Photos WW2 Various Miscellaneous Images

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Photos of the Dornier Do 26 flying boat built for Lufthansa and operated by the Luftwaffe in the Second World War.

 

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German officers of U-805 give their surrender on the deck of the destroyer escort USS Varian (DE-798) on May 14, 1945.

 

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Tiger I. Summer 1943. Kursk

 

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Commander of SS Panzer-Regiment 5 Standartenführer Johannes Mühlenkamp (middle) with the commander of IV.SS-PzKorps Gruppenführer Gille (right). In the background, Befehlspanther R02 used by Mühlenkamp.

 

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Commander of the 6th Army General Paulus with General Moritz von Drebber of the 297th Infantry division. October 1942. Paulus’ trouble were yet to begun.

 

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Erwin Rommel helps to push his stuck staff car somewhere in North Africa, 1941.

 

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Deutschland-class German heavy cruiser "Admiral Scheer" in Ofotfjord, Norway, in June, 1942.

 

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One of the 406 mm S262 guns at the Lindemann Batterie near Calais in France. They were the biggest and most powerful on the Atlantic Wall, having originally been designed for the 130,000 ton H-class battleships. Lindemann Batterie is often seen in propaganda photos from the time, but is rarely mentioned by name. Sadly, the battery was buried by spoil coming out of the Channel Tunnel project in the 1980s.

 

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A German Junkers Ju 87 that has ended up in a bit of an embarrassing position. The pilot poses in front of the aircraft.

 

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Greeks Raiders of the Sacred Band, displaying a captured German flag in Sousse. Tunisia. April 12, 1943.

 

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✩ Incomplete German U-boats abandoned at the Blohm and Voss shipyard in Hamburg, 4 May 1945.

 

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The German heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper (1939-1945) photographed in Norwegian waters in 1942

 

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The last moments of the Yamato

 

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A Luftwaffe technician boresights the cannon in the nose of a Bf 109 with a collimator near Leningrad, Russia, August 1941.

 

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A Luftwaffe technician boresights the cannon in the nose of a Bf 109 with a collimator near Leningrad, Russia, August 1941.View attachment 476504

Interested as to what that collar badge is, I don't recognise it.

 

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One of the 406 mm S262 guns at the Lindemann Batterie near Calais in France. They were the biggest and most powerful on the Atlantic Wall, having originally been designed for the 130,000 ton H-class battleships. Lindemann Batterie is often seen in propaganda photos from the time, but is rarely mentioned by name. Sadly, the battery was buried by spoil coming out of the Channel Tunnel project in the 1980s.

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Galveston Tx had several bunkers large calibre shore defense, machine gun bunkers and other defense positions for the war. The large bunkers remained and up until about 20 years ago only one was still left intact. A large corporation bought the property the bunker rest on to build a big hotel on the sea front. They had to sign an agreement that the bunker remained and untouched so they did but it isn't like it was when I was a young boy of 6 standing in the doorway of one of the bunkers. It is covered today with grass and scrubs and does not look like it did in 1954 and beyond.

 

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IS-2s parked outside the Reichstag building in Berlin, 1945. On the right is a rather rare sWS Schwerer Wehrmachtschlepper half-track.

 

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A US soldier clings onto the twin 12.8 cm Flak 40 gun barrels on top of a German flak tower, sometime after WWII.

 

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Major-General Stephan, the commander of Battle Group Stephan, is accompanied by Captain P. Fafard of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division into a surrender conference, Oldenburg, Germany, 7 May 1945.

 

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Official delivery of Surrender Terms on 2nd Canadian Corps front at Bad Zwischenahn, located on the edge of Zwischenahn Lake, General Stroube and Capt. M. Tearhs of Toronto, 5 May 1945.