Photos of Soviet soldiers.

[navyson]

@Chevan

Well , actualy there is a piece of true, all the pets in Stalingrad were in subordination of NKVD.Dogs mines the tanks ( and searches the spies), cat’s were busy with special mission behind the frontline,cockroaches and rats shared the diseases among the enemies . Even our NKVD mikes desperative attack the … germans electrical circuits and wires.
That what does the “Total war” mean in russian understanding…

Wow, if only my pets were so loyal. They seem to like the person with the food at the time.
But, that was very clever Chevan, I like that “total war”. :lol:

[Rising_Sun]

I have no idea how reliable these unreferenced statements are, but I hope they’re true. They’re so stupid they could well be.

Cat Bombs:

The most creative way to use a cat as a weapon happened in World War II. The United States’ OSS (Office of Strategic Services, the precursor of the CIA) needed a way to guide bombs to sink German ships. Somebody hit upon the inspiration that since cats have such a strong disdain of getting wet and always land on their feet that if you attached a cat to a bomb and drop it in the vicinity of a ship, the cat’s instinct to avoid the water would force it to guide the bomb to the enemy’s deck. It is unclear how the cat was supposed to actually guide a bomb attached to it as it fell from the sky but the plan never got past the testing stages since the cats had a bad habit of becoming unconscious mid-drop.

Not to be outdone by its predecessor, the CIA also attempted to use cats but this time as a bugging device during the Cold War. Although a disaster as a guided bomb, the CIA thought that a cat would make the perfect covert listening device in a project known as Operation Acoustic Kitty. They attempted to surgically alter the cat by placing a bugging device inside him and running an antenna through its tail. The project took five years and $15 million dollars before the first field test hit a slight snag when the bugged kitty was released near a Russian compound in Washington and was immediately hit by a car while crossing the street. The project was ended soon after.
http://www.oddee.com/item_91684.aspx

[Chevan]

@navyson

I suppose that there was Soviet co-ordination with the other Ally airforces when bombing the same city or Germany proper? You don’t hear much about that since USSR was on opposite border of Germany. And what about offensives? Did USSR co-ordinate offensives along with the western Allies? Or just go their own way?

As i know there was a certain Soviet-ally co-ordination. The last bombing of Berlin was in april - accurate prior the soviet general offencive. When the battle of berlin was strated, allies stop all the bombings raids over Berlin.So we may say for sure the soviet and american A-20 never faced each other over Berline.
But as i know the dozen aircraft incidents has happend between the Soviet and Allies fighters though…

[Chevan]

@Rising_Sun

I have no idea how reliable these unreferenced statements are, but I hope they’re true. They’re so stupid they could well be.

Not to be outdone by its predecessor, the CIA also attempted to use cats but this time as a bugging device during the Cold War. Although a disaster as a guided bomb, the CIA thought that a cat would make the perfect covert listening device in a project known as Operation Acoustic Kitty. They attempted to surgically alter the cat by placing a bugging device inside him and running an antenna through its tail. The project took five years and $15 million dollars before the first field test hit a slight snag when the bugged kitty was released near a Russian compound in Washington and was immediately hit by a car while crossing the street. The project was ended soon after

Aha ha ha
that’s a nice joke mate.
I just scary to think how the were going to place the bugging device “inside” kitty.
That’s definitelly that case for the Animal Right’s activists groups investigation…