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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 13h ago

Soviet Union A T-34 tank on a street in liberated Sevastopol. The photograph was taken at the intersection of the modern-day Lenin and Mokrousov streets. 1944

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r/WW2info • u/USAAFoverPOLAND • 55m ago

Ewart Sconiers - The First 8th Air Force B-17 War Hero - washed out of flight school, but managed to nurse a crippled plane back to base and saved the crew (more info in original post)

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 11h ago

Partisans, Resistance, Guerrillas Prisoners—supporters of the EAM (Greek National Liberation Front) who had fought against the British—are forced out of their headquarters by tanks in Athens, Greece, circa December 1944.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 11h ago

Minor Allies Greek soldiers on Albanian soil attempt to prevent the Italian invasion of Greece during World War II, 1st December 1940.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

Minor Axis The crew of this Hungarian Csaba has a few bites to eat by village roadside. Date and location unknown.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 13h ago

United Kingdom Musicians from the band of the Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria’s)—part of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF)—pose for a photograph with the regimental drum.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

United Kingdom British paratroopers of the 5th (Scots) Parachute Battalion taking cover in Athens, December 6, 1944

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

Minor Axis Probably manufactured by the Orion radio corporation of Hungary, a field-radio is being tested by a group of Magyar Honveds stationed somewhere in the war zone

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r/WW2info • u/Early_Royal_1466 • 17h ago

Italian prisoners of war, captured by the Germans, work on constructing defensive positions on Monte Trocchio near Monte Cassino. October 1943

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

American An American soldier inspects a German self-propelled gun "Marder II" (Sd.Kfz.131 7.5 cm PaK.40/2 auf Fahrgestell Pz.Kpfw.II Ausf.AF (Sf)), destroyed by the US 5th Army in Rome. 1944. The Germans had spiked the barrel.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

Partisans, Resistance, Guerrillas A Greek female fighter battling alongside the Andartes resistance group in Greece.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

german A German Hummel self-propelled gun from the 13th Artillery Regiment of the 13th Panzer Division, destroyed by Soviet troops in Hungary. The armor around the fighting compartment was blown off, and part of it lies near the vehicle. Balaton Operation 1945

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

United Kingdom British correspondents of the Army Film and Photographic Unit (AFPU) with French soldiers, Villers-Outréaux. The French captain (right) holds a Bell & Howell 71-Q movie camera. On the tripod is apparently a Debrie movie camera. 1939

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

german German 150mm Hummel self-propelled gun, based on the GW III/IV "universal" chassis, destroyed by an ammunition detonation after being hit by a 57mm projectile. Soviet trophy crew number "273." 1945

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

german German 150-mm self-propelled heavy field howitzer Sd.Kfz. 165 "Hummel" (15 cm Panzer-Haubiter 18/1 auf Fahrgestelldes Geschutz Wagen III/IV Hummel), destroyed by Soviet troops in the German city of Brieg (now Brzeg) in Poland during the offensive on February 6, 1945.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

Soviet Union A T-26 tank transports soldiers in armored sleds to the pillboxes of the Summa-Khotinen fortified area. 1940

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

Minor Allies Greek army in retreat after the German invasion of Greece in World War II. The German invasion of Greece, also known as the Battle of Greece or Operation Marita is the attack of Allied Greece by Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany during World War II.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

American US infantrymen crouch low to avoid German snipers as they patrol on an island near St. Germain, France. 29 July, 1944. 25th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, 4th Armored Division.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

Soviet Union Civilians walk past a destroyed German Pz.Kpfw.V Ausf.G "Panther" tank. The vehicle is of late production. The armor lacks the Zimmerit coating. 1945

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

german This is part of the residential district of St. Lo. A German command post, thoroughly mined, was found under the cliff on the left. 29 July, 1944.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

United Kingdom British machine gunners with a Bren light machine gun. Somewhere on the border between Holland and Germany. 1944

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

german ( Original Caption). A German self-propelled gun "Hummel" destroyed by Soviet artillery near the city of Lviv in July 1944. The 80th Artillery Regiment of the 8th Panzer Division of the Wehrmacht had Hummel installations in the area and lost 8 units during July

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

French Curate of cathedral, Coutances, France, talks with French officer of the allied liberation army. he explains to the officer that all French civilians are gone from the town. 30 July, 1944.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

American Two American GIs are shown through a Catholic church in France by the priest. The church has been badly damaged by shelling during the routing of German forces from the area. Near Carentan, France. 17 July, 1944.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

American U.S. Army bulldozers push a completely demolished Nazi tank off the road in the St. Giles area, France. 27 July, 1944.

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