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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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Two men from the 363rd Field Artillery Battalion take advantage of an abandoned barber shop chair on Okinawa on June 10, 1945.
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A B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-51190) nicknamed "Ann" of the 34th Bomb Group at Mount Farm. Image by Robert Astrella, 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group. Written on slide casing: '34 BG, Mount Farm.'
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The ORP Orzeł at sea, early 1940. (Photo Credit: Anonymous – Witold Supiński, Ludwik Błaszczyk / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain)
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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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April 1945, US 88th Division Rangers - the Fighting Blue Devils - await the crossing of the River Po during the Italian Campaign.
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10 April 1940: four Luxembourg volunteers and two gendarmes guard the Moerstroff roadblock. They are (left to right): Soldats de classe Gros and Haas; Gendarme de 2e classe Schmitz; Brigadier (Gendarmerie corporal) Giwer; and Soldats de 2e classe Weidenhaupt and Ludwig.
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From left: the Swedish Untersturmführer Gunnar-Erik Eklöf (platoon commander in the Nordland’s famous Schwedenzug – 3./AA 11), the German SS-Sturmmann Muzzi Emmerich, and the Swedish Unterscharführer Markus Ledin.
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