fantastic book of US Troops pictures

[conboy]

https://history.army.mil/html/books/012 ... b_12-2.pdf

wow. I wish I'd had this as a resource a few months ago! I used some of the pictures when they showed up in other sources -- these are the spectacular-quality originals.

This is worth a look even if you don't need the pictures. They're beautiful, and you can use SNIP to pull them out and paste them into your editor to make pictures for scenarios and campaigns.

conboy

[KarisFraMauro]

Thinking about pictures of soldiers, and reading about the death of Sean Connery (who as far as I know wasn't a soldier in reality but did play one) reminded me of Christopher Lee who died a few years back and actually WAS in the UK special forces during WWII. Makes me wonder if an image of him might be fitting in some contexts. Especially it being halloween and all.

[kondi754]

Thinking about pictures of soldiers, and reading about the death of Sean Connery (who as far as I know wasn't a soldier in reality but did play one) reminded me of Christopher Lee who died a few years back and actually WAS in the UK special forces during WWII. Makes me wonder if an image of him might be fitting in some contexts. Especially it being halloween and all.

But Christopher Lee played in a Bond movie but with Roger Moore, not with Sean Connery (Scaramanga in 'The Man with the Golden Gun')
But you are right, it is a great loss that both of them are already dead

[Horst]

Pretty good pics!
I like especially this one: mules rule where trucks buck!

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[kondi754]

10th US Mountain Div brought own mules in the winter of 1945 to finally break the Gothic line

[Horst]

Mules, one of the most neglected transport feature in war games. What a shame.

[kondi754]

It's true
A nice idea would be a Mod + 'Gebirgsjager campaign' using only planes, mules and horses as transport.

[conboy]

10th US Mountain Div brought own mules in the winter of 1945 to finally break the Gothic line

Mules were extensively used in Italy, including Sicily, by US divisions. I can't find them on the US Army infantry division Table of Organization and Equipment, but every source talks about resupply in the mountains by mule.

conboy

[Horst]

There are really enough pictures around showing the usage of mules. These were more used in the Pacific/Burma by US and Commonwealth troops, e.g. Chindits which received air-drops only rarely on certain locations behind enemy lines.

Mules are sometimes mentioned here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horses_in_World_War_II
"In 1942 the British still employed 6,500 horses, 10,000 mules and 1,700 camels, and used local mules in Sicily and mainland Italy."
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/2016/ ... den-in-war
https://olive-drab.com/od_army-horses-mules_ww2.php

In hilly terrain without roads, mules were always prized:

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[GabeKnight]

Thanks for this conboy!

Only now took a closer look into it and it's great for WW2-noobs like me (and with lots of pictures... )
And it's not only US, there's Italian and German equipment in there, too.