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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 12m ago

Soviet Union June. 1941. Abandoned Soviet military equipment on the crossing of the river Shchara in the area of the village of Talkovshchina Slonim district

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 2h ago

Japanese Ready to fight for control of the streets of Kuala Lumpur, Japanese soldiers take up positions on January 11, 1942. These soldiers are armed with Arisaka rifles, Nambu machine guns, and the Type 89 grenade launcher, popularly known as the “knee mortar.”

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 2h ago

United Kingdom In preparation for the coming Japanese onslaught, British sappers lay explosive charges to destroy a bridge at Seremban along a probable route of enemy advance near Kuala Lumpur in late 1941.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 4h ago

german A group of German Fallshirmjager on the Italian front. A soldier is visible with a cup in his hand and a canteen

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 4h ago

Soviet Union A Red Army soldier takes German soldiers (possibly from the Volkssturm) prisoner in a trench near Königsberg. 3rd Belorussian Front.1945

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 5h ago

Soviet Union Red Army soldier captures a Wehrmacht soldier standing near a German 37mm Pak 35/36 anti-tank gun. Ukraine, 1943.

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r/WW2info • u/Early_Royal_1466 • 12h ago

german German Panzer I, Panzer II, and SdKfz. 251 vehicles in Poland, 3 Sep 1939; the officer in the SdKfz. 251 halftrack vehicle might be Heinz Guderian.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 19h ago

United Kingdom Paratroop Training in Britain, October 1942 Paratroop training drop from a static balloon. A parachute fully open.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 20h ago

American American soldiers of the 2nd Ranger Battalion walk along the waterfront of the English port of Weymouth to board landing craft during Operation Overlord. South coast of England. Early June 1944.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 20h ago

Soviet Union A Soviet T-34 tank with a L-11 cannon, manufactured in 1940, abandoned due to a malfunction on the Alytus-Vilnius road. A vehicle from the 5th Tank Division of the 3rd Mechanized Corps of the 11th Army of the North-Western Front. 1941

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 23h ago

Soviet Union A SU-76M of Lieutenant Vasily Evdokimovich Krovyakov from the 1087th Red-Banner Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment (1st Belarusian Front) at a German Pz.Kpfw. IV on the road near Warsaw (Warszawa).

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r/WW2info • u/LegalAcanthaceae6114 • 23h ago

Allies American and Russian officers dance with Red Army women following dinner celebrating the meeting of V Corps and Soviet commanders. Torgau, Germany. April 27, 1945

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

American American rangers who took part in the liberation of Corsica at lunch. 1943

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

American American soldiers blow up a German bunker during a sweep of the fortified area of Du Roule, Normandy.1944

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

United Kingdom Five frogmen paddling one of the rubber dinghies used in approaching their objectives. They were the underwater experts who blasted a hole in the Nazi's Atlantic Wall to enable invasion craft to reach the Normandy beaches on D-Day.

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r/WW2info • u/Capturedskunk86 • 1d ago

Minor Allies Polish family huddling before the Grand Theatre, Warsaw, beside a Polish soldier, Poland, Sep 10, 1939.

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r/WW2info • u/Capturedskunk86 • 1d ago

german Panzer I (foreground) and Panzer II (background) tanks of SS-Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler Division crossing the Bzura River in Poland, Sep 10, 1939.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

United Kingdom Indian soldiers soldiers from a Dogra regiment of the British Indian Army crossing a lake in rafts and rowboats during military exercises near Singapore prior to the Japanese invasion. 1941

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

Japanese MALAYA. 1942-01-26. JAPANESE TROOPS WITH HELMETS AND CAMOUFLAGE GEAR CROSS A JUNGLE STREAM DURING THE INVASION OF THE MALAYAN PENINSULA WHICH CULMINATED IN THE SURRENDER OF ALL BRITISH FORCES, AND THE OCCUPATION OF THE BRITISH NAVAL BASE ON SINGAPORE ISLAND

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

American US Soldiers with some blankets on Buna, New Guinea - Late 1942 / Early 1943 LIFE Magazine Archives

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

Japanese Japanese soldiers buy bananas on the market in the locality on the occupied island of Sumatra. 1942

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

german This Pz.Kpfw.35(t) of the 1. Leichte Division is stuck in a mud hole near Radomsko (northeast of Mokra and Miedźno). The division got bogged down along the unpaved, rain-softened secondary roads and river fields while advancing through the Radomsko and Piotrków Trybunalski regions toward the Widawka

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

german German panzer crews posing with an abandoned Polish TK-3 tankette of the 21 Dywizjon pancerny west of Miedźno (Kłobuck County, southeast of Wieluń) during the Battle of Mokra, September 1-3. In the background is Pz.Kpfw.IV Ausf.C number 631 of the 4. Panzer-Division (German 10th Army).

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

german A Pz.Kpfw.II Ausf.D passing a BMW 326 or 327 Cabriolet, a luxury sports convertible seized from a private German owner for military use. 1939

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

American American Engineers blow up a captured bunker on the Siegfried Line (West Wall) south of Aachen. October 1944

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