4011 best r/ww2 images on Pholder | WW2 Era Photo Showing 2 German Soldiers, one on a machine gun. Date and location unknown.

WW2 Era Photo Showing 2 German Soldiers, one on a machine gun. Date and location unknown.

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Before the storming of the city of Velikiye Luki. Soviet soldiers listen to the play of their comrade on the accordion. January 1943.

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Hello everyone. My grandfather was on Omaha beach during the second wave of D-Day. We only have a few stories but everything else is lost to time. what can you guys tell me?

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Below is a copy of the first leaflet (AB-11) which was dropped on Japanese cities in conjunctiont with the Atomic Bomb.

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Air attack on a German convoy in Belarus during Operation Bagration. June-August 1944.

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Valentina Fyodorovna Nikolaeva - gunner-radio operator and medic of the 107th separate tank battalion of the Leningrad Front in a captured T-III tank

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1943, Italy. The exact moment that a mortar bomb detonated. One signaller has taken cover, just in time.

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“Band of Brothers “- Pvt. Joseph D. ‘Joe’ Liebgott takes a break in the streets of Eindhoven. In the back sit an unknown trooper (often misidentified as Eugene G. Roe) and Burton P. Christenson, September 1944, The Netherlands.

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Tiger tanks outside Leningrad, 1943.

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Serial killer Ed Kemper’s father, Edmund Emil Kemper II, was a paratrooper during World War II.

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How to best protect/display an heirloom captured flag

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German Soldier with a MP 43 (earlier Version of the Stg 44) with ZF-4 Scope attached. Eastern Front, September/October 1943.

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Anti-tank rifleman on the march. Western Front, presumably 1941.

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Stalin’s resolution on a secret agent’s message about upcoming German invasion. More in comments

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A crew loading a sturmtiger shell by a crane. Truly hard work for one shell

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NAVAJOS WERE NOT THE ONLY WW2 CODE TALKERS. THEY JUST RECEIVED BETTER MEDIA COVEREAGE THAN THE CODE TALKERS FROM THE OTHER 33+ TRIBES THAT USED THEIR NATIVE LANGUAGES TO DECEIVE AND CONFUSE THE ENEMY IN EUROPE AND THE PACIFIC. More in comments.

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Incredibly, it took 200kgs of Zimmerit to cover a Tiger 1 - as if it wasn't heavy enough.

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Sdkfz 222 with a 20mm Kwk 30 autocannon at The War & Peace Show 2019

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The Payen PA-22 was actually built by the French in 1939, though was captured by the Germans in 1942. Before any real tests were conducted, the aircraft was destroyed by an Allied air raid in 1943.

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Irishwoman who changed course of WWII history with D-Day weather report turns 100

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A 1:6 model of the Schwerer Gustav.

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Ernie Pyle listening to a news report on war activities over the loudspeaker of a Navy transport carrying Marines to the invasion of Okinawa in 1945. He would be killed by a sniper on April 18, 1945 on Okinawa.

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Stamps of Hitler from 1941-45. Felt this was the relevant Subreddit to share on.

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Photo taken by my great grandad of Winston Churchill visiting his ship

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A US Marine holds a Japanese Type 99 Nambu Light Machine Gun with Bayonet attached on Saipan, 1944.

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British coastal artillery gun crew ready for action somewhere in Kent, England c. 1941

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What is this medal/service pin?

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Went on a walk to go see crashed bombers

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Any idea who/what unit this is? It’s obvious he is Japanese due to the patch. But I have never seen or heard of any Japanese Officer serving with Nazi Germany. Any Ideas?

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An RAF Beaufighter attacking targets near Ljubljana. Yugoslavia, 1945

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An American Medic and a GI of the US. 80th Infantry Division reading a comic at Reisdorf in Luxembourg near the German Border; 12-February-1945 Left to right : Pfc Reynold H. Bush Middletown, Ohio , and Pfc Aurelio Maltese, New York

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A german soldier with a StG 44 and nightscope Zielgerat 1229 Vampir. February, 1945

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What does the cross mean on German vehicles?

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My nan found these pictures my great grandad took of H.M.S Indomitable on fire

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USA Marines next to the Soochow creek during the battlr of Shanghai 1937

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German military camera crew filming in Dunkirk, France shortly after the conquest, Jun 1940

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Finnish camouflaged road during WW2. They hung trees with rope so that spy planes couldn’t see the supply route they’re driving on. Finland, 1941

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Soviet soldier smashes the poster Hitler - the Liberator in the liberated Gatchina. Leningrad region, 26.01.1944.

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A U.S. Marine Officer clears a Japanese cave with his M1911 Colt .45 pistol in Saipan (July 1944)

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Some of My great grandfathers platoon 1937 I think

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A Mauser anti-aircraft gun. I believe it's 20 mm.

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British merchant vessel Beacon Grange sinking south of Iceland sinking after being torpedoed by U-552 on April 27th, 1941. Taken from U-552's conning tower.

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German Soldiers with captured M1 Garand rifles and Thompson sub machine guns near Nettuno, Italy, February 17, 1944.

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Does anyone know what kind of tank this is? It was a picture in a WW2 German magazine.

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Statement of the King of Italy, April 12, 1944

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Translation? Can someone help me? Found on a sword from my great uncle

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Monument to the Great Patriotic War in Kupovate village, Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

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U.S. Navy K-class blimps in one of the airship hangars at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey (USA), circa 1942-1943. The blimp at right is the K-7.

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Two paratroopers of the 17th Airborne Division wait for takeoff on their C-46 during Operation Varsity. March 23, 1945.

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Two US Marines holding up a sign exhibiting importance towards the Coast Guard’s participation during the recapture of Guam, July 1944.

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The ME 163 Komet. A rocket powered plane built by nazi Germany near the end of ww2. The planes fuel was highly explosive and many ground crew died when dealing with the plane

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Finnish HMG crewman at the Riihio sector October 1942

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Personal Message from King George to children 1946

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A video with my 2nd great-grandfather with his squadron, 44th fighter squadron June 21, 1943 2 days before he died

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Tiger 131, the only operating Tiger 1 tank in the world at Bovington Tank Museum, UK

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Bismarck Colorized 1940

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Today is 76 years of this photo ... In Collecchio, when the Germans were under siege and surrendered to the Brazilians. It was 4/29/01945. Here, the Brazilian instructs prisoners how to behave. Brazilian troops surrounded and arrested the 148th German Infantry Division and the other divisions of the

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Hello, I would like to know more about this man and his service. His grave was in my family’s section yet my Granda didn’t know about him.

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Wehrmacht soldiers posing in front of abandoned French tank in 1940.

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Animal love is never forgotten

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Dwight Eisenhower cried upon recalling the sacrifices of the men who were killed or wounded on D-Day during a speech in 1952

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Retreating soldiers of the Italian Army near Stalingrad. 130,000 Italians had been surrounded, 45,000 were able to withdraw, January 1943.

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Why does only 1 soldier here have a bagged weapon? was this common practice for soldiers to bag their weapons when approaching a beach? I am watching Saving Private Ryan for the first time and noticed that only 1 solider of the maybe 200 people in the scene has a bagged weapon and was rather curious

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Two American soldiers inspect a destroyed German King Tiger tank, Belgium, 1944.

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BURMA, 1944: In the jungle near Bhamo, Kenny Yasui, of Los Angeles, uses a loudspeaker to call for Japanese troops to surrender. Yasui earned a Silver Star for capturing 16 Japanese troops on a river island.

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General Dwight D. Eisenhower proved uniquely suited to the demanding role of supreme allied commander during World War II. Although he never fulfilled his dream of participating on the battlefield, he did what the world needed, and provided crucial leadership to end the war in Europe.

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The infamous border photo: German troops at the border of Poland, September 1, 1939

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The crew of a Tiger I waits for supplies. Tunisia, 1943, colorized

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Found these for $3 today. Probably not worth much but I thought they were neat. Interesting how the newspaper price went from 3 cents in 1941 to 10 cents in 1945

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Is the a US paratrooper's uniform from WW2? I've been told this is a picture of a great uncle who was killed in WW2. Is this uniform from WW2?

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This is a letter which was written by a Polish prisoner in Auschwitz named Thadaus Arecki to his parents. it would be much helpful if someone will be able to translate his writings.

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Soviet and American airmen pose with the bombs on which they'd written messages for the Nazis at a Russian air base on June 2, 1944

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Japanese Yosegaki Hinomaru (Good Luck flag)

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My Great Great Uncle and his buddies somewhere in Europe.

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A German soldier sits on two hand grenades, 1942, north Africa

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What can you tell me about my great grandfather?

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need help identifying this photo

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Still one of my favorite stories.

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What happened to Heinrich Muller the gestapo chief?

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The crew of this M4A3 76mm Sherman Tank “Blondie” pose with a herd of sheep in Italy, 1945.

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What is the symbol on this tank? For context, I am playing Call of duty Big Red One and seen this tank on one of the missions. Was this something found on tanks during WW2 or is it just something they threw in the game?

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This finally landed on Netflix. It’s based on Chris Brownings’ Ordinary Men. His seminal work on why ordinary Germans murdered millions in 1941-1942. Highly recommend both the book and the documentary.

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Funeral of Yoshitsugu Saito by American military personnel, Saipan, 1944

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The 100,000th POW captured by the 1st Infantry Division in WWII. He was captured by soldiers of the 16th Infantry near Weywertz, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge.

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Winston Churchill sits on a damaged chair from the Fuhrerbunker in July 1945.

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At the League of Nations assembly in Geneva, Japanese diplomat Yosuke Matsuoka defends his country's invasion of Manchuria and establishment of its puppet state there. Japan was recently branded as an aggressor by the League for such a move. (February 24, 1933)

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On Guadalcanal. This photo appears in the September 27, 1943, issue of Life Magazine. It was the magazines’ “picture of the week”

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Soviet female snipers of the 33rd Army in the trench. Belarus, 1944.

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Any clue as to what weapon my great grandfather has slung on his shoulder? (Philippines, 1944)

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A German infantryman walks toward the body of a killed Soviet soldier and a burning BT-7 light tank in the southern Soviet Union in 1941, during the early days of Operation Barbarossa.

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A tribute to my Great-Grandfather, a recreation of his portrait

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what are those cloths underneath the soldiers helmet

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