Panther and Flak 88 found in basement

[71chevellejohn]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rB-5ul-yG8[/ame]

[svauto-erotic855]

Soldiers below and above the age of enlistment were not unusual in the slightest. However an officer would be almost unheard of at age freaking 16.

It was not unheard of at all. Every single cadet in his class did exactly the same thing. He was destined from birth to be a cavalry soldier, all of his schooling was geared to being a cavalry soldier, he was riding a horse almost before he could walk because every other man in his family did the same shit. His father was a Prussian officer in the Imperial German Army from a very wealthy family. His grandfather or great grandfather had been an officer in the Napoleonic Wars. If my grandad had been born a few hundred years earlier he would have been a Teutonic knight or a Barron or something along those lines. He joined the Legion after WWII and fought is southeast asia, he even taught the Jews how to fight with tanks; soldiering was kind of his "Thing" off and on for nearly 70 years.

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Your German military timeline is off a touch.

[Rick Modena]

Your German military timeline is off a touch.

Just a touch, alright...

[David]

I have a fucking headache.

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Also, if he served in the French Foreign Legion post-WWII, he did shitty stuff that we still haven't finished cleaning up to day. The French went a little haywire after suffering through the German occupation, and they did stupid things to their colonial subjects.

[svauto-erotic855]

Your German military timeline is off a touch.

No it is not.

Also, if he served in the French Foreign Legion post-WWII, he did shitty stuff that we still haven't finished cleaning up to day. The French went a little haywire after suffering through the German occupation, and they did stupid things to their colonial subjects.

He was fighting in Vietnam and was doing quite well when the press got wind of former SS officers fighting for the French so all of the Germans were kicked out. His son, my father, was killed in Vietnam in 1970 and that bothered him until his dying breath. If the French had let the German veterans keep fighting there would not have been a Vietnam war; or at least that was his belief.

[Rick Modena]

The TAGS, the fucking TAGS...

[71chevellejohn]

The TAGS, the fucking TAGS...

Saved private Ryan made me fall out laughing

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No it is not.



He was fighting in Vietnam and was doing quite well when the press got wind of former SS officers fighting for the French so all of the Germans were kicked out. His son, my father, was killed in Vietnam in 1970 and that bothered him until his dying breath. If the French had let the German veterans keep fighting there would not have been a Vietnam war; or at least that was his belief.

The French could've given the Vietnamese their freedom, and we wouldn't have had a Vietnam war. Your grandfather also may have participated in a bunch of the bullshit brushfire wars the Foreign Legion got involved in, in Africa. Some people I actually know in the real world were working as civilian attaches in Algeria when some of those chickens came home to roost.

[svauto-erotic855]

Your grandfather also may have participated in a bunch of the bullshit brushfire wars the Foreign Legion got involved in, in Africa.

He did some stuff in Africa but I don't know what. That is what attracted me to the continent in my teens; plus he financed the trip. I learned my lesson though. After the Legion he did consulting work and worked at a law firm that he was partners in.

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Sure. It all makes sense now.

[68RR]

The French could've given the Vietnamese their freedom, and we wouldn't have had a Vietnam war. Your grandfather also may have participated in a bunch of the bullshit brushfire wars the Foreign Legion got involved in, in Africa. Some people I actually know in the real world were working as civilian attaches in Algeria when some of those chickens came home to roost.

You're forgetting to add Harry Truman to that fiasco.. Father Ho asked for meetings with Harry to help solve that lil problem but Harry refused.. If ya really wanna dig, do some research on our stupidity with Britain and France in the middle east..

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You're forgetting to add Harry Truman to that fiasco.. Father Ho asked for meetings with Harry to help solve that lil problem but Harry refused.. If ya really wanna dig, do some research on our stupidity with Britain and France in the middle east..

I fully agree. From the British offering bad deals to Bedouins to the Palestine Mandate, it's all messy.

[phaux]

He died in 1996 at 96 years of age and was a German officer in both world wars.

He joined the Legion after WWII and fought is southeast asia

soldiering was kind of his "Thing" off and on for nearly 70 years.

After the Legion he did consulting work and worked at a law firm that he was partners in.

So after becoming a German officer between the ages of 14-18, he then joined the French Foreign Legion at the age of 45 even though their age limit for newcomers is 39, then at the age of around 84 (since he soldiered for 70 yrs and we'll just say he became a German officer at 14), went to law school and made partner for a few years until dying at the age of 96?

That's a bad mother fucker