Good drawing. But - I cannot imagine that moment of horror before

Interesting, :3 and true, the German military had many legions of foreign volunteers even in the SS too. Ukrainian SS and French SS.

Even a true story exists about Koreans who fought against the Japanese, then surrendered to them and fought for them, then against the Russians. Then in Russian uniform and against the German's then captured by them into the Normandy D-Day. where a lot of units in Normandy were Koreans, and other european nationalities.



Good picture by the way. Bouncing betty's were pretty deadly.

"First rule about disarming bettys...you don't step on 'em!"

She is a nasty one.

Bouncing Betty's very nasty.

Betty always was a mean one.

Again! Thank you so much! Or should I start saying "Wunderbar"? XD

There's a modest amount of discussion on this unit in the Osprey books. Apparently, it came to even less than the Japanese version of Indian troops (the Japanese had captured quite a few Indians at Singapore, and again in the Burma campaigns). I'm not entirely sure the Germans ever actually fielded any Indian troops to any large extent.

They did field them, but they are often overlooked because of its small size. The German faction of the Indian troops is indeed overshadowed by the INA (an army of 40,000~ individuals in 1945, vs one that had 2,500 at its peak). Most of the unit defended the Atlantic wall and retreated back post the D-Day invasion.

Though, granted, a lot of the time getting POW Indians to volunteer for the Germans was like pulling teeth, especially after Bose duced out of Berlin, hence why the numbers were very small.

I'm being colloquial XD

Subhas Chandra Bose left Berlin in early 1943 to help run the INA.

Bouncing Betty were bad. But the schu mines were worse. They were in wooden cases, so the only metal in them was in the detonator. So magnetic detectors were pretty much useless. Small explosive charges, so they generally just blew the unlucky son's foot apart. The called them toe-poppers. Sometimes the would be linked to nearby piles of "abandoned" artillery shells or other munitions. War pretty much sucks for the guys on the line. Anything you do can get you killed, including doing nothing.

Betty always scared me. I found one hidden sideways inside the plaster of a wall in Kosovo once, Whoever wired That little beauty up was creatively sick. But wonderful art, I love it.

Isn't Kosovo part of Serbia?

It's a former Yugoslavia country, next to Serbia. ^.^