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members of the 34th Infantry Division take a break during a training exercise in Northern Ireland
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members of the 34th Infantry Division take a break during a training exercise in Northern Ireland
Mixed up with Commonwealth troops? Posed for a photo op at smoke break...
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Another Bonus Garand picture.
Not real comfortable with the horseplay with a firearm but I did like the show.
Interesting cast too...Banner (actual German) was a soldier(US), Klemperer was American, Clary was a French Jew and had his tattoo on his arm...and that M1 is likely still in the prop armory...
Saw the show thru a diffrent lens after Bob Cranes death and the publicity that followed.
John Banner, who achieved television immortality for his portrayal of the Luftwaffe prison-camp guard Sergeant Schultz in the TV series Hogan's Heroes (1965), was born on January 28, 1910 in Vienna, the capital of what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The 28-year-old Banner, who was Jewish, was forced to abandon his homeland after the 1938 Anschluss (union) between Nazi Germany and Austria, which occurred while he was engaged in a tour of Switzerland with an acting company. Unable to return to Austria due to Hitler's anti-Semitic policies of persecution, he immigrated to the United States as a political refugee.
In 1942, he enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps, underwent basic training in Atlantic City and became a supply sergeant. He even posed for a recruiting poster He served until 1945
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I remember that. He was a bit eccentric...he'd carry rolls of cash in his housecoat pockets...always had huge cash on his person...Quote:
Originally Posted by HOOKED ON HISTORY
he reminded me of my grand father especialy i see nothing i hear nothing an i know nothing :)
And a few other colorful things.Quote:
Originally Posted by browningautorifle
I am glad I stumbled across that photo. Seems others have fond memories as well.
Werner Klemperer, Werner Klemperer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Kemplerer family fled Germany in 1935. Werner served in the US Army. Very cool.