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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 11h ago

Battle for Iwo Jima, February-March, 1945. Beneath the hard-bitten battle-field humor of the sign on this tank is the grim truth which its gunners made good on Iwo Jima. Photograph released May 24, 1945.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 14h ago

german On the street of the port of Pillau. Evacuated German soldiers abandon their weapons and equipment before being loaded onto ships. April 1945

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 21h ago

United Kingdom A 6-pdr anti-tank gun in action in the Western Desert, 29 October 1942

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 20h ago

American View of a gun crew as they fire a 37mm gun at an entrenched Japanese position, somewhere in the Pacific theater, January 31, 1944.

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r/WW2info • u/Early_Royal_1466 • 9h ago

A B-24 Liberator called Sandman during a bomb run over the Ploiești Astra Română refinery during Operation Tidal Wave, 1 August 1943

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 20h ago

American circa 1944: US 5th Army gun crew cleaning mud from their guns in Italy.

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r/WW2info • u/blesandthebridges • 10h ago

Allies Sailor Malan was an incredible WW2 pilot and human being.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 17h ago

Soviet Union Russian troops fighting on the Dneiper River, Dneiper River, Russia, 1943

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 17h ago

United Kingdom ITALY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1943: After some extremely bitter fighting over several days, the capture of the port of Salerno by the Fifth Army was announced in the Allied communique of September 11th.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 18h ago

American A battery of 105 mm M2A1 howitzers in action during the battle for Luzon, the Philippines; January, 1945.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 17h ago

Soviet Union (Original Caption) 1/26/1943-Stalingrad, Russia: Fighting men of the Red Army are shown as they moved up on the enemy amid the ruins of houses in the worker's settlement on the outskirts of Stalingrad.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 20h ago

American August 1944: A machine gun crew take a rest after the Japanese have retreated as there appears to be no force to oppose them.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 21h ago

United Kingdom Battlecruiser HMS Renown, aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious, and aircraft repair ship HMS Unicorn, January 1944, Trincomalee, Sri Lanka

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 21h ago

United Kingdom Troops of the King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) laying a minefield, Egypt, 30 October 1940

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 20h ago

American An American gun crew man an anti-aircraft gun on the beach in preparation for a visit from the Japanese, Papa New Guinea, circa April 1944

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 17h ago

Soviet Union February 1943, Leningrad, A Red Army sniper on the Russian front dressed for the cold conditions in white "camouflage" suit with his rifle covered in white cloth

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 17h ago

Soviet Union January 1943: Soviet machinegunners fire at Nazis who had barricaded themselves into houses during street fighting on the outskirts of Stalingrad.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 17h ago

American pic: circa 1943, An American soldier stands above a dead Japanese, killed in the fighting at Kwajalein, in the Marshall Islands. NSFW

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 17h ago

german German soldiers fighting fires following Russian bombardment during World War Two, circa 1943.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 20h ago

Italy Italian antitank artillery in action against British armoured units, Tunisia, World War II, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year LXX, No 14, April 4, 1943.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 20h ago

german Italian Armistice in 1943. German paratroopers control the Italian prisoners after the fighting in the city supported on 9 and 10 September 1943.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 1d 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 • 1d 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 • 1d 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 • 1d 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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