Yeah!!! And waht did I tell you, huh!? 
Well, this guy is one of 3 German paratroppers (Wilhelm Schmidt, Günther Billing and Manfred Pernass ) who used US uniform and was cought by the GIs.
Ardennes, 23 dec 1944.
http://www.ww2incolor.com/forum/showthread.php?p=97632#post97632
You are correct sir. Congratulations…
Operation Grief was the overall plan…
Common, guys! Anyone?
I promisse to be generous with clues…
If I knew anything about carriers I’d know what the deck sections mean as timber or steel and the arrangement, so I could at least identify the type of ship.
But as I don’t and as there is no evidence of any attack on any of the ships in the picture and as the explosion beside the carrier is beyond anything much below an ammunition ship I’m guessing that it is a post-war set-piece related to a planned explosion or explosions testing or destroying the carrier.
Almost seems like a Sunday afternoon at Central park lagoon the locals do alot of model sailing there…
Ok. Christmass time - I am giving the clues away:
This photo was taken during one of the most decisive battles of the given TO.
I am going to guess that the carrier is the Yorktown listing and dead in the water after getting hit at the Battle of Midway.The explosion is from depth chargers that exploded after the destroyer USS Hammann was sunk by a Japanese Sub.Two torpedo’s hit the Yorktown and one hit Hammann.
Bingo! Exactly.
Your turn.
WooHoo.
.Ever since you posted that picture I thought Yorktown,but that explosion through me off.I knew Yorktown was attacked by a sub after the battle but the explosion was too far off from the ship to be a direct hit.I re-read the torpedo incident and there it was.This picture on the net Egorka ? Its a tuff one to find with Yorktown as the key word.
Ok here is my offer
In all fairness I was considering to back off from answering to that one but then again…
Ultimatum given to the encircled German troops at Aachen, October 10, 1944. Photo was taken at the Schönrathstraße (=street), the dark silhouette to the left of the white flag is the old city hall of Aachen’s suburb Forst (today the building is used as a post office). The soldiers are 1st Lt. William Bohene from New York who acted as the interpreter, Pvt. Kenneth Kadin from La Grange/Illinois holding the flag and negotiator 1st Lt. Cedric A. Lafley from Enosburg Falls/Vermont.
Darn I guess I cant sneak one by you FTG,correct
No wonder, the next day it was all over the newspapers.
P.S. new puzzle coming up soon.
Well then, what about this one?
So far, so good, Igor, but the quiz is called “where and when is it?”.
Ja, ja! Ordnung über alles!
It is end of July or very beginning of August 1941, somewhere in vacinity of Prussian town of Prostken, where Yakov was relocated after identification.
Correct, Igor.
A little sidenote: the German Luftwaffe officer next to Yakov is one Major Walter Reuschle who was more or less coincidentally sitting there when Stalin’s son was “presented” to the propaganda cameras. He wasn’t released before 1955 because of this photo.
This photo was used on the German propaganda leaflet dropped over the Soviet positions about 7th of August.
Here is the link to the leaflet image: http://pics.livejournal.com/sprachfuehrer/pic/001hgaes/s320x320
The new puzzle is coming ASAP.
OK. Here it is. I think you will find this one interesting at the end. 
Please name:
[ul]
[li]Who are these men, their military profession. If you can name their unit - great, but I do not expect you to.
[/li][li]Time period, please try to justify the choice.
[/li][li]Approximate location (rather approximately).
[/li][/ul]
