Polish Sherman tank inverted after rolling down a hill while trying to avoid German fire at Piedimonte San Germano on May 25th 1944 and fatally injuring the gunner
Men of the Greek Sacred Squadron in 1943 with their commando Jeeps in the Aegean islands. The Sacred Squadron was a Greek commando unit serving alongside the Special Air Services (SAS) in North Africa and later in the Aegean, Special Service Brigade under Brigadier DST Turnbull.
For operations the Aegean was divided into two sectors, north and south. The former comprising Samos, Icaria and islands further to the north, were assigned to the Sacred Squadron and the latter comprising Dodecanese, Cyclades and Crete to the Special Service Brigade. The Squadron's new duties included the destruction of floating vessels, dry docks, communication/power lines, maintenance facilities, fuel tanks, radio bases, coastal gun positions, searchlights, etc.
Brazilian soldier (with the smoking snake badge on his arm) processing German prisoners of war after the surrender of the 148th Infantry Division at Collecchio-Fornovo, northern Italy, 29 April 1945.
A soldier of the Polish Independent Carpathian Rifles Brigade with his monkey mascot on board one of the Royal Navy destroyers on the way from Alexandria to Tobruk, 27 August 1941.
Troops of the 1st Platoon, 1st Company, 5th Battalion, 2nd Brigade (3rd Carpathian Rifles Division, 2nd Polish Corps) loading a 2 inch mortar under cover of a destroyed German self-propelled gun in support of a patrol. The signaller is crouching behind. Photograph taken at Faenza, 13 February 1945. The patrol was sent into the hills south of the Senio River
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