What's wrong with this picture?

[PUMC_TomG]

The civilian has a select-fire weapon, while the civilian police appear unarmed, and the US soldier has a venerable old 1911.

A bit reversed from how things are these days.

 

[beltslide]

School Belle Isn't the American Audi Murphy?

I wondered the same thing. I believe that Audi Murphy was the most decorated Hollywood actor of the second world war?

 

[Old Fud]

No, that is not Audie Murphy. Yes, that is a cigarette between the first 2 fingers of his left hand.

It looks to me like the picture in the foreground -- our two movie hero-volk -- has been superimposed over a background.
I don't know why I say this, but I have the feeling the foreground and the background are from two different times.

Fud, who has seen a LOT of Audie Murphy movies.

 

[heisler]

The signs are in English.

 

[MaterDei]

I don't think the lieuy is spliced into the picture. The shawdows all look right. The only 'english' word I see is Hotel and that is a pretty universal word, not at all uncommon in Europe.

The photographer is in an exposed position, that's for sure.

The LT with the 1911 has his rank insignia turned on his left collar. I'm also not sure how proper the camo bandana is. Were they around 'back then'?

Finally, the civy with the sten gun is going to go off half-cocked if he's not careful with that luger tucked into his waistband at the 12 o'clock position. Besides, if he is a French man what's he doing with a gun, much less two cool ones.

 

[BluesBear]

OK so it's a promo still from a movie set.

The question is which movie?




PUMC_TomG the Sten is not selective fire. They are Rock & Roll only.






.

 

[308win]

It looks to me like the Lt is wearing 'modern' OD BDU's.

 

[BluesBear]

I knew I had seen that photo somewhere before.

or at least part of it

A Sten-equipped member of the Maquis (the French Resistance or Forces Françaises de l'Intérieur, the FFI) guards an operation, Dreux, France, 1944. Allied airdrops provided weapons and explosives to the French patriots.

In the photo to the left, an American officer and a Sten-equipped partisan were photographed during a 1944 street fight in a French city.

In the photo to the right, a British Military Policeman leads prisoners in England, 8 June 1944.

 

[Mr. Mysterious]

The Sten sure as heck beats a liberator

 

[hksw]

Judging by the helmet of the soldier in the background, I'm guessing he is Free French.

It would appear that there is actually nothing wrong with the photo, just a reflection of how things are in the (French) world. The people doing the real fighting are the American and the Resistance fighter seeking freedom. The folks standing around (and possibly unarmed - the French Police), the official French representatives, doing nothing but watching and let others die for them.

 

[BluesBear]

Caption #1
"According to this map, the nearest Starbucks is seven blocks straight ahead, on the right, just past the Hotel Corona!"
"If I don't make through alive, Jacques Pierre, remember the Colonel wants extra whipped cream."



Caption #2
I don't care how many wimpy 9mm rounds your precious pre-ban magazine holds. This is a FORTY-FIVE and if I only hit a guy in the shoulder it'll spin him in circles until he's dizzy!



Caption #3
"OK Smart guy, just what DO you Frogs call deep-fried shoestring potates?"

 

[MaterDei]

So...

Is there a right answer?

 

[CZ-100]

SILLY LT... letting your butter bars show in combat will get you killed

 

[LaEscopeta]

I'm guessing there was no fighting going on any where near this photo, when it was taken; that's why the photographer is happy to stand in the middle of the road, in the guys in the back ground look so un-worried. I'm thinking the US officer and the French resistance fighter in the foreground are hamming it up for the photo (perhaps egged on by the photographer, who needs “action shots†but doesn’t want to go where there are real bullets flying.) The Frenchman’s hair and slack creases, and the Lieutenant’s uniform & boots, don’t look to me like they have spent a lot of time on the front. (Then again I’ve never been to a front, so how would I know what it looks like?)

 

[M99M12]

I saw those creases in his pants. "I have to fight. Honey, press my pants. Please."

 

[M99M12]

The answer is.................It's posed.





Or the laundry man is brave.

 

[jamz]

"According to this map, the nearest Starbucks is seven blocks straight ahead, on the right, just past the Hotel Corona!"
"If I don't make through alive, Jacques Pierre, remember the Colonel wants extra whipped cream."



Caption #2
I don't care how many wimpy 9mm rounds your precious pre-ban magazine holds. This is a FORTY-FIVE and if I only hit a guy in the shoulder it'll spin him in circles until he's dizzy!



Caption #3
"OK Smart guy, just what DO you Frogs call deep-fried shoestring potates?"

BWAAAHAHAHAhahahahahahahahahaaaa

-James

 

[zougou]

Caption #4

In times of peace and times of war -- brill creme, a little dab'll do ya.

 

[Nitram68]

no color?

 

[Dave R]

So...is there a correct answer?

Yes, Oleg gave it earlier in the thread. The fine looking gentleman holding the fine looking Sten gun has his hand over the ejection port of said Sten. When it fires, the bolt is going to come screaming forward and knock the heck out of his hand.

I assume no one ever held a Sten like that more than once.

 

[jeff-10]

The picture actually kind of makes a sense. The American LT there may have had heavy combat experience and is used to seeking cover under any circumstances in France. To the GIs over there at the time period France was a place to get killed not somewhere you walked around upright and tried to see what was going down. The Frenchmen on the other hand were used to going about there day to day activites even with Germans running around and shelling/bombing going on. After all they were occupied for 5 years. Thats why the skittish LT who very well may be a infantry/scout/intelligence officer is the only one seeking cover.

 

[Phantom Warrior]

The watch on the right wrist is generally a sign of a left handed person, yet he's holding the pistol in his right hand....hmmmmm.

Not always the case. I'm a righty and I wear my watch on my right hand. Uh, just to play devil's advocate, I guess.

 

[g56]

The photo is staged, they are seeking cover while the photographer stands in the middle of the street?

Looks more like a bracelet than a watch on the Lt.

The Lt also looks like he's about to shoot the freedom fighter in the leg!

The freedom fighter has his finger on the trigger of the Sten Gun, when your finger is on the trigger your hand cannot block the ejection port.

That is definitely not Audie Murphy, he was known as "The most decorated soldier in the Army of the United States", note the term "Army of the United States" that has a special significance but I can't recall its exact meaning, I think it is because he came up through the ranks and earned a field commission as an officer, rather than being a graduate of an OCS or Military Academy.

 

[mr.trooper]

Ditto. i am also Right handed, and ware my watch on the right.

 

[ProactiveReactionary]

with all the things being pointed out, shouldnt the queston be "whats NOT wrong with this picture?", you might get fewer answers that way.