Photos WW2 Various Miscellaneous Images

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Belgium, 1945, at 22 Advanced Base Workshop Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. Although most of the tanks are Churchills, two Comets have snuck in too. The Advanced Base Workshop could carry out in depth overhaul and repair of both complete vehicles and defective parts.
taken from fb/The Tank Museum(Bovington Camp,UK)

 

[morris]

New Zealand soldiers put a smokescreen in front of an Allied attack in Cassino, Italy; May 18, 1944.

New Zealand soldiers give hot food to German Luftwaffe POWs captured during the Monte Cassino (Italy) battles; 1944.

Men of the 3rd New Zealand Division photographed on their return from a fighting patrol with some ''souvenirs'' captured from the Japanese; Treasury Islands, Northern Solomons in the South Pacific.
Treasury Islands were held by the Japanese until 25–27 October 1943, when they were invaded via amphibious assault by units of the New Zealand 8th Brigade.

 

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Men of the 3rd New Zealand Division photographed on their return from a fighting patrol with some ''souvenirs'' captured from the Japanese; Treasury Islands, Northern Solomons in the South Pacific.
Treasury Islands were held by the Japanese until 25–27 October 1943, when they were invaded via amphibious assault by units of the New Zealand 8th Brigade.

I had a Joe Biden moment and pasted the wrong caption, it should be:

A New Zealand platoon is posing in the lull of the battle near Monte Cassino, on the 5th Army Front in Italy; 8 May 1944.

Men of the 3rd New Zealand Division photographed on their return from a fighting patrol with some ''souvenirs'' captured from the Japanese; Treasury Islands, Northern Solomons in the South Pacific.
Treasury Islands were held by the Japanese until 25–27 October 1943, when they were invaded via amphibious assault by units of the New Zealand 8th Brigade.

 

[morris]

Members of the New Zealand Home Guard on parade, ?1942. If these lads are representative, this really was a "Dad's Army". New Zealand raised a local defence force to face the threat of invasion by the Japanese. As the war progressed, and this threat was beaten back, the force was more or less allowed to fade away. This is in contrast to the British Home Guard, which was developed from a "Dad's Army" into pre-enlistment training force for young men destined for the Army.

 

[BravoZulu]

The bombing of Zürich on 4 March 1945 by USAAF bombers was one of several bombing raids that targeted Swiss cities, mistaking them for their targets in Germany.

In this particular raid: "Six USAAF B-24H bombers hit Zürich with 12.5 tons of high explosives and 12 tons of incendiaries, killing five people. The intended target had been Aschaffenburg near Frankfurt am Main (290 km (180 mi) north). The six bombers had gone off course, and their crews believed they were bombing Freiburg im Breisgau. At virtually the same time, other bombers dropped 12.5 tons of high explosives and five tons of incendiaries on Basel." -via Jonathan E. Helmreich's Diplomacy of Apology.

 

[BravoZulu]

10th June 1942, the Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice as a reprisal for the killing of SS official Reinhard Heydrich. More than 180 residents are murdered; 250 more are sent to concentration camps.

 

[morris]

January 1943: A German Fallschirmjäger Flammenwerfer team in Tunisia seek cover when a British bomb explodes nearby.

 

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Chinese Kuomintang soldiers in defensive positions at the Battle at the Great Wall (visible in the background) or Operation Chahar, Laiyuan, Hebei province, Autumn 1937. Note the captured Japanese Type 11 light machine gun being used by the soldier closest to the camera.

 

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Swiss EKW D-3801 in flight. Date unknown but almost certainly during WW2.
The EKW D-3801 goes by another name: the Morane-Saulnier MS.412, although they are not quite the same aircraft. The D-3801 was a further modification of the French Morane-Saulnier MS.406 line that switched the original engine to the more powerful Hispano-Suiza 12Y-51, as well as changing the armament to 4x 7.5mm belt-fed machine guns in the wings as opposed to the 2x 7.5mm drum-fed ones the original design had, which had issues with freezing while at altitude. This also had the added benefit of eliminating the bulges on the wings where the guns were. The propeller hub-mounted HS.404 20mm cannon was also changed to a local modification of the same design, which had a slightly higher rate of fire and muzzle velocity than the French version.
Additionally, a simple fixed radiator was used instead of the more complex retractable type, and the radio antenna was moved in front of the windshield as opposed to jutting out from the bottom of the plane as it did on the MS.406. With these modifications, the EKW D-3801 was 23mph (37kph) faster than the MS.406 and had a better climb rate.
207 of these aircraft were produced in total in Switzerland. They were used as a front-line fighter, which made it a vital contributor to the defense of Swiss airspace during World War II. After the war, they continued to be used as training aircraft and as target tugs until finally retiring in 1959.

 

[morris]

Aussie soldiers in New Guinea WW2.

 

[NebrHogger]

Soumi S35 in German service 1943

Gunner.radio operator in Soviet Il-4

14 y/o partisan receives a medal for courage 1943

German BMW bikes going to the front 1941

Armored rail car

German VOMAG bus with gas generator 1941

 

[DACT]

(Allegedly) Greeks in the North African desert pose with two captured German flags they acquired during the second Battle of El Alamein. Photo taken late November 1942. North Africa, probably Libya.

 

[Redav]

IJN Ise was a hybrid that served as a battleship and aircraft carrier. Main battery, 4 twin 14 inch guns and carried over 20 aircraft with 2 catapults.

 

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Japanese battleship Fuso

 

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The last picture of Hood as a fighting unit. The four guns in the foreground are those of Prince of Wales's 'A' turret.

 

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U-237 breaching the surface in the North Atlantic, 1942.

 

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Destroyer ORP Krakowiak at sea 1941.

 

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View of New York Harbor from the damaged deck of the USS Franklin, circa April 28,1945

 

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A stunning shot of the Bismarck, seen from the deck of the Prinz Eugen in the Baltic, May 1941

 

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Stern-view of Tirpitz, 1941