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A De Havilland Mosquito FB Mark VI of 'A' Flight, No. 143 Squadron RAF, firing on two moored merchant vessels with rocket and cannon fire, during an attack by the Banff Strike Wing on concentrations of enemy shipping in Sandefjord, Norway. Two merchant vessels were sunk, and a tanker and three merchantmen damaged, for the loss of two Mosquitos out of 39 aircraft employed on the strike, 2 April 1945

 

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The crew of U-552 in the port of Saint-Nazaire. May 5, 1941

 

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Photo study of a sun-baked Saxon Jäger from Königlich Sächsisches Reserve-Jäger-Bataillon Nr. 25 with full field equipment including a package from home.

Jägers used a grun-grau (green-grey) version of the M1910, and later M1915 feldrock piped in dark green. Exception were the Bavarian Jägers who wore feldgrau.
Original property of Bert Butterworth (Drakegoodman)

 

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The return from mission to the port of Saint-Nazaire of U-93 - Horst Elfe.

 

[Redav]

1940
German guard on watch in the early morning mist.

 

[BravoZulu]

"The Greatest Raid of All " - 82 years ago. The Royal Naval and Commando raid on St. Nazaire. British prisoners of war detained in a building nearby St Nazaire dockside - they look like they might be in a pub. They knew something the Germans didn't. 28 March 1942

 

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Rommel's funeral
October 1944

 

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[Redav]

British and German soldiers hanging out with each other at Ploegsteert during the Christmas Truce, circa. December 24, 1914.
The famous Christmas Truce began along the Western Front. German soldiers at St. Yves in Flanders decorated their lines with candles and Christmas trees, following it up by singing Christmas carols. The British soldiers responded by singing carols of their own and soon soldiers from both sides began venturing out into no man’s land. This culminated into a full out Christmas Truce between the British and Germans, who all met each other face to face in no man’s land. The soldiers exchanged gifts such as alcohol, foods, tobacco and souvenirs. They exchanged pictures of their families, took photographs with each other, held joint burial ceremonies for their fallen soldiers, and small-scale football (soccer) matches were played.

 

[Conhoon]

US Marine with an experimental robot (R2 series astromech droid), designed to penetrate the Japanese defenses which included dozens of tunnelled caves dug into the hill's limestone cliffs on the island fortress of Guadalcanal in January 1943.

(Colourised by Royston Leonard from the UK)

 

[BravoZulu]

23 March 1945. An M4A1 (76mm) Sherman tank of the 14th Armoured Division moves past a roadside littered with debris from the retreating German forces near, Silz, Germany.

 

[BravoZulu]

22 yo WASP pilot Elizabeth L. Remba Gardner (1921 – December 22, 2011) at the controls of a B-26 bomber at Harlingen Army Air Field, Texas. 1943.

 

[BravoZulu]

Type VIIC U-69 was very successful, sinking over 72,000 gross register tons (GRT) of Allied shipping in a career lasting two years, making her one of the longest surviving, continuously serving, U-boats. Her most notable attack was on the civilian ferry SS Caribou, which sank off the coast of Newfoundland in October 1942, killing 137 men, women and children. She was rammed and sunk by F-class destroyer HMS Fame on 17 February 1943.

 

[santana]

Tuskegee Airmen in front of their P-40

 

[santana]

US paratroopers of Easy Company, 506th PIR of the 101st Airborne Division together with soldiers (back row) from the Army’s 4th ID (that came from Utah Beach) in the square of Sainte-Marie-du-Mont. June 7, 1944

 

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U-99 - Otto Kretschmer's boat

 

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[Conhoon]

4 April 1945
Royal Marine Commandos F. Mander and R. J. Angus of the 1st Special Service Brigade on look out for snipers in the ruins of Osnabruck, Germany.

(Photo source - © IWM BU 3057)
Colourised by Doug

 

[santana]

The USS HORNET is leaving the San Francisco Bay with its precious cargo of North American B-25 Mitchell bombers that carried out the famous Doolittle Raid in Tokyo on the 18th of april of 1943

 

[Redav]

A close up of the 37 mm anticar cannon attached to the wing of a Junkers Ju 87 Stuka abandoned on an airfield in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia (1945).