Please help to identify rank of the man in this photo. Is this fruntas?
Thanks in advance!
Best regards,
Alex
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| Posted by: photo-war March 07, 2013 02:57 am |
| Dear forum members! Please help to identify rank of the man in this photo. Is this fruntas? Thanks in advance! Best regards, Alex |
| Posted by: ionionescu March 07, 2013 10:26 am |
| Yes it could be a ”fruntaș” or a ”sergent” (if I'm not mistaking the difference is made by the colour and embroidery on the stripe), he probably wears the M1941 troop field uniform, his beret suggests he is serving with the elite mountain troops. What is he inspecting, a plane? |
| Posted by: Radub March 07, 2013 12:00 pm |
| The planea ppears to be an Il-2 Radu |
| Posted by: ionionescu March 08, 2013 09:30 am |
| @photo-war: can we see the full photo?, anything on the back? Thanks! |
| Posted by: Alexei2102 March 08, 2013 10:13 am |
| Trust me, you do not want to see the full foto. Kinda gory. |
| Posted by: ionionescu March 08, 2013 12:49 pm |
| I want to see any photo, don't care if is gory of not (this „secrecy” among Romanian photo collectors is kinda strange, I encourage everybody to put a solid watermark on their photos and publish them on-line, this way everybody can learn something). Here is a interesting photo, maybe related, I guess the guy is a Russian pilot (or Romanian, German etc.), probably the Romanian mountain hunters were assigned to clear the battlefield of the dead when they were surprised by the photo camera of Alexandru Galaftion, the author of the photo, here something about his life and the source of the photo: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Viata-unui-erou-Alexandru-Galaftion/126896260798213 Warning: graphic image. https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/149166_128410670646772_1716895602_n.jpg |
| Posted by: Radub March 08, 2013 02:35 pm |
| Maybe it is something to do with respect for the dignity of the dead? Radu |
| Posted by: Alexei2102 March 08, 2013 03:19 pm |
| The foto that is the subject here depicts the same scene. Courtesy for the dead required. |
| Posted by: MMM March 08, 2013 07:02 pm |
| -deleted by poster- TY, Victor! |
| Posted by: Ferdinand March 08, 2013 10:22 pm |
| war means death and destruction!....... isn't the plane a YAK1 or 3? |
| Posted by: Victor March 09, 2013 07:00 am |
| The way to post such an image is to put the link to it and to issue a warning about its graphic content. This way who wants to see it will follow the link and see it and the rest of the people wjo don't want to see it will not be forced to do it. |
| Posted by: Radub March 09, 2013 09:17 am | ||
"Peacetime" has its share of brutal disasters and accidents too.  The tailplanes look like Il-2. The Yak tailplanes were quite different. There is very little to go by anyway. Radu |
| Posted by: ovichelu March 11, 2013 06:42 pm | ||
Here`s the link with the full photo : http://www.photo-war.com/eng/archives/items3769.htm |
| Posted by: ionionescu March 11, 2013 07:39 pm |
@ovichelu: thanks, that's all I wanted to see!  |
| Posted by: Florin March 12, 2013 02:17 am | ||
They saw these situations on a daily basis. My grandfather was entertaining an idle chatter with unit's cook, while the latter was stirring the soup in a huge cooking vessel. Out of nowhere, a shrapnel severed a half of cook's head, and that half dropped into the soup. As the soup was ready and expected by all guys around, they picked up the half head out from soup, then they served it. But the few that saw it did not tell to those who didn't. |
| Posted by: photo-war March 12, 2013 06:46 am | ||
Hello ionionescu! Sure you can see entire photo, I publish every photo that I have in my collection in my web-archive. Here it is: http://www.photo-war.com/eng/archives/items3769.htm Best regards, Alexander |
| Posted by: ionionescu March 12, 2013 10:48 am |
| @Alexander: thanks for sharing your photos, especially the ones related to Romanian Army! |
| Posted by: dragos March 12, 2013 04:36 pm | ||
Florin, if true, something like this couldn't happen on a daily basis. Weren't they making the soup far behind the front lines? |
| Posted by: Florin March 12, 2013 04:49 pm | ||||
My grandfather did not claim this kind of thing happened on a daily basis. He just told me the story. For the "daily" statement, blame me ! P.S: That is why the event was shocking - they did not prepare the food near the most advanced line. |
| Posted by: Florin March 13, 2013 01:57 am |
| I could never see a photo of a crashed IAR-80, even considering that once I had searched specially for it. Is there anything available ?  |
| Posted by: _Vik March 13, 2013 03:53 pm |
| Boys,can this foto with head russian pilot has relation to Odessa region in 1941?Thanks. |
| Posted by: dragos March 13, 2013 06:26 pm | ||
No, romanian mountains troops were not at Odessa. Should be Sevastopol, Crimea or Caucasus. |
| Posted by: ronnie April 07, 2013 02:01 pm |
| Friends, help me indentify this photo. What rank does this officer? http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/715/photo32js.jpg/ http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/534/photo222d.jpg/ |
| Posted by: ionionescu April 07, 2013 06:19 pm |
| I can tell you what uniform he is wearing and the unit he is serving with, but I need a better photo. Is the photo from your collection?, a relative? |
| Posted by: ronnie April 08, 2013 10:26 am |
| This is a photo of my friends granddad.He lived in Bessarabia,was in Romanian army. According to family legend he got acquainted with his future wife in Bukharest.These photoes are in the village.When my friend has the nearest opportunity he will make better copies. http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/534/photo222d.jpg/ |
| Posted by: Victor April 08, 2013 11:10 am |
| The photo on the right is of a pre-military uniform, for teenagers. |
| Posted by: ronnie April 08, 2013 12:57 pm | ||
Thanks,but only what? Emblems doesent look like Straya Tarij and MTR... |
| Posted by: ionionescu April 08, 2013 02:32 pm |
| As I said, post a decent size photo, clear, preferably a scan at minimal 300 dpi, and you'll get your answers. What is the name of the man in the photo?, from what village is he from?, what year was he born? Ask your „friend” this questions and get back to us! |