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US Marines of the 29th Regiment, 6th Division securing Naha, the capital city of Okinawa. 25th May 1945.
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XI Flieger Film Korps photographer Erwin Seeger posing in the nose of a Heinkel-111 which was towing a Gotha Go-242 transport glider between Sicily and Tunisia. c.1942/43
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Infantry men of 'B' Company, 44th Armored Infantry Battalion, 6th US Armored Division while crossing the street, pass the body of Pfc. Robert Vardy Wynne (aged 19 from Texas) who had just been shot dead by a sniper. This took place on April the 4th 1945 in Oberdorla, Mühlhausen/Thüringen, Germany.
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Commandos of HQ 4th Special Service Brigade, 48th Royal Marines coming ashore from LCI(S) landing craft at 'Nan Red Sector' Juno Beach, Saint-Aubin-sur-mer, Normandy, France, at approximately 0845 on D-Day, 6th June 1944.
(Photograph by Lt. Handford No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit)
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An Indian infantry section of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Rajput Regiment, 4th Indian Infantry Brigade, 26th Indian Infantry Division about to go on patrol on the Arakan front in Burma. May 1944

The 2nd Battalion was in the Arakan area and a number of actions were fought by it. The capture of Point 551, also called Rajput Hill was the most important. The Japanese holding this feature had turned back repeated attacks by other battalions but the Rajputs carried the day winning an IOM, five MC's and two MM's for this action. (Indian Order of Merit, Military Cross and Military Medal)
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Lieutenant Robert Boscawen on the left with radiophones, commander of 2 Troop, 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards, Guards Armored Division, XXX Corps, in a Sherman Firefly IC Hybrid with a 17-pounder anti-tank gun as its main armament,
Patrolling the river Muese at Namur in Belgium.
Monday, December 25, 1944

Note camouflage cloth on the hull, extra road wheels, and tracks on front hull and turret. The number "52" indicates the 1st Armored Batt. Coldstream Guards. This tank, actually commanded by Sergeant Bastogne (kneeling on right), and the rest of 1st Battalion cut off the German advance through the Ardennes to the Meuse. The IC Hybrid was an American-built late production M4 Sherman with a cast composite hull that mounted a specially designed 17-pounder 77mm (3 inch) anti-tank gun. Sherman Fireflies were the only Allied tank capable of penetrating the German Tiger and Panther panzers. As the situation on the Ardennes front grew critical on December 17-18, 1944, the 21st Army Group realized that the German offensive either targeted the port of Antwerp or Paris itself. Several divisions, including the Guards Armored, were to reinforce XXX Corps. While scratch units of supply troops and light infantry were immediately rushed in from France, Holland and England on December the 17th to secure the bridges and the vast supply dumps along the Meuse, heavy mechanized formations arrived on December 19th. The 1st Battalion of the Coldstream Guards took up positions in Namur, one of the few remaining bridges. The masonry bridge had been blown by the retreating Germans in August 1944 and repaired by an American engineering unit with a Bailey Bridge.
Boscawen survived hits on four tanks that were burned out or "brewed" during the war. The fourth loss caused severe burns to him and his driver; the rest of the crew died. He was severely wounded and left disfigured, with burns to his face and body, when an enemy shell pierced his tank in April 1945 - the last month of the war.

He was evacuated to the pioneering plastic surgery unit at East Grinstead, West Sussex - known as the Guinea Pig Club - where he spent three years in and out of hospital recovering alongside Battle of Britain Spitfire pilots.

Robert "Bob" Thomas Boscawen, MC, PC (17 March 1923 - 28 December 2013) also served as an MP in the British Parliament until 1992.
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A forward observer of the Waffen SS uses a scope Entfernungsmesser 34 to calculate coordinates artillery. U.S.S.R. 1941 ...

Wehrmacht soldiers advancing on the back of a Pz.Kpfw. III Ausf. F, across the front line. Russian front. 1941 ...

Tiger II resting from combat in the streets of Stavelot. Their commander SS-Obersturmführer Jürgen Wessel managed to escape with the rest of the crew, leaving the shielded when it got stuck in the rubble of Rue St. Emilion. Battle of the Bulge. December 18, 1944 ...

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. Men seek cover behind hedges and signs to return the fire. Gedicks, September 7, 1944.

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advance into a Belgian town under the protection of a heavy tank.Spangle, September 9, 1944.


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as waves of paratroops land in Holland during operations by the 1st Allied Airborne Army. September 1944.

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fires on Nazis who machine- gunned their vehicle, somewhere in Holland. W. F. Stickle, November 4, 1944.


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