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Development phase; Here German Fuhrer and Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler and members of his General Staff review plans for 'Operation Bodenplatte,' an airstrike in support of the Ardennes offensive
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Holding out; American troops man the trenches along a snowy hedgerow in northern Ardennes Forest during the Battle of the Bulge
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Braving the cols; Soldiers with the Seventh Armored Division trudge through snow in a bombed-out Belgian village in 1945
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In a way, it kind of makes me sad that there will never be a war like this again.
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Keep em coming, OP.
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Beaten: a fifteen year old German soldier, Hans-Georg Henke, cries being captured by the US 9th Army in Germany on April 3, 1945.
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Surrender: Nazi prisoners of war hold up their arms as Allied soldiers round up captives January 20, 1945 near the French-German border
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O.o The Yanks knew how to use snow-camo?
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Fleeing the fight: American GI's helped local residents to load themselves and their belongings onto US trucks so they could escape the fight.
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Wreckage: this German plane was shot down by Allied guns and was found lying in a snowy field in the Ardennes Forest
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Daily life: This American soldier shaves in the cols during a lull in the fighting in the Battle of the Bulge
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Exhausted: An American soldier, just back from the front lines near the town of Murrigen, shows signs of fatigue January 1, 1945. 1000 yard stare.
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>>10556607 of course, why wouldn't they?
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interested. i'll post one i have. if im not mistaken, this is what happened>in 1945, at the end of the war, 100 SS officers blocked themselves in the napoleonic war memorial and held off against us soldiers.
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American soldiers of the 1st Army huddle around campfire in the snowy countryside of northern Ardennes Forest during a lull in the Battle of the Bulge
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German POWs carrying body of American soldier killed in Battle of Bulge through snowy Ardennes field
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american soldiers smoke while pinned down behind a tank in france.
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>>10556685 them germans were good sports
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January 1945: Hard going for US tanks at Amonines, Belgium, on the northern flank of the 'battle of the bulge'.
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View of German soldiers aboard a Jagdpanzer IV/70 tank destroyer from the 12th SS Panzer Division during the Battle of the Bulge
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mfw dat arctic warfare
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Tough going: Soldiers of US 1st Army hacking at frozen ground to dig foxholes near their machine gun position during a lull
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Allied aircraft vapor trails in skies above US soldier unloading a jeep outside a farmhouse in the Ardennes Forest That's all folks! Hope you enjoyed them as much as I did.
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>>10556566 nice pictures.
The first one looks a lot more like an m10 moving past an m10 though
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>>10556709 >dem tank pics yes indeed
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Nice pics. Only 1 I had seen before.
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>>10556695 Is that a Jumbo Sherman?
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>>10556715 After closer inspection, I believe you are, in-fact, correct.
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>>10556748 The sides of the turret indicate it to be so.
There is too much snow caked onto the hull for me to be entirely sure.
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>>10556590 US forces had an abundant supply of Arctic Cammo.
But complications with friendly fire soon had them banned in large sections of Europe.
That is why you rarely see US troops in pure white uniforms in WW2. Looks too much like SS
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>>10556566 looks like an M4A2E8 sherman
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excellent pictures. +++
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>>10556638 Note the cannon lying on the dirt in the left of the picture
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Thanks kommando. I'm pleased to see more good content like this on old /k/.
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>>10556788 The body shape above the track nearest to the camera tapers to a diagonal point. This thing shows mostly sloped sides, whereas shermans had vertical sides.
That's how my eyes are interpreting it at least
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>>10556647 Dude has some pretty righteous hair.
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>>10556693 They're probably not doing it out of choice...
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I have some D-Day pics if you guys want to see them? While under attack of heavy machine gun fire from the German coastal defense forces, American soldiers wade ashore off the ramp of a U.S. Coast Guard landing craft, during the Allied landing operations at Normandy, France on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
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>>10556655 looks like he's more pissed at some asshole snapping pics while he's trying to work than PTSD catatonic stare
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In July of 1943, Allied Forces' troops, guns and transport are rushed ashore, ready for action, at the opening of the Allied invasion of the Italian island of Sicily.
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I guess these are more about the general invasion of EU than DDay 3 During the invasion of Sicily by Allied forces, an American cargo ship, loaded with ammunition, explodes after being hit by a bomb from a German plane off Gela, on the southern coast of Sicily, on July 31, 1943.
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Over the body of a dead comrade, Canadian infantrymen advance cautiously up a narrow lane in Campochiaro, Italy, on Nov. 11, 1943. The Germans left the town as the Canadians advanced, leaving only nests of snipers to delay the progress.
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A Royal Air Force Baltimore light bomber drops a series of bombs during an attack on the railway station and junction at the snow-covered town of Sulmona, a strategic point on the east-west route across Italy, in February of 1944.
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German infantrymen take cover in a house in southern Italy, on February 6, 1944, awaiting the word to attack after Stukas had done their work.
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Artillery observers of the Fifth Army look over the German-held Italian town of San Vittore, on November 1, 1943, before an artillery barrage to dislodge the Germans.
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Desolation in the Italian city of Cassino in May of 1944, the day after the city's capture by the Allies. Hangman's Hill is shown in the background, scene of bitter fighting during the long and bitter siege of the stronghold.
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A U.S. reconnaissance unit searches for enemy snipers in Messina, Sicily, on August 1943.
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An Italian woman kisses the hand of a soldier of the U.S. Fifth Army after troops move into Naples in their invasion and advance northward in Italy, on October 10, 1943.
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U.S. soldiers march past the historical Roman Colosseum and follow their retreating enemy in Rome, Italy, on June 5, 1944.
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Lt. Gen. Lucian K. Truscott, Jr., commanding general of the Fifth Army in Italy, talks to African American troops of the 92nd Infantry Division after they threw back a German attack in the hills north of Viareggio, Italy in 1944.
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Mt. Vesuvius spewing ash into the sky, erupting as a U.S. Army jeep speeds by shortly after the arrival of the Allied forces in Naples, Italy in 1944.
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A low-flying Allied plane sends German soldiers running for shelter on a beach in France, before D-Day in 1944. The fliers were taking photos of German coastal barriers in preparation for the upcoming June 6 invasion.
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General Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the order of the Day. "Full victory - nothing else" to paratroopers in England on June 6, 1944, just before they board their airplanes to participate in the first assault in the invasion of the continent of Europe. All of the men with General Eisenhower are members of Company E, 502d.
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This thread is excellent. I've got some NW Europe pics too. British Machine-gunners wearing Mk. III "Turtle" helmets.
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American troops march through the streets of a British port town on their way to the docks where they will be loaded into landing craft for the D-Day assault in June of 1944. Any one here?
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U.S. Rangers on a troop ship in an English port waiting for the signal to sail to the coast of Normandy. Clockwise, starting from far left, is First Sergeant Sandy Martin, who was killed during the landing, Technician Fifth Grade Joseph Markovich, Corporal John Loshiavo, and at bottom, Private First Class Frank E. Lockwood
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A section of the Armada of Allied landing craft with their protective barrage balloons head toward the French coast, in June of 1944.
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SS in the Bulge. The man in the foreground is carrying an M1 Carbine.
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I have a bunch of pictures if anyone is interested, although I was dumb and didn't save the description for each one. Oh well, you can tell what is going on in most of them. The only real thing you're missing is the date/location of the photo. Here, American soldiers cram into a bed to attempt to sleep.
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Smoke streams from a U.S. coast guard landing craft approaching the French Coast on June 6, 1944 after German machine gun fire caused an explosion by setting off an American soldier's hand grenade
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Hitler's last line of defence.
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Canadian soldiers land on Courseulles Beach in Normandy, on June 6, 1944 as Allied forces storm the Normandy beaches on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
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OP is a gentleman and a scholar.
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Some of the first assault troops to hit the beachhead in Normandy, France take cover behind enemy obstacles to fire on German forces as others follow the first tanks plunging through the water towards the German-held shore on June 6, 1944. '
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a British AT crew, probably in Normandy. Can someone more knowledgeable tell me whether it's a 6-pounder or a 17-pounder they're manning?
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Fallschirmjagers with recoilless artillery.
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>>10557193 Thank you.
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U.S. reinforcements wade through the surf as they land at Normandy in the days following the Allies' June 1944 D-Day invasion of France.
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Members of an American landing party help others whose landing craft was sunk by enemy action of the coast of France. These survivors reached Omaha Beach by using a life raft on June 6, 1944.
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This is when men were MEN.
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US infantry ghosting through a German town.
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>>10557215 Judging from the Gunshield, and the size comparison of the soldiers hand and the shell.
Standard British 6pdr AT gun
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Canadian soldiers from 9th Brigade land with their bicycles at Juno Beach in Bernieres-sur-Mer during D-Day, while Allied forces were storming the Normandy beaches.
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American soldiers on Omaha Beach recover the dead after the June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of France.
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>>10557282 thanks. I thought it looked a bit small for a 17-pounder, but hey, what do I know.
SS troops posing in front of a captured US column in the Bulge.
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Thirteen liberty ships, deliberately scuttled to form a breakwater for invasion vessels landing on the Normandy beachhead lie in line off the beach, shielding the ships in shore. The artificial harbor installation was prefabricated and towed across the Channel in 1944.
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Allied troops unload equipment and supplies on Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, in early June of 1944.
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Tow planes and gliders above the French countryside during the Normandy invasion in June of 1944, at an objective of the U.S. Army Ninth Air Force. Gliders and two planes are circling and many gliders have landed in fields below
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An American soldier, who died in combat during the Allied invasion, lies on the beach of the Normandy coast, in the early days of June 1944. Two crossed rifles in the sand next to his body are a comrade's last reverence. The wooden structure on the right, normally veiled by high tide water, was an obstruction erected by the Germans to prevent seaborne landings.
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Reinforcements for initial allied invaders of France, long lines of troops and supply trucks begin their march on June 18, 1944, in Normandy.
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American dead lie in a French field, a short distance from the allied beachhead in France on June 20, 1944.
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a Panzerfausteer in the Ardennes.
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American soldiers race across a dirt road, which is under enemy fire, near St. Lo, in Normandy, France, on July 25, 1944. Others crouch in the ditch before making the crossing.
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An American soldier lies dead beside water pump, killed by a German booby trap set in the pump in a French village on the Cherbourg Peninsula, on June 18, 1944.
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Welsh troops in Normandy.
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These five Germans were wounded and left without food or water for three days, hiding in a Normandy farmhouse waiting for a chance to surrender. Acting on information received from a French couple, U.S. soldiers went to the barn only to be attacked by snipers who seemed determined upon preventing their comrades from falling into Allied hands. After a skirmish, the snipers were dealt with and the wounded Germans taken captive, in France on June 14, 1944.
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The dead German soldier in this June 1944 photo was one of the "last stand" defenders of German-held Cherbourg. Captain Earl Topley, right, who led one of the first American units into the city on June 27, said the German had killed three of his men.
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Joachim Peiper and his staff.
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Helmets discarded by German prisoners, who were taken to a prison camp, in a field in Normandy, France in 1944.
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In the sky above the Netherlands, American tow planes with gliders strung out behind them fly high over windmill in Valkenswaard, near Eindhoven, on their way to support airborne army in Holland, on September 25, 1944.
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Parachutes open as waves of paratroops land in Holland during operations by the 1st Allied Airborne Army in September of 1944. Operation Market Garden was the largest airborne operation in history, with some 15,000 troops were landing by glider and another 20,000 by parachute
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The haystack at right would have softened the landing for this paratrooper who took a tumble during operations in Holland by the 1st Allied Airborne Army on September 24, 1944.
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In France, an American officer and a French Resistance fighter are seen engaged in a street battle with German occupation forces during the days of liberation, August 1944, in an unknown city. ; ; gotta love those Butter-Bars
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People try to cross a damaged bridge in Cherbourg, France on July 27, 1944.
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An American version of a sidewalk cafe, in fallen La Haye du Puits, France on July 15, 1944, as Robert McCurty, left, from Newark, New Jersey, Sgt. Harold Smith, of Brush Creek, Tennessee, and Sgt. Richard Bennett, from Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, raise their glasses in a toast.
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USN personnel play with captured Goliath tracked mines.
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A view from a hilltop overlooking the road leading into St. Lo in July of 1944. Two French children in the foreground watch convoys and trucks of equipment go through their almost completely destroyed city en route to the front.
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Crowds of Parisians celebrating the entry of Allied troops into Paris scatter for cover as a sniper fires from a building on the place De La Concorde. Although the Germans surrendered the city, small bands of snipers still remained. August 26, 1944.
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SS troops moving past an abandoned American convoy in the Ardennes.
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Ghillied German snipers.
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After the French Resistance staged an uprising on August 19, American and Free French troops made a peaceful entrance on August 25, 1944. Here, four days later, soldiers of Pennsylvania's Twenty-eighth Infantry Division march along the Champs-Elysees, with the Arc de Triomphe in the background. ' ' That is all I have. Please, save these photos. Show your friends and family. This was a time of great suffering, a time where the courage and strength of a large collection of nations binded together and worked towards a common goal. When we broke into the most fortified castle in history. May these images flow through the generations that are to come. Let it be known what happened those days. ==================== Take care /k/ -Anonymous
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>>10557448 I now want to put a seat and foot rest on one of those.
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>>10557500 thanks anon, good thread
German paratroopers interrogating a Soviet partisan, Demyansk/Kholm-area Kholmsky (Novgorod Oblast) - see also a second picture in Wintersteins book about Sturmregiment ff. "General Meindl und seine Fallschirmjäger" S.96 - Titel:"Vernehmung des Partisanen durch den Ic, Leutnant Müller"). Das Foto ist von Sommer 1942.
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Thanks for all the pictures, anon. Great thread, one of the highest quality thread /k/ has had in forever. Archive request is up. --- A fallen Marine lays in the sand during the battle of Iwo Jima, with the Pacific Fleet looming in the background.
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That pic was reaction image goldmine. Shame about the guy who died though.
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>>10556671 Awsome pic, but all i can think of is "who the hell brought his bike inside...?
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>>10556566 OP awesome...I'm a huge history buff(what /k/iller isn't). Love WWII pics, awesome pics. Need more threads like this in /k/, less fudds insulting noguns insulting cowabooty
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Damn nigger this is some fine shit.
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Y'all might laugh, but I make every effort I can to save war photos, doesn't matter if it's WWII, Nam, or the current conflicts in the middle east. I just have a feeling that one day, very few people will give a shit about what happened and I'd like to think that maybe my external HDDs will get passed down, and even tho they'll be ancient relics, that maybe the bits of history on them will pass on the stories of what happened a long time ago.
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This thread is so great that I had to go and get my No4 to hold while I looked at all of these pictures.
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>>10557706 That feel when the only WWII guns I have are a 91/30 and an M44. I'd like to get a No.4, Garand, and an M1 carbine eventually but all my money is being spent on an SBR right now.
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I don't know the story behind any of these unfortunately, but I'll post a few that I think are interesting.
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These are some Robert Capa pictures, all I know is that they're 'post war' Notice the kids to the right of the broken archway. Like OP said a lot of shit happened in this war and Europe was physically scarred for years, decades afterwards. My father is old enough to remember the damage still apparent in London in the 50s.
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>>10557740 No.4s are excellent rifles, but the 17" sword bayonet on the old SMLEs is soooooo much cooler
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Amazing thread Anons!
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>>10557801 that do look like ukraine 1941 durin barbarossa
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>>10557860 "Now Dmitri, if you don't give me back my Cigarette, I'm going to have to bitch slap you."
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I don't always come to /k/, but this thread is the best one I've ever seen on 4chan!
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Nazis innawoods note the nasty brutish expressions of their faces
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>>10558216 >note the nasty brutish expressions of their faces sarcasm?
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If I'm not mistaken, were the cameras with D-day photos dropped overboard by some clumsy general, and that's why there aren't many D-day photos?
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Need more colour photos ! I love 'em
>>10557142 that towns Weymouth, lovely place been there loads
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>>10556593 Yeah, because never having a war where there were millions dead in military casualties, and millions more in civilian collateral damage, and even more millions in civilians killed outside of actual conflict is such a terrible thing.
Fuck you, you edgy little shit. Go the hell away.
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All beautiful and amazing pictures, OP, thanks for sharing. One request though, I know that obviously in the heat of battle you'd be drawing your gun and not your camera, but are there any pictures of close up action between two sides in the heat of battle?
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>>10557156 Holy shit, Alexander Skarsgard on the left.