Good Equipment Shot

[RonR]

Shot on May 2, 1940......


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[Fritz84]

Very nice photo...
Mattia

[NZMark]

Isn't it?
You can almost sense the professionalism....
Thanks for posting this Ron.
Regards,
Mark
New Zealand

[duv]

mp38 i like it
in bread bag looks like he have mag to mp, isnt it?

[richardw]

What a great picture

[IanC]

Superb picture Ron, thanks very much for sharing it.

Cheers

Ian

[hcliffe]

It seems he has binoculars, map case and MP38, but yet he is not an NCO. That seems unusual to me, anyone else?

[MP44_tom]

Since he doesn't have MP mag pouches it would be wise to take some spare mag's in breadbag...

May 1940, and already with Y straps, also not very often seen

Maybe he's an Obergefreiter who already made it to Gruppenführer, who knows...... to bad we can't see the other sleeve of this soldier

Tom
www.mp44.nl

[Willi Z.]

Nice photo! You will almost see MPs in wartime photos with the stock unfolded. I try to tell the yahoos I see shoot these on ranges that you don't fire them with the stock folded. Other than Hollywood!

[RonR]

The back of the photo perhaps tells the story if you can read German.

Actually the photo is part of a group that was shot on June 14, 1940.

I was in error in saying it was May 2...very sorry!



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[RonR]

Another supposedly shot the same day.....


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[Mallory]

Probably during the invasion of France. It contains the French word "petit" (small). "Reclus"? Le Reclus is a French village in the Elzas.

And the person on the picture is a Feldwebel. The third lines says "Fw ...[name]"

[BROBS]

very nice photos!!!

[screensize]

"am Petit Marin bei Reclus" ?
hard to read. Anyone here knows to read Sutterlin?

[RonR]

Up for Andy