#foreign legion

[isaacsapphire]

Was it just me who grew up on tales of the Flying Tigers and the Lafayette Escadrille? The romance, the glory of being in the vanguard of American involvement in what became a world war? Like, it doesn't surprise me in the slightest that there are Americans eager to fight for Ukraine! I was practically taught how to read on these stories.

[bleublancrage]

Indochine. 1952.

[gearedaesthetic]

French Foreign Legion Snipers in Afghanistan, 2005

[bookmaven]

Foreign Legion cover stories by John D. Newsom

“The Gorilla of No. 4” by J.D. Newsom (Adventure, January 1927) Cover by Remington Schuyler.

“The Foreign Legion Way” by J.D. Newsom. (Frontier Story, June 1927) Cover by Ralph Keufer.

“King Makers of the Legion” by J.D. Newsom. (Short Stories, September 25, 1929). Cover by K. Dombrowski

“The Ghost in the Bastion” by J.D. Newsom (Adventure, July 1930). Cover by John Drew.

“Lion of Morocco” by J.D. Newsom. (Argosy, February 1934) Cover by Harry Hornhorst.

“Too Much Duty” by J.D. Newsom. (Argosy, September 1934) Cover by Paul Stahr.

[surfingkaliyuga]

“Mickey Mouse in the Foreign Legion” Floyd Gottfredson 1981 A painting based on Gottfredson’s earlier work from 1936, a comic strip “Mickey Mouse Joins the Foreign Legion“.

[moonstone-vibe]

SAS: rogue heroes (2022)

Herbert “There’s two of us” Brückner and Walter “The real thing” Essner  expectation vs reality 

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

Battlefield landscape: Everywhere there are corpses of Wagnerites and soldiers of the Russian orc army at Bakhmut and other front line sectors, Ukraine, 2023. Source: russoldat.info

P.S. These dead Russian imperialists thought that Ukraine is not a country and Ukrainians are not a nation, but now these Russian orcs have become fertilizer for Ukrainian crop fields...! 

Quoting Ukrainian troops and Latvian volunteers fighting against invaders in Ukraine : “We don't care about wet dreams of Russian war criminals: Send 100,000 orcs, half a million or five million... or as many as are left in Russia, we will cut them down all,  like a field of corn...We will fight as long as it takes to destroy all invaders until complete victory...!”

[portal-to-the-past]

All-Adventure Action Novels - Spring 1939 

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[egsoon]

The Mummy

يتعثر الفيلق المحطم ريك أوكونيل على أنقاض هامونابترا الخفية بينما كان في خضم معركة للمطالبة بالمنطقة في مصر في عشرينيات القرن الماضي. لقد مرت أكثر من ثلاثة آلاف عام منذ أن عانى رئيس الكهنة الأسبق إمحوتب من مصير أسوأ من الموت كعقاب لحب ممنوع – إلى جانب لعنة تضمن الهلاك الأبدي للعالم إذا استيقظ.

[tspoe-pods]

Beau Geste (1927)

Beau Geste (1927) - Lydia and Christopher head to the deserts of Africa to follow the exploits of the Geste brothers in this 1927 silent film. #PodNation #Podcast #MovieReview #SilentFilm #Podcast #BeauGeste

Lydia and Christopher head to the deserts of Africa to follow the exploits of the Geste brothers in this 1927 silent film. Fantastic version of the film can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxvLDQW8M6s Promo: The “Fine” Dining Podcast (https://www.finediningpodcast.com/) Please click, follow, rate and review! https://linktr.ee/TSPandOE_Podcasts

[immaculatasknight]

The money connections

[postcard-from-the-past]

French Foreign Legion themed vintage postcard with matching stamp

[dorothydalmati1]

Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies 1935 Episode 7: Buddy of the Legion

Score by Bernard B. Brown

Directed by Ben Hardaway

Animated by Bob Clampett & Chuck Jones

Voice characterizations by Jack Carr

[bookmaven]

WIPED OUT by John D. Newsom. (New York: Dell #165, c.1947) Mapback.

Five stories of the Foreign Legion which originally appeared in Frontier Magazine in the late 20s.

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[standwukraine]

On the front line: The dangerous life of a foreign legionnaire in Ukrain...

[clemsfilmdiary]

Little Beau Porky (1936, Frank Tashlin)

Looney Tune #79

4/6/23