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Panzer IV Ausf. H tank of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler pictured …
January 17, 2022
Australian guerrillas burning down the village of Mindelo in East Timor
Australian soldiers are photographed while burning town the village of Mindelo (Turiscai) in East Ti…
January 2, 2022
ORP Sokol crew with captured Nazi flag in Gibraltar, 1944
ORP Sokol N97 Polish submarine and its crew in Gibraltar, presumably sometime during 1944, with the …
December 29, 2021
Santa Claus in Camp Lee, Virginia, 1941
American soldier costumed as Santa Claus driving a Willys Jeep with a sack of radios, cookies, books…
December 21, 2021
Citizens running for safety during the 1945 Battle of Manila
Powerful photograph showing citizens of Manila running desperately from the burning suburbs bombed b…
December 10, 2021
Panzer IV tank in front of the Milan Cathedral, 1943
Panzer IV Ausf. H tank of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler pictured with the Mi…
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Santa Claus in Camp Lee, Virginia, 1941
American soldier costumed as Santa Claus driving a Willys Jeep with a sack of radios, …
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Love during World War Two #3
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British “Duck” driver in 1944 near Anzio, Italy
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Damaged US Coast Guard landing craft on D-Day
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V-2 rocket trail in the vicinity of a US B-17 heavy bomber
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Panzer E-100 prototype captured by British forces
Panzer E-100 incomplete prototype, the only one ever built, captured by British forces in April …
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Soviet operated Matilda II tanks on the Western Front, 1942
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De Havilland Mosquito firing during a night test
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Love during World War Two #3
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British tank men with a puppy in North Africa
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Soviet operated Matilda II tanks on the Western Front, 1942
British Matilda II tanks operated by Soviet crewmen (see the recognizable Russian tank hats) advancing …
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Katyusha rockets firing on first day of Operation Barbarossa
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Red Army POWs inspected by a Waffen SS Soldier, 1941
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Vyacheslav Molotov and Joachim von Ribbentrop in Moscow
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Wehrmacht soldiers surrender to Soviet Troops, Tula, 1941
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Sikh POWs used as target practice by Japanese soldiers, 1942
Blindfolded Indian prisoners of war, part of the Sikh Regiment of the British Indian Army, …
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Japanese Kawanishi Flying Boat shot down by US bomber, 1944
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World War Two Kaiten torpedoes on top of a Japanese submarine
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Japanese infantrymen charging during the Second Sino-Japanese War
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Japanese POW captured in the Battle of Okinawa, June 1945
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Panzer IV tank in front of the Milan Cathedral, 1943
Panzer IV Ausf. H tank of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler pictured …
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Italian submarine Cobalto damaged during Operation Pedestal, 1942
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Italian battleships Vittorio Veneto and Littorio firing during WWII
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Brazilian soldiers greeted by Italian civilians in Massarosa, 1944
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Then and Now: Monte Cassino Abbey destroyed and rebuilt, 1944 vs 2007
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Battle of Castle Itter, 1945, one of the strangest WW2 battles
The Battle of Castle Itter is one of those “hidden gem” stories from World War …
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US troops enter the razed French town of Saint-Lo, July 1944
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Marina Ginesta, communist reporter, overseeing Barcelona in 1936
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Love during World War Two #2
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German policemen smoking with a French prisoner, 1940
