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Ammunition plant Chillwell, England 1917
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National Shell Filling Factory, Chilwell - Wikipedia

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Chetwynd Barracks - Wikipedia

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Have been there to the current Army Barracks. Stayed in the mess to go on the lash in Nottingham.

 

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Albert Speer on a uboat
1943

 

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Some of the Belgian pilots from 609 Squadron RAF, in late 1941, possibly at Biggin Hill.

l-r: Louis van Arenberg (KIA 1945), Jean Selys de Longchamps (KIA 16/8/43), Francois de Spirlet (KIFA 26/6/42), Jean "Pyker" Offenberg (KIFA 22/1/42), Christian Ortmans (KIA 1/4/43) and Raymond Lallemant (14/9/44, badly burned but survived)

 

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U-185 sinking after depth bombed by an American aircraft.

SS Division Leibstandard Adolf Hitler wallowing in mud Vinnitsa region, 1943

Girls at a London bomb shelter wear splinter and fire shields during blitz, 1941

American amphibious assault on Palau, 1944

 

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Men of the West Yorkshire Regiment sitting in a captured German pill box waiting to go into action, near the St Julien - Grafenstafel road during the Battle of Polygon Wood, 26 September - 3 October 1917, part of the Battle of Passchendaele.
Photograph taken by Lieutenant Ernest Brooks.

© IWM (Q 2903)/artistic rendition 2025.

 

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High-definition restoration pictures of the Bismarck battleship

 

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Troops of a Light Infantry Pioneer Battalion during a halt for dinner. Maurepas, on the Somme front. December 1916.

 

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March 1945.
Very young German infantry soldiers of the 6th Volksgrenadier Division marching outside of 10,Bankowa in Luban, Silesia, Poland.

In 1945, as World War II drew to a catastrophic close, the situation for young German soldiers was dire and complex. Many were poorly trained and equipped, sent into battle with little more than basic instruction and minimal combat experience. They were often caught in brutal combat situations, facing overwhelming odds against seasoned Allied troops and heavily armoured divisions.

 

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Soldiers of the 1st Guards Mechanised Brigade's 6-pounder antitank gun team guard a road inside a destroyed building near Cassino, Italy, May 1944

Colorized by: Doug

 

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An Austro-Hungarian mountaintop position on Cop di Casa in the Italian Alps, photographed in 1917 during World War I.

 

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U.S. 4th Infantry Division members boarding a Higgins boat bound for Normandy, 1944

 

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U96

 

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U-190 IXC/40

 

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19 March 1917
Three members of the 2nd Australian Division (21st & 24th Btns., 6th Brigade) stand under the arches of the Bapaume town hall, which was relatively intact after shelling had reduced much of the town to rubble. Six nights later several men sleeping inside were killed when the building was destroyed by a delayed-action bomb that had been left behind by the retreating Germans.

(Photo source - AWM E00393)
Colourised by Doug - DBColour

 

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Men of Luftlande-Sturm-Regiment 1 enjoying some cigarettes at the Luftwaffe barracks in Cologne-Dellbrück after the battle of Fort Eben-Emael, 12 May 1940.

 

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U-552 at Saint-Nazaire

 

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23 March 1945
An American M4A1 (76mm) Sherman tank of the 14th Armoured Division moves past a roadside littered with debris from the retreating German forces near, Silz, Germany.
This tank is fitted with a .30-caliber machine gun instead of the usual .50-caliber Browning M2 HB.
Amongst the German artillery can be seen a 10.5 cm leFH 18 howitzer.

".......shortly after the Task Force cleared Reisdorf, the
Regimental Command Post displaced to Birkenhordt for the
night from it's location just south of Reisdorf.
Task Force Rhine proceeded to Silz via Blrkenhordt
and arrived there shortly after midnight (22 March). An enemy antitank gun was destroyed before the surprised enemy could man
it and the town was set afire as the tanks moved through en-route
to Munchweiler."
"Between Silz and Munchweiler the tanks overran a column
of the retreating enemy on the road and destroyed it."
(The Operations OP, 409TH Infantry Regiment
1OSD Infantry Division).
Colourised by Doug

 

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U-95 and U-124

 

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Jagdpanther tank destroyer in early 1944 being spray painted with new camo pattern by its crew

 

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RN
The Sailors washing down the decks aboard Nelson-class battleship HMS Rodney (29) in August, 1940