French Ceremony held in Stuttgart, Germany on May 3, 1945
French Ceremony held in Stuttgart, Germany on May 3, 1945, where awards are being presented by General de Lottre de Tassigny, 1st French Army commander to French soldiers and American…
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“Operation Market I”: the airborne operation to seize bridges between Arnhem and Eindhoven, Holland, (part of “Operation Market Garden”). Oblique photographic-reconnaissance aerial showing Douglas Dakotas dropping paratroops of 1st Airborne…
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Orders in hand, Capt. Marc A. Mitscher, U.S.N., skipper of the U.S.S. Hornet (CU-8) chats with Maj. Gen. James Doolittle, U.S. Army. Some of the 80 Army fliers who took…
ARGunners – World Wars News History
The LRP/LRDG was created by Major Ralph A. Bagnold, a... Read More The story of Lt. Charles Gatewood and the Apache Scouts... Read More Operation Greif (German: Unternehmen Greif) was…
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A U.S. Army Air Forces Martin B-26G-11-MA Marauder (s/n 43-34565) from the 497th Bombardment Squadron, 344th Bombardment Group, 9th Air Force, enveloped in flames and hurtling earthward after enemy flak…
A fleet of C-5 Galaxies tower above the rest of the fighter and cargo aircraft
A fleet of C-5 Galaxies tower above the rest of the fighter and cargo aircraft inside the “Boneyard” of the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group at Davis-Monthan Air Force…
Two soldiers watch as Cromwell tanks of the Guards Armoured Division of the 2nd Armoured Recon Battalion the Welsh Guards cross Nijmegen bridge in the Netherlands
Two soldiers watch as ‘Cromwell’ tanks of the Guards Armoured Division of the 2nd Armoured Recon Battalion the Welsh Guards cross Nijmegen bridge in the Netherlands, Thursday, the 21st of…
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A serial of Douglas C-47 Skytrains of the 315th Troop Carrier Group, dropping 41 sticks of the 1st Polish Airborne Brigade into DZ “O” near Grave, southwest of Nijmegen in…
An infantryman of ‘A’ Company, 11th Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment, on sentry duty in a captured German trench near the Albert–Bapaume road at Ovillers-la-Boisselle, during the ‘Battle of the Somme’ in July 1916
An infantryman of ‘A’ Company, 11th Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment, on sentry duty in a captured German trench near the Albert–Bapaume road at Ovillers-la-Boisselle, during the ‘Battle of the Somme’…
British Paratroops at Arnhem ‘Operation Market Garden’. September 20, 1944.
British Paratroops at Arnhem ‘Operation Market Garden’. September 20, 1944. A 3-inch mortar team of Nº23 Mortar Platoon, Support Company, 1st (Airlanding) Battalion, Border Regiment, bombarding enemy positions from the…
