Panzerpionier Posted August 17, 2006 Share Posted August 17, 2006 Note German Drohne guy at the right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riley1965 Posted August 17, 2006 Share Posted August 17, 2006 Juan,Thanks I love period photos!!! I have started a notebook of pictures just like your photo. Doc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sal Williams Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 Juan, great photo! Thanks for posting it!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacques Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 Juan, I like that photo too . really interesting to see such a view of the flag, and of course the Drohne soldier.jacques Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzerpionier Posted August 18, 2006 Author Share Posted August 18, 2006 (edited) The flag reads (words between parentheses added by me for a better understanding):6? BATALLON (de la) U.G.T.PABLO IGLESIASCOMPA?IA (de) AMETRALLADORASWhich mean:6th BATTALION (of the) U.G.T. PABLO IGLESIASMACHINE 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul R Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 [That is a great photo! How many have you compiled thus far?Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Haynes Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 I have some from the government side, but there'll be much less interest in those, I suspect . . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul R Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riley1965 Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 Good Morning, Ed!!I'd like to see them. I enjoy photos from both sides Doc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sal Williams Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 There is so little from the other side, I would be delighted to see something!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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