Last surviving veteran of Second World War unit that took on Rommel dies
He was part of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long\_Range\_Desert\_Group
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Antiaircraft gunners from the American tank landing ship LST-66 pose near markers displaying downed Japanese aircraft. During two Japanese air attacks off Cape Gloucester, New Guinea, on December 25-27, 1944, LST-66 sustained minor damage from two close-in bomb explosions.
u/JCFalkenberglll — 21 hours ago
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Rudolph Broker, coxswain of the American tank landing ship LST-66, inspects the gun mount armor plate, which bears marks from a Japanese bomb fragment. Broker himself was slightly wounded by the fragment. During two Japanese air attacks off Cape Gloucester, New Guinea, from December 25 to 27, 1944
u/JCFalkenberglll — 21 hours ago
Schweinfurt Regensburg raid
Today is the 83rd anniversary of the infamous Schweinfurt Regensburg raid by the 8th. Flak, Fighters and horrific losses - forced a temporary stand down by the 8th.
u/Early_Royal_1466 — 2 days ago
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French soldiers of the 3rd Algerian Infantry Division (3e division d'infanterie algérienne, 3e DIA) of Army B under General Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny board a British light tank landing ship (LCT) in Taranto for the landing in Provence. 1944
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Sometimes, the trophy became a prime weapon. This GI clutches a fragmentation grenade in one hand and a captured Walther P38 pistol in the other during the bitter street fighting in Brest, France in September 1944. Photo: NARA
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The Luger was a war trophy prized above all others. An airman of the 9th Air Force shows off his Luger at a forward airfield in France in the autumn of 1944. Photo: NARA
u/JCFalkenberglll — 2 days ago
Nazi mountain troops in the Caucasus in the winter of 1942.
u/Early_Royal_1466 — 2 days ago
British soldiers inspect captured Italian Semovente da 47/32 during the drive on Lentini, Sicily, July 1943.
u/Early_Royal_1466 — 3 days ago
Soldiers of the XXXI Battaglione Guastatori in North Africa 1942-43
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The commander of the German 17th Army Corps, General of Infantry Karl-Adolf Hollidt greets Slovak soldiers on the Eastern Front. July 1942
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GIs show off their pistol trophies in Germany during the spring of 1945. On the left: a Walther P38 and Mauser M1914; on the right, a Walther P38 and Walther PPK.
u/JCFalkenberglll — 3 days ago
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Unexploded 15 inch shell fired by British battleship HMS Malaya during Operation Grog, the Bombardment of Genoa, February 9th 1941.
u/JCFalkenberglll — 3 days ago
Italian Expeditionary Corps in Russia (Corpo di Spedizione Italiani in Russia)
u/Early_Royal_1466 — 4 days ago
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The Lewis Gun Mark III DEMS was a specialized World War II British adaptation of the Lewis light machine gun. Allocated to Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships (DEMS), it featured a .303 caliber setup, a crude skeleton stock, a wooden
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The remains of one of six old, large French guns that were Cezembre's main defense during World War II after the island surrendered to Allied forces in September 1944
u/JCFalkenberglll — 3 days ago
Officers of the China Area Fleet in September 1940. Second from left to right, Rear Admiral Tamon Yamaguchi (commander of the 2nd Combined Air Group), Vice Admiral Shigetaro Shimada (commander of the China Area Fleet) and Rear Admiral Takijiro Onishi (2nd Combined Air Group).
u/Chubby_boyARG — 4 days ago
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Germman soldiers having breakfast are holding their hands over their coffee because a mouse is running inside the ceiling construction. war correspondant Kraayvanger - 1943- Photographer: Presse-Illustrationen Heinrich Hoffmann- Published by: 'Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung' 12/1943
u/JCFalkenberglll — 3 days ago