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Some Nationalist Chinese soldiers, showing some variety in uniform color. There are some similarities to Japanese uniforms. Some units showed heavily influence from the Germans, and many of the indigenously-made weapons were copies of German items. Late-war units were supplied with US gear.
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23 October 1944
Corporal P W Collings, a Royal Corps of Signals motorcycle despatch rider equipped with a BSA WM20, delivers a message to a ('C' Squadron) 11th Armoured Division tank commander of a Cromwell, Cruiser Mk.VIII tank (T 187801), somewhere near Helmond in the Netherlands.
After Normandy and the collapse of the German army around Falaise, the 11th Armoured Division took part in the mad dash to Antwerp via Brussels and took Antwerp against overwhelming odds in a text book coup de main. During Market Garden the division was assigned to cover the right flank of XXX corps and advanced on the main axis.
The division advanced all the way to the River Maas and during October, holed up in Helmond. The division continued to fight through Holland with brief diversions such as the efforts to combat the Northern thrust of the Battle of the Bulge. The division took part in Operation Blockbuster and the Hochwald battle as well as the Reine crossing and the battle of Teutoburger Ridge. More harrowing in the division’s history was the liberation of Belsen. The division ended up pushing on to the Baltic coast where it finished sitting near Hamburg and Lubeck.
(Photo source - © IWM B 11190)
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Corporal P W Collings, a Royal Corps of Signals motorcycle despatch rider equipped with a BSA WM20, delivers a message to a ('C' Squadron) 11th Armoured Division tank commander of a Cromwell, Cruiser Mk.VIII tank (T 187801), somewhere near Helmond in the Netherlands.
After Normandy and the collapse of the German army around Falaise, the 11th Armoured Division took part in the mad dash to Antwerp via Brussels and took Antwerp against overwhelming odds in a text book coup de main. During Market Garden the division was assigned to cover the right flank of XXX corps and advanced on the main axis.
The division advanced all the way to the River Maas and during October, holed up in Helmond. The division continued to fight through Holland with brief diversions such as the efforts to combat the Northern thrust of the Battle of the Bulge. The division took part in Operation Blockbuster and the Hochwald battle as well as the Reine crossing and the battle of Teutoburger Ridge. More harrowing in the division’s history was the liberation of Belsen. The division ended up pushing on to the Baltic coast where it finished sitting near Hamburg and Lubeck.
(Photo source - © IWM B 11190)
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An unidentified corporal from the US Army's 30th Infantry Division (based in the San Francisco Presidio) stands at attention with a group of women in two-piece bathing costumes, doughboy helmets, and heels, each of whom holds an M1917 Enfield rifle, on a parade ground in Camp George Derby, on the grounds of the California Pacific International Exposition in Balboa Park, San Diego California, mid to late 1935. Mostly obscured behind the women is the entrance to the expo's so-called 'Indian Village.' (Photo by Interim Archives/Getty Images)
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Makes you wonder why the bikini swimsuit caused public outrage when it was introduced some 10 years later.
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A C-47 Air Transport Command plane flies over the pyramids in Egypt loaded with urgent war supplies and materials. It was one of a fleet flying shipments from the U.S. across the Atlantic and the continent of Africa to strategic battle zones in 1943
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27 October 1944
Infantry and universal carriers of 8th Royal Scots pause during the attack by 15th (Scottish) Division on Tilburg, in the Netherlands.
(Photo source - © IWM B 11400)
Laing (Sgt)
No. 5 Army Film and Photo Section, Army Film and Photographic Unit
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Infantry and universal carriers of 8th Royal Scots pause during the attack by 15th (Scottish) Division on Tilburg, in the Netherlands.
(Photo source - © IWM B 11400)
Laing (Sgt)
No. 5 Army Film and Photo Section, Army Film and Photographic Unit
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