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Posts: 227 (04/25/09 2:47 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Tags : None How about this ? Guisan. Fight to your last cartridge, then fight with your bayonets. No surrender. Fight to the death. Gen. Henri Guisan, Switzerland, July '40 Last Edited By: Guisan 04/25/09 2:55 PM. Edited 1 time.
wkato		#1	[-]
Posts: 1246 (04/26/09 12:49 AM) MODERATOR Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I'd have to say those were soe aweful long rifles strapped to their backs, especially the 2nd guy from the left. Love the B-17 bomber, so many good things fro that period of time. Wes Swiss Flu Support Group Curio and Relics Firearms Forum Swiss Rifles Wes's home for wayward Vett's "Not the victory but the action. Not the goal but the game. In the deed the glory."
Guisan		#2	[-]
Posts: 228 (04/26/09 3:51 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Wonder if they made enough speed to get it back into the air... Guisan. Fight to your last cartridge, then fight with your bayonets. No surrender. Fight to the death. Gen. Henri Guisan, Switzerland, July '40
Hawkster318		#3	[-]
Posts: 4881 (04/26/09 5:22 AM) MODERATOR Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I think the rifle appears to be longer because he is shorter. Alan in Wisconsin Curio and Relics Firearms Forum Swiss Rifles Honda Express and ExpressII Forum Zeughaus Hawkster
Guisan		#4	[-]
Posts: 229 (04/26/09 10:12 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	These men are no first line troops like the ones that were used for the border guard batallions, the long rifles and the mixed clothing indicate that they were older men that probably belong to the reserves or territorial troops. Air base guarding (this pic was taken at Dübendorf base) was considered a less dangerous job. Guisan. Fight to your last cartridge, then fight with your bayonets. No surrender. Fight to the death. Gen. Henri Guisan, Switzerland, July '40
wkato		#5	[-]
Posts: 1248 (04/26/09 2:05 PM) MODERATOR Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	That rifle looks to be nearly as long as he is tall, taking into account he is leaning forward. Good point Guisan. Would they also use Kadets for this task? Swiss Flu Support Group Curio and Relics Firearms Forum Swiss Rifles Wes's home for wayward Vett's "Not the victory but the action. Not the goal but the game. In the deed the glory."
xring33.theswissriflesd...		#6	[-]
Posts: 74 (04/27/09 12:24 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I wonder if the plane had any battle damage? "Onward we stagger, and if the tanks come, may God help the tanks" William O. Darby
wkato		#7	[-]
Posts: 1252 (04/27/09 9:03 PM) MODERATOR Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	It would have had battle damage or mechanical damage for it to have landed in Switzerland. Once aircraft and aircrew landed in Switzerland they weren't allowed to leave until the war was over in order for Switzerland to maintain their neutrality. From what I've read it was quite a good time for the soldier to the point they had travel brochures. Let see fight a war or see Switzerland, hmmm. Swiss Flu Support Group Curio and Relics Firearms Forum Swiss Rifles Wes's home for wayward Vett's "Not the victory but the action. Not the goal but the game. In the deed the glory." Last Edited By: wkato 04/28/09 10:12 PM. Edited 1 times.
Guisan		#8	[-]
Posts: 230 (04/28/09 3:44 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Well it was not only one but way more that choose for the Swiss safe harbour.... It became a problem for the Swiss airforce as all these big planes took a lot of place at Dübendorf airbase and this lead to the following... "Now where can we land ?" Guisan. Fight to your last cartridge, then fight with your bayonets. No surrender. Fight to the death. Gen. Henri Guisan, Switzerland, July '40 Last Edited By: Guisan 04/28/09 4:32 PM. Edited 1 times.
xring33.theswissriflesd...		#9	[-]
Posts: 82 (10/05/09 11:57 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Any photos of Axis planes ditching in Switzerland?? "Onward we stagger, and if the tanks come, may God help the tanks" William O. Darby
Flhunter		#10	[-]
Posts: 19463 (10/05/09 5:39 PM) Owner Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Neat pictures. It looks like the picture at the top is of a B-17 while the others are possibly B-24's.
pepperbelly		#11	[-]
Posts: 4182 (10/05/09 8:15 PM) MODERATOR Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I'm with Guisan. Are they trying to take off or just taxi that thing? Or maybe they all just got arrested? Jim NRA Life Member Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. --- Thomas Jefferson.

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