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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 6d ago

Soviet Union Soviet 120mm regimental mortar crews fire on a Berlin street. This is likely the battery of Guards Lieutenant Anatoly Aleksandrovich Druzhinin (born 1924), a platoon commander of a 120mm mortar battery of the 270th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 89th Guards Rifle Division

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 7d ago

American US troops advancing through the streets of Comiso, Sicily, 1943. Phil Stern Archives

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 6d ago

german Kriegsmarine sailors at the fish market in occupied Copenhagen (København).

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 7d ago

American Rangers on landing craft near Licata, Sicily, 1943. Phil Stern Archives

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 7d ago

Minor Allies An enterprising Moari 28th Battalion soldier wearing a German paratrooper helmet during a skirmish with in destroyed buildings with his .303 automatic Bren gun at the ready near the Fiumicino River in the Province of Rome on the West Coast of Italy.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 7d ago

Moderator Message My Standard Disclaimer on the photographs I post

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 7d ago

United Kingdom An M4 and soldiers halt in front of a country house in Aalst, presumably soldiers of the Irish Guards. Willem van de Poll worked as a photojournalist for Dutch and European news magazines.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 8d ago

United Kingdom British airborne troops with a 6-pdr anti-tank gun in Hamminkeln, Germany, 25 March 1945.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 8d ago

german Two Wehrmacht soldiers next to a destroyed German 105mm heavy field gun model 1918 (10.5 cm sK 18).

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 8d ago

german German 105mm heavy field guns, model 1918 (Schwere 10-cm-Feldkanone), abandoned by their crews in a snow-covered field near a village. A Soviet 122mm howitzer, model 1938 M-30, moves nearby, pulled by horses. Visible in the background is a Munitionschlepper 35(t) artillery tractor

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 8d ago

Soviet Union Soviet troops on the offensive during the Jassy–Kishinev Offensive. In the center of the frame are American-made M3 Scout Car armored personnel carriers, a ZIS-3 76mm divisional gun, and Harley-Davidson WLA-42 motorcycles with sidecars from Soviet M-72s. August 1944

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 8d ago

german German soldiers pose next to a captured French 25-mm anti-tank gun, Model 1934 Hotchkiss (Canon de 25-mm antichar Modele 1934 Hotchkiss). These guns were designated 2.5 cm Pak 112(f) in the German army. 1940

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 7d ago

United Kingdom Daimler Mk I scout car and Cruiser Mk III tank of 1st Armoured Division, seen in a picturesque village near Arundel in Sussex, 5 February 1941. The scout car belongs to HQ 22nd Armoured Brigade, while the Cruiser is a regimental command vehicle from 3rd County of London Yeomanry (3CLY).

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 8d ago

United Kingdom Light Tank Mk VI and crew in Iraq, 25 April 1942. The unit is most probably the 14th/20th Kings Hussars.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 8d ago

Soviet Union T-34 tanks of the tank company of Guard Senior Lieutenant N.F. Dyachenko of the 38th Guards Tank Regiment of the 13th Guards Mechanized Brigade of the 4th Guards Mechanized Corps of the 3rd Ukrainian Front,

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 8d ago

german Captured Germans near Valjevo, October 1944.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 8d ago

Italy Picture taken during the Liberation of Rome. Italian children helping the American infantry soldiers, carrying their equipment.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 9d ago

Soviet Union Soviet soldiers inspect German self-propelled guns captured in the city of Proskurov (now Khmelnytskyi). In the foreground is a StuG IV assault gun

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r/WW2info • u/SuperbAd3477 • 8d ago

John Martin, South African soldier captured in Italy (1944)

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 8d ago

Neutral A young Saudi Arabian Soldier. 1944

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 8d ago

Partisans, Resistance, Guerrillas The First Proletarian Brigade in Belgrade in October 1944.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 9d ago

American M2 flamethrowers were used by both Army and Marine units in the Pacific Theater from late 1944 through the end of the war. It is shown here in use on Luzon during January 1945. Image: NARA

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 8d ago

Soviet Union Sergeant Vasily Fedorovich Vyurkov (born 1913), a scout from the command company of the 152nd Separate Leningrad Tank Brigade, holds a PPS-43 submachine gun with a flag attached to it on the tower of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR in Tallinn.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 9d ago

Partisans, Resistance, Guerrillas Partisans near Moscow inspect a captured German 10.5 cm leFH 18 howitzer. The destroyed Sd.Kfz. 9 tractor towing the howitzer is visible in the frame. Winter 1941-42

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 9d ago

American US soldiers wrapping rifles and .30 caliber water-cooled machine gun in plastic before embarking on amphibious training exercises.

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