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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
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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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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.
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200 kg of Zimmerit were used on a Tiger, while a Panzer IV required 100 kg. The benzene in the mixture produced intense fires when it met the blowtorch. However. without this complex process, the Zimmerit coating would have taken 8 days to dry.
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This aircraft is B-24 44-40328 'This Above All'. • It was a 493rd Bomb Group, 863rd Bomb Squadron original aircraft transferred before 6 Jun 1944 (date of 493rd BG's first combat mission) to the 34th Bomb Group, 391st Bomb Squadron. • It was flown on missions of the 34th Bomb Group from 6 June 1944
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SOUTH PACIFIC. NUNA-NUMA TRAIL, BOUGAINVILLE ON THE ALERT -- This African American soldier of Company E, 25th Regiment, 93rd Division, member of a patrol reconnoitering in Japanese territory squats on alert.
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A captured Soviet MBV D-2 armored train. These wagons were built on a pre-existing locomotive chassis powered by diesel engines, meaning they were self-propelled and did not require a locomotive for movement. On top were two turrets, along with a large number of machine gun mounts.
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