World War II Historical Photos

>>675107
These photos make me want to join the military instead of go for finance career

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This one is my personal favorite. The soviets are taking a break to watch an acrobatic show on top of a KV-1.

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This one hits hard, German soldiers watching footage from concentration camps.

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Ah, Russians, you crazy bastards. This one is a Russian spy laughing through execution.

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RAF pilot getting a haircut. His Spitfire in the background.

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Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda minister finds out photographer is Jewish.

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Do you want strictly historical pictures or some things that were digitally extrapolated for color?

Some of these historical images from 100+ years ago are rather striking when digitally 'restored'

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>>675125

Hitler in traditional Japanese garb.

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Crowded ship bringing American troops back to New York harbor after V-Day, 1945

>>675125
As you saw with the RAF picture, colorized is great too. I'm trying to find as much of these as possible.

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Soviet citizens of Stalingrad in a ditch, 1942

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Wehrmacht soldiers eating roast chicken near Stalingrad, 1942

>>675112
These are different times anon, pilots used to be 18 year old kids flying sorties for the sake of their country.

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>>675113
Thats a T-34

>>675142
Thats a common lie to that photo, he didnt know he was jewish, its just a >le ebbin story

>>675190
Wow, they look so happy. Poor fellows probably didn't make it, Stalingrad was brutal.

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>>675154
similar to this

>>675207
T-34? Sorry. My mistake, naming that from memory and my bad Russian tank knowledge.

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Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk XIIs of 41 Squadron in April 1944

>>675245
Looks spooky, any info on this date/location?

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(Last image for tonight, I'm tired. Keep posting so I can check in tomorrow.) Supermarine Spitfires of the 253rd squadron.

I wanted to ask, anyone got pictures of the Panzerkampfwagen II Luchs? I love that little piece of German engineering.

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>>675255
Navy Day, 1945, Hudson River NY

>all those crosses

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>Home Army soldiers Henryk Ożarek "Henio" (left) holding a Vis pistol and Tadeusz Przybyszewski "Roma" (right) firing a Błyskawica submachine gun, from "Anna" Company of the "Gustaw" Battalion fighting on Kredytowa-Królewska Street, 3 October 1944

>>675289
Twenty-one planes? In an entire war you'd be lucky to get three. This is the kind of guy that you don't mess with.

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Middle guy, the NCO was hit in the arm after a firefight. Clearly not a propaganda picture. They aren't smiling, they're pissed right the fuck off.

>>675138

Today I learned Simon Pegg flew for the RAF. There's visual proof.

>>675190

Surprised the Communist propaganda machine didn't photoshop them eating fetuses they cut out of living Russian pregnant women while raping them.

>>675708
I can imagine if he sees the picture, "D-Dad, is t-that you?"

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(Hey, Americans, I haven't forgotten about you.) North American P-51D-20-NA Mustangs from the 45th Fighter Squadron

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505th Fighter Squadron P-51 Mustang formation, 1945

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P-51Mustangs 354th Fighter Group, 356th Fighter Squadron

>>675157
Gomenasai, my name is Ken-Sama.

I’m a 27 year old American Otaku (Anime fan for you gaijins). I draw Anime and Manga on my tablet, and spend my days perfecting my art and playing superior Japanese games. (Disgaea, Final Fantasy, Persona series)

I train with my Katana every day, this superior weapon can cut clean through steel because it is folded over a thousand times, and is vastly superior to any other weapon on earth. I earned my sword license two years ago, and I have been getting better every day.

I speak Japanese fluently, both Kanji and the Osaka dialect, and I write fluently as well. I know everything about Japanese history and their bushido code, which I follow 100%

When I get my Japanese visa, I am moving to Tokyo to attend a prestigious High School to learn more about their magnificent culture. I hope I can become an animator for Studio Ghibli or a game designer!

I own several kimonos, which I wear around town. I want to get used to wearing them before I move to Japan, so I can fit in easier. I bow to my elders and seniors and speak Japanese as often as I can, but rarely does anyone manage to respond.

Wish me luck in Japan!

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I'll dump a bit from my Crimea folders.

>>677513
Someone post the pasta about some autist moving to japan with his highschool friends to start a anime club

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>>675289
>tfw the realization that each cross symbolizes a German and the amount of said crosses claimed by one human being

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and that's all there is for Crimea 41-42. Now here's some Crimea 2: Electric Boogaloo.

>>675113
T-34/85

>>675289
so are the crosses without white paint unconfirmed kills or what?

>>675229
War qts.

>>678069
Probably that or shared kills with friendlies.

>>678093
He's got 18 and11/12 victories. Not bad considering it was just a single campaign in Britain.

>>675725

Don't need to. Those chickens were almost certainly "borrowed" from peasants who were more likely than not to starve to death the following winter.

>>677700
plane is bomb

>>678172
Crazy thing was that it worked. They flew something like 30 combat sorties to great effect and only ever lost one of the aircraft.

Thanks for all the contributions guys. So many that I have never seen.

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Japanese hospital surrendering (can't remember if this was Iwo Jima or Okinawa, probably Okinawa)

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Dead American soldier on a pontoon bridge to Germany, 1945.

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American sailors onboard the captured German submarine U-505, 1944.

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Dead British Commando after the St. Nazaire Raid, 1942.

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Flemish volunteers of Waffen-SS on a break.

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Italian paratrooper of the Folgore Division.

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The five Sullivan brothers, all of whom died when the light cruiser USS Juneau was sunk at the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal.

Due to their deaths (and the deaths of four of the Borgstrom brothers within a few months of each other two years later), the U.S. War Department adopted the Sole Survivor Policy.

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Finnish soldiers pose for a picture in recaptured Viipuri, 1941. The city was lost to Soviet Union in 1940, and would be lost again in 1944.

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American Marines pose with captured Japanese LMGs.

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Romanian AA gun crew on the East Front.

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A Czech-made Skoda heavy artillery piece in German service, here bombarding Leningrad in 1941/42.

>>675142
How is Goebbels Germanic?

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German and Soviet officers converse in Brest after the fall of Poland, 1939.

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40mm Bofors AA guns of USS Hornet firing.

>>675112
After college I'm planning on going to officer training school and going into army reserve
Sounds like a pretty good deal desu

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Italian Blackshirt volunteers in Soviet Union, 1942.

>>675118
>crying because of a blank screen

>>678393
>reading about St. Nazaire Raid on wikipedia
>royal navy steered a destroyer full of timed explosives(!) straight into the german dock
>exploded and put the entire dock out of service for the remainder of the war and 5 years after

Brits are crazy.

>>678400

>Volunteers

I thought the SS were some elite Aryan group of people that were the best of the best. Not just volunteers?

>>681102
>I thought the SS were some elite Aryan group of people that were the best of the best.
you bought the internet propaganda, retard

>>681111

Oh damn, really it was propaganda?

What else was allied/internet propaganda too?

>>681102

What the fuck are you talking about? Are those two things somehow mutually exclusive?

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Execution of hostages in the Balkans, most likely done by Croats of the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar.

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USMC Raiders exercise on the deck of submarine USS Nautilus on their way to the Makin Island raid, 1942.

>>680709
absolute madmen, the eternal anglo's perfidy is not by design

Welp, I try to post pictures but keep getting a connection error.

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Commander of the "Black sheep" squadron - Gregory "Pappy" Boyington.
The squad is renowned for shooting down 203 Japanese planes total and having about 8-9 aces in a rather short span of 84 days. Feel like this guy and his squad deserve more recognition.

>>682242
>SS Handschar
>Croats
ahh back then maybe nowdays they are bosniaks

>tfw looking at a bunch of pictures of dead men

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Dead German soldier with a MG-42 near the town of Tittingen, Germany. 1945.

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Hungarian Schwarzlose AA MG team on the East Front, 1942.

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Soviet POWs wait for prisoner exchange to take place after the end of Winter War, 1940.

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Soviet officers inspect captured German small arms.

Anybody have that picture with the three german(?) soldiers standing with a guy kneeling in front of them with a gun to his head? I need it to make memes

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Canadians and a Hawker Typhoon Mk.IB

>>685477

That's from a movie, just do a google image search with "idi i smotri" and you'll probably find it.

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American MPs with German boys who shot at American troops, 1945.

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American POWs in Tunisia in 1943, most likely after the battle of Kasserine Pass.

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American sailor inspects the aircraft hangar of a Japanese I-400-class aircraft carrier submarine after Japans' surrender, 1945.

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Japanese Type 89 I-Go tank crossing railway tracks in China.

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French troops in 1939/40.

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USAAF B-24 Liberators bombing Brasov, Romania in 1944.

>>685532
fun fact: these were grenadiers!

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Winston Churchill inspecting a 88mm round on top of a captured Tiger tank in North Africa, 1943.

>>685605
Had a distant relative killed on the New Orleans at Tassafaranga. He was in that forward section. Torpedo strike ignited the forward magazine and the whole bow was destroyed. Managed to stay afloat and made it all the way back to Puget Sound Naval Yard and had a new bow fitted.

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What kind of tank is this?
Used in the movie Patton in the Afrikakorps

>>687208
Looks to be an M48 Patton.

>>687208
That's an M48. They did a terrible job with recreating proper vehicles.

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Jusg saying I appreciate these dumps anon.

>>687639
>us_and_aussie_soldiers_exchange_greetings.jpg

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German soldiers having a snowball fight.

>>688157
That's from the 80's, or maybe the Gulf War.
You can tell due to the cruise missile batteries.

>>688178
>meanwhile the 2,000 jews in those train cars have been waiting to move for six hours.

>>675163
>and as one last fuck you that ship was torpedoed by an insane Japanese general who refused to surrender, killing thousands

>>687632
story behind this?

>>688111
"Hey,look everybody! Look who finally came out of his bunker!"

>>682532
>show
They had a damn tv show about them, what more do you want?

>>688654
>the only trains were for jews, all supplies were hauled by slav POWS

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Maj. Sucharski in the aftermath of the first battle of WWII. There are other shots. Perhaps of better quality but this one always strikes me as especially powerful.

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American and French soldiers shaking hands

>>688811
Devout German child rushes to give flowers to the Fuhrer, they'd probably get their heads taken off by a sniper nowadays in the name of "homeland security".

>>690092
underrated

I love photos of this, especially the downtime or smiling faces of soldiers after or before the storm.

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>>690143
Yeah, but the show aired in 1976, I feel like we should get a more "modern" show, or even a movie, since I've asked plenty of people who are "very into" WW2 and have never heard of Pappy Boyington or his Black Sheep squad, most just knew the typical Montgomery, Zhukov and Rommel with a bit of Mannstein and Guderian. The Pacific theatre in itself is pretty underlooked tbqh, schools should give atleast a bit more attention to it.

>>688104
They went that way.jpg

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Young Soviet POW poses for a Finnish photographer, showing the steel bib that saved his life. Looks like a nice three-round burst from a Suomi SMG.

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Improvised anti-tank weapons, satchel charge on the left and molotov cocktail on the right.

>>675289
Wait, so is this an Allied, German or Soviet pilot?

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Estonian volunteers in the Finnish Army.

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US Navy sailors cheer as a Japanese plane is downed, 1944.

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Crew of a French Char 2C super-heavy tank.

>>692714
Allied. But he could as well be "fuck all cunts" pilot.

>>675113
THATS AN IS1

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German Wurfrahmen 40 rocket artillery vehicle firing during the Warsaw Uprising.

>>675221
Holy shit is that an Archer tank??

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I have a few scans from original period photos that I've picked up over the years. None have been published as far as I know (although I've posted some on this Ethiopian Copperplate Discussion Site before).

Canadian Wellington Bomber crew.

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>>692854

Canadian POWs returning from Japan, 1945.

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Dead Japanese soldiers on Namur.

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>>692865

RCAF low-level bombing photo.

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RAF Bristol Beaufighters attacking German mine-detecting ship Sauerland.

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Cossack collaborator policeman executes partisans with a sword from horseback as Hungarian soldiers look on, 1942.

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Imperial Japanese Navy Mitsubishi G3M "Nell" bombers in formation.

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Dead German soldiers in a ditch in Anzio, Italy, 1944.

American soldiers pose with a captured Me262 jet fighter that's armed with a 50mm BK 5 cannon, 1945.

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>>692981

Whoops, forgot the pic

>>692851
that's a German nashorn

>>691201
What's the story behind this? I thought the Netherlands surrendered/got annexed by Germany instantly. I never knew that they fought back or anything