OK, OK, I know. I haven’t posted in a while, and I feel kind of bad about it. I have tons of photos good enough to post, but it’s writing the texts that requires inspiration and some work. That inspiration is slowly coming back, and you’ll see more posts from now on.
The sleeping Spieβ in the photo has some signs of a busy (well) company sergeant major: the two rings on his cuff, the papers kept in the cuff (a popular spot for keeping documents and maps), and the flashlight buttoned to the front of his coat. True soldiers can sleep everywhere, anytime. Perhaps there’s a lengthy halt in the march into enemy territory, where tired soldiers have the opportunity to catch a few z’s.
World War 2 in Photos 