By Chris McNab
The definitive paintings on Hitler's conflict laptop, charting its evolution from the ambitious strength which received lovely victories throughout the Blitzkrieg in 1940, to the demanding campaigns it fought within the deserts of North Africa and the frozen wastelands of the Soviet Union to the eventual retreat to the place of birth itself. Drawing upon Osprey Publishing's designated archive, this quantity expertly weaves jointly the tale of the improvement and deployment of Hitler's armies displayed along a beautiful selection of unique paintings and images to teach the uniform and gear of many of the land forces.
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So similar were both the causes and pathologies of their injuries, in fact, that they were given their own medical name, ‘Airman’s Burn’. The burn was characterised by deep, whole thickness burns to areas of great functional importance, primarily the face and hands. Whole thickness burns are the most serious of all, where all skin tissue is destroyed, including sebaceous glands, hair follicles, sweat glands and nerve endings. An RAFMS memorandum later defined the injury: ‘This is a burn of almost unvarying characteristics due to the sudden 44 RECONSTRUCTION MAKE-UP 27/7/04 10:56 Page 45 WAYNE'S G3 WAYNE'S G3: WAYNE'S JOBS:8907 - GRE T H E B U R N I N G B LU E exposure of unprotected parts of the body to intense, dry heat or flame, as though the entire patient were thrust into a furnace for a few seconds and withdrawn.
22 50 RECONSTRUCTION MAKE-UP 27/7/04 10:56 Page 51 WAYNE'S G3 WAYNE'S G3: WAYNE'S JOBS:8907 - GRE T H E B U R N I N G B LU E Historian Stephen Bungay has identified combat tactics peculiar to the Hurricane which would also account for the higher fire risk: ‘Most fighters hit by bombers were struck by bullets as they passed through the formation or pulled away, when they offered a far bigger target. The Hurricanes, unlike the Spitfires, would also have exposed their wing tanks during this part of an attack.
Above each ankle had a bracelet of unburnt skin: my socks, which were always wrinkled, had refused to burn properly and must have just smouldered… My Service gloves were almost burnt off, and the skin from my wrists and hands hung down like paper bags. The under side of my right arm and elbow were burnt and so were my face and neck. ’4 Maurice Moundsen was part of a standing patrol when he was hit in an attack on a bomber formation over Colchester: ‘Cannon shells smashed into the left side of my Hurricane and I received a lot of shrapnel splinters in my thigh and leg before the same 109, or possibly another, hit the gravity tank and I was instantly in an inferno.