Tokyo,September 1945 will work for me 
was that with one eye open or both eyes closed guess haha…
American flag is unfurled at American Embassy in Tokyo by members of the 7th Regiment of th 1st Cavalry September 9,1945. during a military ceremony marking the official United States occupation of Japan Your turn Egorka
I believe that was the August 1943 raid against the Ploesti oil refineries in Romania?
Seconded !!
I was 19, read a book on that raid, same image was in the book. 
Kind Regards, Uyraell.
Absolutely correct.
Your turn Nickdfresh.
I didn’t know. From rudeerude’s clues I was going to guess Independence Day on 4 July, which made it 1946 or later. Unless a special US kamikaze flag raising unit snuck into Japan before the surrender. 
Sorry, but that is in fact WRONG. Although the “Tidal Wave” low level raid from August 1 1943 is the most renowned, the photo above actually comes from the later series of high level attacks on Ploiesti and was taken on May 31, 1944.
Here is the review of an excellent book on the subject of the first raid, available in a bilingual Romanian/English edition: http://www.tidalwave1943.ro/
Well, I’ll take your word for it. I thought they might have come from a late 1942 raid on Ploesti.
Does this mean I have to post the next one, or should WOR?
Okay, I was close enough for “government work.”
Who, and where, are these men. Obviously they’re wearing American kit. But looks can be a bit deceiving. (first clue)…
As a moderator who knows nothing about the picture posted by Egorka or the accuracy of Nick’s answer and in the interests of keeping this thread going I hereby adjudicate, arbitrate, rule, decree, and generally dictate that what I say goes because I can, , as follows:
wingsofwrath’s correction is noted, but if he or anyone else wants to pursue it they should do so in another thread to avoid this thread getting bogged down in disputes rather than mysteries.
egorka posed the question and the person who poses the question is the one who decides if an answer is correct.
If someone thinks that the answer accepted by the person who posed the question is wrong, refer to 1 above…
Well, there was indeed a June 1942 attack on Ploiesti, named “Halpro”, but that was a rather half-baked idea of making use of aircraft and crews destined for the far east that got stranded in north Africa after the fall of Rangoon…
In fact, the whole raid only used 13 bombers, caused negligible damage and lost about half the airplanes to the enemy…
My late grandfather actually recalled witnessing the crash of one of the Halpro bombers in Northern Dobrogea, with 6 of the 10 man crew surviving and being taken into captivity.
Nickdfresh, by all means, post a new enigma if you have one ready.
Right!
Who are these men?
That photo rings a very, very vague bell in my empty bellfry.
The haystack and buildings in the background look wrong for this as they seem to be European, but for some reason I’m thinking of irregular or not-main-Allied troops from outside Europe, such as Ghoums.
You’re onto something, RS*. But wide of the mark. I’ll provide more clues if the guesses keep awry. It is Europe, and the unit was irregular in a way (but not constipated).
That would tend to identify the French.
Nope! Definitely no “Francophones” here, eh… ('nother clue, although perhaps obscure to most…)
That, together with a haystack and buildings which seem to me to be perhaps more Balkan or eastwards than French, suggests perhaps something in Yugoslavia or thereabouts.
But I can’t think why the men would be in US type uniforms as the partisans weren’t. Unless they got those uniforms very late in war.
Wrong side of the Adriatic, my friend…
But I can’t think why the men would be in US type uniforms as the partisans weren’t. Unless they got those uniforms very late in war.
They weren’t partisans, but it was a most irregular unit that has few modern parallels…
So it’s Italy.
That rules out the Nisei.
I don’t know enough about European campaigns to go further. Someone else can take it further.
At a a guess, Senegalese troops, in Sicily as garrison troops, Later than the Anzio Landings.
Kind Regards, Uyraell.
