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A sergeant air-gunner mans his .303 Vickers K-type gas-operated machine gun from the rear cockpit of a Fairey Battle of No. 103 Squadron RAF at St-Lucien Ferme near Rheges. Note the unofficial flight and squadron pennant flying from the radio mast.
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Flt Lt Walter Dinsdale (left) and Flg Off Jack Dunn of No 410 ‘Cougar’ Sqn, RCAF, pose for a snapshot in front of a Mosquito, possibly their Mk XIII HK476/‘O’ – the machine in which they shot down a Mistel of the Einsatzstaffel/KG 101 over the Seine on the night of 14 June 1944.
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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
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Kapitan P.T. Tarasov (right) and fellow pilots of the 812 IAP examine the nose art of Tarasov’s August 27, 1943 kill. The aircraft sports the I./JG 52 gruppe emblem denoting its former owner. (Author’s collection) Photo and caption featured in Stalin's Eagles: An Illustrated Study of the Soviet Ace
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Infantrymen of the 84th Division join with machine gunners aboard Sherman tanks to concentrate fire on a German sniper holed up in Geilenkirchen.
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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
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