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Not the ship herself but found it interesting

In Oslo, the steel plates from Tirpitz continue to be a part of everyday life, you can walk and drive over them. The city's Agency for Water and Sewerage Works acquired a substantial amount of steel from Tirpitz. These steel plates are still in use today, serving as covers for trenches and holes in the streets.

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The surrender of German submarine U-889 to the Royal Canadian Navy near Shelburne, Nova Scotia, on May 13, 1945.

 

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Soldiers from a british infantry division near Sidi Rezegh, pray before deployment, during Operation “Crusader” - North Africa - November 1941.

 

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German Personnel with a SdKfz 10/4 2cm Flak 30 on a Demag 1-ton tractor in Scheveningen Netherlands - 1940


Original Color Picture

LIFE Magazine Archives - Hugo Jaeger Photographer

 

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Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft from No 111 Squadron RAF, based at RAF Northolt, in flight formation during World War II, circa 1940. The Hawker Hurricane, designed by Sydney Camm, was the first monoplane fighter to exceed 300 mph and was first used by Britain's Royal Air Force in 1937, becoming at the time of the Battle of Britain the mainstay of Britain's fighter air defence.

 

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A patrol crawling forward during the attack on the German trenches at Beaumont Hamel, 1st July 1916. The slope of the defenders' hill is clearly visible.

The mine under German front line positions at Hawthorn Redoubt is fired 10 minutes before the assault at Beaumont Hamel on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916. 45,000 pounds of Ammonal exploded. The mine caused a crater 130 feet across by 58 feet deep

7:45 am, 16th Battalion (Public Schools), Middlesex Regiment (29th Division) retiring after having reached the crater on Hawthorn Ridge

 

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Local children hitch a ride on a Sherman tank of 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) in Belpasso near Catania, Sicily, August 1943. In the background can be seen the church of Saint Anthony of Padua.

 

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American jeeps travel through a bombed-out town during the drive towards Rome, 1944

 

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Lt Colonel Francis Stanley "Gabby" Gabreski (first from the right) along with his ground crew. In the background, his P-47D Thunderbolt. 1944

 

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The Cavernous interior of the Messerschmitt 323 is clearly illustrated in this photograph showing a pair of DB 605 aircraft engines and other cargo being disgorged.

 

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Photograph of the deck of the aircraft carrier HMS Indomitable in March 1943.

 

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Soldiers of the 7th Infantry Division use a M1-1 flamethrower on a Japanese-held bunker - Kwajalein Island - 4 February 1944

 

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German infantry march through the snow in a steppe region in Ukraine, December 1943.

 

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Messerschmitt BF109K-4
W.Nr. 332579, "Schwarze 15", 14./JG. 53, Schleissheim, 1945

 

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U-boat U-462 (center) commanded by Lt. Bruno Vove supplies U-755- Colorized photo by ED. Tambunan (Src. Reddit)

 

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Sailors of the Polish Navy destroyer ORP Piorun, 1943.

 

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The German training ship (Segelschulschiff) Horst Wessel greeted as it passed by the U749 at the end of 1943, logically in the Baltic Sea. We see that the submarine has a yellow band painted on the turret breakwater and another on the bow deck, which tells us that it is on a training mission (Ausbildungsboot). Germany had four training ships (plus the "Mircea" which it built for Romania): the "Niobe", the Gorch Fock" (later Tovarich in the Soviet Navy), Host Wessel (later "Eagle" in the USCGC) and the "Albert Leo Schlageter" (later "Guanabara" in Brazil and "Sagres" in Portugal).

 

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Luftwaffe mechanics work on a Bf-109 E1, identifiable by the lack of 20mm wing guns, in preparation for air operations in the Battle of France, 1940.

 

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A Luftwaffe officer landing in Newhaven, England, looks down on a British guard 1941.

 

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Wehrmacht personnel enjoy a boat cruise along the many picturesque canals of the newly conquered city of Amsterdam, June 1940, Netherlands.