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Soldiers of the 1st SS-Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler Division, resting in a ditch alongside a road on the way to Pabianice, during the invasion of Poland in 1939

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Achtung Stuka! Eastern Front, 22 December 1943

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German submarine U-550 sinks in the North Atlantic, east of New York City, after being bombarded by depth charges and artillery fire from three American destroyers. 44 crew members were killed and 12 were rescued - 16 April, 1944

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Image: IWM (Q 87097) Austro-Hungarian troops at the entrance of a dugout in trenches under deep snow, winter 1917.

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ANZAC soldiers in their trenches on Anzac Beach, 1915.

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© Col. L A Lynden-Bell MA MC (Q 71342) Sentry of the 1st Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders using a trench periscope in front line during the hot weather of 1917 at Sannaiyat. Lieutenant J. Forbes is the officer on the right.

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Image: IWM (Q 4732) A sentry on a foot bridge over a trench in the ruins of Arras. March 1917.

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Hawker Tempest Mk V’s of No. 501 Sqn RAF in Oct 1944. significantly improved derivative of Typhoon, improved in performance at high alt by replacing wing with thinner laminar flow design. Since it had diverged considerably from the Typhoon, it was renamed Tempest.

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US B-17 bomber plows through heavy flak over Ludwigshafen, Germany. 21 Sept 1944

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Messerschmitt Bf 109Gs of future 128 victory ace and Ritterkreuz mit Eichenlaub (Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves) holder Major Walther Dahl’s III./JG 3 Udet, fitted with 300 litre drop tanks, undergo engine maintenance at Leipheim, March 1944

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Captured Heinkel He 162A-2 Spatz (Sparrow) the first single-engined jet fighter, undergoing post-war flight testing by USAF pilot Bob Hoover at Muroc Army Air Field, California,1946

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Jack Northrop's idea...are you sure?

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T-26 tanks converted into experimental APCs in Manchuria, 1945

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US Army M12 Gun Motor Carriage "INVADER" engaged in direct fire while supported by an M30 Cargo Carrier circa 1945

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British Army Matilda infantry tank under camo netting, 1941, Tobruk, North Africa

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Le roi George VI avec le capitaine C.H.L. Woodhouse (à gauche) et l'amiral Sir John Tovey (à droite), commandant en chef de la Home Fleet, marchant sous les quatre canons de 356 mm de la tourelle Y à bord du cuirassé HMS Howe lors d'une visite à la Home Fleet à Scapa Flow – Ecosse

Photographe : J. A. Hampton

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