Photos WW2 British & Commonwealth Forces

OTD in 1944. Operation Market Garden. Men - risking their lives being outside the Hartenstein Hotel - displaying a yellow parachute to signal planes where to drop supplies. Most fell in German hands.
FdUoJ3xWQAALTAO?format=png&name=large.webp
 
OTD in 1942, North Africa. Piper MacDonald from the Seaforth Highlanders
FdUn8ZkXEAIfmqz?format=png&name=large.webp
 
German grave in front of a knocked out Matilda II tank, and a knocked out Matilda I in the background - Arras; late May, 1940
ownkqq4b3ho91.webp
 
OTD in 1944. Operation Market Garden. A little rest. Men from the Royal Warwickshire Regiment
FdZlDIsWAAAjU8i?format=png&name=large.webp
 
OTD in 1944, Oosterhout. On the day the Irish Guards were blocked by Germans, Welsh Guards tanks knocked out this Panzer III (and then retreated)
FdZk-EbXgAExmZs?format=png&name=large.webp
 
OTD in 1944, 5 Bn East Yorks in Nijmegen. Champagne, left by the previous owners.
FdZkvzaXkAAZJWw?format=png&name=large.webp
 
Mk III Valentine "DD Tanks" equipped with the duplex drive tank modification, during an exercise by 79th Armored Division of the British Army in Gosport. January, 1944
a045hkx0voq91.webp
 
Italian Campaign. 30 May 1944. A Ford Lynx Scout Car of the New Zealand Divisional Cavalry on a dusty road in the Atina Belmonte area.
fvvze62nbkq91.webp
 
M4 Shermans of XXX Corps at Nijmegen, Holland during Operation Market Garden, September 21, 1944.
4aj4cmucegq91.webp
 
Vickers Mk VIC light tank knocked out in France - 27 May, 1940
s4rzeoqmb8q91.webp
 
Borneo Campaign. 10 June 1945. Australian Matilda tanks of the 2/9 Armoured Regiment coming ashore off Landing Ship Medium 237, at the north end of Green Beach during the Oboe 6 Operation
qxdge6oap4r91.webp
 
Netherlands, 1945. Canadian Sherman Firefly and another Sherman variant armed with a 105 mm howitzer.
dxkz2a37kcs91.webp
 
Bedford MWC water bowsers of 12 Corps filling up at a water point, Normandy, 12 July 1944.
FfqwaX0WYAYASfj?format=jpg&name=900x900.webp
 
OTD in 1942, North Africa. A Royal Engineers officer chalking a letter "E" on a Panzer III, meaning "extermination"
FgYN4DQXwAAumO_?format=png&name=large.webp
FgYN4DuXEAAjHcH?format=png&name=large.webp
FgYN4EGWIAICqq7?format=png&name=large.webp
FgYN4EcXoAImmei?format=png&name=large.webp
 
C Squadron Churchill tank "CHIEF" that was the first ashore during the Dieppe Raid knocked out in August 1942
o5rfhwopf9x91.webp
 
26th Armoured Brigade Sherman tank with a penetrating hit in the side applique armour is relieved of its 75mm gun by a salvage crew in Perugia Italy on June 30th 1944
6vy7xozsb2x91.webp
 
Churchill Crocodile flame tank knocked out with its turret blown off in Schilberg in January 1945
pecd0rxisew91.webp
 
Irish Guards Firefly moves past Sherman tanks knocked out during Operation Market Garden in September 1944
5djttiwgbcw91.webp
 

Similar threads

Back
Top