Anything WW2

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>>2437982

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>>2437982

>>2437988
re-enactment shit

>>2437982

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>>2437982
captured FW 190 A series
>>2437985
>people actually believed the ejected casing was a speeding bullet that killed him

>>2437991
>sherman
that's an M7 Priest

But OP, there already was a WW2 thread >>2433124

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this is my current phone background

>>2443641
Love that design!

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>>2443647
I'm using it too, now

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>>2448893

Any HR pics of Stalin?

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Finnish war archives have some great hr photos

>>2437985
>sherman
kek

>>2465011

What does that insignia mean?

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>>2465370
Nothing. War paint to scare people in melee combat.

>>2443641Taken in Lexington Ky

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>>2465370
the Death's Head was used by many European armies that originated in Germany. During WWI and WWII they were sometimes painted on helmets to scare the enemy, Finland especially did this during the Winter War.

>>2465430
>>2465562

> to scare the enemy

did it work?

>>2465562
looks a bit like the imperial attack on Hoth!

Them STG's

>>2465616
you know what scared them more?
The Edelweiss

>>2466158
What is this? B17 with V engines?

>>2466159
some sort of alternate dimension WWII stuff. dont remember where i got it.

so much more beautiful than what they went with

>>2466160
XB-38

Its just a prototype

>>2465438

>>2465370
It's an insignia used generally by Finnish dragoon regiment and Kev. Os. 4, a light unit of jagers.
It was also used throughout other Finnish units during winter and continuation war. The skull was to add psychological effect to Soviet soldiers, who already were intimidated by the savagery of Finnish raids and guerilla raid, in addition to heavy casualties in attacks to fortified Finnish positions.
The skull comes probably from the East European Hussar tradition or from German SS, as many Finnish soldiers served in ranks of SS Wiking in Ukraine during Barbarossa.

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United States Marine Corps Private Theodore James Miller (February 12, 1925 - March 24, 1944) of Hennepin County, Minnesota assigned to Company K, 3rd Battalion, 22nd Marine Independent Regiment returns to Coast Guard-manned attack transport USS Arthur Middleton (APA-25) at 1400 Hours after two days of combat on Engebi.

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Left, USMC Private First Class Faris "Bob" M. Tuohy (1924- ) of the 3rd Battalion, independent 22nd Marine Regiment, drinks coffee in the mess aboard USS Arthur Middleton (APA-25) after surviving the two-day fight for Engebi in Eniwetok Atoll. The 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 22nd Marines secured the island, killing 736 Japanese soldiers and Korean laborers. Only nineteen surrendered.
This photo was passed by American censors and widely distributed, one of the few wartime releases to show the psychological effects of war. At right, Private First Class Stephen Garboski (1921-1944) of Ringoes, New Jersey, also recuperates with coffee. On Guam in July 1944, Garboski was one of 1,147 men of the 1st Provisional Marine Brigade (which by then included the 22nd Marines) killed in action. Tuohy states he was a victim of friendly fire when USAAF aircraft attacked Marine positions. Tuohy also believes the man in the center was killed by the Japanese on Okinawa.

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1st Marine Division Private First Class Gerald P. Thursby (December 9, 1920 - July 19, 1999) of Akron, Ohio and Private First Class Douglas D. Lightheart (September 13, 1920 - November 10, 2006) of Jackson, Michigan, enjoy a cigarette during the initial hours of the landings on Peleliu behind White Beach Two. LVT(A)1 Amtrac A-5 of the 3rd Amphibious Tractor Battalion's A Company has bellied up against a log; eventually this Amtrac would later reach the airfield. Lightheart, a veteran of Guadalcanal and Cape Gloucester attached to the 7th Marine Regiment, landed in the 1st Marines area and after encountering dead Marines on the beach, he saw his Amtrac's tailgate blow thirty feet into the air from a mortar hit. Lightheart had stopped for a smoke when Thursby arrived; Marine photographer Sergeant Henry H. Clements (September 2, 1923 - March 31, 1969) asked to take their photograph. None of the men knew each other, and they would never speak again. Lightheart would be wounded in the head and face a day later. Clements was wounded during the war as well. Thursby, a veteran of Guadalcanal and Cape Gloucester, survived the battle unscathed. Lightheart was a postal worker after the war and Thursby painted advertising signs before working at Wilkinson Sheet Metal in Akron.

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Lieutenant Junior Grade John F. Kennedy at the helm of USS PT-109.

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Soldiers of the 1st Marine Division display Japanese flags captured during the Battle of Cape Gloucester. New Britain was defended by the Imperial Japanese Army's 17th Division, under Major General Iwao Matsuda; reinforced by 65th Independent Mixed Brigade and elements of the 51st Division, known as the Matsuda Force. The strain and fatigue of 23 days on the line at Cape Gloucester is clearly shown in the faces of these men of the 7th Marines, relieved after taking Hill 660. They trapped the Japanese between 60mm mortar fire in front and 81mm and artillery fire in back, then overlapped the impact areas; over 100 Japanese were caught in the open and killed. Later the 5th Marines attacked and neutralized Matsuda's Command Post. New Britain cost the reinforced 1st Marine Division 310 killed in action and 1,083 wounded. The remains of the Matsuda Force were ordered back to Rabaul to defend the base. For the rest of the war, 40,000 Japanese starved and were harassed by a much smaller Allied force. 1st Marine Division was relieved by the US Army's 40th Infantry Division and prepared for the Peleliu operation.

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The Calutron Girls. They operated machines separating U-235 from U-238 for the atom bomb. They watched meters and adjusted dials, but didn't know what they were working on. Picture taken sometime between Jan. and Aug. 1945

>>2470157
>that katana sword
nice

>>2458108

That's a re-enactment in Germany in 1984. It went wrong because they forgot to inform the residents of the village in which the re-enactment took place that it's not real Nazis, just actors. The villagers started cheering for the Nazis and threw Molotow cocktails at the truck with "Russian POW" (also actors). 12 men died, they were awarded the SS Service Award for Bravery.

>>2466800

Soldiers holding up pieces of cloth to cover the portable toilets. Two soldiers are using them (middle, top).

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In a still from FURY IN THE PACIFIC, a 1st Marine Division leatherneck grimaces as Japanese mortar fire comes in. FURY IN THE PACIFIC was released on March 22, 1945, and is recognized as one of the best Pacific War documentaries of World War II. Unlike many jingoistic films, FURY IN THE PACIFIC respected the fighting qualities of the Japanese. The documentary used combat camera footage from the 1st Marine Division's landing on Peleliu and the United States Army's 81st Infantry Division's landing on Angaur in September 1944. It was narrated by Richard Carlson (April 29, 1912 - November 21, 1977) Sources differ as to how many combat cameramen were killed or wounded filming FURY IN THE PACIFIC, but at least ten of thirty-nine men in the photography unit were casualties. Once the 1st Marine Division entered the Umurbrogol, a series of ridges that were the high point of Peleliu, unusually disciplined Japanese fire control inflicted huge casualties on the Marines. 6,500 Marines were killed or wounded on Peleliu. Date Estimated.

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A still frame from FURY IN THE PACIFIC, a joint United States Armed Forces documentary on the invasions of Peleliu and Anguar in the Palau Islands. A 1st Marine Division radioman with a Motorola SCR-300 "Walkie-Talkie" backpack radio rushes forward as his fellow Marines crouch in the jungle. He carries the radio with the cover closed and the handphone in one hand and his rifle slung across his shoulder. He carries another pack on the back of the radio. The SCR-300 could weigh 38 pounds (17.2 kilograms) with the larger battery. This man is weighed down with over 75 pounds (34 kilograms) of gear. Only six reporters landed on Peleliu because the operation was supposed to last three days. One was Marine Sergeant Alvin G. Flanagan (January 1, 1915 - November 24, 1999). Flanagan and other SCR-300 operators' radio communications were recorded aboard transports offshore. On October 20, 1944, the day of the invasion of the Philippines, Flanagan's recording of the invasion of Peleliu was played over the Mutual Radio Network to the American public. Flanagan, a reporter and director for WOR Radio in New York City before the war, became a television executive and President of Gannett Broadcasting after the war. Date estimated.

>>2465628

Or maybe the imperial attack on Hoth looks a bit like this..?

Did that thought ever cross your mind?

>>2477502
Why so hostile man?

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"Cor Blimey !...I'm in the Army~Mar"

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Amphibious

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>>2480343
Unphibious

>>2438993
How did they have phones with Ultra HD resolution 70 years ago and my 4s had such a bad quality camera? The military technology really is 100 years more advanced than what regular people use.

>>2465011

Those helmets look WW1 vintage.

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>>2466158
thats so sexy

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>>2486192

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>>2486194

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>>2486195
Here's Stalin with a daughter in 1935. Not exactly WW2 but neat picture.
Will contibroot mor later

>>2486194
Any context behind this picture?

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>>2486282
Danish film called Flame & Citron

>>2481988maybe because the cameras work differently, ours work in digital ways, while the other ones work by "engraving" the light onto the photo paper
idk

>>2481988

>The military technology really is 100 years more advanced than what regular people use.

Riiiiight, in reality it's simply because the 35mm film format is just better for overall picture quality. The camera used to take that picture was built from the ground up to take pictures. The camera technology in your phone makes up a tiny portion of the mass.

It's like comparing a dedicated graphics card to an integrated one.

35mm > digital

>>2479921
gee bill...

>>2438017
it's a screenshot from a german movie

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>>2505140
>it's a screenshot from a german movie
care to elaborate?
i'm highly doubtful, considering that looks like genuine IS-2/T34
not saying filmmakes couldnt get their hands on those vehicles, but i guess it would be pretty tough to find an IS2 outside of (what used to be) the communist sphere of influence, assuming this movie is older than 20 years

>>2471056
link to story, please

>>2505184
You're replying to the wrong posts and getting everything fucked up.

>>2437988 is a re-enactor, not the m48 Yugoslavian Mauser he is holding instead of a k98k

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>>2481969

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Tarawa Island

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sometimes a smaller propeller is a small propeller

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>see this thread
>no one post ww2's best tank
....
i can't find hr pics of this tank btw

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>>2520021
Inb4 butthurt naziboos whining about how the T-34 was shit, and the Tiger was the best tank of the war.

They were both fine tanks, and the T-34s equipped with 85 mm guns were more or less on par with the Tiger I.

>>2520039
Tiger was a response for the t-34, and nazis got BTFO anyway

>>2488499
>film vs digital fights
Hit me right in the nostalgia anon
>brb going to tell all the photographers and cinematographers that they dun goofed

>>2519155
Fun fact: it was to generate electricity because the Me 163 had a normal rocket engine which didn't require an air intake. It also guzzled fuel like crazy at a time when the Germans had a fuel shortage. Derp.

>>2520021
>>2520039
Tiger and Panther were both superior, but that's why they lost. Couldn't build enough of them.

>>2522174
Well, another fun fact: It didnt use any of the "normal" fuel, but some mixture of different chemicals. In one accident, one tank broke and the pilot was overhelmed with this mixture. The pilot was completely decomposed by it.

>>2449349
I want to see the film shot that they got there

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>>2522176
dont forget:
>reliability issues
>fuel shortages
>increasingly inexperienced crew
>no air superiority
>resources being wasted on silly projects

>>2477502
>Or maybe the imperial attack on Hoth looks a bit like this..?
Lucas used a LOT of WWII film footage as inspiration for star wars.

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It was probably terrifying and awful but seeing some of these battles first hand would have been incredible. The sheer scale and destruction, millions of lives at stake.

>>2481988
>>2488499
Digital restoration..

>>2522811
It used hydrazine hydrate mixed with methanol as fuel, and pure hydrogen peroxide as an oxidizer. The two fuels spontaneously and violently combust on contact.

Pure hydrogen peroxide would have melted that pilot. The stuff from the drugstore is diluted to like 2%, the pure stuff is crazy dangerous.

There were also all kinds of accidents from getting the two fuels mixed up, it could be as simple as wiping up spills of both with the same rag.

Bump. Want to check this out after I come back from the gym.

This shit is fascinating to me. As a 25 year old, I've come to the realization that I will never, ever have the amount of balls these dudes had. Jesus. It's terrifying thinking about being in their shoes.

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>>2524498

And they had worse cross-country ability than allied tanks. And their complexity meant they were harder to build and thus could never match the numbers of their opponents.

However, they look totally badass.

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>>2526481

Don't sell yourself short. You don't know until you are forced to do it. Sure we would shit ourselves the first time we face something like that, but you get used to it. And then get PTSD later. But that's a different point.

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herman the german

war booty google it

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Richard Eurich, The Landing at Dieppe,

>>2528211
from "saving private ryan"
just sayin'

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>>2529188

Here's something to make up for it.

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Anyone have some D-day shots?

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>>2532537
wow well fuck me

gostaria de um link para baixar todas essas imagens juntas

>>2437982
https://www.archives.gov/research/military/ww2/photos/#aid

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Cockpit of "Miss Mitchell" B-25

>>2533171

Is that modern equipment in the upper middle dash?

Is this one still flyable?

>>2535448
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzL8qIQo818

Legit all you need to do is put miss mitchell into the youtube search bar, why is that so hard for people

>>2535448
Miss Mitchell is still airworthy
the digital stuff is most likely GPS and some modern radio system, which i'm guessing would be mandatory by FAA standards[citation needed]

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>>2535481

s-sorry

>>2535482

That makes sense.

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I think the US should have been bombing Japan with pictures of this. The entire Japanese fleet at it's height couldn't put on this show, and this is just a fraction of the ships in the Ulithi anchorage. How in the world did they think they had a chance?

>>2528248
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.9972609,-118.4568879,3a,37.5y,287.81h,69.08t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sWW2F_GUSdFVUn82_Dx-Ssg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

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SA-KUVA
>2. Tiedotuskomppanian miehiä Viipurissa.

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SA-Kuva
>Luutnantti Hans Wind, Mannerheimristin ritari, kuuluisa hävittäjälentäjämme, joka on ampunut alas 33 1/2 viholliskonetta.

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SA-Kuva
>Ilmavalvontalotta Ellen Kiuru Lahdenpohjan ilmavalvontatornissa.
11.7.1942

>>2541389
>>2543257
>>2543259
Aika päheet kuvat.

>>2546286
Junkers suck in War Thunder.

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>>2549070
>he doesn't equip gunpods on his D-5 and headon everything in sight
They're fun in ground forces too though.

Shame WT is absolute shit.

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OC T-34 from the Woodside tank museum that closed a couple years back. Crude but effective. Quantity has a quality all its own.

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>>2552505
Here's a Panther Tank.

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>>2552513
Might as well include a Sherman. Didn't get the sloped armor memo. The collection was the Littlefield in Portola Valley (near Woodside).

>>2552530
How the war was won. Nice.

>>2522174
It also killed more of its own pilots than the enemy.

>>2540551
What am I supposed to look at?

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Tiger cuck reporting in.

>>2553901
Pretty sure I wouldn't want to be the guy taking this picture.

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Bovington Tank Museum
Went there with my ex last year. Will dump all the good ones.

M24 Chaffee

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Tiger II/King Tiger

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M22 Locust

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M8 Greyhound

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M10 GMC/Tank Destroyer

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Hetzer

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Jagdpanzer

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Pershing

Will post more later

>>2555159
it is called a jagdpanther you fucking idiot

>>2555159
Actually, that's a Jagdpanther. the Jagdpanzer is a lot smaller, and looks more like a Hetzer.

>>2555303
Yeah that's what I meant but yeah. I guess being a prick is easy for you, isn't it?

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>>2555868
i'd like to thank you for contributing OC to this thread
>>2555472
>>2555303
technically it is a Jagdpanzer, since the term refers to a class of armoured tankdestroyers
'the' Jagdpanzer is actually the Jagdpanzer IV, standing for jagdpanzer based on the panzer IV chassis, and the Jagdpanther is iirc officially the Jagdpanzer V Jagdpanther(jagdpanzer based on the panzer V Jagdpanther) thus calling a Jagpanther a Jagdpanzer is just as wrong as calling a Ford Mustang a musclecar

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>>2555883
Nice to see someone appreciate OC.
Have a SU-76

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>>2555923
An*
Holy shit I'm tired.

Panzer IV

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Valentine

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RAM II

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Comet

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Matilda (Light Defense)

>>2555153
That's actually an Achilles, a British M10 with a 17 pounder slapped on it.

>>2555154
cute!

CUTE!

>>2556594
The Achilles is the M10 with the British 17 Pounder. Brits named it that after we made it better I think. Also Hetzers gonna Hetz

>>2557904
That's what I said, the M10 with the 17 pounder used by the Brits was the Achilles, while the M10 with the M1 76 mm gun used by the Americans was called the Wolverine.

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>>2535428
U.S. forces landed on the Kerama Islands, to the west of mainland Okinawa, on March 26, 1945.

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>>2559028
On the main island, Japanese soldiers were already well dug in, hunkered down in caves, limestone gorges and along rocky corridors impenetrable to tanks.

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>>2559029
During the ensuing battle, less a defense of Okinawa than a delaying tactic to slow the advance of U.S. forces into mainland Japan, neither side were over concerned about the niceties of the Geneva Convention. Kamikaze planes exploded on the decks of hospital ships, while the Americans hurled shells and directed flamethrowers into the mouths of caves that had been turned into makeshift clinics, and released hydrogen phosphorous at entrances in order to asphyxiate those within. Holes dug as latrines outside the cave mouths swarmed with maggots and blowflies in the oppressive heat. In the ruins of homes, pigs foraged among the debris, picking at the entrails of the dead. In a culture where pig intestines were ritually consumed during festivals, the inverted spectacle of pigs feasting on human innards must have struck Okinawans as grotesquely ironic.

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>>2559032
Okinawa residents, many of them wounded, surrender in June 1945 in this image taken by the U.S. military.

Jews did WWII.

>>2560283
that's what idiots say

>>2560283

Did you know that Hitler's commanding officer in WW1 was Jewish? He recommended Hitler for one of his Iron Crosses. After the war, Hitler allowed him to escape Germany. That must have been a strange relationship.

We need more soviet pics! Someone please contriboot

>>2528226
that's from 1956

>>2490174
Top right UFO
>and it's back to /x/ I go

>>2507897

Could be a vz24 which is period correct.

Can't tell without looking at the bolt handle.

put a model together when i was little of a gray stuka, wish i still had it

>>2560283
Hitler wasn't blonde

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Dec. 7, 1941,

>>2486318
Holy shit I was just scrolling past and noticed that the scope here is the same one was being described in an Forgotten Weapons youtube vid I was half watching the other day.

Here's the vid if anyone is interested: <iframe width="854" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dVPbSt88S3Y" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

>>2570595

https://youtu.be/dVPbSt88S3Y

Fuck I don't know what happened there

Hey, do you have any pics of massive bombing? Like over drezno where ther was 1000 bombers or from murrica bombing over berlin with 1000+?

>>2443641
That's an awesome picture of FiFi. How did you get it with nobody there?

>>2470159

The correct term is a Kaiguntō. Or naval sword.

Katana's were outlawed by the end of the sengoku period.

>>2582259
>>2582261
This is possibly the first time I have seen either men in color.

>>2581043
is the center engine even necessary, if you have those 4 other ones anyway?

>>2588550
nevermind, just read up its an engine test bed.

>>2454335
Name of the u-boat?

>>2457816

U-505?

>>2555926
love the Panzer IV Ausf. H

>>2582258
Why are her nails like that

>>2578587
Well, no. He's an army officer, for one thing, so that would be a shin gunto. A kai gunto would have more fittings on the scabbard.

And katanas were not outlawed, they were just usually required to be remounted in modern hardware to fit with army or navy standards. If that guy is descended from the samurai class that is almost certainly one of his family's katanas wearing a handle and scabbard of army design.

>>2437988
nice one mate

>>2591337
I googled it and it's a picture of prisoners from the 12th HitlerYouth Division.

>>2591406
Are you sure? I mean, I don't know if hitler youth divisions have had the SS skull on their hats

>>2520021
>>2520039
>>2520056
>thinking the t-34 was great
>thinking the tiger was great
>thinking the tiger wasn't enough to handle cannon fauder of a t-34
if hitler let his engineers slope the armour of the tiger it'd be gr8

>>2486286
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>2591396
why the fuck should the turret be removed?

>>2592446
weight

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>>2549369
WT had the potential to be something fantastic, but was turned into garbage by having Russian devs and being a F2P game.

It is a melancholy feeling to know I will never have the chance to prove myself in battle like my grandfather, who flew Mustangs in the Royal Air Force. He used to say it was the very best time in his life.

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>>2541389
>>2543257
>>2543259

For all you who are interested in pictures like these: http://sa-kuva.fi/neo?tem=webneoeng

>>2564180

This one is staged. Taken during a training.

>>2595844
Looks to me like Soviet Union troops.

>>2595844
Judging by the helmets, they seem Soviets.

>>2590004
looks like it

>>2552505
it's not 100% closed

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>>2602254
happy to help

>>2473077
What city is this?

>>2604244
Köln, germany

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The Tirpitz; one of two Bismark class battleships laid down by NAZI Germany. Commissioned in 1941 and laid to rest in 1944

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>>2604358

>>2585914
>Fighting for a country which despises you

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dumping a few pics of the french resistance and the liberation of paris because why not

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2nd armored div (french) tank "Lutzen" in combat on St Michel boulevard, Paris,1944

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US soldiers and two firemen looking down the place de la concorde,Paris