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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 6h ago

American US soldiers cautiously approach the rubble of a house. Official caption on front: "MM-5-44-5912." Official caption on reverse: "Signal Corps photo 29 May 1944 (Italy). Suspicion. Suspecting German snipers may be concealed in the ruins of this house in Velletri,

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 12h ago

Soviet Union A Soviet T-34 tank, hit and burning near Moscow. The vehicle was manufactured in late 1941 at Plant No. 112, "Krasnoye Sormovo." 1941

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 6h ago

American US patrol is briefed before attacking German position. Official caption on front: "MM-5-44-3629"; personal caption on reverse: "15 April 1944." Official caption on reverse: "Signal Corps Photo 16 Apr 1944 (Beachhead-Italy) American patrol blasts Germans in no-mans land. Pix #1 of 7 pix series.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 6h ago

Soviet Union A captured Soviet HT-133 chemical (flamethrower) tank in service with the Finnish Army. Tank registration number R-74. The vehicle was part of a flamethrower tank platoon of the Finnish armored battalion (Lh.J/Ps.P).

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 17h ago

American United States Army soldier using a long line of string/wire to ensure a German Panzerschreck is not booby trapped. Official caption on front: "Checking German bazooka for booby-trap in Oberhoffen, 2-5-45. US Army Photo 183-18." Oberhoffen-sur-Moder, France. February 5, 1945

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 5h ago

American 155-MM. HOWITZER M1 ON CARRIAGE M1, on Tinian in the Marianas, 28 July 1944. The assault on Tinian was made on the morning of 24 July. By evening o£ the 27th the two divisions ashore had control of half the island.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 4h ago

American "A heavy 155mm Long Tom howitzer from the 263rd Field Artillery Battalion, 26th Infantry Division. Being maneuvered into firing position by an M4 Tractor outside of Gelnhausen, Germany." -- March 30, 1945.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 6h ago

American Men of the 7th Division, US Army, move a 37 mm gun up to the front line on Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, South Pacific; January 31-February 4, 1944.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 6h ago

german The position of an MG 34 machine gun on an anti-aircraft mount of German Gebirgsjäger in the Apennine Mountains. 1944

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 12h ago

Soviet Union Soviet submachine gunners among ruined buildings during street fighting in Stalingrad.1942

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 6h ago

American US soldier is mud-splattered. Official caption on front: "MM-5-150527." Official caption on reverse: "Sig Corps Photo radioed 11-26-43 / Sig Corps Photo-11-26-43-Italy! PFC Louis M. Mantone, Maspeth, Long Island, sports a mud-pack facial spattered on by passing vehicles at a by-pass flooded by rains

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 6h ago

german A Gebirgsjäger of the 137th Wehrmacht Regiment sits on a rock next to a half-submerged small-tonnage ship in the harbor of Narvik. June 1940

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 6h ago

Soviet Union Captured Soviet tractor T-26T in the service of the Finnish army. Front view. These vehicles were intended for towing field artillery guns and for training driver-mechanics. Vehicle registration number Ps-608-1. 1945

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 17h ago

german German armored personnel carrier Sd.Kfz.251 Ausf.D and fire support vehicle Sd.Kfz. 251/9 Ausf.D (mittlerer Schutzenpanzerwagen fur 7.5 cm KwK-37 L/24), destroyed on the Western Front. 1945

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 12h ago

german German defensive line by the railway embankment. Hungary. 1945

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 17h ago

Soviet Union Soviet soldiers on a captured German Sd.Kfz.251/21 Ausf.D self-propelled anti-aircraft gun (mittlerer Schutzenpanzerwagen Drilling MG 151) during a meeting with Americans at a German administrative building. The original identification marks and numbers have been painted over.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 17h ago

german German soldiers ferry Sd.Kfz. 251/1 armored personnel carriers across the Don River near Nikolayevskaya. Pictured is a 16-ton ferry from the Type B bridge equipment kit (Brückengerät B) and sapper assault boats. Probably a photograph by German war correspondent Ernst Frank. 1942

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 17h ago

Italy Soldiers of the Italian Social Republic—the "Barberigo" Battalion, fighting on the German side—on the march toward the southern front in Italy. Beretta M1938 submachine guns are visible.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 17h ago

Italy A patrol of Bersaglieri advances through a wheat field in Ukraine.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 17h ago

American US soldier bivouacs in a cave. Official caption on front: "MM-5-150509." Official caption on reverse: "Sig Corps Photo radioed 11-27-43 / Sig Corps Photo-11-27-43-Italy!

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 17h ago

german A German Sd. Kfz.251/17 anti-aircraft gun with its crew in the Dutch town of Plasmolen.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 17h ago

Italy September 1942. Alpini troops marching across the steppe.

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 18h ago

American Stern view of USS Astoria, off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 21 October 1944; note OS2U Kingfisher aircraft

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r/WW2info • u/Metalshell9786 • 1d ago

Japanese 日本第89型坦克

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r/WW2info • u/JCFalkenberglll • 17h ago

german Soldiers of the Reich Labour Service (Reichsarbeitsdienst) after completing the construction of a gun emplacement on the coast along the Italian front. The commander thanks one of the soldiers. In the foreground, a camouflaged gun position.

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