Sunday, November 28, 2021

Bio of Korvettenkapitän Carl-Heinz Birnbacher (1910-1991)

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Full nama: Carl-Heinz Birnbacher Nickname: unknown Date of Birth: 26 May 1910 at Villach, Kärnten (Austria-Hungary) Date of Death: 5 Decem...
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Sunday, November 21, 2021

Gebirgsjäger (German Mountain Troops) in the Balkan Invasion 1941

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  Studying the map in the Kompanietrupp, the company squad. The men were issued the tapered feldgrau M40 trousers for the campaign. The of...
Sunday, November 14, 2021

Horse Show of the German Army

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Reitturnier des Heeres (Horse show of the army) in the Hindenburgpark, Ludwigshafen, 1941. Soldiers with steel helmets on horses. The pictur...
Tuesday, November 9, 2021

Generalmajor Meyer-Rabingen at Horse Show of the German Army

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  Generalmajor Hermann Meyer-Rabingen (Kommandeur 197. Infanterie-Division) talking to a rider on his horse during "Reitturnier des Hee...
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Monday, October 18, 2021

Bio of Schnellboot Ace Götz Freiherr von Mirbach

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Full nama: Erich Werner Siegfried Götz Freiherr von Mirbach Nickname: Götz Date of Birth: 12 September 1915 at Berlin-Charlottenburg (Germ...
Sunday, October 17, 2021

Bio of Schnellboot Ace Albert Müller

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  Full nama: Albert Müller Nickname: Müller Date of Birth: 3 April 1913 at Beesenstedt, Sachsen-Anhalt (German Empire) Date of Death: 3 Ap...
Sunday, October 10, 2021

Bio of Schnellboot Ace Siegfried Wuppermann

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Siegfried Wuppermann (15 December 1916 – 15 April 2005) was a captain with the Kriegsmarine during World War II and later served with the ...
Thursday, September 30, 2021

Bio of Oberstleutnant Wolf-Werner von der Schulenburg (1899-1944)

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  Original color portrait of Wolf-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg, taken in 1943. Full nama: Wolf-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg Nickname...
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Friday, September 24, 2021

Ace Pilot Jeremiah O’Keefe

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On April 22, 1945, 1st Lt. Jeremiah O’Keefe shot down five Japanese kamikaze aircraft off Okinawa in his F4U Corsair and then brought down a...

Aviation cadets in training

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U.S. Aviation cadets in Tuskegee, Alabama, undergoing advanced training in AT-6s.   Source : National Archives and Records Administration ...
Sunday, September 19, 2021

Donetsk Opera Theatre

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Donetsk Opera Theatre in 1941 during the German occupation. Donetsʹkyy Akademichnyy Derzhavnyy Teatr Opery Ta Baletu Imeni Anatoliya Solov...
Saturday, September 18, 2021

Bio of SS-Obergruppenführer Karl Wolff

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SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS Karl Wolff (Höhere SS und Polizeiführer Italien und Bevollmächtigter General der deutschen We...

Market in Athens

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  Athens 1941 in the market. This is from the same photographer who took Panzer-Aufklärungs-Abteilung 5 series. Source : Akira Takiguchi p...
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Two Diving Bf109's from JG 52

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Two diving Bf109's from JG 52 (Jagdgeschwader 52). The speed of Agfacolor Neu film was only ISO 25 - 2 stops slower than the later sta...
Friday, September 17, 2021

U.S. Paratroopers during Training in Tunisia

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U.S. Paratroopers of the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment / 82nd Airborne Division during training in Tunisia before the Allied invasion of...
Thursday, September 16, 2021

Bio of Luftwaffe Ace Werner Schroer

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Werner Schroer was born on 12 December 1918 at Mülheim in Ruhr. His Luftwaffe career began in 1937 as a member of the ground staff. In May...
Sunday, September 12, 2021

Bio of Luftwaffe Fighter Ace Horst Ademeit

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Horst Ademeit (Adomaitis) (8 February 1912 – 7 August 1944), the son of a Regierungsbaurat (government building officer), was born on 8 Fe...
Thursday, September 9, 2021

Bio of Admiral Theodor Krancke

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Theodor Krancke, born March 30, 1893, in Magdeburg, joined the German navy in April 1912. During World War I serving on in the IX Torpedo ...

German Funker with Radio

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  German funker (radio operator) in action. The radio is possibly a Torn. Fu. b1. From color slide group of II.Abteilung / Artillerie-Regime...

Burial of Russian Civilian

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Funeral of a Russian civilian. The body was taken from the coffin and placed in a blanket of the earth. The picture was taken by an unknown ...
Wednesday, September 8, 2021

German Horse-Drawn 150mm Feldhaubitze 18

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German horse-drawn 15cm gun marching into enemy territory, 1940. Though almost invisible, the gun barrel has a muzzle cover with a red refle...

German Soldier Eating in a Tent

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After a long march there is another opportunity to do personal hygiene and have something to eat. Soldier of a propaganda company eating in ...
Sunday, September 5, 2021

Wreckage of Ju 52 and Fallschirmjäger Graves

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The wreck of a crash-landed Junkers Ju 52 on the Maleme airfield with the grave of two Fallschirmjäger. At 08:00 on 20 May 1941, German para...

Exhausted Motorcyclists Sleeping

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  Exhausted motorcyclists of Panzer-Aufklärungs-Abteilung 5 taking a nap in Greece, 1941. Panzer-Aufklärungs-Abteilung 5 (armored recce bata...

Polish Armored Train "Danuta"

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Poland, near Łowicz, September 1939. Damaged Polish armored train No. 11 "Danuta" captured by German troops. The Danuta was built ...

Artillerie-Regiment 213 on the March in Poland

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Artillerie-Regiment 213 on the march with drawn units on a country road in Poland, September-October 1939. The regiment is a part of 213. In...
Friday, September 3, 2021

Bio of Generalleutnant René de l'Homme de Courbière

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Generalleutnant René de l'Homme de Courbière Born: 24 Jan 1887 in Sanskow, District Stolp, Pomerania (Pommern) Died: 07 May 1946 in Wi...