/u/JCFalkenberglll's posts in /r/WW2info
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In summer 1944 Grand Admiral Dönitz visits a special attack unit. Here the commander of submarines is seen in conversation with combat divers during a demonstration. Standing to the left of the diver is Fritz Frauenheim, on the right edge of the photo Vizeadmiral Heye.
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American troops easily breached the “dragon’s teeth” antitank barriers of the Siegfried Line, Germany’s last man-made line of defense. Wolf passed through the line on his way to the Germany city of Cologne.
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Kharkov, March 1943. At the centre Karl Reutlinger, 3rd Sturmgeschütz (SP) Section, LAH, to the right is Fritz Witt, commander 1st SS-Panzer Grenadier Regiment. Photo and caption featured in Obedient Unto Death: A Panzer-Grenadier of the Leibstandarte- SS Adolf Hitler Reports by Werner Kindler
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First photo is of Major Benvenuto Fracassi and men of the 7th Reggimento Bersaglieri on top of a captured disabled British Vickers Mk. VIB near the port of Tobruk, 1941. The other two are of one captured and repainted in Italian markings in December of 1940
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A Canadian soldier escorts captured German parachute troops during fighting near Uedem, 28 February 1945.
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Men of the 1st Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment enjoy a tot of rum in a section of trench named 'Pudding Lane', 4th Division near Roubaix, 3 April 1940.
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The ORP Orzeł shortly after its arrival in England, 1939. (Photo Credit: Polish government in Exile Ministry of Information War Photo Service / Edmund Kosiarz / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain)
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Air gunners at their positions on board a Beaufort Mark I, L4461 'OA-J', of No. 22 Squadron RAF at North Coates, Lincolnshire. One gunner occupies the Bristol Mark IV turret, mounting a single .303 Vickers K-type gas-operated machine gun.
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