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A Messerschmitt Me-262 aircraft photographed in-flight by an American B-17 gunner. Further details about this …
October 16, 2021
Chinese soldiers at a riverbank near Changde, 1943
Chinese soldiers photographed at a riverbank in (or near) Changde, Hunan Province, December 1943. Th…
October 6, 2021
Messerschmitt Me-262 photographed in-flight by US B-17 gunner
A Messerschmitt Me-262 aircraft photographed in-flight by an American B-17 gunner. Further details a…
September 7, 2021
De Havilland Mosquito firing during a night test
De Havilland Mosquito firing its machine gun and cannon during night testing, sometime between 1941 …
August 27, 2021
Reinhard Heydrich’s Mercedes after assassination attempt
The Mercedes-Benz W142 in which Reinhard Heydrich was attacked by members of the Czech resistance on…
August 22, 2021
German soldiers pretend to throw grenades in latrine
German soldiers jokingly pretending to throw hand grenades at their comrade in an outhouse / latrine…
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Love during World War Two #3
1) An American soldier walking with his sweetheart in the Kensington Gardens, London, 1945, likely …
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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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“Happy Easter, Adolf”. US soldiers celebrating with humour
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De Havilland Mosquito firing during a night test
De Havilland Mosquito firing its machine gun and cannon during night testing, sometime between 1941 …
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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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British “Duck” driver in 1944 near Anzio, Italy
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Neville Chamberlain’s War Cabinet in 1939, including Winston Churchill
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Katyusha rockets firing on first day of Operation Barbarossa
Katyusha rockets firing on June 22nd 1941, the first day of Operation Barbarossa, Germany’s invasion …
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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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Austrian woman dancing with a Soviet officer in Vienna, 1945
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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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Italian submarine Cobalto damaged during Operation Pedestal, 1942
Italian submarine Cobalto before sinking, showing massive gun-fire damage to its conning tower inflicted by …
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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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Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler in Munich, June 1940
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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
