File:Arquebus Krigshistorisk Museum Norway. WW2 Allied Victory in Europe display. Uniforms weapons equipment USSR Red Army officer private US private British paratrooper battle dress German Waffen-SS Volkssturm Hitlerjugend flags photos A.jpg

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English: Arquebus War History Museum (Arquebus Krigshistorisk Museum) in Førre, Norway: The exhibition 'WWII Allied Victory in Europe 1945', opened in 2005 by Tom Wheatcroft (1922–2009), a British war veteran and collector of racing cars and German military vehicles. The exhibition includes mannequins dressed in military uniforms, displayed in glass cases showcasing weapons, equipment, ammunition, awards, debris, historical photos, and more. The collaboration with Tom Wheatcroft and his son Kevin Wheatcroft also includes 'The Battle of Berlin', a large diorama featuring a multitude of exhibition figures in German and Russian uniforms, weaponry, military equipment, and two Russian tanks in a city environment characterized by ruins, bricks and debris.

Window one

  • Soviet Union (USSR) Red Army infantry officer parade uniform
    • M1941 officer’s khaki field visor cap with Red Star cap badge
    • Tunic with Lieutenant-Colonel rank insignia on shoulder boards, red piping and star emblem on buttons
    • Decorations: Order of the Red Star and Order of the Patriotic War of 1941 - 1945
    • Leather waist belt, cross strap, map pouch, pistol holster; belt buckle with Red Army's star and hammer and sickle emblem; binoculars
    • Riding breeches, high boots
  • Soviet Union (USSR) Red Army soldier
    • SSh-40 steel helmet
    • Telogreika (fufaika, vatnik) padded cold weather clothing (jacket and trousers)
    • Box belt buckle with star emblem
    • Russian hand grenades: RGD-5 (РГД-5), Granata Distansionnaya, distance hand grenade or time-delayed hand grenade; F-1 grenade; and RGD-33 grenade
    • PPSh-41 submachine gun
  • United States Army soldier
    • M1 helmet, M43 jacket, gaiters
    • Field communication: US SCR-536 Radio Transceiver, 'handie talkie' (later 'walkie-talkie')
    • US rifle grenades, etc.
  • PM M1910 (Pulyemyot Maksima, 'Maxim's machine gun' Model 1910), a Russian heavy machine gun
  • Order of the Red Banner, the first Soviet military decoration established in 1918, Red Army uniform belt buckle, canteen glass water bottle, hand grenade, US Winchester cardboard ammo box: 20 Cartridges ball caliber .30 m2, etc.
  • Russian PPS 43 submachine gun (mounted on wall)
  • Flag of the Soviet Union
  • Flag of the United States
etc.

Window two

  • British paratrooper (British airborne parachute regiment “Red Devils”)
  • Flag of the United Kingdom (Union Jack)
  • German Waffen-SS soldier
    • M43 peaked field cap (ski cap)
    • 1942-1943 tunic (Feldbluse) with SS runes and rank insignia of SS-Sturmmann (corporal) on collar tabs (Kragenspiegel)
    • StG 44 (Sturmgewehr 44), an assault rifle developed during World War II by Hugo Schmeisser
  • Stielgranate 41, a German 37 mm high explosive anti-tank stick grenade, rocket style grenade with barrel and tail fins (projectile with fin-stabilized shell), for the 3.7 cm PaK-36, the standard anti-tank gun of the Wehrmacht
  • British Brodie helmet with hole
etc.

Window three

  • German Volkssturm soldier
    • Camouflage painted steel helmet (Stahlhelm) with a bread bag strap for attaching foliage for camouflage
    • Double breasted overcoat/greatcoat (Mantel) with rank insignia of Leutnant (2nd Lieutenant) on shoulder straps
    • Deutscher Volkssturm Wehrmacht armband on the left arm
    • Panzerfaust, a German inexpensive recoilless single-shot man-portable anti-tank weapon of World War II
  • German MG 34 general purpose machine gun mounted on a tripod (deutsches MG34 Allzweck-Maschinengewehr, montiert auf einem Dreibein)
  • Oversized Nazi propaganda portrait bust of Adolf Hitler
  • Member of the Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend, HJ), the youth organisation of the Nazi Party in Germany before and during World War II (1926–1945)
    • Black peaked ski cap with HJ emblem (a black mobile swastika central to a red diamond on a white background)
    • Light brown/tan shirt/blouse with pleated breast pockets; Shoulder straps with HJ rank insignia of Scharführer; Triangle shaped regional badge on upper left sleeve (das Traditions-Arm-Dreieck der Hitler-Jugend war eine Sonderform des Gebietsdreiecks/Armdreiecks), with Süd-Wurtemberg;
    • Rolled black neckerchief/scarf secured with a brown woggle/slider (HJ Halstuch Klöppel), over the collar
    • Hitler Youth cloth brassard (swastika armband). Similar to the HJ flag, the armband has a white stripe on red and a black swastika on the white HJ diamond.
    • Hitler Youth belt buckle with the HJ eagle clutching the HJ diamond with a swastika in its talons in the center. The front reads Blut und Ehre ("Blood and Honour").
    • Hitler Youth knife. Full members of the HJ would receive a knife upon enrollment, with the motto "Blood and Honour" engraved upon it.
  • Swastika flag of the Hitler Youth; The official Hitler Youth emblem consists of a black mobile swastika above a white square diamond surrounded by alternating white and red quadrants all within a rhomboid shaped diamond.
  • Side/snare drum (Marschtrommel, 'march drum') of the Hitler Youth
etc.
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