4011 best r/ww2 images on Pholder | Finally found my great uncle’s shadowbox

Finally found my great uncle’s shadowbox

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German soldiers inspect the wreck of a Char 2C super-heavy tank, near Langres, France, June 1940

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German soldiers moving towards Stalingrad. 1942

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Juno Beach - first waves from above approx 08:10-08:15

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Warsaw after the Nazi German destruction of the city

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January 1945: A typical French Alpine soldier carrying a German machine gun and ammunition belt makes his way to a mountain post on the French-German frontier, from which he can detect the movements of the enemy. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

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Jimmy Stewart before and after joining the military

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stg-44 mounted on a bike in a Dutch war museum

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Photograph or Joseph Goebbels before and after finding out a photographer was Jewish

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P-47 Thunderbolt piloted by Capt Raymond M Walsh of the 406th Fighter Group is silhouetted against the exploding ammunition truck he just strafed, France, Jun 23 1944. The image was taken by his wingman’s gun camera in the following P-47

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German gains 24 hours after the invasion of Poland, 1939

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A Soviet soldier holds up a teddy bear that he and his comrade found inside a captured German Panzer III tank. Date and location unknown.

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American restaurateur Fred Horak, an ethnic and Czech native of Prague, at the window of his dining room.

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While moving grandma and grandpa to thier new house, I found this in the closet

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My grandpa’s Sten. My grandpa served in the Cypriot military in the late 50s and they happened to use Stens to train soldiers.

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Hurtgen Forest, Fall 1944.

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Opening ceremony of a rail bridge over the lower Dnieper, constructed by Organization Todt, occupied Ukraine, June 1942 (Original color)

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Two US Marines stand atop Mt. Suribachi, overlooking the remainder of Iwo Jima, part of which is still held by the Japanese. Circa March 1945. Color by Jared Enos.

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Wehrmacht General Anton Dostler is strapped to a post moments before his execution by a firing squad for war crimes. Dostler was convicted of having 15 POWs summarily executed (Italy, December 1, 1945)

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Mid-War USAAF Bomber Crew Headgear

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A Pole (now a POW) who had been forcibly conscripted into the German Army, speaks with Polish 1st Armoured Division soldiers in Normandy; c. August 1944.

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I met someone who’s father was imprisoned in the same POW camp as Kurt Vonnegut during WWII. He wrote Vonnegut after the war and he responded! They were both in the 106th Infantry Division.

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Burned out Panther in front of the Cologne Cathedral. Fatal shot is clear.

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U-505 in the Museum of Science and industry Chicago

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A sign warning British soldiers that they are getting close to the frontline, North Africa likely 1941/42

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My grandpa's canteen. He was stationed on Corregidor with the 59th coastal artillery at the beginning of ww2. He was captured by the Japanese and held as a POW until the end of the war.

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Why was Goring considered the highest ranking defendent at Nuremberg if, Donitz was the President/Fuhrer?

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A prisoner of Buchenwald conc. camp is pointing out a prison guard who was especially cruel to prisoners, 1945

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T-34-85 crew honouring their fallen comrades, killed in 1941. Operation Bagration, Byelorussian SSR, 1944. Cmdr Sidorov (far right) will be killed during the liberation of Belarus in a few months

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Does anyone know the meaning of TWL?

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Is this picture from D-day real I want to say no but I would prefer a second more professional opinion

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A Red Army soldier at an anti-aircraft machine gun installation from captured MG-34 machine guns

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Disgruntled Soviet sniper is inspected by Finnish Captors in the opening stages of the Continuation war.

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This day in 1974, the last Japanese soldier, 2nd Lt. Onoda, surrenders nearly 30 years after the end of World War II.

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On this day, January 31st 1943 the Battle of Stalingrad ended...

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Question about my grandfather's photo (see comments)

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Joseph Beyrle - the only American believed to serve with US Army and the Soviet Red Army during WW2. He served with the 101st Airborne Division and then joined a Soviet tank battalion. After escaping a German POW camp. A movie should be made about this man [24x36]

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British Spitfire fighter attempting to topple a German V-1 flying bomb with its wing tip, c.1944-45.

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Why z on British tank from film taken in Africa campaign

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WWII veterans against MacArthur running for President in March 1948 staging a petition rally event on the University of California Berkeley to get students to oppose his candidacy.

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November 8, 1942: the Americans go on the offensive against the Germans for the first time in North Africa as part of Operation Torch. My great uncle, Walter Clifton Luttrell, is killed in the first wave on the beachhead by Vichy French defenders (full story in comments).

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Denver Bull Randleman. He was a Paratrooper in Easy Company. If you watched Band of Brothers you know him and his cigar.

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Not really a huge gun guy but finally got around to hanging my grandfather's WW2 guns.

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What Is This Officer Carrying On His Belt?

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Soviet soldiers fighting till their last breath, 1943. Photographer — Mark Markov-Grinberg (1907-2006)

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Hitler standing in rain at the Wolfsschanze station to receive Mussolini. He survived an assassination attempt that day and was only slightly injured, 20 July 1944. Colorized by me.

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My grandmother passed away last week, yesterday we found this in her belongings. I felt like I needed to share somewhere it might make someone smile.

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A Soviet soldier smashes a portrait of Hitler in the liberated city of Gatchina (Гатчина), Leningrad Oblast, January 1944

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Wehrmacht soldiers captured during the Battle of Kursk. 1943

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Canadian flying ace James Francis “Stocky” Edwards, with 19 confirmed kills and Canada’s top desert ace, died yesterday at age 100

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A rare footage of Fury also known as M4A3E8 Sherman Easy Eight and you can see a M18 Hellcat near fury (Date and Location are unknown)

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Doris Miller awarded the Navy Cross by Adm Chester Nimitz for gallantry at Pearl Harbor; 27-May-1942. Serving as a mess attendant on the USS West Virginia, Miller tended to his wounded captain and manned a 50-caliber antiaircraft gun firing until ordered to abandon ship. He was credited with 2 kills

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The path of the German Stuka dive bomber, used in the Luftwaffe during WW2. They would dive down as close as possible to their target for deadly accuracy and are infamous for the screaming sound that the plane made.

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Troops pose with captured Japanese flag, Guadalcanal 1943

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Female Soviet soldier in German captivity. 1941

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was this ever made or was it just a design like the ratte/maus

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German graffiti painted on the wall of a wooden building on a bomb-damaged street near the Dachau concentration camp. German graffiti painted on the wall of a wooden building on a bomb-damaged street near the Dachau concentration camp.

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What was the most disastrous raid during world war 2?

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Keeping history alive with this incredible Willys Jeep

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Found a shell from the Schwerer Gustav

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Finnish Waffen-SS volunteers, during their homecoming parade in Hanko, Finland. June 1, 1943.

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Grandfather took this off a German solider he killed in Europe. What might this small canister be for? The bayonet is obviously for a Kar98

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My Grandpa Roy Edwin Johnson

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Though now it is nothing new but these 'now and then' images never get boring to me.

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11th of December 1941, German declaration of War against USA.

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A member of the 12th SS Panzer Divison “Hitlerjugen” fires his MG-42 onto the enemy, 1944

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Finland vs. Soviet Union. Punch, 1940.

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Fleet Air Arm Barracudas, Martlet, Corsair and Seafire, 1944

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Look what i found in Bastogne!

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Us soldier at the train, Connecticut,1945

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A well preserved Truck in the cargo bay of the IJN Ship Hoki Maru sunk 1944 during „Operation Hailstone Chuuk Lagoon,Micronesia

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Marines advance as they creep up on a Japanese pill boxes at Tarawa Atoll, November 1943.

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The remains of the B 17 Swamp Ghost which was piloted by Captain Frederick Fred C Eaton Jr after it was dragged out of a Swamp from crash landing after taking part in an attack on enemy ships in Japanese controlled and occupied New Britain on February 23rd 1942

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