Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Disinfecting the Soviet POWs at Zeithain

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Soviet prisoners of war are disinfected in the German prisoner of war camp Zeithain In the summer of 1942, Karl Schmitt – head of the Wehr...
Saturday, June 19, 2021

Bio of Luftwaffe Bomber Ace Hermann Hogeback

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Hermann Hogeback, the son of a tax inspector, was born on 25 August 1914 in Idar-Oberstein at the time in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, a ...
Thursday, June 17, 2021

Bio of Generalmajor Reinhard Gehlen

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Reinhard Gehlen (3 April 1902 – 8 June 1979) was a German lieutenant-general and intelligence officer. He was chief of the Wehrmacht Forei...
Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Walter Model with Hungarian General

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Generalfeldmarschall Walter Model (Oberbefehlshaber Heeresgruppe Nordukraine) chats with Major General vitéz noble Mihály Ibrányi de Vaja et...
Sunday, June 6, 2021

Generalmajor Julius Ringel in Crete

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Generalmajor Julius Ringel visits the Küstenwachen (coast guards) in Crete. Austrian-born Ringel commanded the 5. Gebirgs-Division in Greec...
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Saturday, May 29, 2021

Heldengedenktag 1942

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  Heldengedenktag in the year of 1942, which was held at Berlin on 15 March 1942. In front of the Zeughaus, from left to right: Generalfeldm...

Hitler Inspects the Panzerjäger Ferdinand

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  On 18-19 March 1943 Hitler paid a visit to the city of Rügenwalde / Pommern (Germany) to see a demonstration of the latest Nazi war machin...
Monday, May 24, 2021

212. Infanterie-Division Crossing Viaduc de Dinan

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German 212. Infanterie-Division stationed in France, 1941. This impressive bridge is Viaduc de Dinan in Brittany. Dinan is without doubt o...

Wehrmacht Winter Training

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  Wehrmacht winter training in the barracks, pre-war or early-war period. The picture come from the color slide estate of Siegfried Keller. ...
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Sunday, May 23, 2021

Bio of Air Vice Marshal Don Bennett

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  Half length portrait of Air Vice Marshal D. C. T. Bennett CBE DSO, seated. Air Vice Marshal Donald Clifford Tyndall Bennett, CB, CBE, DS...

Bio of General Sir Nevil Brownjohn

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  Half length portrait of the Deputy Quartermaster General, Middle East, Major General N. C. D. Brownjohn. General Sir Nevil Charles Dowel...
Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Bio of Lieutenant-General Sir Ronald Weeks

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  Sir Ronald Weeks (1890-1960), Field Marshal Montgomery's chief representative on the Allied Control Council for Germany during World W...

The King of the Tattooists at Work

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View of a United States Army soldier having an insignia tattooed on his forearm by the celebrated tattooist George Burchett (1872-1953) at h...

Bio of Lieutenant-General Sir Wilfrid Lindsell

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  Lieutenant General Sir Wilfrid Gordon Lindsell (1884-1973) in a posed portrait at his desk, England, October 1945. Sir Wilfrid Gordon Li...

Bio of General Hastings Ismay

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  Portrait of General Hastings Ismay (1887-1965), Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Winston Churchill, pictured wearing military uniform in L...

Bio of Lieutenant-General James M. Gavin

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  Studio portrait of General James M. Gavin, 1945. Photo by Harry Warnecke/NY Daily News Archive James Maurice Gavin (March 22, 1907 - Feb...
Saturday, May 15, 2021

Wehrmacht Soldiers in Lithuania

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Soldiers of the 126. Infanterie-Division of the Wehrmacht in Lithuania, June 1941. Photographer Günter Buss. During the opening of Operation...
Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Generalleutnant Fritz Benicke After Surrender

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Generalleutnant Dr.rer.pol. Fritz Benicke (right, Kommandant Festung Oberschlessien) in Czechoslovakia, 8 May 1945. After the German surrend...
Monday, May 3, 2021

U.S. Coast Guard Demonstrates Air-Sea Rescue with a Sikorsky HNS-1

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  Commander Frank Erickson, U.S. Coast Guard, demonstrates air-sea rescue with a Sikorsky HNS-1 helicopter operating from Floyd Bennett Fiel...

Sherman Tanks Set Fire to Japanese Aircraft

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Marine flamethrowing Sherman tanks set fire to Japanese aircraft in Sasebo, Japan, on November 2, 1945. Sasebo is a core city located in Nag...
Sunday, May 2, 2021

U-Boat Crew Being Shaved

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A German submariner has his beard shaved by a comrade on his way back from the Atlantic, 1941. Photos by Hanns Hubmann. Source : https://w...

Gebirgsjäger in the Elbrus Mountains

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  Gebirgsjäger in the Elbrus Mountains in the summer of 1942. In May 1942, 1. Gebirgs-Division fought in the Second Battle of Kharkov and th...
Monday, April 19, 2021

Recently Liberated American POWs

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In this May 1945 photograph taket at Mossburg, Germany, recently liberated American prisoners of war await transportation during their journ...

US Soldier Examine Huge Tanks at Dollbergen

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A US soldier and Alex Barneknox, who worked at the refinery for two years as a slave laborer, examine huge tanks at Dollbergen, Germany. S...
Sunday, April 18, 2021

The USS Midway (CVB-41) Launching

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The USS Midway (CVB-41) is launched on March 20, 1945, in Newport News, Virginia. Midway was laid down 27 October 1943 in Shipway 11 at Newp...

U.S. Marines Look Over Abandoned Japanese Kawasaki Ki-61

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U.S. Marines on Okinawa look over an abandoned Japanese Kawasaki Ki-61 “Tony” on April 9, 1945. The Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien (飛燕, "flying sw...
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Saturday, April 17, 2021

German POWs by George Stevens (Pictures and Video)

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Germany in 1945: Sensationally restored footage by George Stevens (screenshots) May 1945 / German prisoners of war These Sensationally res...