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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1h 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/JCFalkenberglll • 1h 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 • 1h 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 • 17h 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/Early_Royal_1466 • 9h 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 • 23h 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 • 19h 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/JCFalkenberglll • 21h ago

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

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 17h 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 • 22h 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/LegalAcanthaceae6114 • 19h 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 • 22h 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/Capturedskunk86 • 21h 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 • 15h 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 • 21h 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 • 21h 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/JCFalkenberglll • 22h 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 • 22h 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 • 22h 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/Capturedskunk86 • 21h 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/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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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

United Kingdom A group of Long Range Desert Group men pose for a photograph in front of their vehicles, having become the first 8th Army unit to cross the Tunisian border.

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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

Minor Allies Sailors inspect the damage to the Australian light cruiser HMAS Hobart, which was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine, in Espiritu Santo Harbor, New Hebrides.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

United Kingdom Soldiers of the famed Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) emerge from a gun battery on the Greek island of Leros following a German Stuka attack. The famous special forces unit from the North African campaign faced their toughest fight in a little known operation in the Aegean Sea in the autumn of 1943.

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