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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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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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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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Corporal A. Johnson, of Houston, Texas, works with another soldier of the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion to move a balloon into position with a winch on Omaha Beach.
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The Swede Sten Eriksson was a journalist before the war and served in the SS’s own regimen of war reporters, the Kurt Eggers. (James Macleod) Photo and caption featured in Hitler's Vikings: The History of the Scandinavian Waffen-SS: The Legions, the SS Wiking and the SS Nordland (Hitler's Legions)
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Two German members of a Propaganda Kompagnie are filming at a bridge in a city. The cameraman points to the right. Both are wearing helmets. To their left is an alarm. Next to the bridge is a church tower. 1940
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8. “D” Company Snipers with Major Howard, St. Come, Normandy. Taken late July’ 44 after Sniper Corporal Wally Parr had been wounded. (See p. 115.) From left to right: ‘Wackers’ Waite, ‘Pete’ Musty, ‘Nobby’ Clarke, Major Howard, ‘Rocky’ Bright, ‘Paddy’ O’Donnell, ‘Eddie’ Edwards.
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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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