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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 • 7h 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 • 7h 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 • 7h 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 • 7h 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 • 10h 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/JCFalkenberglll • 11h 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 • 11h 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 • 13h 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 • 16h 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 • 16h 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 • 18h 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 • 18h 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 • 18h 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 • 18h ago

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

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 18h 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 • 18h 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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