Saturday, February 16, 2019

Plac Bankowy (Bank Square) in central Warsaw

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Plac Bankowy (Bank Square) in central Warsaw. It is one of the city's principal squares. Located downtown, adjacent to the Saxon Ga...
Friday, February 15, 2019

German Sentry in the Freezing Russian Winter

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German infantry soldier as in winter outfit performing his duty as a sentry in the freezing cold of Russian winter, 1941/42. He is we...
Thursday, February 14, 2019

Wehrmacht Funeral on the Eastern Front

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After the first major German losses in the Eastern Front in 1941, divisional cemeteries were set up behind the front lines. Here the dead...
Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Harry Crerar and Tommy Burns in Italy

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Two of the Canadian Army’s prominent intellectuals from the inter-war years, from left to right: Lieutenant-Colonel (later General) H.D...
Monday, February 11, 2019

Discarded Artillery Shell in Smolensk

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A view of the town of Smolensk in Russia. A pile of discarded wicker artillery shell packing cases and ammunition boxes. Based on their t...
Sunday, February 10, 2019

German Soldier with His Horse in the Winter of 1941/42

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German Wehrmacht soldier with his horse on the Eastern Front, winter of 1941/42. The winter of 1941 produced the greatest crisis. Horse l...
Friday, February 8, 2019

German Soldier with Captured Soviet Rifle

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German soldier with captured SVT-40 Soviet rifle. It is well known that the SVT-40 was a prized war trophy amongst the German troops, esp...

SS-Kriegsberichter Franz Roth

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SS-Untersturmführer and SS-Kriegsberichter Franz Seraphicus Roth (5 April 1911 – 17 March 1943) was an Austrian photographer who worked a...
Thursday, February 7, 2019

Gebirgsjäger Postcard

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This is a nice original period 'Gebirgsjäger' (German Mountain Troops) Propaganda Postcard, and it was published by the 'Kuns...

A View of the Town of Kamianiec in Belarus

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A view of the town of Kamianiec in Belarus. The round tower in the background is the Bielaya Vieža (Tower of Kamianiec). The white towers...
Wednesday, February 6, 2019

Fallschirmjäger Wearing Early Pattern Jump Smock

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German Fallschirmjäger (Paratroopers) at Crete with graugrun knochensack, summer of 1941. The Fallschirmjäger, like all paratroopers from...

Sherman Tank of a Canadian Unit in Normandy

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A nice color shot of an M4A4 Sherman tank from the 4th Canadian Armoured Division - with some hay on it - in the field near the F...
Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Assumption Cathedral in Smolensk 1941

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These photos depict Smolensk (Russia) some time after the Battle of Smolensk that occurred in July 1941. Preceding the battle, on 28t...
Monday, February 4, 2019

Brigadier Tom Rutherford in Front of a Sherman Tank

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Canadian Brigadier Thomas John "Uncle Tom" Rutherford (16 January 1893), Commander of the 1st Armoured Brigade, stands in front...

German Fallschirmjäger during Operation Mercury

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A German Fallschirmjäger (Paratrooper) with the rank of Gefreiter (Corporal) in his light olive green jump smock of the early version, ar...
Sunday, February 3, 2019

Seafort Highlander Officers in Sicily

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Lieutenant-Colonel Bert Hoffmeister (left), wearing his Seaforth Highlander balmoral and shoulder flash in Sicily, summer of 1943. Hoffme...

Fallschirmjäger at Crete 1941

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Two German Fallschirmjäger (Paratrooper) at Crete in May 1941. The pictures most likely were not taken on the first day and probably mo...
Saturday, February 2, 2019

Fallschirmjäger Rests at Crete

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German Fallschirmjäger (paratroopers) rests after the Battle in Crete, 20 May 1941. Certainly a propaganda photo for the homeland, concea...

King George VI during Award Ceremony for Canadian Soldiers

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The King of the Great Britain, George VI (center), with the commander of the 1st Canadian Corps, General-Lieutenant Edson Tommy Burns on ...
Friday, February 1, 2019

Junkers Ju 52 Moving Supplies for the Invasion of Crete

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A Junkers Ju 52 3mg4e moving the supplies in preparation for Unternehmen Merkur (Operation Mercury), May 1941. Shortly before dawn on 20 ...
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Thursday, January 31, 2019

Ernest Alvia "Smokey" Smith VC

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Ernest Alvia "Smokey" Smith VC, CM, OBC, CD (3 May 1914 – 3 August 2005) of Seaforth Highlanders of Canada was a recipient of t...
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General Bert Hoffmeister with his Sherman Tank

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Major-General Bertram Meryl "Bert" Hoffmeister (Commander of the 5th Canadian Armored Division) in Italy, May 1944. Hoffm...
Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Refueling Petrol to Junkers Ju 52

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German Luftwaffe pilot refueling a Junkers Ju 52 transport plane in Russia, January 1943. The aircraft has been camouflaged in white pain...
Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Maneuvers of British Armored Division

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Malton in Yorkshire, 29 September 1942. Maneuvers of the 42nd Armored Division. On the right is General Sir Bernard Paget (Commander of t...
Saturday, January 19, 2019

Panzer 38(t) Racing under the Trees

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Panzer 38(t) under the trees in the Eastern Front during Unternehmen Barbarossa, 1941. The German tank commander Otto Carius, who was cre...

A Motor Column Crossing a River on a Pontoon Bridge

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France, 1940: The German convoy crossing a tributary of the Oise at Senlis on a pontoon bridge, in this case a Brücken-Gerät B, some 50m ...
Friday, January 18, 2019

Friedrich August von der Heydte

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Friedrich August von der Heydte (30 March 1907 - 7 July 1994) was born in Münich to a noble Freiherr, a title he inherited later in life....
Thursday, January 17, 2019

British and American Officers in India 1945

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Accra, India, 1945. To the right is a Lieutenant of the USAAF. He wears a U.S. barracks hat and khaki shorts for hot or tropical climate....
Tuesday, January 15, 2019

American Soldier in India

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India, 1944-45. An American soldier in a Willys MB jeep (with a civilian front tire). He wear a 1943 HBT pants OD shade 7 with US white m...
Sunday, January 13, 2019

Gerhard Barkhorn and Karl-Heinz Plücker

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Summer of 1943: Oberleutnant Gerhard Barkhorn (left) - initially commanding officer of 4.Staffel / II.Gruppe / Jagdgeschwader 52 (JG 52...