Editorial Team
In the track of the Hun. The first of our men to cross the Somme, near Peronne
Soldiers after crossing the River Somme. According to the photograph’s original caption these soldiers are the first to have crossed the River Somme. Some of them are clambering up a…
Men of No 3 Platoon, ‘R’ Company, 1st Parachute Battalion, 1st (British) Airborne Division armed with Bren gun and No. 4 rifles
Men of No 3 Platoon, ‘R’ Company, 1st Parachute Battalion, 1st (British) Airborne Division armed with Bren gun and No. 4 rifles defend a large shell hole outside Arnhem, during…
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A reserve of Fourth Division Marines, burrowed into the black sand of Iwo Jima, awaits its turn to move up on D-Day, February 19. Almost lost in the smoke haze…
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A left front view of a wrecked and stripped Israeli M50 Mark II Sherman tank, as the 22nd Marine Amphibious Unit redeploys back to ships of Amphibious Squadron 4, at…
Pz. VI Ausf E Tiger I of s.Pz.Abt 101, 1.Kompanie, 3.Zug, 3rd vehicle, commanded by SS-Oberscharführer Fritz Zahner passes the Hotel du Lion d’Or in the Rue André Carpentier, Morgny, Normandy. June 8 1944
Pz. VI Ausf E Tiger I #133 of s.Pz.Abt 101, 1.Kompanie, 3.Zug, 3rd vehicle, commanded by SS-Oberscharführer Fritz Zahner passes the Hotel du Lion d’Or in the Rue André Carpentier,…
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LUBANG, PHILIPPINES – MARCH 10: (CHINA OUT, SOUTH KOREA OUT) Former Japanese Imerial Army intelligent officer Hiroo Onoda attends a press conference on March 10, 1974 in Lubang, Philippines. Leutinant…
Results of one of the war’s fiercest struggles, the fight for Iwo Jima, lie in sorry heaps all over the island. The hand of a Japanese soldier killed by a bomb blast is seen in the rubble which covered the island.
Results of one of the war’s fiercest struggles, the fight for Iwo Jima, lie in sorry heaps all over the island. The hand of a Japanese soldier killed by a…
Off Omaha Beach, American Liberty ships – ‘Corn Cobs’ were scuttled to provide a makeshift breakwater during the early days of the invasion
“Omaha Beach”American Liberty ships were deliberately scuttled off the beaches to provide makeshift breakwaters during the early days of the invasion somewhere in France. This scene shows 13 Liberty ships…
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Flying Officer R W Stewart, a wireless operator on board an Avro Lancaster B Mark I of No. 57 Squadron RAF based at Scampton, Lincolnshire, speaking to the pilot from…
German Soldiers Killed in Action during Battle of the Bulge
Grenadiers of the 12.SS Panzer Division “Hitlerjugend”, killed in battle with the US 509th Parachute Regiment during the offensive in the Ardennes, Dec 1944. Note the body center background frozen…
