Patton

Gen. George Patton in a rather rare occasion of wearing his battle (English style) jacket and no pistol belt. As a general officer, Patton had the liberty to design his own uniforms. He became famous for his stylistic choices. 

British POWs

British POWs at Dunkirk.

On the Move

A German soldier speeds past a knocked out French tank in Buhl, France.

82nd Airborne

Members of the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, Tunisia, 1943.

M18 Tank Destroyer

An M18 of the 603rd Tank Destroyer Battalion, CCB, 6th AD, guards the intersection at Rue Carnot in Luneville facing towards Frambois on September 22nd 1944.  Colorization by Mike Gepp.

Rations

A typical allotment of rations on the American home front during World War II.

Hungarians

German officers look on in apparent disdain as two Hungarian soldiers pose for the camera.

Guy Granville Simonds

Canadian Lt Gen Guy Granville Simonds, (1903—1974) in 1944.

Mitsubishi G3M2 TYPE 96

A Japanese Mitsubishi G3M2 TYPE 96.

Soviets in Vienna

Soviet soldiers in Vienna, Austria, 1945.  A colorization by Za Rodinu.

Ju 88A

A German Junkers Ju 88A.

Anti-Aircraft Battery

An RAF Anti-Aircraft battery protecting Grosseto Airfield, Italy.

Off the Coast of Sicily

American 9th Troop Carrier between Gafsa, Tunisia and Licata, Sicily prior to the invasion of mainland Italy in July, 1943.

Italian Partisan

An Italian partisan.  Part of the anti-Mussolini resistance.

Go West!

A Soviet propaganda poster that reads:  "Go West!", 1942.

Berlin

Ordinary life goes on in the streets of Berlin, 1941.

Black Sea

German officers observing the firing of 8.8cm guns from a gunboat on the Black Sea off Constanta, Romania, July, 1941. 

K-Ration

A World War II "K-ration" issued to a soldier, c.1941-1944. The K-ration, developed by and named for University of Minnesota physiologist Ancel Keys, provided soldiers in World War II with calorie-rich foods and psychological sustenance in the form of cigarettes.

Naval Machine Gunner

A machine gunner on a convoy escort vessel in the Atlantic, 1942. The weapon is a Hotchkiss M1909 Benet-Mercie.

Mac Daddy

Lt. Andrew S. Horton & Lt. Mary L. Ellis, an Army nurse, chatting aboard a troop transport ship.

P-51B Mustang

P-51B Mustang “Ding Hao!” and Maj James Howard (in cap) of the 356th Fighter Squadron at RAF Boxted, Essex, England, UK; early 1944.

Nationalist Chinese

Nationalist Chinese soldiers during World War II.

Panzerkampfwagen 38(t)

 German modified Czech 38(t) tanks during an advance.

  

Panzer 38(t), Soviet Union, June 1941.

P-39 Airacobra

A P-39 Airacobra.  American made and supplied to the Russians and used with great success.

A Russian postage stamp honoring one of the leading Soviet fighter aces and fighter tacticians of WW2, Alexandr Pokryshkin. Pokryshkin's official score was 59 Axis aircraft outright kills with 6 shared kills.

Panzers

German Panzers in a town on the Kalmueken steppe.

Behind the Fence

Two World War II prisoners of war stare through a barbed wire fence at Buchenwald Concentration Camp near Weimar, Germany in 1945.

Taking Cover

US 4th Infantry Div. troopers and German POWs. take cover from crossfire beneath an M10 tank buster somewhere in Germany, early 1945.  Another awesome colorization by Doug Banks.

Hellcats

U.S. Navy Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat fighters on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3), 1943-1944.

Winter Walk

Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler on a Winter walk in January, 1945.

Brass Binoculars

Brass binoculars and case. Used by Major Henry A. Courtney, Jr..  Courtney received the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously for his actions at the Battle of Okinawa. 

Source

Sd.Kfz.232

Sd.Kfz.232 (8-Rad) 

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