Cheers, it’s the Royal Armoured Corps badge. I’ll have to have another think then about the picture hmmm…
OK boy,
take your time… 
Boy?! Cheeky sod i’m 26! Right here goes, I’'m going to have another pop at it. I reckon it’s Belgium/Holland, and its the 1940 invasion.
I’m 54, but i still consider myself a boy, too!!! 
I’m sorry, isn’t Belgium/Holland invasion and isn’t 1940. I have another little clue… The Country is an ex-USSR Rebublic, that faces on the Baltic Sea…
Invasion of the Baltic (Estonian) Islands - Ösel (Saaremaa), Dagö (Hiiumaa) and Moon (Muhu)- by the East-Prussian 61. Infanterie-Division in September 1941 (Operation Beowulf I + II).
I think we should prevent Mr. flamethrowerguy from take part to puzzles related to the German Army…
Nedless to say that the answer is correct. Here’s the original caption, from the book Backbone of the Wehrmacht - The German K98k Rifle by Richard D. Law :
German Assault Boat Engineers loading supplies into their assault boat in preparation for Operation Osel, in Esthonia. (US National Archives photo dated September 11, 1941.
The stage is your…
Thanks mate, even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while.
Next one (and sorry about the photo’s quality):
I have no idea, but I suspect that the saluting officer on right of the picture is the odd man out.
His uniform looks close to German but some details suggest it isn’t, or that it’s German based but allowing foreign elements.
Which could make him anything, except that the helmeted SS? officer on the left has a chest full of medals which suggests it’s well into the war rather than pre-war.
So a wild guess is that the saluting officer is a member of one of the units raised from non-German or perhaps even POW sources.
It’s not the Wiking bunch is it? The chap on the right says Finnish to me.
IY is definitely on to it…
Bump!
I’ll sum up: Wiking division, a high-ranking Finnish officer (hint: General).
Bump, bump.
The Finnish general’s name is Lauri Malmberg, the German’s is Felix Steiner.
Alright, sorry for 4 consecutive posts of mine but I’d like to keep this thread going.
The answer of this ancient riddle is:
“Discharge and handover (to the Finnish army) of the Finnish volunteer battalion of the Waffen-SS at Hanko/Finland, June 2, 1943.
The photo shows battalion CO Hans Collani (KIA July 1944 in Estonia), Gruppenführer (Lt. General) Felix Steiner -Commander 5th SS Wiking- and Finnish General Lauri Malmberg, Commander-in-Chief of the Finnish Civil Guards.”
If someone got a nice quiz at hand please feel free to continue.
Not quite a where and when is it, but then again this 
represents something a famous US unit used for its symbol because of where it had been in WWII.
Hmm. That is the Eureka Flag, originally symbolising the fight for Australian independence and which now has been twisted round by right wing Australians to mean off-the-tracks nationalism, but from what I know there isn’t any US Army units that actually use it as their insignia. The closest we could get is the insignia of the 23rd Infantry Division AKA “the Americal Division” (a contraction of “American, New Caledonian Division”), which shows the Southern Cross constellation on a blue shield, but then again also the 1st Marine Division has the same stars surrounding it’s “big red one”.
Not really. It’s a bit more like the Confederate flag in America, used by those (including me at times) of a somewhat rebellious nature or outlook or just those who prefer to proclaim their Australian national identity free of the British element in our national flag.
It pisses the monarchist Establishment off, to the extent that the Eureka flag has been banned on building sites after decades of use by building unions.
That’s the one. http://www.ww2gyrene.org/spotlight_1stmardiv_patch.htm
Your turn.
Heh. Wasn’t expecting to get it in one, so I don’t have anything ready. I’ll get back to you in a bit.
Regarding the Eureka Flag: this is exactly how an Australian friend described it to me, “like the Confederate Flag”, and then he went off to say how pissed off he was at white supremacist movements which started using it a lot in their rallies and such and which tarnished its original symbolism (if I remember correctly, it had something to do with a gold miners’ revolt against the British Government, in Ballarat, Victoria, in 1854), so you could say I got that from a first hand source. Besides, I know for a fact that white supremacists in the US use the Confederate flag for exactly the same purpose.
Later edit: Here’s the riddle - Who were this guys and what are they doing here? Also, when was this exactly, and where?
Nobody wants to take a whack at it? Should I start giving clues?
Yes.
Would it have anything to do with Romania?
Nope, sorry, nothing whatsoever, you’re looking at an entirely different part of the continent. I can help you a bit though by pointing that a very obvious clue is actually present in the picture.