Easy Company paratrooper Forrest Guth at the Marmion Farm in Normandy in June 1944. 65 years later, Guth posed again with his captured German helmet as he did in 1944.
u/waffen123 — 6 days ago
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21 June 1940: French Cavalrymen of the 20e GRCA pose in front of a SdKfz 263, knocked out that morning by a 25mm SA 34 anti-tank gun in Saint-Chamond (Loire Department). The officer on the right is armed with the rather rare PM MAS 38 submachine gun.
u/Pvt_Larry — 6 days ago
Captured Junkers Ju 88 A-4 at Foggia, Italy, circa October 1943
u/RLoret — 8 days ago
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A dead paratrooper of the American XVIII Airborne Corps hangs from a tree near the German village of Hamminkeln.On March 24, 1945, approximately 16,000 American paratroopers were dropped in Germany between the town of Wesel and the village of Hamminkeln (Operation Varsity).
u/waffen123 — 10 days ago
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82 years ago today (October 5, 1944) PFC Victor Kullman was killed in Action in France, he was 27 years old.
Born in Cole Camp, Missouri to Carl and Katherine Kullman on March 27, 1917, Victor William Kullman was the second of seven children.
He enlisted in the Army on February 17, 1942 and served in I Company, 137th Infantry Regiment, 35th Infantry Division.
On October 4, 1942, Victor married Ruby Anna Wurdeman in Cole Camp, they didn’t have any children.
He deployed to the UK in May 1944 and arrived in Normandy between July 7-9, 1944.
Victor would have participated in the breakout from the bocage and the advance through France.
He was Killed in Action near Saint-Avold France on October 5, 1944.
PFC Victor Kullman is buried at the Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial in Saint-Avold, France - Block C Row 24 Grave 82.
His widow Ruby never remarried, she worked for over 30 years as Office Manager at the National Auto Parts Association Distribution Center in Kansas City, Kansas.
She passed away at the age of 90 on August 3, 2010.
Picture: Victor & Ruby Wurdeman on their wedding day: October 4, 1942.
u/UrbanAchievers6371 — 9 days ago
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WW2 Era Letter Written By Young French Girls To The Mother Of an American Paratrooper They Befriended. Details in comments.
u/Heartfeltzero — 10 days ago
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Jimmy Stewart's Oscar
Jimmy Stewart is seen chatting with George Little, the oldest employee at his father’s hardware store in Indiana, Pennsylvania, in a photograph by Peter Stackpole for LIFE Magazine (September 24, 1945). Besides all the usual hardware goods, the store window also displayed Stewart's Best Actor Oscar for THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940). The morning after he won the Academy Award, his father called him at 4:00 AM and famously asked, "What was it, a plaque or something? Well, anyway, you better bring it back here and we'll put it in the window of the store." Stewart shipped him the Oscar and it stayed safely on display until 1966.
u/KedvesRed — 9 days ago
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One of the last three Japanese holdouts to be found after the end of hostilities in 1945, Shoichi Yokoi (1915-1997) is overcome with emotion on his return to Tokyo, 2nd February 1972.
Stationed on the island of Guam in 1944, Yokoi went into hiding as American forces reconquered the island, and spent the next 28 years living in a cave and hunting for food by night.
He was discovered by two fishermen in January 1972.
u/UrbanAchievers6371 — 8 days ago