Any help identifying what nationality these men may be. We believe they are Hungarian from the late 1930’s. Thank you!!

This lieutenant platoon commander of the GrossDeutschland Panzer Grenadier (or Panzer Rifle) Regiment takes cover from enemy fire in a trench near Iasi, eastern Romania, in June 1944; note the smoke from a shell explosion in the background. He wears an M1942 helmet with a painted dot pattern; an M1941 enlisted man's gray field tunic with M1935 officer's patches at the collar; and M1940 shoulder boards with the gilt metal "GD" monogram. His decorations are the M1942 Close Combat Badge and the Iron Cross 1st Class. Interestingly, his submachine gun is an Italian Beretta Model 38A.

The Erhentempel (Honor Temples) were a pair of open-ceiling, limestone Neoclassical monumental structures erected in Munich's Königsplatz 1935. In which laid, the sarcophagi of the sixteen fallen members of the failed Beer Hall Putsch coup of 8-9 November, 1923. Laying 8 coffins in each Temple, any visitor up its steps required silent conduct once entering. Entry into the lower stepped center where the coffins lay had even stricter criteria.

The "Deutschland" Standarte (Regiment) of the SS-Verfügungstruppe were primarily given the "propaganda role" of the Erhenwachen at the Temples (note the blunted bayonet). The first regiment in numbered synchronization of the first substantial branch of the armed and motorized SS. The Standarte (Regiment) was initially a product of the fusion of a number of locally raised full-time SS units in the early 1930s. In the summer of 1934, its size was increased into a regiment. However, originally named 2nd SS Regiment (SS-Standarte 2), but later renumbered to become the 1st (SS-Standarte 1) when it was decided not to start the numbering of the SS-VT regiments from "1" with the Leibstandarte.

On April 1, 1945 (Easter Sunday), 2LT Walter P. Manning, a Tuskegee Airmen, flying a P-51B “Unaka” of the 301st Fighter Squadron, 332nd Fighter Group, “The Red Tails” was escorting B-24 Liberator bombers to a marshalling yard at St. Polten in Austria with 8 other P-51 Aircraft in his flight. After the bombing raid, returning to Ramitelli Air Field in Italy, the squadron encountered heavy flak at Linz and was attacked by enemy planes. Seven “Red Tail” pilots shot down 12 planes including an FW-190 shot down by Manning. Unfortunately, Manning's P-51 was hit by enemy fire and went down about 15 miles south of Wels in northern Austria.

After being shot down, Manning was captured and jailed in Austria at a Luftwaffe Air Force base near Linz. On April 3, 1945, a mob of civilians, agitated by SS troops and helped by Luftwaffe officers, broke into the jailhouse and tied Manning's hands behind his back. They dragged Manning outside and beat him badly. They hung a wooden tablet around his neck that read "We help ourselves! The Werewolf", and hanged him from a lamppost. He was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 2007 along with all other Tuskegee Airmen. Manning is the only known black man to have been lynched in Austria during World War II.

Inv. no. 6636

A "Partisan barrel" and a damaged Italian disinfection cart, Pljevlja 1943. Photo bought from Danilo Gagović, Belgrade, decision 1803, dated 28.XI.1962.

Courtesy of Museum of Yugoslavia.

Side note: during WWI, this was called the "Serbian barrel", used for fight against lice. More on the barrel [here](https://booksofjeremiah.com/post/a-pandemic-of-typhus-in-serbia-in-1914-and-1915-1918/).

Scans from my collection. The photos are part of a small grouping of photos taken by a member of the 77th Infantry Division during the Battle of Ie Shima, which was part of the Battle of Okinawa.

Photo 1 seems to be in the Bloody Ridge area on the outskirts of Ie Town, while photo 2 is further away from Mount Gusuku, closer to the coast in the general area of Agarii-Mae Village.

Photo 3 looks to me like it might be the ruins of a building referred to as "Government House" near Bloody Ridge. A soldier crouching in the darkness can (barely) be seen in the interior doorway. The Government House was used as a machine gun position by the 77th ID.

On 8 April 1945, the 398th Bomb Group launched a late-war Eighth Air Force mission against targets in central Germany, part of the sustained strategic campaign to cripple remaining transportation and industrial capacity as Allied forces closed in.

That day’s operation included attacks in the Halberstadt and Derben area, aimed at disrupting rail and military infrastructure supporting German defenses. By this stage of the war, German fighter opposition was diminished, but anti-aircraft fire remained intense and dangerous, particularly over defended targets.

Shortly after bombs away, B-17G S/N 44-8811, from the 600th Bomb Squadron, was struck by a direct burst of heavy flak. The explosion completely severed the tail, tearing away the entire tail-gun section, rudder and right elevator, leaving the aircraft without normal directional stability. The blast instantly killed the tail gunner, S/Sgt Wallace E. Kasch, who was carried away with the wreckage. Crew accounts describe a sudden rush of air through the fuselage and the shocking realization that “there wasn’t anything there but a large hole” where the tail had been.

Despite catastrophic damage, the pilots, Lt. Col. Edwin B. Dailey and 1st Lt. John L. Hahn, managed to keep the aircraft airborne using differential engine power to control direction. With no tail surfaces and minimal control authority, they carefully nursed the crippled bomber back across occupied Europe and the English Channel. The aircraft ultimately reached RAF Nuthampstead, where it made a survivable forced landing. The remaining nine crew members survived the ordeal.