Squad leader and Combat Lifesaver from the Life Guards Regiment, Sweden, holding a stairwell during MOUT training [751×938]
Soviet cartoon (1986) showing an American, German, Frenchman, Israeli and Brit marching under the banner of ‘racism’. The text on the characters reads: ‘Kill a black’, ‘Kill a Turk’, ‘Kill an Algerian’, ‘Kill an Arab’, ‘England for whites’. Artist: Boris Efimov.
1974 statue celebrating Togolese dictator Gnassingbé Éyadema’s survival of a plane crash which he argued was an assassination.
Overlaying Spanish Rail Network on Midwest, imagine Chicago to Detroit in 2 hours, or Chicago to Minneapolis in 3.5 hours.
Soviet soldiers engaged in a firefight against a Mujahideen attack, while supported by BMP-2 IFVs. Soviet–Afghan War, 1985 [800×457]
‘Comrade – join us – Protect your home against Bolshevism – Fight with the SS Division Viking’ (Danish recruitment poster by Knud Hougart for SS Panzer Division Viking. Recruiting Waffen SS volunteers. Nazi occupied Denmark, ca. 1941).
What is the most obscure fact about the franchise that you know, and a good piece of lore for a newcomer to the franchise?
‘Dr. Spock speaks for the Oakland Seven’ (American poster by Berkeley Graphic Arts for Comittee to Defend the Oakand Seven. United States of America, 1968).