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Sunday, August 29, 2021

Pilot and Navigator of Heinkel He 111

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Pilot (right) and navigator in the cockpit of the German bomber Heinkel (Heinkel He-111). The pilot is Major Eduard Zimmer (last rank Oberst...
Friday, August 27, 2021

A Naval Air Station Boneyard Shortly After World War II

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A Naval Air Station boneyard shortly after the end of the war contains numerous catapult-launched OS2U Kingfishers (foreground), along with ...
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Navy Flight Nurses Walk from Their Douglas R5D

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In Spring 1945, a group of Navy flight nurses walk from their Douglas R5D (C-54) transport. They are, from left to right: Lt. JG Lydia Masse...
Tuesday, August 24, 2021

U.S. Marine Paratroopers in Maneuvers

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U.S. Marine Paratroopers in training. A rare Douglas DC-5 aircraft in the background. It was operated by the USMC as the R3D-2s. Only 12 bui...
Monday, August 23, 2021

Celebration in Liberated Paris

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Celebration in Paris after the French capital was liberated in August 1944 After more than four years of Nazi occupation, Paris is liberat...
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Sunday, August 15, 2021

German standards at the Moscow Victory Parade of 1945

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The LSSAH standard staff at the parade (first from left) At the Moscow Victory Parade of 24 June 1945, marking the defeat of Nazi Germany,...
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Friday, July 16, 2021

US Army Combat Engineers Salvaging Steel

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  Combat Engineers of the US Army salvage steel to be used in building bridges for Allied armies from the Fallersleben Factory, which has be...
Thursday, July 15, 2021

The XPB2M-1 Prototype for the Martin Mars Flying Boat

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The XPB2M-1 prototype for the Martin Mars flying boat sits on the ground at the Martin Aircraft Factory, Martin State Airport in Baltimore, ...

Black Rosie the Riveter

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A riveter works on a wing panel of a Vultee A-31 Vengance dive bomber at Vultee’s Nashville, Tennessee, plant in February 1943. Rosie the ...
Saturday, July 3, 2021

Bio of Konteradmiral Erich Bey

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Erich Bey (23 March 1898 – 26 December 1943) joined the Kaiserliche Marine on 13 June 1916 and served in its destroyer arm. Following the ...

U.S. Tank Men Enjoying Italian Grapes

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  Three battle-wearied tank men enjoy Italian grapes in the vicinity of Fauglia, Italy, August 21, 1944. The trio are, left to right, Corpor...
Thursday, July 1, 2021

M-8 Greyhound before Boarding an LST

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  U.S. M-8 Greyhound tanks of the 36th Division of the 5th Army lined up just before boarding an LST (Landing Ship, Tank) at a port of embar...
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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...
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