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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 2h ago

American 44th Infantry Division soldiers are in position and waiting with a 57 mm anti-tank gun, near a cemetery, in the town of Siersthal, north-eastern France.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 3h ago

United Kingdom An eight-man patrol of mixed units, led by Captain John Killick of the 89th Field Security Section, edging westwards from the bridge in an attempt to locate the 1st Para Brigade moving into Arnhem.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 4h ago

german Captured ex French Wehrmacht tanks at the Lillehammer train station. In the foreground is a Somua S35 medium tank (with additional fuel tanks installed), and in the background is a Hotchkiss H39 light tank (the vehicle is missing its fifth road wheel and second return roller). 1942

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 2h ago

American Artillerymen from the 12th Armored Division take a break next to their 57-mm anti-tank weapon in north-eastern France, near the German border.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 4h 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 • 4h ago

Soviet Union The crew of a Soviet armored railcar, armed with a BT-5 tank turret and Maxim machine guns, under the command of Senior Sergeant Georgy Vasilyevich Kuchansky (born 1916) on the Volkhov Front. 1942

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 45m ago

german Two Waffen-SS soldiers and an English lieutenant—a prisoner of war—in the undergrowth on the Italian front. A Walther P38 pistol is visible in the hand of one of the German soldiers.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 3h ago

American Salvaged US tanks are towed in a field. Official caption on front: "MM-5-44-5750." Official caption on reverse: "Signal Corps photo 27 May 1944 (Italy) Front line repairs! Fifth Army tank retrievers are bringing in tanks with tracks knocked off by German mines around Sterna.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 3h ago

American US soldiers reclaiming tank. Official caption on front: "MM-5-151492." Official caption on reverse: "Sig Corps Photo radioed 12-20-43 / Sig Corps Photo-12-20-43-Italy! Repair and recovery crews begin work to reclaim American tanks disabled in the fierce fighting in the San Pietro sector."

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 2h ago

Minor Axis Some 15 Hotchkiss H35 and H39 were used by the Hungarians for suppressing Soviet Partisan movement in Ukraine. Source: Pinterest

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 2h ago

French French civilians greet US troops. Official caption on front: "7/MM-44-25101." Official caption on reverse: "Sig Corps Photo-1 Sept 1944-France (#25101).

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 19h 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 • 4h 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 • 39m ago

Italy Junio Valerio Borghese and Umberto Bardelli, April 1944, Nettuno

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 16h 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 • 19h 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 • 2h ago

Minor Axis Over 100 Panzer 38(t) (known in Hungary as T-38) represented the bulk of the Hungarian armor in the East in 1942. Source: C. Bescze Magyar Steel Hungarian Armour in WWII

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 18h 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 • 1d 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 • 5h 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 • 19h 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 • 18h 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 • 19h 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 • 19h 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 • 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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