Two Ukrainian women at a fortified railway station at Bogdanovka in the Central Sector, late 1943.
Note log walls and trenches.

Fortified railway station

Members of the Gjentehird, Norwegian equivalent of the BDM catering for young women in the 14 to 18 age range.  The girl on the right wears a lapel pin of the Norwegian Nasjonal Samling (National Unity) Party, Vidkun Quisling's equivalent of the Nazi Party - the device of a flying eagle bearing the Party's Sun Cross emblem.  On her left sleeve she wears a Sun Cross cloth badge (gold cross on red Sun).  The lozenge-shaped enamelled badge on her left breast is one of a range of such badges (Sun Cross circled within a lozenge) often worn by members of the Norwegian NS women's organisation - the Kvinnehird - and its youth arms.  The other badge is the rarely-awarded High Command of the Hitler Youth for Distinguished Foreigners, a rarely-awarded distinction made by the German HJ to its particular foreign comrades.  Best regards, JR.

Norwegian friends ...

Fiat G. 18 liner of the Ala Littoria shown to the public at the Milan International Aviation Saloon. DVX