A subreddit for random ORIGINAL MILITARY photographs and information pertaining to what happened in World War Two. 1939-1945
The crew of the M4 105mm VVSS # 74 'La Moskowa' (Moscow) from the French Second Armored Division of General Leclerc (2e Division Blindee). From left to right: Jean Fabre, Louis Decherchi – Gunner, Sergeant Robert Boccardo – Tank Commander, Charles Kartner, unknown. 1944
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French (5e Régiment de Chasseurs d'Afrique) Valentine Mk V 'Vengeance', North Africa, 1943.
Bersaglieri of the 7th Regiment preparing their Gilera motorcycles for a reconnaissance mission. North Africa, summer 1943.
M4A3E2 Jumbo and M4A3(76)W of the 37th Tank Battalion, 4th Armored Division, Germany 26 March 1945
Soldiers and commanders adjust an anti-aircraft machine gun on the Kalinin Front. This dual-armament system on the T-60 tank consists of a 20mm TNSh cannon (the tank version of the ShVAK) and a DT machine gun.
Abandoned Matilda “Gorgon” T6747, PMV 103 of 7th Royal Tank Regiment, 1st Army Tank Brigade. France 1940. After the Battle of Arras.
Germans load a cow, taken from the inhabitants of an occupied village somewhere in the USSR, into a truck.
The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) afire after being hit by two "Kamikaze" suicide planes off Okinawa, 11 May 1945. Photographed from USS Bataan (CVL-29). 11 May, 1945.
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British Crew in LCT Loads M4 Sherman Tank on North African Coast
TL 37 Coloniale with Pirelli Libia tires as a tractor 3,7 cm Pak. North Africa
Airborne troops armed with automatic weapons maintain a vigilant posture next to their captured objective.
British Royal Marine commandos improve their fighting positions after relieving the airborne troops that captured the Caen Canal Bridge.
Troops of the 4th Armored Division on Napoleon's route skirting Jena, Germany. April 1945.
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Japanese soldiers operating a 50 mm heavy grenade discharger during the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Campaign, 30 May 1942.
U.S. Navy carrier aircraft attack the Japanese battleship Haruna at her moorings near Kure, Japan, 28 July 1945.
German Fallschirmjäger near a barbed wire fence during an exercise. The photograph was taken during preparations for a new combat mission on the Eastern Front. October 1943
A destroyed German column. Soviet soldiers inspect destroyed German equipment.
9th Armored Division tank company, outside Westhausen, Germany, 10 April 1945.
Soldiers of the 151st infantry debarking from an LCI, New Georgia, 22 July 1943.
Skiers of the 311th Rifle Division in the enemy rear southwest of Novye Kirishi. 1942
1st Cavalry Division Troops and M4 Sherman (composite) named Powerhouse Pepper on Leyte, 30 October 1944
First wave of troops of the 3rd Battalion, 132nd Infantry, Americal Division, crawl ashore under fire during US landing on Cebu Island at point just south of Cebu City (Talisay Beach, north view). 26 March, 1945.
Two Red Army soldiers at a barbed wire fence during the fighting in Crimea. 1941-1942.
Elements of Combat Command B of the 6th Armored Division advancing on Oberdorla, Germany, April 1945.
German soldiers in an Sd.Kfz.250/10 armoured personnel carrier (modification equipped with a PaK 35/36 cannon) in the steppe . 1942
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Lieutenant Charles Gerard, Sergeant Marshall Epling, Sergeant Harold Harper, Pfc Robert Hasman and Sergeant Raymond Mieure (KIA 1945) from the 1st Raider Battalion, United States Marine Corps use a captured Japanese Type 94 37mm anti tank gun to fire on positions of the Imperial Japanese Army
A French MAC 24/29 light machine gun crew in a firing position in the vicinity of the Oued-el-Kebir River, facing Hill 666. 1943 to
Men of 46 (RM) Commando, 4th Special Service Brigade, entering the village of Douvres-la-Delivrande, 8 June 1944, watched by French civilians.
A column of Soviet SU-76M on the march in South Sakhalin, Karafuto Prefecture, Japan. August 1945
A heavily laden universal carrier crosses 'Pegasus Bridge', the lifting bridge over the Caen Canal captured by glider assault in the early hours of D-Day.
US Army soldiers Playing Volleyball by M4 Sherman Tanks in Germany 1944
Army troops on Pagoda Hill take part in the battle for possession of Fort Dufferin (Mandalay Palace) in Burma (Myanmar) during World War II in March 1945. The fort was held by the Japanese 60th Regiment and eventually captured by the 19th Indian division.
British Cromwell Mk V of the1st RTR support the infantry of the 1st battalion of the 5th Royal Infantry Regiment (1/5th Queen's Regiment) under One-sur-Odon (Aunay-sur-Odon) during Operation Bluecoat. 1944
A camouflaged gun crew from the 11th Marines artillery battalion,1st Marine Division of the United States Marine Corps prepare to fire a barrage from a 75mm Pack Howitzer M1 upon positions and units of the Imperial Japanese Army's Seventeenth Army on Guadalcanal Island
Australian infantrymen from the 25th Infantry Battalion prior to their attack on Pearl Ridge, Bougainville, 30 December 1944.
A Matilda tank from the 2/4th Armoured Regiment, Australian Army, crossing the Hongorai River on Bougainville in May 1945.
Two United States soldiers reading German propaganda phrase "Die for America and save the Tommy" graffitied on a wall; a US tank is in the background. Photograph number 164-2. Germany. No date
Australian troops from the 42nd Battalion patrol on Bougainville, 21 January, 1945
M4 Sherman with dozer blade, Aachen-RotheErde railroad station October 1944
A blindfolded captured Japanese soldier is led by a Gurkha escort through a village near Mandalay in Burma (Myanmar) during World War II in March 1945. Allied forces from the United Kingdom, United States and China are fighting Japanese Imperial troops as part of the Burma Campaign.
Australian engineers move up the escarpment south of the Hongorai River, Bougainvillle in May 1945. Engineers played a vital part in the Australian advance.
Imperial Japanese Army soldiers and tanks proceed on May 20, 1942 in Zhejiang province, China.
(Original Caption) . Imperial Japanese Navy sailors on the Natsujima Island, or Tonowas island circa May 1942 in Truk Islands, Micronesia.
Company F, 145th Infantry, 37th Infantry Division Soldiers move past the General Post Office building on their way to assault the walled city of Intramuros Feb. 23, 1945, in Manila, Philippines.
A Fijian medical orderly administers an emergency plasma transfusion during heavy fighting on Bougainville.
Marines from the 1st Parachute Battalion on the beach at Koiari, 29 November 1943.
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Australian gunners of the 2/15th Field Regiment, 8th Australian Division, Australian Imperial Force (AIF) in camouflaged positions prepare to open fire with their Ordnance QF (Quick Firing) 25-pounder field gun on advancing troops from the 5th Division of the Imperial Japanese 25th Army
Original Caption: 'Men of the Third Marines hotly engaged on Blue Beach shortly after their landing'. Cape Torokina. 1 November, 1943.
A Soviet T-26 tank destroyed during the assault on the Khandasa police post in South Sakhalin. Photo by G. Grokhov, photographer of the 214th separate tank brigade. August 1945
Pfc. Roy J. Naquin (from left), of Chacahdule, La., Staff Sgt. Donald A. Lyon, of Cincinnati, and Pfc. Perry l. Owen, of Des Moines, Iowa, all members of Company E, 145th Infantry, 37th Infantry Division,
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