations, enabling the Germans to regroup and defeat the Polish resistance and to destroy the city in retaliation. The Uprising was fought for 63 days with little outside support. It was the single largest military effort taken by any European resistance movement during World War II.^([18]) The defeat of the uprising and suppression of the Home Army enabled the pro-Soviet Polish administration, instead of the Polish government-in-exile based in London, to take control of Poland afterwards. Poland remained part of the Soviet-aligned Eastern Bloc throughout the Cold War until 1989.

The Uprising began on 1 August 1944 as part of a nationwide Operation Tempest, launched at the time of the Soviet Lublin–Brest Offensive. The main Polish objectives were to drive the Germans out of Warsaw while helping the Allies defeat Germany. An additional, political goal of the Polish Underground State was to liberate Poland's capital and assert Polish sovereignty before the Soviet Union and Soviet-backed Polish Committee of National Liberation, which already controlled eastern Poland, could assume control. Other immediate causes included a threat of mass German round-ups of able-bodied Poles for "evacuation"; calls by Radio Moscow's Polish Service for uprising; and an emotional Polish desire for justice and revenge against the enemy after five years of German occupation.^([19])^([20])

Despite the early gains by the Home Army, the Germans successfully counterattacked on 25 August, in an attack that killed as many as 40,000 civilians. The uprising was now in a siege phase which favored the better-equipped Germans and eventually the Home Army surrendered on 2 October when their supplies ran out. The Germans then deported the remaining civilians and razed the city itself.

While the Germans lost around 16,000 men during the Warsaw Uprising,^([21]) Polish casualties were catastrophic. Although the exact number of casualties is unknown, it is estimated that about 16,000 members of the Polish resistance were killed and about 6,000 badly wounded. In addition, between 150,000 and 200,000 Polish civilians died, mostly from mass executions. Jews being harboured by Poles were exposed by German house-to-house clearances and mass evictions of entire neighbourhoods.

Historians and the public have debated and interpreted the impact of the Uprising in a wide range of ways, including as a deeply heroic effort and as a terrible loss with little gain.^([22]) Polish and Western historians agree that Joseph Stalin tactically halted his forces from advancing on Warsaw in order to exhaust the Polish Home Army and to aid his political desires of turning Poland into a Soviet-aligned state.^([23])^([24])^([21]) Some scholars argue that the two-month period of the Warsaw Uprising was a step in the direction of the Cold War.^([25])^([24])
^(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Uprising)

This cigarette case contains an infantry assault badge which is soldered to the case, it also contains hand engravings of the words "1941-1943" which is dates, "ostfront" which means eastern front in German and in gothic script saying "Russland" which means Russia in German. The infantry assault badge is produced by FLL. The inside contains the original fabric liner and both cigarette clips, the back has the original checkering finish with a faint but visible Reich eagle and a factory date of 1940.
The case opens perfectly. I ship anywhere, serious offers only, asking price is about €400 but can always negotiate

Vor drei Jahren an einer Bushaltestelle gesehen.

The incident was resolved by Israeli special forces in the famous Entebbe Raid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entebbe_raid

Hi guys, can somebody tell me what this model is called?

Thanks.

Sometimes you just gotta be a bit patient and lucky. So, these boots popped up from a local seller here in Germany and they are exactly what I was looking for: 2nd Pattern Jungle Boots from 1965, the model without the ankle support strap on later models.

I'm currently working on an impression set in early 1966 and in original footage you can commonly see these 2nd Pattern Boots. Vietnam War era boots are not that common over here in general, so finding the even rarer 2nd Pattern makes me very happy. I paid a price on the low end of what more common models go for over here.
Upper leather and sole are soft and wearable which is always a concern with these. There are no structural damages and they have lovely patina. Plus they are in my perfect size, 10 W.

"Operations Manna, Chowhound and Faust provided food to relieve a famine in the 1944–1945 German-occupied Netherlands. By May 1945, about 20,000 people in the Netherlands had died of starvation and three million were surviving on an ever-diminishing supply of food. The main area impacted by the famine encompassed the large cities in the west. The operations were undertaken by Allied air and ground forces in the last ten days of World War II. A truce with the German occupiers permitted the relief operation to be carried out.

Manna (29 April – 7 May 1945), air-dropped 7,000 tonnes of food into the Nazi-occupied western part of the Netherlands. The operation was carried out by British Royal Air Force (RAF) units and squadrons from the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) and Polish Air Force squadrons in the RAF. Chowhound (1–8 May 1945) dropped 4,000 tonnes of food and was accomplished by the United States Army Air Forces. Faust (2–9 May 1945) was a ground operation carried out by the Canadian army which delivered 7,000 tons of food. In total, 18,000 tonnes of food were air dropped or trucked into the occupied Netherlands over 11 days. The war ended in the Netherlands with the 8 May overall surrender of Nazi Germany.

Operations Manna, Chowhound, and Faust staved off a more extensive famine in the Netherlands. With the end of the war, the Allies sent additional large quantities of food into the Netherlands to relieve food shortages."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_Manna,_Chowhound,_and_Faust

Nothing too flashy here, but these are my most recent acquisitions for my impression/loadout that will be set in early 1966. Pretty happy about them. Thanks for looking.

- Coated Nylon Twill Poncho, dated 1964

- M1956 Sleeping Bag Carrier

- Leather Combat Boots, dated 1964

- M17 Gas Mask, dated 1965 with an early M15 Carrier with Chemical Corps insignia

Maybe it's his way of showing affection or something...

Hi folks, can anybody tell me what these stamps on the straps of an 1965 dated M17 mask could mean?
Thank you.