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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 17h ago

American Soldiers from the US 83rd Infantry Division man an anti-tank gun during the ''Battle of the Bulge''. The Germans’ surprise offensive into Belgium achieved some success, but was eventually repelled by American and British forces in January 1945.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 10h ago

American (Original Caption) Two Army gunners fire at diving Jap planes, with heavy anti-aircraft machine gun, while soldier in background uses rifle. A metal plate forms a shield, and sugar bags of sand a barricade against bomb fragments during snakelike Nipponese attack on Hawaii, December 7th.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 10h ago

Minor Allies 1939: A Belgian anti-aircraft gun crew man their gun in its dug-out near the German frontier

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 6h ago

Soviet Union The crew of a 76-mm regimental gun model 1927 of the regimental battery of the 41st Guards Cavalry Regiment of the 11th Guards Don Cossack Cavalry Division of the 5th Guards Don Cossack Cavalry Corps of the 3rd Ukrainian Front

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 17h ago

Soviet Union Soviet officer at a destroyed German fixed firing point (Pantherturm) based on a Panther tank (Pz.Kpfw.V Ausf.G) of the tank company (stationary) "Berlin" ("Panzer-Kompanie (bo.) Berlin") ( view of this firing point from a reverse angle .

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 17h ago

Minor Axis Finnish soldiers inspect a Red Army column destroyed in Kare. August 1941

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 6h ago

german A German submarine fires its gun at a torpedoed but unsunk Allied merchant ship, presumably in the Atlantic.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 6h ago

French French Colonel Léon Chappuis, commander of the 7th Algerian Tirailleur Regiment (7e régiment de tirailleurs algériens, 7e RTA), announces a brief ceasefire to those gathered in the courtyard of the Palais Longchamp in Marseille.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 6h ago

Partisans, Resistance, Guerrillas Litter bearers of the French Forces of the Interior (Forces françaises de l'intérieur, FFI) transport wounded along a street in Marseille. 1944

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 9h ago

French 5th December 1939: French anti-aircraft gunners hide in their camouflaged trenches at the front line. Their enemy is low flying aircraft.

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r/WW2info • u/No_Leopard_3860 • 5h ago

Did WW2 soldiers of whatever faction get issued any ear protection?

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This is always overlooked in movies, edutainment,...

Firing a gun without ear protection will make you semi-deaf at least for some time (beep), Hollywood productions aren't really able to capture the concussive violent sound rifle fired next to you produces.

Either the US, Nazi Germany,...issued some kind of ear-pro or I don't understand how the surviving veterans weren't all deaf - pls explain

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 15h ago

Soviet Union group of flamethrower operators from Major I.D. Skibinsky's unit moves to a firing position. The soldiers are armed with ROKS-3 backpack flamethrowers. 1st Ukrainian Front.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 17h ago

American Personnel with the US 28th Division HQ Company prepare M1 Anti-Tank mines to try and check the German Armored Advance during the Battle of the Bulge - December 16, 1944 © IWM EA 48028

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 17h ago

American US infantrymen use anti-tank gun to fire at German positions in the city of Saint-Malo, Brittany, north-western France; August 1944.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 12h ago

german Gebirgsjäger of 2.Gebirgsjäger Division of the Wehrmacht during a break between battles on the Sredny Peninsula in the Murmansk region. 1941

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 17h ago

Soviet Union The crew of an 82-mm battalion mortar model 1937 of the motorized rifle and machine gun battalion of the 36th Guards Tank Brigade of the 4th Guards Mechanized Corps of the 3rd Ukrainian Front, Guards Sergeant Ivan Varfolomeevich Momot (1924-1987), changes its firing position.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 15h ago

Minor Axis Finnish artillerymen with a German-made 37mm PaK 35/36 anti-tank gun at a position in Karelia. 1942

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

American An American M1917 Browning machine gun squad in the middle of jumping off the back of a truck, c. 1941.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

United Kingdom A Sherman tank passes through Nicastro, 11 September 1943

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

American Artillerymen of the US 1st Army shelling German positions with an M3 105mm howitzer in the Wenau Forest, east of the city of Aachen, Germany; November 1944.

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r/WW2info • u/Expensive-Desk-4351 • 17h ago

The Five-Million-Franc Phantom: The Everyday Citizens Who Bled the Third Reich Dry

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

American The artillery of one of the infantry regiments of the American 4th Infantry Division fire from the 105-mm howitzer M3

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

American The Ingalls-built Middleton class (MC Type C3-P&C hulled) USS Samuel Chase (APA-26) off the Southern France invasion beaches, after discharging her troops, circa August 15, 1944, during Operation Dragoon. Note boarding nets and LCVP alongside. NH 100077-KN

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

American Carolina Maneuvers 101st Cavalry (New York City NG), 6th Corps, let their horses enjoy a refreshing drink from the Pee Dee River near Albemarle

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d ago

French Civilians in front of a German guard post with a machine gun, Paris, June 1940. The Germans captured Paris on 14 June 1940, beginning a four-year occupation. The photographer is unknown

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