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My uncle killed a bunch of Serb rebels when he fought for NATO lol
>Turanj was a 30 minute bus ride from Zagreb, so a lot of marginal journalists showed up, myself included. I'd never been in a war before. These two guys lived in the Karlovac area. The one on the left is Serbian. The Chetniks burned his house cause he wouldn't join up, so he joined the Croatian Army.
Based in fact, serbs should have known they weren't living in a vaccuum and they had to play bigger political games.
>A Croatian soldier takes a break during a lull in the fighting at the sandpit.
Hmmm... Headbands..
There were a lot of East German helmets floating around.
After the m70 Zastava, the most common copy of the AK floating around was the romanian AK with a foregrip. I'm not sure how commonplace were normal Soviet AKs. Here an ARBiH soldier has a PM with duct taped mags.
There was a phenomena among ARBiH to wear bright green pieces of clothing and accessories, the Hamze for example had their uniforms made from this stuff in the inside because it was avaiable, most wore headbands because they watched one too many rambo movies.
On the other hand of the Vietnam War spectrum Bosnian Croats really liked to LARP as american infantry with all their USA surplus and writing on their M1 helmets.
You can hardly tell that these soldiers are HVO beause they look straight out of the set of platoon.
>I met this group in June of '92....if I remember right. Notice the guy holding the hunting rifle, back row right-hand side. He'd taken the rifle that morning from a Serb they'd killed at Bijelo Polje. It was a very nice Winchester Model 70, and it had a brass presentation plate from a sportsman's club in Butte, Montana. The name of the gun shop was also on the plate. The date was 1956.
>In April of '93 the Croats and the Muslims were officially on the outs. There had been some tension between their forces before that, but their leaders had been able to keep a lid on it. In late April some of the more extreme Croats in the Vitez area got a tank truck and filled the tank with 200 kg of Vitizit, a very powerful explosive made locally for the Jugoslav military. They grabbed an unlucky Muslim and handcuffed him to the steering wheel, then told him to drive to Mahalo...my guess is that the intended target was the Bosnian police headquarters building, but the truck was in front of the house behind the man with the cigar when it went off. The devastation was amazing. Five people were killed, including my friend Huso, his wife, and a young policeman I'd had lunch with a few days earlier. This gear is the largest remaining piece of the truck which blew up.
>Tito had a number of hunting lodges. I don't recall how I heard about the party at this one, but I arrived late and left early. I asked these guys who burned the place down and they said "the Ustashi." The place was well-looted and across the parking lot a guy wearing a bear skin, one of Tito's trophies, was doing a pretty good gypsy bear dance. The wine cellar was still well stocked. One guy told me there had been a nice collection of guns, including some valuable German weapons from WW2.
>The trench in the background was new, but carved into the rock face behind the man was a shelter big enough to hold three or four soldiers. I guessed it was from WW2 but the man said it was much older. The invaders always come up the same path.
>HVO, the Bosnian Army, and HOS were united against the Chetniks when I shot this picture in Mostar. They had crossed the old bridge the day before and forced the Serbs out of east Mostar. This trio had just come back from a fight at Bijelo Polje. The Serbs were on the run and would be until the communist Charles Holbrooke stepped in to save their ass. Soon after the Croatian HDZ party attacked HOS, setting the two Croatian parties against each other, and HVO attacked the Muslims in Bosnia. A true Balkan war.
good thread, user. I have nothing to contribute as all my yugo images were deleted recently
Thank you user
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Chicom rig surplus from the war, croat used it looks like.
Got some nice surplus wood on my npap, the handguard says 17, 6 Ziko 95. The other side has a lewd sticker
>most wore headbands because they watched one too many rambo movies.
Its because they are muslims and it means paradise to them, kind of
Then explain the bandanas, Bosniaks aren't super muslims, or in fact explain with Bosnian Serbs and Bosnian Croats also wore Headbands.
I think it's both, but they were wearing those bright green accessories for identification and because they thought it looked cool. If you're looking for religious garments look at those dark green headbands with pure white phrases from the Qur'an, I don't think the other headbands have religious connotations.
As proof take this picture of a serb with a black headband.
I've seen roki's music vid with some serbs wearing red headbands, definitely not uncommon but in the context of bosniaks, it's mostly a muslim thing as you see in modern wars like in Syria or Palestine. I don't rule out the identification though since it can be used as that.
But listen mostly the guys who are wearing headbands are young guys, and in fact you can see above an actual religious headband with a phrase from the qur'an just like in the middle east. Let me post also a picture of bosniak soldiers from one of the religious mujahideen units all wearing specifically religious headbands.
These guys are specifically religiously motivated but I don't think that everyone who is wearing a headband is doing it because they're muslims. I've also seen an old man wearing a headband around his hat, and if they wanted it a religious headband why are they using bright green cloth? I understand that the Hamze battalion used bright green because it's what they had avaiable, but why for such a small piee of clothing as a headband? It's for identification first of all and because it looks neat second of all, religiously thirdly or (firstly in case it's a headband with a qur'an phrase).
I think those might be post-war croatians because they're all unformed and using blatantly croatian insignia instead of HVO patches. I could be wrong on this though.
the page from this book seems to indicate that the pic you posted are Mujaheds but I don't disagree with your post
shit, I should have read the filename
Holy fuck, what a find.
Pic related, rape face
Ultimax in the Balkans
Ustashe recieve material support from the nazi germany
Theres a musician i really like that fled from the yugo wars and he had a really fucked up story about escaping but i cant remember who it was.
It says Mustafa Muratovic and Husejn,common bosniak names. Thats probably bosnian not croatian
Thank you for the quality thread,as a person from the balkans I'm happy to see normal threads without nationalistic genocidal bullcrap
Croats doing the kosher nationalist thing before the hohols...
>That horse helmet.
Kek i guess we had to make sure our animals are safe
Croats are proto-hohols but at least they aren't orthodogs, just brainrot pseudo catholics.
>I was always tempted to ask the guys who wore their rosaries like this some very basic questions about the Catholic faith. Like who comprises the Holy Trinity. I shot this picture when a Finnish journalist and myself were on our way into Jajce and we stopped to talk to Kordic.
That horse is sporting a fucking m56 lmao, strasserist horse.
>Kordic ran HVO in the Lashva Valley. As far as I could tell, his main power resided in the Nora cannon he somehow came into control of. He ended up going to prison for 25 years, sentenced to war crimes he probably didn't have anything to do with. However, he did plenty of other stuff he was never charged with....
How in the world did Croatians get so much western gear? It seems that they fluctuate between looking like everyone else (Headbands, M59s, Bandanas, bare heads, local camo, Zastava weapons) and looking like fucking GIs.
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>In August of '93 a small group of Croatian HVO fighters held off attacking Bosnians at a sand pit near Stara Bila, Bosnia.
Croats did a big woopsie betraying Bosniaks, they would pussy out from external pressure by 94 and in the battlefield soon enough. Bosniaks really pulled too many men out of their ass, they were fighting for survival I guess.
All these pictures from 92 and 93 of Croats are indistinguishable from the rest of the factions, I wonder around what time did they turn into complete GIs. Maybe they just bought massive surplus, I know they also were producing copies of Alice webbing and their own woodland, but they started having M16s around some time, and I'm not talking about the HV but the HVO. If a bosnian croat stumbled upon the thread I'd really like to know if this was just something that happened in Herzegovina, if it's a post war HVO thing or where and how did Croats turn from ustase into americans overnight.
Can someone ID the rifle this man is holding? It doesn't look like a Zastava, I don't think it has a rifle grenade sight so maybe it's a normal AK or a romanian one without the foregrip. The rifle in the background is an M70 clearly.
>This image has been here on the site for over a year and I haven't been able to write the caption. The kid in the middle was a friend of mine. When I first got to Bosnia he was too young to fight but he had an AK and bits and pieces of uniform. He took me up to the front line and showed me around the Croatian positions. Eventually they decided he was old enough to fight. The guys in charge preferred to use men who had done their time in the Yugoslav Army before the breakup and therefore were well trained for fighting in the mountains. None of these guys had been in the army. About a week after I took the picture this position got overun and all five of them were killed.
M76
So he helped out the Jihadists then?
That is what I was thinking because the barrel looked too long, so an M76 without a sight would have been my guess but I didn't want to make an ass out of myself.
Gonna post two PTSD gamers.
>The soldier on the left was in some sort of psychotic withdrawal. He was still with his unit and could walk around, but he never spoke and couldn't take care of himself. His buddy was telling him that it was OK and they'd look after him.
>Vitez was a pocket within a pocket. The Muslims were surrounded by Croats, and the Croats were in turn surrounded by the Bosnia Army. This man was a fighter in the Mahalo neighborhood. I ran into him in a back yard and he stopped to talk. War has made him look crazy. You can't get this look any other way, and it can be very difficult to get rid of. (In jan. '07 I was contacted by a Bosnian soldier from Vitez who said this guy survived the war and is doing fine)
The only religious fanatics were bosnian serbs, who used that excuse to proceed with ethnic cleansing taking catholics with them too.
>This gentleman was very helpful to journalists during the seige. He was at the time a friar at the Franciscan Monastery just above the Stradun.
>The Jajce monastery was established by the Franciscans 800 years ago. I have not heard the whole story of what happened when Jajce fell to the chetniks.
>How in the world did Croatians get so much western gear?
Well early in the war we smuggled in whatever we could get our hands on but in 94 and 95 could be that the americans supplied us with their surplus(that's just my theory)
>This Franciscan friar at the Jajce monastery asked me where I was from. I told him San Francisco and he said "Nice town, we built it."
My dad fought in the war on the Croatian side, they were liberating towns and villages down south near Dubrovnik and villages in Hercegovina. If you guys have any questions, feel free to shoot away.(pic related)
This picture is blurry and was most likely a still from a video but it seems like it's a .50cal on trailer hauled by a mercedes g-wagon
I know that croats were producing Woodland and Alice webbings, and also every army in europe before the 90s, when they started to move to kevlar gear was all using M1 helmet clones, so they probably wanted to also get rid of all that surplus just like they rid of all the east german M56 helmets. So my own theory is that most M1 helmet clones ended up in croatia.
Was he HVO or HOS? And why is he doing the serbian salute, is it ironically or just meant to be the peace sign with no thought to it?
Explain then why Kosovo & Albania are now hotbeds of Islamic extremism & also the hub of illegal organ trafficking in Europe?
>A lot of young people from the diaspora joined up to fight. This young Canadian, who was I believe from Toronto, spent time in the Croatian army. I met Serbs from the US, Muslims from Australia and Germany.
He's doing it ironically, and he wasn't in the Army, but a volunteer with other people who also volunteered, they were led by the "Tigers" at some point.
Is that an AR-7 up top?
Because albanians are mobsters and Kosovo is a muslim majority area opressed by Serbia? How does it have to do with BiH in the 90s? Bosniaks are much more moderate and had a handful of specifically religious units compared to the serbs, who were all in a crusade mindset.
Because America funded the KLA.
I want to HAVE SEX with an Ustase gf.
Arkan and his tiger, in front of his tigers
Why did you post that picture instead of this picture.
This man was in Mostar, I can't tell if he got that ARBiH hat before they turned on the Bosniaks or after, it could be grim or sweet, but I'm leaning towards grim. Croats would answer for Mostar.
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One day fighting for it the next they shell it.
W2C those.
This man is also wearing an HVO patch (Obscured by his arm) but a Bosnian pin on his beret. Do you think these were common place in the HVO before the Croat-Bosniak war? They just used the Bosnian symbol before it was associated with the ARBiH exclusively?
Bosniak fills jugs with gamer girl bath water for the frontline troops in Mostar.
How's the underfolder? Does it really suck?
Santa claus taking time to deliver gifts to children
Let's hope he's carrying M70s and cigarettes or we'll send him back to the pole for some.
Fucking neat. I knew the croats had a few well known tanks but I hadn't seen pictures. There's also one called something like blue lighting or something like that, but I don't think it's an M84.
What's going on in this picture? Isn't this Chechnya?
Croatian t-34
I always forget that after M84s the next big thing were T-34s.
Most of the improvized vehicles made had been named,and yes there are couple of named vehicles ill try to find some
Why have you not watched this movie yet?
Could be i found no description on the fb page i found it in
I also recommend No man's Land by Danis Tanovic (2001). Don't watch the american trailer, it's garbage and doesn't represent the movie. It makes it look like a comedy for that american braindead commercialization, it's a good serious movie.
Yeah it's Chechnya, the BTR and the dead man are a dead giveaway but I forgive you because those chechens look like Bosniaks with the headbands and whatnot.
>No man's Land
>it's a good serious movie.
it's a good movie but it's sort of a blackish comedy movie
My pic are foreign volunteers in lasovo 1991
It's like grim comedy, but it's still kind of a serious movie. Anyway, it's good, there's a mistake with the serbian uniforms because they're using Yugo uniforms with that square patch but otherwise it's accurate too.
And what are those volunteers doing in serbia in 1991?
The underfolder doesn’t really suck that much. Yeah it’s no fixed stock but it’s very convenient for traveling and getting in and out of vehicles. Some people wrap them in paracord but I think it ruins the aesthetic.