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Thanks for the great post. This is one of the best WW2 threads i have seen on any site. The info provided really enhances the experience of viewing the photos. GJ!!!View attachment 187005
Soviet soldiers trudge through the snow in the forest near Zvenigorod, Moscow Oblast, Russia. (30km. west of Moscow)
1st of November 1941.
The Soviet defensive effort frustrated Germany’s attack on the capital of the Soviet Union, and the largest Soviet city.
Moscow was one of the primary military and political objectives for Axis forces during the invasion and occupation of the U.S.S.R.
(Image taken by Alexander Kapustyanskiy.)
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Troops of the US 5th Engineer Special Brigade, wade through the surf to the northern coast of France, at Fox Green Sector of Omaha Beach.
They were part of the over-increasing number of men bolstering the forces which made the initial landings on the beachhead.
8th of June 1944.
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OPERATION COLIN, BATTLE OF MAAS.
Infantry of the 153rd Brigade, 51st Highland Division are carried into battle aboard a Sherman tank (T-233073) near Udenhout in the Netherlands.
29th of October 1944.
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Demolition men of the US 3rd Marine Raider Battalion, gathered in front of a Japanese dugout they helped to take at Cape Torokina on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands in January 1944.
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Winston Churchill, visiting the Tactical Headquarters of the 9th. Australian Division near El Alamein.
He was accompanied by General Sir Claude Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief Middle East, and other high ranking allied officers.
Here Mr. Churchill is seen alighting from his car on arrival and being welcomed by Lieutenant-General W.H.C. Ramsden, Commander XXX Corps.
5th August 1942.
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Two riflemen from the 317th Infantry Regiment, US 80th Infantry Division take a moment to roll their own cigarettes while in Goesdorf, Luxembourg on January 10, 1945.
On the left is SSG Abraham Aranoff, a native of Boston, Mass., to the right is, Private Henry W. Beyer of Grand Rapids, Michigan. These men, from E Company, 1st Battalion, 317th Infantry, had been fighting for 27 days straight, most of it during the German counter-offensive in the Ardennes. They’d just been pulled out of the lines for a short, well-deserved break.
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U.S. soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division carry wooden sculptures and paintings, including the "Adam and Eve" oil painting by Franz Floris from 1550, out of Hermann Goering's art bunker in the Wemholz, Berchtesgaden area, and load them into a truck. May 1945
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New Zealand front line troops on leave in Campobasso, in central/southern Italy, meet a gharri (a horse-drawn cab) driver, with a little English, and are set for the day".
The 3rd of May 1944.
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A rare light hearted view of war.
A German Flak crew photo of their regimental mascot sitting by a 88mm, FlaK 36. Flugzeugabwehrkanone (aircraft-defense cannon)
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Medics from the 5th and 6th Special Engineer Brigade help wounded soldiers on Omaha beach, Fox Green and Easy Red sectors. Survivors of sunken landing craft are recovered by other troops, who reached the beach by using a life raft.
June 6th, 1944, D-Day
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A Panzerkampfwagen IV F-1 of Panzer Regiment 24, Pz Div. 24 on the Russian Steppes in the Summer of 1942.
(Note that the 24th Panzer Division was allowed to use the golden yellow collar tab trim in recognition of their roots as an Imperial German Cavalry Unit. The 24th Panzer Division was the only Armored Division so honoured. Other Panzer Divisions use the famous "Panzer Pink" Waffenfarbe.
Also resting on the opened turret door, there is, what appears to be, a German Heeres Model 1928 Signal (Flare) Pistol. The pre-World War II pistols were produced by Walther.
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A Wartime radio broadcast, 1940.
As Princess Elizabeth, The Queen made her first public speech at the age of 14, on the 13th of October 1940, with a radio address to the children of the Commonwealth, many of them living away from home due to war. Her younger sister, Princess Margaret, joined in at the end
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A group of men from the 17th Armored Engineer Battalion, US 2nd Armored Division gather round a piano for a sing-a-long in the Rue Monteglise, Barenton in Normandy on the 10th of August 1944.
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A group of 'walking wounded' British troops evacuated from Dunkirk, in front of a 'Great Western Railway' carriage at Dover, Kent on the 31st of May 1940.
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Private First Class Rez P. Hester of the 7th War Dog Platoon, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th US Marine Division takes a nap in a fighting hole dug out of the the volcanic sand on Iwo Jima while 'Butch', his Doberman war dog stands guard.
February 1945.
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Lt. Robert Roger Marchi standing on his Yakovlev Yak-3 of the Free French "Normandie-Niemen" 1st Squadron. GCIII Normandie (Groupe de Chasse) No.III
East Prussia, March 1945
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.Fallschirmjäger Division, at Anzio in Italy, January 1944
The trooper shows off a captured British 'Bren' Light Machine Gun and is leaning on a wooden case marked: "Luftdichter Patronenkasten" (Air tight sealed ammunition boxes, for 1500 x 7.92 Mauser or 9mm cartridges).
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A close-up of a British heavily armed patrol of 'L' Detachment SAS in their jeeps, just back from a three month patrol.
18th of Jan 1943
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Private L.V. Hughes, 48th Highlanders of Canada, Cdn.1st Division sniping a German position near the Foglia
River, on the Gothic Line in Italy.
Late August 1944.
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A squad leader of either the 27th or 161st Infantry Regiment of the 25th US Infantry Division ("Tropic Lightning") points out a suspected Japanese position at the edge of Balete Pass, near Baguio, Luzon, Philippine Islands. 23rd of March 1945.
To Be Continued....
