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A posed photo of a Hawker Typhoon Mark IB of No. 439 Squadron RCAF at B78/Eindhoven, Holland, being armed. Note the two cluster projectile's, containing 26 x 20-lb anti-personnel bombs under the wings. 1945
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Australian stretcher bearers of the 45th Battalion sheltering in a trench at Anzac Ridge, in the Ypres Sector. 28 September 1917
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Four members of the 13th Battalion AIF at Ribemont, smiling over the contents of their parcels from the Australian Comforts Fund. March 1917
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P-38G Lightning "Miss Virginia" after a belly landing at Kukum, Guadalcanal, in April 1943. Earlier this aircraft, piloted by Rex Barber, had shot down the aircraft carrying Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto over Bougainville.

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11 and 12 January 1943
Disposal of a 1000 Kg German bomb in Devonport, Plymouth.

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Image: IWM (A 13947)
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Polish Navy light cruiser ORP Dragon's the first Commanding Officer, Captain Eugeniusz Pławski.

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He began his career in 1914 as a midshipman in the Black Sea Fleet fighting the entire war against Bulgarians, Turks and Germans. He became a watch officer on the destroyer Derzky. From 1916 he was the aide-de-camp to the commander of the 2nd destroyer flotilla then he served in the torpedo brigade and in the anti-submarine defense. In 1917 he became the navigation officer on the destroyer Gnevny. After the outbreak of the revolution he assumed command of the destroyer Zorkiy.
From 1924 he commanded the following ships: minesweepers ORP Czajka and ORP Mewa and the gunboat ORP General Haller. In 1927 he was appointed as the director of science in the Navy school of specialists. In the years 1928 – 1931 he led the Polish submarine navigation course in France. In 1931 he became commander of the submarine ORP Żbik. In the years 1932 – 1936 he took command of the submarine flotilla. In 1936 he was transferred to the Polish Navy Command. In 1939 he was sent on a mission to France seeking military assistance in case of Third Reich's invasion of Poland.
At the outbreak of war, he stayed in France and tried to form an aid convoy for Poland. Then he was sent to London. In 1940 he assumed command of the French destroyer Ouragan transferred to the Polish Navy. On October 24, 1940 he became commander of ORP Piorun on which he escorted convoys on the Atlantic and Mediterranean run.
During the hunt for the Bismarck as part of the 4th flotilla on May 26th 1941 he had sighted her and had drawn Bismark’s fire for an hour during the period of dusk hoping that this would assist the other destroyers to get in their attack. From 1941 to 1943 he was a military attaché in Sweden. On May 15th 1943 he took command of the cruiser ORP Dragon. In 1944 he became chief of staff of the Polish Navy.
After the dissolution of the Polish Armed Forces in the West Pławski gave the banner and the flag of Polish Navy to the Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum in London. From 1946 to 1947 he commanded a transit camp in Okehampton, he then moved to Canada in 1948 And then from 1952 to 1972 he worked as a translator for the government of Canada.
Eugeniusz Pławski died on May 22nd 1973 in Vancouver. He was buried in The Gardens of Gethsemani Cemetery. On June 16th 2004 his ashes were taken to Poland and buried in the Polish Navy cemetery in Gdynia.
 
This is Jack H. Pulliam from Company G / 513th PIR just after being rescued by men of the 4th Infantry Division. He wears the cap of a German officer he's presumed to have killed. Location: #prüm, #Germany, February 13th, 1945.
Jack was born in January 7, 1925 and spent his youth in #Lucerne, Pennsylvania. He was volunteer for the U.S. Army in January 7, 1943 and was sent to the 44th Infantry Division at Fort Lewis, WA. He was a volunteer for the #airborne troops and was transferred to Parachute School at Fort Benning in March 1944 where he was finally assigned to Company G / 513th PIR as light machine gunner after having successfully completed his paratrooper course.
On January 7, 1945, on his 20th birthday, he was captured at Flamierge during the terrible battle of "Dead Man's Ridge". He was sent to #clervaux, then to Prüm and was treated roughly by the Germans. Jack was used as a slave labo in construction jobs and repair work on railroads.
He was wounded at #Garolstein and escaped the Germans on February 7 with Ed Summers. They reached Prüm on February 9 and went into hiding until the town was taken by the men of the #4thinfantrydivision on February 13.
He spent two weeks in hospital to recover from malnutrition and was unable to return to his unit because of a '#prisonerofwar' status. He was finally shipped back to States in March 1945 and completed the military asa automatic weapons instructor at #fortbenning. He was discharged in November 1945 as a S/Sgt.
Colour by Jake #colourisedpieceofjake
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Credit: U.S. ARMY SIGNAL CORPS
Photo by .Lt. A.J. Salvas (166) NARA


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P/O Kenneth Grahame Hart aged 18 of 65 Squadron at Hornchurch, March 1940.
At that time, the squadron were featured in LIFE magazine, Hart being photographed by the magazine photographer William Vandivert wearing the B Type flying helmet, Mk III goggles and Mk 19 microphone/oxygen mask, looking the part of a dashing eighteen year old fighter pilot.
He opened his account as a 19-year-old Spitfire pilot in No. 65 Squadron on 26 May 1940, downing a Me.109 over France before himself being compelled to undertake a forced-landing on the beaches of Dunkirk. In a storyline and scene reminiscent of Christopher Nolan's acclaimed film of that name, he 'torched' his shot-up aircraft and managed to get home.

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Tragically, after such a long and gallant operational career, 23-year-old Sqn/Ldr. Hart DFC was killed in action on an intruder sortie against Villafranca aerodrome on 28 December 1944. His Boston was seen to be hit by flak and, enveloped in flames, it crashed with no survivors.
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German Alpenkorps - Men of the Schneeschuh-Ersatzabteilung from Immenstadt training for their deployment at the front in the Allgäu Alps. 1915

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Pilots of No. 615 Squadron RAF gathered together in front of their Gloster Gladiator Mark IIs at Vitry-en-Artois. March/April 1940

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Young German paratroopers (Fallschirmjäger) are taken prisoner in the Dutch village of St. Joost, Limburg Province on 21 January 1945.

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The British had started Operation Blackcock a week earlier. The aim of this offensive is to liberate the area between Roermond, Sittard and the Roer river, the so-called Roer Triangle. This German bridgehead must be cleared in order to 'straighten' the front and thus shorten it. In this way, more soldiers can be deployed to enter the Rhineland.
Operation Blackcock is accompanied by very heavy fighting. The Germans have transformed many Limburg villages into small fortresses and also deploy fanatical Fallschirmjäger for this battle.
In the icy January cold, the British struggle forward at the cost of heavy losses. The operation ends on 27 January, but even then there are still several German pockets of resistance. Roermond, for example, has to wait another month for its liberation. However, enough ground had been gained to cross the Roer and advance towards the Rhineland.
 
Pilots of 249 Squadron at North Weald, late September 1940.
Richard Wynn, Tom Neil, Robert Barton, Patrick Wells, James Crossey, Jack Mills, Albert Lewis, George Barclay, George Palliser, S "Woolly" Woolmer and Anthony Thompson.

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Tiger II №008 was commanded by SS-Untersturmführer Eduard Kalinowski and belonged to Stabskompanie, schwere SS Panzer-Abteilung 501. It was abandoned after engine failure at the Antoine Farm, along the N23 road, west of Stavelot, headed toward Trois Ponts. SS-Untersturmführer Kalinowski apparently left the crew by foot on 24 December 1944.

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