SCW era nationalist documentary capture

[Panzerpionier]

Note German Drohne guy at the right.

[Riley1965]

Juan,

Thanks I love period photos!!! I have started a notebook of pictures just like your photo.

Doc

[Sal Williams]

Juan, great photo! Thanks for posting it!!!!

[Jacques]

Juan, I like that photo too . really interesting to see such a view of the flag, and of course the Drohne soldier.

jacques

[Panzerpionier]

The flag reads (words between parentheses added by me for a better understanding):

6? BATALLON (de la) U.G.T.

PABLO IGLESIAS

COMPA?IA (de) AMETRALLADORAS

Which mean:

6th BATTALION (of the) U.G.T.

PABLO IGLESIAS

MACHINE GUN COMPANY

The U.G.T. (Union General de Trabajadores, General Workers Union) was the syndicate branch of the socialist party P.S.O.E. (Partido Socialista Obrero Espa?ol, spanish socialist workers party). Both organisations still exist today. What is more, current Spanish governemt is held by P.S.O.E. Thanks to them now we are even more democratic than the countries that invented democracy!

Pablo Iglesias was the founder of the P.S.O.E., whose name was taken for the 6th battalion of the U.G.T.

Obviously it is a captured republican flag.

The machine gun depicted is a pre-SCW Spanish made Hotchkiss, slightly different from the original, French made model (note brass stock instead of handle).

Edited August 18, 2006 by Panzerpionier

[Paul R]

[That is a great photo! How many have you compiled thus far?

Paul

[Ed_Haynes]

I have some from the government side, but there'll be much less interest in those, I suspect . . . .

[Paul R]

I have some from the government side, but there'll be much less interest in those, I suspect . . . .

I would love to see those as well!! Please start a thread! I do not ever remember seeing photographs from that prospective.

Paul

[Riley1965]

Good Morning, Ed!!

I'd like to see them. I enjoy photos from both sides

Doc

[Sal Williams]

There is so little from the other side, I would be delighted to see something!!!