Where and when is it?

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#241

I’ll have to do a little bit of guessing here…

According to their uniforms (collar patches) these men are “Sonderführer” (probably interpreters or members of Propaganda-Kompanie). If my eyes don’t fool me there’s the Yakov Dzhugashvili leaflet on the table, this would make the time period July/August 1941.
Concerning the location…I have not a clue by now since leaflet actions were done by mobile propaganda subunits. However it’s possible that this particular leaflet was designed at the Propaganda-Ministerium (Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda) at Berlin, Wilhelmplatz.

#242

Excellent! :slight_smile:
All correct. Good eyes! I thought it would be funny to use this one right after your puzzle about Yakov Dzhugashvili.
These interpreters PK 621 were working for 18th Army, Group “Nord”.

Your turn.

#243

Thanks, Igor, a lucky hit.:smiley:
OK, it took me some time to find another appropriate one. Here we go:

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I uploaded two photos to show that there’s a lot of wrecked tonnage…

#244

Possibly Taranto, Toulon, or Mers-el-Kébir.

As the ships look like they’re grounded in their berths, I’ll go for the scuttling of the French Fleet at Toulon on 27 November 1942.

#245

Yes, it must be Toulon, November 1942.
The second photo is IMO cruiser Colbert (. http://m.flickr.com/#/photos/mxw/2948933427/ )

#246

Toulon is right of course which would make it RS’ turn.

#247

Thanks.

Here it is.

#248

Time for a clue.

It’s not a staff conference.

#249

Okay, it’s a war crimes trial, but I can’t remember the location or date:(

digger

#250

Yes, the absence of the location and date is a bit of an obstacle to getting the correct answer in a quiz entitled “Where and when is it?”. :wink: :smiley:

However, you are correct that it is a war crimes trial.

And the biggest one run against the Japanese.

#251

In January 1946, the Australian military began the trial of over 90 Japanese officers and men, the largest Allied War Crimes trial conducted in the Pacific or Japan in the wake of WW2 on the small Indonesian island of Ambon. Situated 1,000 kilometers north of Australia, the Allied Prisoner of War camp at Ambon Tantoey was maintained by the 20th Japanese Naval Base Unit. The Japanese, now prisoners themselves in the custody of the Australian Occupation Force on Ambon following the actual Japanese surrender in mid September 1945, were charged under the Australian War Crimes Act 1945 with deliberate and concerted ill treatment of Australian and Allied POWs and under international law for crimes against the civilian population on Ambon.

The clue that got me to this answer was this similar photo

#252

That’s the one.

Your turn.

#253

Well here is my offer from my personal pictorial book collection.Might be a tough one but we will see.:smiley:

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#254

1st Cavalry Division.

Could be Leyte, Luzon or even Yokohama 1944-45.

I’m inclined to think the style of the building, but maybe not the roof, is Philippines rather than Japan, although the trees seem maybe more Japanese, but that’s about as far as I can go at the moment.

#255

Damn :shock: your already halfway there RS its somewhere on Japan,but not Yokohama.There is a little irony in this photo too.

#256

Well, maybe the irony is that it is ment to be the first raise of American flag over Japan, which in reality it was not.
The first American flag was raisesd over Japanise soil at Mukaishima on 18th of August 1945.

#257

Egorka,yes the irony has to do with the flag but not because it was the first American flag raised on Japanese soil.It has to do with a particular day in American history

#258

The day of anniversary of Perl Harbor attack?

#259

Maybe I am misleading with throwing the irony of the flag? not my intention.So I will disclose the irony of the flag.This is the same flag that was flying over the White House when the Japanese struck Pearl Harbor.So we know its some where in Japan but where? and year should be easy.

#260

Well, if our PTO fans don’t know (or don’t want to share :slight_smile: ), then how should I?
Ok, my blind guess Tokyo Imperial Palace, September or October 1945.