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German & Italian artillery, vehicles, and misc equipment at a collection area in Tunisia - May 1943 Includes one original color picture LIFE Magazine Archives - Eliot Elisofon Photographer	11
HMS Nelson and HMS Rodney Battleships and battlecruisers HMS Hood circa 1941	11
A soldier of the 10th SS Regiment stands watch in a sheepskin coat from the roof of the Wawel Royal Castle in Krakow, Poland, in 1940.	8
Infantrymen of the 84th Division join with machine gunners aboard Sherman tanks to concentrate fire on a German sniper holed up in Geilenkirchen.	8
Reich propaganda personnel filming in front of the cockpit of a Heinkel "He-177". Under the cab the emblem of the "KG 50" is clearly visible: A white "worm" on a black shield. First formed late 1942. Emblem seen on several He-177s on the Eastern Front. Possibly only used during 1943.	8
12 March 1943. APCs of No 11 Company in Kharkov. SS-Corporal ‘Pieke’ Bliesener nicknamed his APC ‘Strolch’ (scallywag): behind him comes the APC of SS-Corporal Karl Kempfe. This vehicle came under fire shortly after the photo was taken and Kempfe was killed.	8
A NewZealand tank commander with a .30 cal Browning MG mounted on a Sherman tank (T146711) of 5 troop, B Squadron, 20th Armoured Regiment, 4th NZ Armoured Brigade, in Italy in January, 1944	7
Tiger II turret number 332 of 501st SS Schwere Panzer Abteilung. This vehicle was recovered near La Gleize on the 26/12/1944 by the US 463rd Ordnance Evacuation Company and eventually transported to the Aberdeen Proving Grounds. It is now in the U.S. Army Armor & Cavalry Collection	7
Sinking of German U-boat, U-175, April 17, 1943 On April 17, 1943, German (Type IXC) u-boat, U-175, was sunk by depth charges and gunfire from USCGC Spencer (WPG-36) in the North Atlantic, south-west of Ireland.	7
Crew loading torpedoes onto the ORP Sokół, 1943	7

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