Color War Slides from Ian

[stonemint]

i think your right tom ! some other chaps on pixpast said that the bus colours are definitly after the war.
here is another one from this collection.. i know i focus on wartime color material but i have to say these 1950s color shots with the oldtimer cars.. they are also very charming... :-)
Ian

Thanks for posting this pic--it is of an America I never knew (before my time) and an America we will never see again.

Notice how sterile the same corner looks now.....

[stonemint]

thanks guys for the warm feedback to my slides.. sometimes i find something for me is amazing and then zero response on the waf :-(

But i share your feeling. i always wanted some nice old color slides from new york. I was never there but just felt like it was a missing spot in the photo collection :-)

Also the 14th panzer division collection is really nice and one of the first groups I ever found :-) sadly the poor man only lived up to the end of 1941.. so his excellent photo career was cut tragically short..

I am planning on releasing more of my slides on a larger format with less obtrusive water marking in the near future !

Ian :-)

Ian, I enjoy seeing each and every one of them--whether Germany or USA (even postwar)--I think a lot of people do not want to clog up your lovely thread with a lot of "keep 'em coming" type comments (and another reason we need a Facebook "like" button on the forum).

So, keep 'em coming!

[i.spring]

I love hearing back from people that they enjoy seeing this stuff :-)

on a other note. I was able to rescue a collection of color slides that were literaly waiting on the footpath for the garbage man... these are some of the generals from that collection of slides.
I cant imagine.. 20 minutes later and all this was going into the incinerator...

can anyone help me ID these chaps ?
Thank you.
Ian :-)

[i.spring]

a lot of the slides were very badly damaged from water damage and also in this collection. more than 160 of the slides were 100% destroyed from water.. all with hand written descriptions from the russian front.
Im trying my best to carefully record this collection that I like to call my garbage treasure collection :-)
Ian

can someone help me maybe ID the unit ?

Thank you.
Ian

[tvonk]

Hi,
The 1st one is Army-Group von Kleist
The 2nd one is 9 Pz div.

Best

[i.spring]

this was written on one of the boxes that was full of wiped out slides.
could be the photographers name...
Wolfgang.... cant read the family name ....
he was a cavelry officer in the wehrmacht and servived the war.

Ian

[i.spring]

could this man as a cavelry officer have been some how attached to the 33rd Panzer Battalion in the 9th panzer division ?

Ian :-)

ps. does anyone have info on the history of panzer 634 ?

[i.spring]

I was reading that the 9th panzer division was later transferred to France later in the war.
If panzers kept their numbers ? and i really am not sure if they did ?? then this panzer 634 could have found its way from russia to Normandy ?

KOed Pz Lehr Pz IV "634"
http://www.network54.com/Forum/47207...k+in+Normandie

[Tommy]

Hi Ian

can we see a better scan from the Tank 634? So we can help you.

Cheers tommy

[i.spring]

hi tommy :-)
can you read the family name on the label ?

Ian :-)

[Elwyn]

Hi Ian,

Any additional details from the general pics would help. Divisional kenzeichen, place names, period, theatre etc.

Cheers
Elwyn

[i.spring]

i just started scanning this slide grouping yesterday... so ill post as soon as i find some helpful shots :-)

this is the latest scan... is this the famous children playing fountain in stalingrad ?

Ian

[jmark]

That is exactly the type of fountain that was in Stalingrad, but the photo was not taken in Stalingrad. The design of the fountain was based on a child's story. Interestingly, just recently, the photo was rebuilt in Volgograd.

Jason

[skvorin]

i just started scanning this slide grouping yesterday... so ill post as soon as i find some helpful shots :-)

this is the latest scan... is this the famous children playing fountain in stalingrad ?

Ian

Presumably it is Voronezh.

фотохостинг png

[i.spring]

Presumably it is Voronezh.

фотохостинг png

wow.. how much further did the 9th panzer divison get into Russia... thats prity deep in... just google mapped it :-)

Thank you for the location ID.
Ian :-)