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While patrolling the North Atlantic in 1940, a crewman on an RAF Short Sunderland is seen enjoying a meal. Distinct from other warplanes of its time, the Short Sunderland was equipped with a galley and a designated area for dining. It also featured heating to maintain crew comfort during the chilly anti-submarine missions.

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Note the bombs suspended above his head as well.

 

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French stretcher bearers and one of their dogs sheltered in the ground.

The numbers of French casualties during the Great War were appalling: it is estimated that around 1.4 million French soldiers were killed during the conflict fighting against enemy forces, facing terrible conditions in the trenches, disease, hunger and cold. Over 4 million of them were injured in the fighting, with injuries often leading to permanent disability or death.

 

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Evacuation of wounded Polish soldiers from the battlefield. Monte Cassino, Italy, May 1944

photo: Felicjan Maliniak/collections of the Józef Piłsudski Institute in London.

 

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Members of the crew of the Polish submarine ORP Wilk, who are now coopereting with the Royal Navy, receiving their pay, January 1940.

ORP Wilk (Wolf in English) in 1939

 

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The launch of the mighty Tirpitz battleship, Wilhelmshaven, April 1939.

 

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A picture of August Von Mackensen, a field marshal in the German army in World War I, 1915.

 

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Brewster Buffalo of the Finnish Air Force, 1941.

 

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German Tiger II, Hungary 1944.

 

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Battle of Hazebrouck.
12 April 1918
6-inch howitzer of the 277th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery firing in a lane in front of the railway line near Merris, in the Nord department of northern France.

 

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Type VIIC U-376 in Bergen harbor (Norway, 1942)

The submarine was laid down on 3 April 1940 in Kiel, launched on 10 July 1941, and commissioned on 21 August 1941 under the command of Oberleutnant zur See Friedrich-Karl Marks.
U-376 was attached to the 6th U-boat Flotilla, and was ready for front-line service from 1 March 1942. Operating from Norwegian bases, from 1 July 1942 she served with the 11th U-boat Flotilla, and was transferred to the 3rd U-boat Flotilla, based in France on 1 March 1943.
U-376 sailed on eight combat patrols, sinking only two merchant ships totalling 10,146 GRT before she went missing in the Bay of Biscay since 7 April 1943.

 

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Engelbert Endrass, wearing his Knight's Cross, welcomes Erich Topp back after a successful war patrol in 1941.

 

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Somewhere in Leningrad, aT 50

 

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U-201 of Adalbert ''Adi'' Schnee in the port of Brest after returning from patrol in March 1941

 

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Ju 87 Stuka

 

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An abandoned Hetzers in Żagań aka Sagan, Lower Silesia, Poland, spring 1945.