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Hey /k/, I'm scanning my gramps photographs from WWII and
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Hey /k/, I'm scanning my gramps photographs from WWII and am wondering if you could tell me what rifle this guy is holding.
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>>30199981
What a faggot he is holding the gun upside down.
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>>30199981
Madsen LMG?
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>>30199997
I got no clue
All I know is that it has to be german and was used in bunkers on the french north coast, which is where he oversaw constructions.
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My grandpa had photos of them straddling captured V1 rockets on a train... It's pretty bad ass looking...
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>>30199981
Maybe a czech bren
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>>30199997
No
>>30200061
This. Looks like a ZB-28 which is what the bren was based on
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>>30199981
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>>30200090
>ZB-28
This might just be it
Thanks
If anyone is interested I could dump some of the more /k/ images I am scanning
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>>30200297
Keep posting mang
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I don't think it's a Czech ZB-26; It looks more like the French FM Mle.24/29. The Germans took tons of them into service when the French surrendered.
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It's Châtellerault Mle 24
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>>30199981
Think it's a ZB-26.
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Sorry for posting so slowly
shitty pc, shitty internet and also busy with scanning
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Good pics op
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>>30200507
Thanks
Keep in mind, this is the first time anyone sees these.
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its not a ZB variant. Its a French Chatellerault FM 24/29 in 7.5 French
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Lots of Luftwaffles. Great pics OP. keep posting
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I'll post slow, but I'll post slow.
I have a few hundred pictures out of gramps service time to scan, so that's what takes most of the time.
What better day to do this than a drunk tuesday
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The batch I am scanning right now holds a very special picture, one of the few russian pictures if i read this right
Wish I would've found his african film rolls too
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Here we are
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>>30200725
Not even sure if I have any pictures of my gramps
He never liked photographs or being well known
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>>30200718
back of this one reads: "Muending and Roth during locker cleaning"
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Bumperoo from a special friend
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>>30200830
Go to bed

>>30199981
Neat pics. Post afrika
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>>30200848
No
Gotta wait till my other friend gets off work
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>>30200848
Afrika Film Rolls are still in Nirvana
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>>30200858
Finish scanning those and search the afrika ones matey
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>>30200858
Shame
>>30200854
You don't have any friends
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>>30200864
This weekend when I'm getting the officers chest and all that
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>>30200867
Yes i do you don't know me faggot
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Someone's having a shit day here
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>>30200891
Oh that's hilarious
>>30200874
Cool
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>>30200879
I do though I've known you since grade school
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>>30200915
There's no such thing as grad school here friendo
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Dentist: Frontline Edition

There's about 5 of these in here
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Bump

>>30200915
I don't think i am the person you think i am

Or am i? Hmm
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>>30200935
Das strong German bois
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>>30201004
I now know definitely who you are
Shouldn't you work?
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>>30200531
good to know we are your priority.
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>>30201031
What in the fuck is that


Mfw that pic from before
>i could be at home with my wife
>only shitty coffee here
>no warm clothes :(
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>>30201059
Some fish, I suppose.
My fishing days are to long ago for me to remember
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>>30200737
i wonder why, Hans
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Christmas on the Front doesn't look like too much fun
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>all these Luftwaffe troops

of course chair force takes pictures all day
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People actually came to my gramps to have him take pictures for their family/lovers/afterworld etc.
May be why he was sent around so much
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>>30200891
>cleaningtheshitterinaustrailia.jpg
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Who are you?
I'm you but darker
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>>30201259
I'm the guy with an artillery cannon for a dick
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the dentist is back
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This newspaper still exists fyi
I it whenever visiting family
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That's it for tonight fellas
Was nice for anyone that watched, I hope.
If anyone wants another thread then I might just finish scanning and get good, /k/ ones for a thread tomorrow or so.
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>>30201518
Nice work OP.
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>>30201518
cool shit OP
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>>30200321
>French FM Mle.24/29.
You are correct. The bipod is a dead giveaway.
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>>30201518
do it /k/omerade it is interesting to see the normal photos instead of just the classic ones
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>>30199981
Ignore the retards identifying the ZB-26. That's pretty clearly an Mle 1924/29.
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>tfw you're a nigger
>tfw you'll never be able to look at your grand fathers old world war 1 pictures
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>>30201518
Great thread OP, always love to see hidden memories, specially Axis ones, since they are even rarer.
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>>30200297
Italian subs?
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>>30203318
Its okay anon, be proud of where you came from.
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>>30200287
Dump em. Infantry engineers preferred.
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>>30201188
Topkek
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>>30200321
those Nigers dont know how good their armament is
>mfw that pic of African fighters with STG-44s and M1s

think about it. you can probably buy those old guns for less than an AK
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>>30200297
>mfw German submarines
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Great post OP
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>>30200725
>That mustache
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