Photos Partisans

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Not sure if the Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels have been posted before. In case not yet:

The contribution of Papua Natives to the fight against the Japanese aggression is not well known outside of Australia.
Their help to the Aussie troops was very valuable, and not only as scouts or porters.

He may not be everybody's idea of a Fuzzy Wuzzy Angel...

 

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Soviet partisans conducting insurgent activity in Belarus (1943)

 

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Danish Resistance Movement who conducted sabotage actions against the Nazis. Odense, Denmark 1945

 

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A resistance fighter of the Forces Françaises de l'Intérieur (FFI) poses with his Bren gun. Châteaudun, France, 1944.

 

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30 September 1943, the fourth and last day of fighting in Naples - a city liberated by itself from the Nazis. The uprising has seen hundreds of civilians, partisans, police and Italian soldiers die. The youngest resistance fighter to fall is eleven-year old Gennaro Capuozzo.

 

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Warszaw Insurgents at Napoleon Square (now Powstańców Warszawy Square). The Prudential skyscraper is visible in the background. It had a height of 16 floors (66 m), which made it at that time the highest in Poland and the second in Europe.
It still stands today.

Insurgents unit at Zgoda Street, at the exit to Jasna Street. View towards the north.

 

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Two partisans of the 2nd Kletnyansky Partisan Brigade - Eastern Front, 1943.

 

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A group of female Yugoslav partisans

 

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Montenegrin Chetnik collaborator poses for a photo with an Italian Breda 30. 1942

 

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German auxiliary police (Schuma from Latvia) surrendering its weapons to the Danish resistance at the end of WW2; there are M1 carbines, a Sten and a Beretta M38. The resistance member on the truck has a SVT-40

 

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Exhausted Czech fighters enjoying a short break during the fierce urban combat of the Prague uprising. May, 1945.

 

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Salvaged Japanese Ho-103 air turret machine gun used by a barefoot Filipino guerilla

 

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The 'Kampinos' Group of the Polish Home Army, during the Warsaw Uprising - they were making preparations to aid the resistance fighters in German-occupied Warsaw, on August 19th, 1944.

From the Left to R (by numbers 1 to 5) - Senior Warrant officer Cadet Jerzy Baumiller, with Lt. Tadeusz Gaworki, and Private Ludwik de Laveau, Corporal Andrzej Berezowski, and lastly Polish Corporal Zbigniew Słoczyński.

 

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Young Polish Resistance Home Army / Armia Krajowa members during the Warsaw Uprising - August 1944

 

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I just stumbled upon this black & white video. It was made in 1994 - you wouldn't believe given its poor quality - and retells the "battle of Cluny" (yes, this Cluny that was the seat of the Clunisian order, you'll see some shots of the abbey in it). It pits the French resistance (interestingly both Gaullists and communist FTPs) against the regular German Wehrmacht, and ends up in a resounding win for the Resistance (a rare occurrence). It's in French, so to sum it up, after retelling the history of the Saône-&-Loire maquis, you get to the battle proper. On August 10th 1944 - after the Avranche breakthrough but before Dragoon - the Wehrmacht intended to put an end to the depredations the Resistance was causing on its lines of communication. The main nest was at Cluny.The Resistance decided to stop them altogether. A 2 pronged Wehrmacht attack was mounted, the Western prong was stopped, the Eastern prong seemed to have broken through, so the German command decided to send the reserve into the town, unaware that a 3rd French force was already moving to reinforce the lost positions. The German column, moving in trucks & buses along a road, was ambushed an obliterated by the French force, putting an end to the German tentatives against Cluny. The whole affair seems to have engaged, on both sides, regiment sized forces. The video contains several maps of the engagement, I captured a screen. Germans in red, French in blue. You can see both prongs, teh broken through rEsistance position at Bois Clair, and the move of the French 3rd force and the ambush position.

Now a link to the video itself. It's in French, and the music is a bit too loud, but quite interesting nonetheless.

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Greek resistance fighter in 1944

 

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Philippine guerrilla fighters with M1 Carbines in Leyte, Philippines - 1944