Photos WW2 Allied Forces

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OTD in 1944, Brenzett airfield. RAF 315 Squadron Leader Eugeniusz Horbaczewski's kills are being painted on his P-51 Mustang. He was shot down and killed on 18 August 1944.

 

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Sherman Firefly of the 1st Armoured Division (Polish) in Holland, Spring 1944.

 

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Soldiers of the Polish Army (Wojska Lądowe), with Karabinek wz. 1929 (bolt-action repeating rifles based on the German Kar98), and with the Hełm wz. 31 (helmet, 1931 pattern) - marching in the capital Warsaw, Poland, on May 3rd, 1939.

 

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Dutch Pantserwagen M-36 (Swedish-built Landsverk L180) armoured car knocked out in May 1940

 

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Luxembourg Soldiers in 1943

 

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M4A4 Sherman of 1er régiment de chasseurs d'Afrique in battle on Kaysersberg Street, December 18th, 1944.

 

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British troops talking to French and Polish (Independent Podhales Rifles Brigade) soldiers around a French Hotchkiss H39 tank in Steinsland Norway 1940.

 

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French column of Renault FT tanks rolling through the streets of Damascus, capital of Syria and then French Mandate of the Levant, June 1941.

 

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Polish M4 Sherman drives past a destroyed German StuG III near Monte Cassino - May, 1944

 

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1944, Pesaro, Italy. Business as usual for the local barber, as Polish troops are passing

 

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OTD in 1941, Kelso area. Four brothers, volunteers from the Polish community in Argentina, who joined the Polish Army together, during a rifle practise.

 

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Siege of Tobruk, Libya. 16 October 1941. Polish infantrymen manning a Bren gun

 

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Polish tankers inspect a Tiger IV, number 214 of 2./s.SS-Pz.-Abt. 101, destroyed by an A27 Cromwell of the Polish 1st Armored Division near Ernes, Normandy. 15 August 1944. An armor-piercing shell hit and passed through the rear turret escape hatch.

 

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Brazilian Expeditionary Force (FEB) during a parade in Rio de Janeiro, 1944.

 

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Capitaine Charles Trépel, of the Free French Commandos, demonstrating the use of the Fairbairn-Sykes dagger

 

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Polish Churchill II tank from the 1st Polish Armoured Division. They were unpopular with their crews due to their unreliability and high maintenance requirements. Scotland,1941

 

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M10 G.M.C. The Polish II Corps in the Italian Campaign, 1943-1945

 

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Brazilian infantry resting beside a US M10 tank destroyer, April 1945

 

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April 1941, Leamington Spa. The Prime Minister watching Czech troops training with a 2-pounder anti-tank gun