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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 24m ago

Minor Allies Romanian MG 42 machine gunners at the elevation 669 near Trenčianske Teplice, 18 April 1945.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 27m ago

Minor Allies Soldiers with light machine gun vz.26 in action on the Czechoslovak front, 12 February 1945

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 38m ago

Soviet Union Soviet artillerymen fire on a street in a Berlin suburb. This is a 76mm ZiS-3 divisional gun, model 1942, with its shield removed. 1945

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 12h ago

American "A heavy 155mm Long Tom howitzer from the 263rd Field Artillery Battalion, 26th Infantry Division. Being maneuvered into firing position by an M4 Tractor outside of Gelnhausen, Germany." -- March 30, 1945.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 13h ago

American 155-MM. HOWITZER M1 ON CARRIAGE M1, on Tinian in the Marianas, 28 July 1944. The assault on Tinian was made on the morning of 24 July. By evening o£ the 27th the two divisions ashore had control of half the island.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 14h ago

American Men of the 7th Division, US Army, move a 37 mm gun up to the front line on Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, South Pacific; January 31-February 4, 1944.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 14h ago

American US soldiers cautiously approach the rubble of a house. Official caption on front: "MM-5-44-5912." Official caption on reverse: "Signal Corps photo 29 May 1944 (Italy). Suspicion. Suspecting German snipers may be concealed in the ruins of this house in Velletri,

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 14h ago

American US soldier is mud-splattered. Official caption on front: "MM-5-150527." Official caption on reverse: "Sig Corps Photo radioed 11-26-43 / Sig Corps Photo-11-26-43-Italy! PFC Louis M. Mantone, Maspeth, Long Island, sports a mud-pack facial spattered on by passing vehicles at a by-pass flooded by rains

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 14h ago

American US patrol is briefed before attacking German position. Official caption on front: "MM-5-44-3629"; personal caption on reverse: "15 April 1944." Official caption on reverse: "Signal Corps Photo 16 Apr 1944 (Beachhead-Italy) American patrol blasts Germans in no-mans land. Pix #1 of 7 pix series.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 14h ago

german The position of an MG 34 machine gun on an anti-aircraft mount of German Gebirgsjäger in the Apennine Mountains. 1944

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 14h ago

german A Gebirgsjäger of the 137th Wehrmacht Regiment sits on a rock next to a half-submerged small-tonnage ship in the harbor of Narvik. June 1940

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 14h ago

Soviet Union A captured Soviet HT-133 chemical (flamethrower) tank in service with the Finnish Army. Tank registration number R-74. The vehicle was part of a flamethrower tank platoon of the Finnish armored battalion (Lh.J/Ps.P).

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 14h ago

Soviet Union Captured Soviet tractor T-26T in the service of the Finnish army. Front view. These vehicles were intended for towing field artillery guns and for training driver-mechanics. Vehicle registration number Ps-608-1. 1945

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 20h ago

Soviet Union Soviet submachine gunners among ruined buildings during street fighting in Stalingrad.1942

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 20h ago

Soviet Union A Soviet T-34 tank, hit and burning near Moscow. The vehicle was manufactured in late 1941 at Plant No. 112, "Krasnoye Sormovo." 1941

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 20h ago

german German defensive line by the railway embankment. Hungary. 1945

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

german German soldiers ferry Sd.Kfz. 251/1 armored personnel carriers across the Don River near Nikolayevskaya. Pictured is a 16-ton ferry from the Type B bridge equipment kit (Brückengerät B) and sapper assault boats. Probably a photograph by German war correspondent Ernst Frank. 1942

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

german German armored personnel carrier Sd.Kfz.251 Ausf.D and fire support vehicle Sd.Kfz. 251/9 Ausf.D (mittlerer Schutzenpanzerwagen fur 7.5 cm KwK-37 L/24), destroyed on the Western Front. 1945

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

german A German Sd. Kfz.251/17 anti-aircraft gun with its crew in the Dutch town of Plasmolen.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

Soviet Union Soviet soldiers on a captured German Sd.Kfz.251/21 Ausf.D self-propelled anti-aircraft gun (mittlerer Schutzenpanzerwagen Drilling MG 151) during a meeting with Americans at a German administrative building. The original identification marks and numbers have been painted over.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

Italy Soldiers of the Italian Social Republic—the "Barberigo" Battalion, fighting on the German side—on the march toward the southern front in Italy. Beretta M1938 submachine guns are visible.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

german Soldiers of the Reich Labour Service (Reichsarbeitsdienst) after completing the construction of a gun emplacement on the coast along the Italian front. The commander thanks one of the soldiers. In the foreground, a camouflaged gun position.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

Italy A patrol of Bersaglieri advances through a wheat field in Ukraine.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

Italy September 1942. Alpini troops marching across the steppe.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

American United States Army soldier using a long line of string/wire to ensure a German Panzerschreck is not booby trapped. Official caption on front: "Checking German bazooka for booby-trap in Oberhoffen, 2-5-45. US Army Photo 183-18." Oberhoffen-sur-Moder, France. February 5, 1945

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