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Conhoon · Aug 1, 2023

A Polish servicewoman in German uniform is checking the identity card of driver William Massey of the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps at the main gate of a German prisoner-of-war camp for female personnel of the Polish Army, located north of Haren, Germany, 7 May 1945.

The Royal Canadian Army Service Corps (RCASC) was an administrative and transport corps of the Canadian Army and was established in the Non-Permanent Active Militia in 1901.
The RCASC, along with the rest of the Army, underwent a rapid expansion as Canada mobilized for the Second World War.
In addition to maintaining transport for the army on land, the RCASC also commanded and maintained a ship-borne freight and patrol company, the Pacific Command Water Transport Company, during World War II.
It provided support to Canadian Soldiers wherever they went; training in Canada and Great Britain, the campaign in north-west Europe and in the campaign in Italy. The RCASC moved supplies from the rear areas to the front-lines. They delivered all rations, ammunition, petroleum products, and all other essentials. They did so with a variety of vehicles ranging from three to ten ton trucks, and forty ton tank transporters.
Colour: ColourisedPieceofJake

Conhoon · Aug 2, 2023

Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Martin-Leake, VC & Bar, VD, FRCS (4 April 1874 – 22 June 1953) was a British physician, officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps and a double recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Martin-Leake was the first of only three men to be awarded the VC twice, the others being Noel Godfrey Chavasse and Charles Upham.

He was 27 years old and a surgeon captain in the South African Constabulary attached to the 5th Field Ambulance during the Second Boer War on 8 February 1902, at Vlakfontein, when he was awarded his first VC.
During the action at Vlakfontein, on the 8th February, 1902, Surgeon-Captain Martin-Leake went up to a wounded man, and attended to him under a heavy fire from about 40 Boers at 100 yards range. He then went to the assistance of a wounded Officer, and, whilst trying to place him in a comfortable position, was shot three times, but would not give in till he rolled over thoroughly exhausted. All the eight men at this point were wounded, and while they were lying on the Veldt, Surgeon-Captain Martin-Leake refused water till every one else had been served.[4]
He received the decoration from King Edward VII at St James's Palace on 2 June 1902.
He was awarded his second VC, aged 40, during the period 29 October to 8 November 1914 near Zonnebeke, Belgium, whilst serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps, British Army.
His award citation reads:
Lieutenant Arthur Martin Leake, Royal Army Medical Corps, who was awarded the Victoria Cross on 13th May, 1902, is granted a Clasp for conspicuous bravery in the present campaign: — For most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty throughout the campaign, especially during the period 29th October to 8th November, 1914, near Zonnebeke, in rescuing, whilst exposed to constant fire, a large number of the wounded who were lying close to the enemy's trenches.[6]
His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Army Medical Services Museum, Aldershot, England.

Conhoon · Aug 10, 2023

10 August 1918
Battle of Amiens.
British and German wounded at a dressing station of the 58th (London) Division near Chipilly, Somme.

(Photo source - © IWM Q 6943)
Brooke, John Warwick (Lieutenant) (Photographer)
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Conhoon · Aug 10, 2023

Men of the 95th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery loading a 9.2 inch howitzer near Bayencourt during the Battle of Amiens, 8 August 1918.

(Photo source - © IWM Q 10377)
McLellan, David (Second Lieutenant) (Photographer)

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Conhoon · Aug 10, 2023

Diggers of the 29th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force, enroute to Vauvillers, France, 8 August 1918.

Historian W.H. Connell has identified all of those shown from left to right as:

Sgt William O'Brien (KIA 9/8/18 near Vauvillers - buried Serre Rd Cemetery. No.2, Beaumont-Hamel)
Pvt James Cryer
Pvt Charles Olive (gassed 1917, KIA near Bellicourt, 30/9/18 - buried Villers-Bretonneux Cemetery)
LCP Louis Price MM
Pvt Harry Phillips (wounded 29 August 1918)
Pvt Horace Buckley (wounded 9 August near Vauvillers)
LCP Alexander Craven
Pvt Patrick O'Grady
Pvt Timothy Leydon (gassed 27 August 1918)
Pvt Edward Thomlinson
Pvt Herbert Davidson
Pvt Horace Towers (died of pneumonia the day the war ended)
LCP Thomas Pope ( wounded 30 September near Bellicourt)
Pvt John Arlow (KIA 30 September near Bellicourt - buried at Villers-Bretonneux Cemetery)
Temp Cpl John Bird
Pvt Frederick Hall (message runner - wounded the following day at Vauvillers and earlier on 23/11/16)
Lt Rupert Downes MC

Conhoon · Aug 10, 2023

"Captured German Gun, (unidentified type), Amiens, Aug 1918"

We have identified these soldiers by their shoulder patches as most probably, 3rd Battalion, Canadian MGC who where support troops of the 43rd Canadian Infantry Battalion, 9th Canadian Brigade, 3rd Division who were present in the Amiens area between the 8th and 14th of August 1918.

The 'unidentified' gun could be a French Canon de 120 Modele 1878

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 35222222)

Colourised by Doug

Conhoon · Aug 10, 2023

Battle of Amiens. Capture of the Chipilly Ridge by the 58th (London) Division. Royal Engineers and infantry of the Division in reserve, resting in a trench near Albert.
9 August 1918. (IWM caption)

"... this photo was taken on Chipilly Spur, on 9 August 1918, after the 58th Division had been initially repulsed by stiff German opposition an 8 August. The badly depleted 58th were able to secure the spur and the adjoining Gressaire Wood with support of tanks from the 10th Battalion, Tank Corps and the three battalions of the 131st Regiment, AEF. The specific British infantry units involved were said to be a "mish mash" from all three Brigades of the weakened 58th Division, along with the 12th Division's 37th Brigade to their left."
"From 9 August the 58th Londoners also had the support of the US Army's 131st Infantry Regiment - a unit of the 33d Div AEF which had, in part, first seen action at the Battle of Hamel the month before. After hard fighting and much loss of life, this regiment along the mixed brigades of the 58th secured Gressaire Wood and Chipilly Spur, while the 58th's 174th Brigade took the village and peninsula below (NB this spur is referred to as "Chipilly Ridge" in US accounts)."
(Text from Baz diggerdogroff - Flickr)

(Photo source - © IWM Q 9190)
McLellan, David (Second Lieutenant) (Photographer)

BravoZulu · Aug 11, 2023

A post in the trenches held by Dogras, and an Indian Cavalry machine gun section near Fauquissart, France.58th Rifles War Dairy - Rue De Tilleloy - 9 August 1915"The A.C. Comdr. visited the front line at 11.00am, accompanied by the Divisional and Brigade Comdrs."

Conhoon · Aug 11, 2023

Australian soldier enjoys a cup of tea at the Australian Comforts Fund stall, Longueval, France, December 1916.
The soldier serving is thought to be Private Alexander Gunn.

Photo source: Australian War Memorial E00034.
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Conhoon · Aug 16, 2023

The Polish Navy destroyers en route to the Royal Navy base at Portsmouth .
View from ORP Błyskawica of ORP Grom and ORP Burza, September 1939.

NebrHogger · Aug 18, 2023

Bombardier of an He-111 somewhere over Poland 1939.

Redav · Aug 19, 2023

The Messerschmitt P.1101 - An experimental german swept wing jet-fighter.

Learn more on: https://www.jetsprops.com/prototype/messerschmitt-p-1101-pioneering-swept-wing-design.html

Image Author: Green4life80

Redav · Aug 25, 2023

What is left of the Horten H.IX or Ho 229, an experimental German flying wing jet fighter designed in 1943, in response to a call for a new light bomber capable of 620 km/h.

Powered by two Junkers Jumo 004 turbojet engines, the first manned prototype took flight on the 2nd of February 1945, making it first jet-powered flying-wing aircraft.

Image Author: Clemens Vasters from Viersen, Germany, Germany - Horten Ho 229 V3

Redav · Aug 25, 2023

General Feldmarschall Erwin Rommel

uktabber · Aug 26, 2023

Very Cool picture of the Horten Ho 229 V3 (Y)

BravoZulu · Aug 26, 2023

The crew of B-29 Superfortress 42-24598 "Waddy's Wagon" (20th Air Force, 73rd Bomb Wing, 497th Bomb Group, 869th Bomb Squadron) posing to duplicate the nose art. All were KIA when the bomber was shot down over Japan in January, 1945.

Nicknamed for Waddy Young, an OU football player. That is him on the far left pulling the wagon. He also played pro football for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

BravoZulu · Aug 26, 2023

Cousins next to the tail section of a Heinkel He 111P-2 of 8./KG27 which crashed landed near Chester in Cheshire, on August 14th, 1940

BravoZulu · Aug 31, 2023

After gearing up to cross the Roer River near Kreuzau, Germany, Private Michael Swinkin of the 1st Infantry Division has a cigarette before moving out in 1945

BravoZulu · Sep 1, 2023

Messerschmitt Bf 109E-4 force-landed at East Langdon in Kent while escorting an attack in August 1940

BravoZulu · Sep 1, 2023

U.S. Navy Commander Charles L. Crommelin, in his Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat, ready to launch from the the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10) for a raid on Marcus Island, 31 August 1943.

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