WW2 in colour [PICTURE DUMP]
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I love the torpedos just sitting on the beach.
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M4A4 Mk.V Sherman tank (T-147477) of 'A' squadron 4 troop, Ontario Regiment, 1st Canadian Armoured Brigade, passes through Via Don Luigi Sturzo, Trecastagni, Sicily
9 August 1943.
The Drive for Messina - American troops advance through the damaged Piazza S. Martino in Randazzo, Sicily. August 1943
Local girls giving apples to a Sherman crew outside of a Bakery in Aalst, Holland. 18 September, 1944,
2nd Armoured Battalion of the Irish Guards, 5th Guards Brigade, Guards Armoured Division, 30 Corps.
"Le flirt", a German soldier and young French woman stand talking together on the Place du Trocadéro, overlooking the Eiffel Tower, Paris 1941
Sherman tanks of the Canadian, Governor General's Horse Guards Armoured Regiment during the Liberation of Arnhem on Hommelseweg corner of Staringplein, Arnhem. 15th April 1945.
Members of the German Waffen-SS Panzergrenadier Regiment 4 “Der Führer” Division, SS-Verfügungsdivision (SS Dispositional Troops) drive through Paleisstraat near the Royal Palace in a Wanderer W11/1 after the capitulation of Dutch forces.
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands. May 15 1940.
I always liked these kinds of photos showing the same location during and after the war. Also, interesting to see the extensive use of "extra armour" on tanks later in the war due to bigger tanks and anti-tank launchers.
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Feeding the bird
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Canadians fought in the war? Doesn't seem very Canadian of them more you know I guess
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Fw 190 going through maintenance on the Eastern Front
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Nice pic Onebad
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This picture was taken in Belgium 1947. Guess it took a while to clean up.
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Nice post Spectre
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