Photos Mountain Troops

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These men are from the 5th Mountain Division on Ju52 transports during the invasion of Crete (code named Unternehmen Merkur) 20 May 1941.

 

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Bravo platoon of the 4th Coy of the "Gebirgsjägerbataillon 232" training in the Watzmann mountain range.

 

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"Gebirgsjägerbrigade 23" training at the "Reiteralpe" training area.

 

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"Lvov, Poland, Soldiers of the division headquarters" - September 1939

German Soldiers with the 1st Mountain Division with a Polish Browning wz. 1928 LMG, which was a variant of the M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle, but in 8x57mm calibre

One of the German soliders also has a Polish Mauser Rifle

From the Yad Vashem Archives - FA300/a140

 

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Gebirgsjäger FACs training near Bad Reichenhal land Traunstein. These Forward Air Controllers are part of the 5th company of the 231 Mountain infantry Batallion and are para and HALO/HAHO qualified. the serve as FACs and Artillery Observers for the 23 Mountain Brigade.

 

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A mixed task Force from the "Gebirgsjäger Brigade 23" preparing their deployment to Mali in September 2020.

 

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Some pics of the Chamonix PGHM. First a series of an epic rescue operations carried out by Gendarmes on July 21st 2020. After having raised a full ascent of the Mont Maudit a group of Gendarmes of the PGHM was called to the rescue of two British mountaineers who had spent five days at the Peuterey Integral. One of the alpinists had fallen into a crevasse and after having been secured by his partner he had gone into a bad case of acute altitude sickness, at the end of the day extremely heavy thunderstorms were moving in making a quick evacuation by helicopter impossible. A A night in the open at 4700m would have been fatal for the two alpinists so the foot column returning from the Mont Maudit went in. In darkness, fog and storm, they managed to get the two alpinists down to the "Refuge du Goûter" where they spent the night. The next day adverse weather still prevented the helicopter to get into the fray, so it was decided to continue the evacuation by "caravane de secours" and they started the descent each mountaineer fixed by two members of the PGHM. Finally the Helos could get in and the two British mountaineers were extracted and medevaced. This all sounds simple but this rescue is an extraordinary feat of mountain rescue! RESPECT.

 

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PGHM training.

 

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