Weary troops of Company G, 2d Battalion, 24th Marines, rest in a ditch, guarded by a Sherman tank. They are waiting for the tanks to move forward to blast the numerous pillboxes between Motoyama Airfields No. 1 and No. 2.
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Striking portrait of Lt. Musil of the Panzer Pionier Kp. ‘HG’, wearing the black vehicle uniform with the blue Luftwaffe officer’s Schirmmutze. Note the early cuff-title; also the monocle and facial scar, most unusual characteristics outside the realm of comic strips and Hollywood fantasies..
Hurricane PR Mark IIB, BM969, of S Flight, No. 3 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit, based at Dum-Dum, India, in flight over Bengal.
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Female aircraft spotters on the roof of a Leningrad building, Russia, May 1942
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Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya was in her last year at School No 201 when she volunteered for training as a partisan. In mid-November 1941 she was sent in a small group on a mission to burn buildings in a village occupied by the Germans about fifty miles from Moscow. She was caught and hanged. Photographs of her execution were later found on the body of a German soldier, and she became a national heroine.
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Four Soviet sappers dragging crates of explosives towards an enemy house turned stronghold. (With the goal of undermining said house with prior-mentioned explosives). Breslau, 1945.
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