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German prisoners of war from Elverum camp being processed prior to embarkation from Norway to Germany. Here prisoners play cards to pass the time at the embarkation camp at Mandal…

Bomber “Marauder” B-26, serial number 43-34565 Gratis Gladys, 7I-B, 497 Squadron, 344th Bombardment Group, 9th U.S. Air Force is crashing to the ground after receiving a direct hit in the…

The grave of a British airborne soldier killed during the battle of Arnhem in September 1944, photographed by liberating forces on 15 April 1945. On the cross is written in…

Ford-built B-24J (serial 42-51939) assigned to the 755th Bomb Sq, 458th BG at Horsham St. Faith (AAF Station 123), probably taken in the early fall of 1944. In October it…

An American Medic and a GI of the US. 80th Infantry Division reading a comic at Reisdorf in Luxembourg near the German Border. 12th of February 1945 Left to right…

Major-General Roy Urquhart DSO and Bar (leader of the 1st British Airborne Division during the Arnhem Operation) plants the Airborne flag outside his headquarters (Hotel Hartenstein), the last British stronghold…

On 2 August 1943, Hampden torpedo bombers of No 455 Squadron RAAF attacked a convoy off the Norwegian coast. This aircraft (L4105/D) suffered massive flak damage to its tail –…

A Russian team member (C) introduces digging techniques to Chinses partners on the Huoshao Mountain in Muling City, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, May 12, 2015. A one-month-long China-Russia search began…

WWII Staff Sgt. Joseph W. Jamro, 93, center, who was shot down as a tail gunner on a Liberator bomber over Romania in 1944 looks through a scrap book with…

An F-4 Phantom II sits by itself in the “boneyard” at Davis-Monthan AIr Force Base, Ariz. The aircraft served as the principal air superiority fighter for the Air Force during…