U.S. Marine Paratroopers in Maneuvers

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 built. This photo itself is maneuvers in Australia.

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https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=4581299928623451&set=gm.1809759462542802

Soviet Soldiers and Lend-Lease Jeep

Soviet soldiers and their lend-lease Jeep, somewhere in ex Czechoslovakia, May 1945. As soon as Hitler attacked the Soviet Union both Britain (and later America) provided, Free-of-Charge, huge quantities of weapons, trucks and tanks to the Russians. Among the most valued were the Willys and Ford-built Jeeps which arrived by the hundreds and were immediately put into action. In total, the U.S. deliveries to the USSR through Lend-Lease amounted to $11 billion in materials: over 400,000 jeeps and trucks; 12,000 armored vehicles (including 7,000 tanks, about 1,386 of which were M3 Lees and 4,102 M4 Shermans); 11,400 aircraft (4,719 of which were Bell P-39 Airacobras) and 1.75 million tons of food.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease
https://www.kingandcountry.com/lend-lease-russian-jeep-p-5572.html
https://ww2jeep.gportal.hu/gindex.php?pg=4236629&gid=465399&fbclid=IwAR1SnCaUyz5YkZrBiCEiAR2A3dhRjMAgGp5PNTBdyqLVWiTS29aXIP_CQ-w

U.S. MP Direct Traffic at Münich

1945 - U.S. Military Police Direct Traffic On Zweibrucken Strasse, Main Street Of Münich. The Street Is Heaped With Rubble From Allied Bombing Attacks. When you go to Münich today, you can see many of the buildings have been rebuilt on what was left of the original foundations.

 

 

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https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=3813000945453357&set=gm.1667242673461149

American Medics Drive Through the Ruins in Normandy

 American military medics drive through the rubble and ruins of an unnamed town somewhere in northwestern France in the summer of 1944. The ruins left behind after warfare speak a language of their own. Even more strikingly, no matter where the conflict has taken place — whether it's in northern Europe or the South Pacific, the Middle East or Central Africa — the vernacular of destruction is often the same: Buildings reduced to rubble and dust. A scarred, tortured landscape seemingly devoid of life, aside from small human forms trying to piece it back together. Twisted, rusting, abandoned vehicles. And always, above it all, the indifferent sky. Frank Scherschel, who shot the photograph, was an award-winning staff photographer for LIFE magazine

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2344233/The-ruins-Normandy-Unpublished-color-photos-taken-northern-France-1944-devastating-impact-Allied-Forces-battle-defeat-Nazis-World-War-2.html
http://historyinphotos.blogspot.co.id/2016/01/world-war-ii-in-color.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/d-day-photos-color-gallery-1.1381271?pmSlide=1.1381254
http://time.com/3880091/after-d-day-unpublished-color-photos-from-normandy-summer-1944/

A Jeep Equipped with a Portable Radio is Loaded onto a C-47

The crew of a C-47 works with a Willys MB operator to get his ¼ ton truck (jeep) - equipped with a portable radio - on board the aircraft for transport to France. The picture was taken in England in 1944. Although experiments like this were conducted, jeeps of the U.S. Army 101St Airborne Division were most frequently landed with the division's gliders. Unlike ordinary 'leg' infantry divisions, which had 612 jeeps, the more lightly equipped airborne divisions only had 283 of this highly versatile vehicle. During World War II, the armed forces of many countries used the C-47 and modified DC-3s for the transport of troops, cargo, and wounded

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Book "Screaming Eagles: The 101St Airborne Division from D-day to Desert Storm" by Christopher J. Anderson
http://historylink101.com/ww2_color/WorldWarIITransportPlanes/PICT0392.html

Amphibious Assault Training of the American Infantry Unit

A few photographs of the U.S. 41st Infantry Division conducting amphibious assault training in Australia in early 1942. The Division was supposed to go to the Philippines in late 1941, but there wasn't enough shipping available to get it there. As a result, it was stuck at Fort Lewis until early 1942 when shipping became available. By then, the Philippines were a lost cause and the division was deployed to Australia as one of the first American units to get overseas in World War II. The photos come from the National Archives US Army Signal Corps collection (Record Group 111-SC). They clearly show that the unit was only partially re-equipped with the standard wartime gear most GI's carried.

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http://airsoftpacific.com/viewtopic.php?t=11137&start=45
http://historylink101.com/ww2_color/WorldWarIIAmphibiousUnits/IMG_1548.html

General Hermann-Meyer Rabingen with his US-Made Staff Car

Generalleutnant Hermann-Meyer Rabingen standing in a beautiful US-made Buick Special serie 60 (1938) model 66C 4-passenger Convertible Coupe staff car with the license plate WH (Wehrmacht Heer) 707165, while his driver posed beside him. In World War II, the Wehrmacht used every vehicle available, whatever the country of origin, to fill in their transport/staff car needs. Virtually any of US origin cars or trucks from 1935-1941 could be found in the German vehicle inventory in one theatre of war or another. In the non combat zones, vehicles could be found in their original colour or oversprayed with military paint that was available, while for the tyres/tires, most of the high line cars had white wall tyres that were over-painted with what ever colour the unit that took over the vehicle had available.

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Photo collection Akira Takiguchi
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=170587
http://www.wehrmacht-awards.com/forums/showpost.php?p=6701687&postcount=1712