主题：【贴图】Rangers,lead the way -- 西北人
家园 【贴图】Rangers,lead the way 
外链图片需谨慎，可能会被源头改Colonel William O. Darby stands in the American and British training area in Carickfergis, Scotland, during the fall of 1942.
外链图片需谨慎，可能会被源头改Log lifting rangers continue their training for the soon to come debarcation for North Africa
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外链图片需谨慎，可能会被源头改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？）
外链图片需谨慎，可能会被源头改Surviving American Rangers march, slower, through Carickfergis, Scotland, during a reunion of WWII veterans, held 50 years later.
外链图片需谨慎，可能会被源头改Bing Evans (right) and a British Commando light cigarettes after a speed march in Carickfergis, Scotland, 1942.
外链图片需谨慎，可能会被源头改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？
外链图片需谨慎，可能会被源头改Ranger riflemen "securing' Arzew Harbor for arrival of General Terry Allen's 1st Division.
外链图片需谨慎，可能会被源头改East meets West on the Mediterranean. Rangers frolicking on the beach, to the surprise of the natives. Clash of cultures??
外链图片需谨慎，可能会被源头改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.
外链图片需谨慎，可能会被源头改First waves of Rangers assaulting the Gela/Licata beach head in Sicily, July 11, 1943
外链图片需谨慎，可能会被源头改"Fritsie" the mascot of the German prisoners.Stern built the little compound for her.
外链图片需谨慎，可能会被源头改摄影者PHIL STERN[MP=320,240]http://www.5see.com/download/downd17/ys/122/3.mp3[/MP]