WW2 Pictures and Videos

[Bornubus]

Only survivor of german POW camps,identifying his fallen comrades

Maratha Soldiers in burma

 

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Japanese soldiers pose with captured Soviet equipment during the Battle of Khalkhin Gol.

Japanese soldiers in guard duty (north china winter 1938),.

Battle of Malaya

 

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The fall of Mandalay

Imperial soldiers on elephant , Burma

Imperial soldiers paying homage at Shwethalyaung Buddha.

 

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Japanese soldiers stand guard over American war prisoners, Bataan, Philippines. 1942

 

[Bornubus]

Sikhs in North Africa overrun Nazi Position

 

[Bornubus]

A captured Chinese dadao being held by a Japanese soldier. Note the unique saw back

Captured Japanese Katana by Gurkha

 

[T-55]

Sinking of a German submarine U-175 and the rescue of the crew

View from the deck of the USS Spencer,explosions of depth charges.After these explosions boat surfaced , becoming an easy target of naval artillery .

 

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Liberation of Kiev

Germans set fire to destroy all possible means to crose Dnieper

September 29,Darnitsya

Soviet infantry near the ruined Palace of Culture "Khimvolokno"

Pontoon crossings

The inscription on the wall of the City Library : "The first part includes Poletova battalion Yakushev at 24.00 "

Soviet soldiers

Scouts of the 1st Ukrainian Front, in front of the Central Committee

Nikolai Degtyarenko , the teenager from the village of Degtyarev

 

[T-55]

Part-2

Soviet soldiers

Marder III, destroyed near the station Bucha

T- 34

People of Kiev welcoming liberators

Tank on the streets of Kiev

Artillery

Lieutenant-General Nikita Khrushchev

 

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Assembling the German ballistic missiles " V2 ",Mittelwerk factory ; Thuringia; 1944-1945
The assembly of missiles by prisoners from the nearby concentration camp " Mittelbau-Dora "

 

[LowPost]

THANK YOU for that INFORMATIVE piece of information @Arryn ! Keep up the GREAT work, my friend.

My pleasure. As a military history enthusiast it's fun for me to contribute in these kind of threads.

So, here are some WWII pictures in colour:

An abandoned German machine gun, France, in June, 1944.

A Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress above Mt. Rainier, 1943.

American troops unloading supplies on the shores of Guadalcanal Island in 1943.

Churchill tanks of 43rd Battalion, Royal Tank Regiment on manoeuvres in October, 1942.

An air-to-air left side view of four B-24 Liberator aircraft in formation.

Crew of a 40mm anti-aircraft gun on the USS Alaska mounting clips into the loaders off Iwo Jima on March 6, 1945.

P-51D Mustangs of the 4th Fighter Squadron in flight, Italy, 1944.

Battleship Indiana, battleship Massachusetts, and cruiser Quincy bombarding Kamaishi, Iwate, Japan, on 14 July, 1945.