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本帖最后由 xjjiaoshou 于 2020-4-27 14:23 编辑
The Meeting at the Elbe / Встреча на Эльбе
The Meeting at the Elbe
Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the US 69th Infantry Division meeting the Soviet 58th Guards Rifle Division at the Elbe River near Torgau, Germany, on April 25th, 1945.
This has been a project long in the making; my friend Pedro (amaral) and I discussed doing a joint Elbe photoshoot as early as 2015 but he wouldn't have his figures ready for another 10 years (his words), so I went ahead without him this year to mark the 75th anniversary.
Third of four in my series to commemorate important 75th anniversaries in the ETO during 1945, the meeting at the Elbe is personally significant for me because I dug out my long lost 1:6th scale Soviet collection and actually kitbashed non-Americans for the first time in years. That, coupled with my Russian studies at university, made this an interesting project for me. One of my professors said that when she was studying abroad in the Soviet Union in the 1970s that one of the toasts they would say when drinking with Soviets was
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发表于 2020-4-27 14:18
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