The observer entering the Vought-Sikorsky Kingfisher aircraft on board USS SOUTH DAKOTA before a flight at Scapa Flow whilst the ship is operating with elements of the Home Fleet. The Kingfisher can operate from their ship while underway and be retrieved by the ship's crane without stopping the ship
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The observer entering the Vought-Sikorsky Kingfisher aircraft on board USS SOUTH DAKOTA before a flight at Scapa Flow whilst the ship is operating with elements of the Home Fleet. The Kingfisher can operate from their ship while underway and be retrieved by the ship's crane without stopping the ship
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Heavy Tractor, M1 Caterpillar D7 of the 818th Engineer Aviation Battalion in France - 1944. Note the P-47 in the background.
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Heavy Tractor, M1 Caterpillar D7 of the 818th Engineer Aviation Battalion in France - 1944. Note the P-47 in the background.
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First load of napalm delivered in European Theater of Operations. B-17G-10-VE #42-39970 "E-Rat-Icator" Code: P 452nd Bomb Group - 730th Bomb Squadron Photo taken upon return from her 100th mission.
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In November 1942, the USSR ordered 30 O-52 Owls through the Lend-Lease program. Twenty-six were shipped, with only 19 delivered as a number were lost on the North Arctic Route. Of these only ten were accepted into service.
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Hans Baur, Hitler’s pilot, with Luftwaffe and SS officers at Vinnitsa airfield in Ukraine during August 1941.
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A Battery 152-mm howitzers of the 1st Belarusian Front on the ground on the approaches to Berlin. April 1945
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(Original Caption). DOCKED: This Hurricane travelled 36 miles back to its aerodrome in this condition. Presumably rudder control was a trifle coarse. 1940
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October 15, 1944, Budapest - "Operation Panzerfaust". Tiger II (King Tiger) with the tower number "200", passes over the barricades. This tank was from the 503rd Heavy Panzer Battalion.
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A Greek soldier posing with a wrecked Italian L3/33 tankette during the Battle of Elaia-Kalamas, northern Greece, in November, 1940.
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Small group of British soldiers relaxing in the shelter of a German Mark IV tank destroyed by Typhoon rockets, whilst on the road to Caumont, France, in August 1944.
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Siege of Budapest, early 1945. Wrecks of various armored cars and halftracks, including a Sd.Kfz. 251/21 Schützenpanzerwagen "Drilling."
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German vehicles and a Raupenschlepper Ost, destroyed and abandoned on Fö (Fő utca) street in Budapest. 1945
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Soviet soldiers in the trenches on the outskirts of Berlin. In the background is a captured German Panzerfaust. April 1945
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Position of the76-mm guns of Sergeant Trifonov at lunch on the outskirts of Berlin. April 1945
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The crew of a StuG III from Sturmzchütz-Brigade 394 at lunch in the French commune of Lonle-L'Ababe (Lonlay L'Abbaye) on Saint-Michel Street. June 1944
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Luftwaffe anti-aircraft gunners at lunch next to their gun on the Eastern Front. 1943
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French soldiers of the 185th heavy motorized artillery regiment (185e régiment d'artillerie lourde à tracteurs) at lunch. In the background is thè breach of a Canon de 145 L modèle 1916 Saint-Chammond . December 1939
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German officials Dr. Albert Speer, Admiral Karl Dönitz, and Colonel General Alfred Jodl (left to right) after their arrest. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/5/45--- Last German 'Rulers' arrested
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Finnish soldiers exit a bus wearing snow gear for patrolling near the Salla front lines during the Russo-Finnish War, December 1939 Carl Mydans/Life Picture Collection/Shutterstock
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A Finnish cavalryman during the Russo-Finnish War in Finland, December 1939. Carl Mydans/Life Picture Collection/Shutterstock
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When the Colmar Pocket was closed, a soldier of the 12th Armored Division shares a loaf of bread with an Algerian gunner of the 1st French army by giving him a piece of bread. Photograph taken in Rouffach (Alsace), February 1945
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The battle for Westerplatte. Armed German soldiers are shown marching the remaining Polish soldiers (prisoners of war), after the surrendering of Westerplatte in 1939
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