camouflage

i like band of brothers and metal.

[madeline-kahn]

“What is it you think you can do out there?! On this thing?!”

Dunkirk (2017) dir. Christopher Nolan

[madeline-kahn]

“Whatever the cost may be.”

Dunkirk (2017) dir. Christopher Nolan

[panzerkampfwagens]

Your icon brings me joy

oooh wow, sorry i’m only seeing this now

thank you, same tbh :D

[historium]

Soviet Sergeant Fyodor Konoplyov and his crew firing a DShK anti-aircraft gun, Leningrad, Russia, October 9th, 1942.

[nicolauda]

#tbt that time two brothers bought their own planes, learnt to fly them and disguised them as soviet planes so they wouldn’t be questioned and then flew into east germany to rescue their third brother from a park and recorded the entire operation and got away with it

[nicolauda]

no but legit this is one of my favourite stories from the 20th century it just sums up human ingenuity and how walls just don’t fucking work when people will do anything to cross them

the first brother and a friend paddled over the Elbe on inflatable mattresses in the middle of the night to escape the east. they got picked up by a Wessi police officer, who said something like “bit cold for swimming, ey boys?” and the brother says “not when you’re trying to leave the East.” because all East Germans were automatically citizens of the West too, they were taken into town and established themselves there. 

the second brother scoped out a particularly dark stretch of the wall. He escaped over it to the west by getting into a high building and shooting an arrow with a steel cable attached over to another building in the west. He then ziplined over. In response to his escape, the Stasi and the Wall designers built another guard tower in the middle of the stretch so no one else could pull the same stunt. 

the two brothers met up and heard that their who was still in East Germany also wanted out. So, they learnt to fly planes and disguised them as soviet planes. This was so, if the border guards saw them, they wouldn’t fire on them - they’d have to ring up the Kremlin and ascertain whether they were actual soviet planes on an organised fly-by. they flew into East Germany at dawn (recording it all on camera because you’ve got to do it for the vine even before vine exists), landed in a park where their brother was hiding in the bushes, loaded him onto one of the planes and flew out of East Germany, laughing all the way.

other great moments include - the guy who broke out of the GDR by driving a very low-slung sportscar under a barrier, the family who built two hot air balloons with their bare hands, the guy who managed to windsurf out of East Germany, the man who stole a tank (my hero), the people who removed the petrol tanks from cars so people could squeeze into the gap where the tank should have been, and of course, one of the most famous photos of the 20th century, with Eastern border guard, conrad schumann noping the fuck out of there when he was meant to be on duty guarding the wall when it was under construction in 1961

[orcses]

POINTS For he who today sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.

[syren007]

Hi Everydody: Now, I finished these artworks from Joakim Broden the singer and frontman of Sabaton. :) You could see my sketch from him, but here the final versions. I love this band, they are kind and funny guys and they are fantastic in live. :)

[melodic-deathmetal]

[syren007]

I drew this portrait from Sabaton band. :) I love them. :)

[andrewhaldane]

[ninetieslasher]

[part 1]

[oikawas]

Ronald Speirs + Lyrics

[damian-lewis-daily]

Damian Lewis, Tom Hanks, and Ron Livingston behind the scenes of Band of Brothers.

[historium]

Gay and lesbian march on Washington D.C., October 11, 1987

[foxsmulder]

[andrewhaldane]

i’m sorry

[andrewhaldane]

it’s real fuckin impossible to find the scripts for band of brothers but i was able to find a few excerpts including dick scrapping the last patrol and just