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German training "tank" on Kübelwagen.

Not really a "cheesy" movie. Fighter Squadron had a lot of great P-47 action in it. ANG units of the time provided the planes, including the "Nazi" P-51's.

http://www.network54.com/Forum/149674/thread/1463107267/%26quot%3BFighter+Squadron%26quot%3B+movie+Mustangs.................

1945 WW2 Ardennes Battle Of The Bulge M-36 jackson


supply drop Bastogne


Mass in Manila 1945

I always found it interesting that the Japs' idea of an anti-personnel or anti-tank mine was to bury a 500 lb. bomb in the sand with a pressure plate somehow attached to the trigger mechanism.

Talk about overkill.

sometimes they put a soldier with the bomb to suicide detonate it once it approached.


Sedan 1940



lendlease bren gun carriers with antitank rifles.


not a fashion show improvised winter uniform


prisoners


Panzer III of the 14 Panzer Division Eastern Front

French soldiers load a piece of artillery in a wood somewhere in the Western Front on May 29, 1940.

Here it is today

Nice find!

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Grave of an unknown U.S. soldier, who was buried by the German enemy before retreating.

"Unbekannter Amerikaner" = Unknown American.

Pretty powerful picture.   While the Nazi's in general did some terrible things, there are enough cases of these kinds of acts to make one realize that many fighting on the front at the end of the war weren't hard core Nazi's, but rather conscripts fighting for their country, not the Nazi cause.   Many of them were decent human beings, not too different from their allied counterparts, and fully capable of normal human emotion like this.

A bone-weary Canadian soldier stands atop a stalled tank amid flooding in the Netherlands, 1945




Italy 1944 german pow


American soldiers next to a Japanese 200mm coastal defense gun, captured on Guam. The reinforced concrete fotification for the gun was unfinished


The 6th Armoured Division


240mm howitzer
1944 howitzer firing Mignano area


240mm gun being towed by M33 tractor, Italy 1943 or 1944. The barrel was



ww2 home guard soldiers load an anti aircraft rocket at a z battery


A stationary FlaK 40 128 mm AA gun on the perimeter of a petrochemical plant in Leuna, Germany, April 14, 1945. The gun was part of the factory's defense battery.



Churchill and M4 tanks in winter camouflage at Lindern Germany 1945

Beat badly....  

My Mother was an aircraft assembler in a Corsair factory. (like a Rosie the Riveter gal) One of her jobs was to affix the rocket racks you see under those wings in the picture.  One day, a heavy dummy rocket slipped from the rack and gashed her arm, and the scar visible for decades.

I had never seen this before.

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That's neat

A rather simple explanation but effective.

Pretty interesting video.  

I think that time fuses were the most common fuse used for large caliber anti aircraft use in the war.

I am pretty sure that although the Germans completed some research on proximity fuses, they didn't use them in WWII--and that the commonly accepted debut (or at least the successful mass employment) of the VT fuse was by Allied artillery at the Battle of the Bulge.

I could easily be wrong though.

Japanese destroyer Yamakaze photographed sinking through periscope of USS Nautilus

The USN started using the VT fuse on it 5" AA mounts late 42/Early 43. The Mk 37 GFCS relayed info to the fuze setters on the guns and the fuzes were kept updated with the latest info until loaded and fired.

Some good pictures of the setting machines here.

Great video, too bad the narration was provided by a millennial with really bad vocal fry.

Nails on a fucking blackboard.

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Nice--didn't know that.

You're correct. Early in the war the germans would send interceptors up to attack bomber formations before and after a target, and they would radio to ground defenses the bombers altitude for more precise hits over target. Even later in the war when the germans werent able to send up fighters they would try to send up one plane to accurately report bomber altitude.

Another point to consider is that as the Reich began to crumble the flak guns from the far eastern and western reaches were pulled back and redeployed closer to home, so the flak just got worse and worse as the war went on in the later stages. My grandfather was a navigator on a B-24 from August 1944-Feburary 1945, he said they didnt see a lot of fighters but the flak was terrible.

One time another crew in his squadron was hosting an Army observer that had spent the last year on a bomb crew in the Pacific. The day before their mission he was going on and on about how bad the Jap fighters were; on their initial bomb run the next day he exclaimed to the pilot "Sir, it looks like we're about to fly through a thunderstorm!" And the pilot told him no....thats flak.

57mm AT gun position.


Canadians moved into German bunker.


bunker with window camo to look more like a building from a distance.


Pig iron is piled on top of an Anderson air raid shelter to test its efficiency and strength, 1939. to protect from the Blitz


some after bombs fell.


Marines advancing against Japanese positions in southern okinawa


Transfer of wounded from USS BUNKER HILL

Lance-Corporal Don Fife of Provost Company, Canadian Provost Corps (C.), on a motorcycle en route to Falaise - 12 August 1944


German troops use inflatable rubber rafts to cross the Meuse River while under fire


soldier from the Cameron Highlanders looks through periscope in the Fort de Saing hain on the Maginot Line November 1939 28



inside the maginot line




mg position inside a maginot line blockhouse.

One of the suggested videos from your link.

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Underground ball bearing factory, Germany.

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Allied field hospital Ardennes
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dak panzer
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might be Korea, Us troops with Russian guns. 29th ID  Only thought was it shows up under WWII, that maybe the unit they captured was heavily supplied with them.
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Americal Division officers inspect a large collection of Japanese weapons at Yokohama. The soldiers of the 182nd had the chance to visit Japanese cities




, an artillery post of the 244th Coast Artillery, overlooks a vast panorama of ocean and mountains. The mission of what was called the United Forces in New Caledonia was to defend






American armored units moving in the bocage in St.Lo,1944.


8th armored division




While this Sherman passes a knocked out panzer IV it does show one of the reasons that make it a little easier to spot, it has a taller profile



BRITISH ARMY NORMANDY 1944 (B 6045) A Loyd carrier and 6-pdr anti-tank gun of the Durham Light Infantry, 49th (West Riding) Division parked alongside a knocked-out German Panther tank during Operation 'Epsom', 27 June 1944.


Autocar 8144 Trucks Carry LCVP Landing Craft To Cross Rhine River Germany 1945

Thanks for keeping the thread going guys. Some truly incredible photos!

Looks like an extra armor plate on the front of that Sherman, field modified I guess

USMC and shotguns

some did have plates, but seems concrete and tons of sandbags or extra tracks was more common.








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"A paratrooper of the 101st division United States examines holes in the front armor plate, lined in the area of ERP British tank Sherman Firefly"

The up-armored tank pics are much appreciated guys!

Great action pic.  Looks like the guy with the mortar is also carrying a bayonet.

probably not issued a pistol since not a officer, so don't want to go empty handed.


737th Tank Battalion, M4A3E2 Sherman tank, with extra armour plating, Gralingen, Luxembourg


M4 Sherman Crocodile from 739th Tank Battalion, 9th Army, 1944.


Two Canadian Sherman tanks in liberated Den Haag, May 1945




M4A1 76w with extra plate armor added to the front hull, it's from the 3rd Armored Division on the outskirts of Korbach 30 March 1945



9th Armored Division, Westhousen, Germany, 10 April 1945



Co D, 18th Tank Bn, 8th Armored Division, 9th US Army M-24 Chaffee tank (Number 18), backs onto an LCM in one of the first Rhine River crossings in Holland, 24 March 194


Marines of the 1st Marine Division in the Peleliu airfield standing next to smashed Japanese tanks Type 97 Ha-Go, Sept 1944.


they had to change tracks to slimmer to get on the rail cars and have clearance. major consumption of time loading and unloading.

My Father getting his Bronze Star, 1945, Germany.

RIP Pop!

Thanks for sharing that!

Went and saw Dunkirk last night. I happened to look at a few pages of his thread before and it was a good pregame.

Two medics from the 1st Army give first aid to a wounded dog they had found among the ruins of Carentan in Normandy, July 1944.


Three US Marines, one loading an M2 Browning .50 caliber machine gun. Roi-Namur, Kwajalein Atoll, 1 February 1944.


A whitewashed M10 "Wolverine" tank destroyer of 773rd Tank Destroyer Battalion waits in ambush near Benonchamps, Belgium, 21st January 1945.


Tiger Ausf. E, Sd.Kfz. 181, #332 of 3./Schwere Panzer-Abteilung 503 (3./s.Pz.Abt.503), stuck in the mud on the banks of a river near the town of Znamenka, Tambovskaya oblast, Soviet Union. October 4 1943.


An MG team, probably belonging to the 3rd SS Panzer Division, lies in ambush with their MG34 (fitted with a 50 round drum, 'Gurttrommel') at the ready during 'Operation Citadel', better known as the Battle of Kursk, June/July 1943.


Fallschirmjäger, Karl Heinz Becker, Oberleutnant and chief of 11./Fsch.Jäg.Rgt 1 resting sometime after the attack at Heraklion Airfield on the Island of Crete. 20th of May 1941.


German Luftwaffe Fallschirmjäger (paratroopers) waive to a passing Junkers Ju 87 Sturzkampfflugzeug dive bomber, during the Battle of the Netherlands (codename: Fall Gelb, or “Case Yellow”). Near Venlo, Limburg, Netherlands. May 1940.


Lyubov Karzeva, combat medic and scout of the 6th Independent Intelligence Company, 3rd Guards Rifle Division in 1942.  Killed in action Jan 23, 1943.


Finnish soldiers of II division/infantry regiment JR 12 on Imatra road in Tali-Ihantala, 30th June 1944.  They are passing a Soviet T-34 tank destroyed by a StuG III German assault gun (possibly from the Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 303).


US Marines and Navy corpsmen give first aid to a Japanese girl who suffered a slight leg wound during the battle of Saipan in the Pacific. July 1944.


German Grenadiers carrying a casualty in an improvised stretcher.  Behind them is a Panzer IV Ausf.G Nr. 212 of Panzer-Abteilung 21, 20th Panzer Division.  Russia, January 1944.


A German anti-aircraft crew manning an MG-15 keep watch over Messerschmitt Bf 109's in case of attack on an airfield near Berlin, Sept. 18, 1939. (AP Photo)


U.S. sniper Pfc. Edward J. Foley, Co 'G', 143rd Infantry, 36th Infantry Division cleaning his Springfield 1903A4 rifle, Near Velletri, Lazio, Italy.


Heinkel He 111's final moments, date and place unknown.


Cpl. James Gordon and Pvt. L.C. Rainwater of the US 2nd Armored Div., inspect a Panzer V ‘Panther’ of 2.SS Panzer Division “Das Reich” deserted near the village of Grandménil in Belgium.  Sometime after the of Battle 25 - 27 December 1944.


British 4 Commando, 1st Special Service Brigade after landing on 'Queen Red' beach, Sword area and ready to advance into Ouistreham. 6 June 1944.


Italian Fiat-Ansaldo M13/40 tanks in North Africa, 1941-42.


Southern Sakhalin, the first hours of the Soviet-Japanese war, T-34-85 crossing the Khandas-Gava River. August 9th, 1945.


5th Gebirgs Division with an MG-34 and StuG III Ausf.C/D's near Leningrad.  Summer 1942.  This photograph was staged for propaganda purposes.


Still from film shot by a gun camera of a Hawker Typhoon (No.181 Squadron RAF),while attacking trucks in railways sidings at Nordhorn,1945.Showing a salvo of RP-3 60-lb rocket projectiles heading for the target.


Soviet troops advanced in trench during the battle of Stalingrad.


Erwin Rommel, Commander of the 7th Panzer Division with Major General Victor M Fortune, Commander of the 51st Highland Division, which had just surrendered at St Valery-en-Caux, Normandy June 1940.


German infantry riding on a StuG III Ausf. B somewhere in the Soviet Union.


Sherman tanks of the 1st Canadian Armored Brigade in Italy, advancing towards the Gothic Line, 26 August, 1944.


Two Americans of the 2nd Armored Division guarding German prisoners near the bridge over the Bega river in the town of Lemgo, North Rhine Westphalia, Germany. 4/5th April 1945.


Guards staff sergeant Victor Sovetov, SU-76 driver, born 1926 in Ivanovo region, 312 Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment.


A pilot from VMSB-231 stands on the wing of his SBD at Majuro in August 1944.


TBF-1C's of Torpedo Squadron 2 (VT-2) pass over the USS Hornet (CV-12) prior to entering the pattern for recovery on board the carrier, 1944.


Waffen SS machine gun team operating an MG-34, close in on a burning building somewhere in the countryside of the Soviet Union during 'Operation Barbarossa' in the summer of 1941.


A platoon of African American troops surrounds a farmhouse near Vierville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, as it prepares to eliminate a German sniper holding up the U.S. advance from the Omaha beachhead. 10th June 1944.


Troops on their way to the port at Brest during the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from France, June 1940.


No.4 Company, 1st.Welsh Guards, in action near Cagny, Caen, Normandy during 'Operation Goodwood'. 19th of July 1944.


Waffen-SS, Kursk, 1943


French prisoners, Thulin, Belgium, May 23rd, 1940


Oberleutnant Karl Fischer’s Bf109E-1 of 7./Jagdgeschwader 27, after a forced landing near Queen Anne’s Gate, Windsor Great Park, Berkshire. 17.00 hrs, 30 September 1940.


German Luftwaffe motorcycle messenger on a BMW R35 somewhere in Germany during 1941. The license plate shows it belongs to the Luftgau Messages Regiment 7, Luftgua Command VII (Luftgau-Kommando VII Luftgau-Nachrichten-Regiment 7)


An American soldier from Company B, 68th Armored Infantry Battalion, 4th Armored Division, engages German snipers entrenched in a spire of the church of Saint-Michel, while the tank in the foreground provides supporting fire in Place de l'Église, Oberhoffen-sur-Moder, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France. February 6 1945.


These four tank crew from the US 1st Armored Division of the US Fifth Army had just completed a hazardous trip back to the American lines near Cisterna, Italy, after the loss of their M-4 Sherman tank, during 'Operation Buffalo' the breakthrough of the German mined defences approaching the town of Cisterna, Lazio on May 23rd. (Image taken - 26 May 1944)


A German soldier examines the French AMC-35, a light tank supporting cavalry divisions.  France / Belgium 1940.


Bf 109 G-6/Trop W.Nr. 14. ... "Weisse2", Lt. Josef Emil Clade, 7./JG 27, whilst escorting the He 111 H transporting Gen. Fiebig and Holle to Crete, December 1943.


The commander of a Panzer III Ausf H of Stab (HQ) Panzer Regiment 8, 15th Panzer Division, Deutsches Afrika Korps scans the horizon with his binoculars.
Libya, North Africa. September 1942.


B-17G Flying Fortress "Lady be Good" of 728 Bomb Squadron, 452 Bomb Group dodging flak on a mission over the Ludwigshafen Industrial Oil Refinery in western Germany on September 21 1944.


Major General Manton S. Eddy, Division Commander (seated in the jeep with his hand on the windshield) pauses to get information from US 9th Division infantrymen in the hamlet of La Cour Miette near Les Champs de Losque, in the push toward Marigny, Normandy. The frontline for 'Operation Cobra' July 26, 1944

Damn! Incredible picture.

Knees in the breeze, airborne