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India and Pakistan - Rare Pictures

Here are some rare pictures of the time of partition

Nehru and Gandhi at AICC meeting, July 1946

Direct Action Day: Calcutta, Aug.16, 1946.

Mountbatten arrives at Delhi airport; received by Nehru and Liaquat Ali. March 25, 1947

Aug. 15, 1947: Mountbatten swears Nehru in as Prime Minister of India

TRAIN TO PAKISTAN; India 1947. Trains packed with refugees - Hindus and Sikhs headed for India, and Muslims headed for Pakistan - were convenient targets for gangs of killers on both sides of the border. Inadequately protected 'Refugee Specials' were typically stopped, and the occupants butchered, several times in the course of the journey.

The dead - Punjab, 1947

Ghandhiji Addressing people

1948: The news of Gandhi's assassination hits the streets. A stunned crowd gathers in Calcutta.

1948: Crowds in New Delhi wait for a glimpse of Gandhi's funeral procession.

1971: Indira Gandhi reviews the troops, in the context of militaryand diplomatic preparations for the Bangladesh War.

A Library being divided at the time of partition. My heart trembles to see this sight and it is tough to imagine the state of the nation at the moment when people needed to hold hands.


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Tanks, The War Machine 2

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Built in 1939,this German SdKfz 222 reconnaissance vehicle armed with a 20mm main gun.

The Shilka ZSU-23-4 (ZSU = Zenitnaya Samokhodnaya Ustanovka) with a fully integrated, self-propelled anti-aircraft system with fout liquid-cooled 23mm automatic cannons.

This is a 1942 German Sturmgeschutz III Ausf F-G, Self-Propelled Assault Gun, with a 75mm gun.

This is 1941 SdKfz 2 Kleines Kettenkrad Prime Mover. Note that it can seat a couple of soldiers in the back.

Britain-built Tracked Rapier, which was armed with eight Rapier SAM Missies and Smoke Dischargers.

A tracked bridge.

Ian Abbott is seen walking under one of two Scud launchers on display. This is a Soviet SS-1b Scud A.


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Tanks, The War Machine

One of the biggest guns on display was this 1974 Soviet-built 2S7 Pion with a 203mm gun. Next to it was a huge 1969 Long Track Radar vehicle, also a Soviet machine, which had a giant truck sitting on a pair of tracks.

Can a tank be cute? Well this small 1943 M22 Locust comes close to it, along with a 37mm gun. Designed to be carried by aircraft, you could squeeze it into your garage at a with of 7'4".

Wearing a bright camo scheme is this 1940 British-built Matilda Mark 2 Series 4, armed with a 40mm gun.

Built in Great Britain, this is a 1966 Chieftan Mark 6 with a 120mm gun.

This is a 1945 105mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M37.

A line of tanks, Black Magic is an American 1941 M4A3 Sherman tank, armed with a 75mm gun.

Definitely aviation oriented was this anti-aircraft 1940 M16 Wasp halftrack with a quad 50's in the back.

A 1944 German/Czech Jagdpanzer 38 Hetzer with a 75mm gun.

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