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Dénes	Posted: April 07, 2004 04:24 pm
Admin Group: Admin Posts: 4368 Member No.: 4 Joined: June 17, 2003	What kind of soldiers are these (photo)?

petru	Posted: April 07, 2004 06:41 pm
Caporal Group: Members Posts: 117 Member No.: 149 Joined: November 27, 2003	Look like Germans (to me at least). Maybe DAK (Deutsche Afrika Korp)?

C-2	Posted: April 07, 2004 08:01 pm
General Medic Group: Hosts Posts: 2453 Member No.: 19 Joined: June 23, 2003	NO way! No AC! The canon is from ww1...

Dan Po	Posted: April 07, 2004 09:40 pm
Sergent major Group: Members Posts: 208 Member No.: 226 Joined: February 23, 2004	Definetly not DAK ! I just have an intuition ... maybe they are from a scandinavian army .... swedish ? I cannot explain but this is what I think when i look at this picture.

dragos	Posted: April 08, 2004 12:59 pm
Admin Group: Admin Posts: 2397 Member No.: 2 Joined: February 11, 2003	The weapon is the Austro-Hungarian 10cm Feld-Haubitze M/14 http://www.landships.freeservers.com/10cm_...aubitze_m14.htm

Posted: April 08, 2004 01:39 pm

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The canon is from ww1...

Many WW1 artillery pieces were used during WW2 also. The Romanian army even used guns model 1878.

Maybe the guys are Czechs, if the gun is Austrian.

C-2	Posted: April 08, 2004 06:19 pm
General Medic Group: Hosts Posts: 2453 Member No.: 19 Joined: June 23, 2003	I ment that the AK used first class equipment and not from ww1...

dragos	Posted: April 08, 2004 06:47 pm
Admin Group: Admin Posts: 2397 Member No.: 2 Joined: February 11, 2003	I think they are Austrians, WW1. Denes, from where is that photo?

Dénes	Posted: April 08, 2004 07:28 pm
Admin Group: Admin Posts: 4368 Member No.: 4 Joined: June 17, 2003	The photo is being sold on eBay, under the title: 'Rumanian or Hungarian soldiers of W.W. 2'. However, they are clearly neither Rumanians, nor Hungarians. To me - without actually checking any references - they look like soldiers from a Scandinavian country. Could it be Finland? Just curious... P.S. Oops. Post No. 666. Is the Devil lurking somewhere around?

dragos	Posted: April 08, 2004 07:49 pm
Admin Group: Admin Posts: 2397 Member No.: 2 Joined: February 11, 2003	A close-up of the caps reveals that they have a dark leather peak, specific to Austrian headgears of WW1 era. Finnish caps were uniform in material.

dead-cat	Posted: April 08, 2004 10:24 pm
Locotenent Group: Members Posts: 559 Member No.: 99 Joined: September 05, 2003	i also confirm. the gun is a ww1 piece of austrian origin, definetly not german

Dan Po	Posted: April 23, 2004 09:57 am
Sergent major Group: Members Posts: 208 Member No.: 226 Joined: February 23, 2004	So, Mr Denes, you change the photo ? last time when I was here in that picture was a few unknown soldiers with a gun. Now I can see 2 german skiers (if we consider the eagle from the right part of their chest).

Victor	Posted: April 23, 2004 11:35 am
Admin Group: Admin Posts: 4350 Member No.: 3 Joined: February 11, 2003	The photo was probably from E-Bay. It has most likely changed since then.

Dénes	Posted: April 23, 2004 12:47 pm
Admin Group: Admin Posts: 4368 Member No.: 4 Joined: June 17, 2003	Yes, originally it was a photo found on eBay. The seller now replaced it with another photo.

Dan Po	Posted: April 23, 2004 06:28 pm
Sergent major Group: Members Posts: 208 Member No.: 226 Joined: February 23, 2004	OK ... now I understand what was happened.

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