主题：【贴图】Rangers,lead the way -- 西北人

Colonel William O. Darby stands in the American and British training area in Carickfergis, Scotland, during the fall of 1942.

Log lifting rangers continue their training for the soon to come debarcation for North Africa

老兵不死

American Rangers speed-march in Carickfergis, Scotland, wearing pie-plate helmets, leftover from WWI, in October 1942.(我搞不懂他们为何穿着英军军装？）

Surviving American Rangers march, slower, through Carickfergis, Scotland, during a reunion of WWII veterans, held 50 years later.

Bing Evans (right) and a British Commando light cigarettes after a speed march in Carickfergis, Scotland, 1942.

In the exact same location as the previous photograph, at a 50th anniversary reunion with the American Rangers and British Commandos, Bing Evans (right) lights a cigarette for his British comrade.

PS：背景是COMMANDO的雕像，在附近小镇上的INN里面还有一个COMMANDO的博物馆，当我望着墙上COMMANDO发黄的合影时在想：战争结束后，这些生机勃勃的年轻人有几个还能回到母亲，妻子，情人身边？

Ranger riflemen "securing' Arzew Harbor for arrival of General Terry Allen's 1st Division.

East meets West on the Mediterranean. Rangers frolicking on the beach, to the surprise of the natives. Clash of cultures??

March 23, 1943 at El Guettar Valley. Rangers accompanying tanks, marching towards the 10th Panzers who were approaching us. Very soon after this photo, Stern was hit by 88mm shell fire from the German tanks.

First waves of Rangers assaulting the Gela/Licata beach head in Sicily, July 11, 1943

"Fritsie" the mascot of the German prisoners.Stern built the little compound for her.

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