Timeless Squarebodies

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This photograph shows a group of German Luftwaffe personnel during World War II preparing an airdrop supply container. These containers, often called “Waffenbehälter” or “Versorgungsbehälter,” were designed to be dropped by parachute to supply troops in the field.

Inside the open container, several rifles can be seen carefully packed and secured with straps. The soldiers are arranging and taping the contents to ensure they remain stable during the drop. The men are wearing Luftwaffe uniforms, identifiable by the eagle-and-swastika insignia above their right breast pockets and the rank chevrons on their sleeves.

Such containers were commonly used to deliver weapons, ammunition, medical supplies, and food to troops in isolated or hard-to-reach combat zones.

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A US soldier on the porch of the Berghof !

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Knocked out M4A3 Sherman , Germany 1945

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80 years ago , April 11, 1945, Robert Clary was liberated from Buchenwald N**i concentration camp. He was the youngest of 14 children. Twelve other members of his immediate family were sent to Auschwitz. Three family members were unaccounted for. Clary thought he was the only survivor.

When he returned to Paris after the war, he learned that three of his siblings had not been taken away and survived the N**i occupation of France. He played LeBeau on the TV show “Hogan’s Heroes.”

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The crew of a Soviet IS-2 heavy tank looks at a column of German prisoners. Berlin, May 1945

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German soldiers sit on the terrace of the Café de Flore in the Boulevard Saint-Germain in Paris during August 1944 sometime before the battle for the Liberation of Paris.
Paris was liberated on August 25, 1944.
(note the 5 cm Granatwerfer 36 light mortar)

(Photo by Suzanne Laroche / AFP)

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Warsaw Uprising began 1 August 1944

The Warsaw Uprising was a major World War II operation, in the summer of 1944, by the Polish underground resistance, led by the Home Army, to liberate Warsaw from German occupation.

(Colorised by Mikołaj Kaczmarek )
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22 July 1944
Prime Minister Winston Churchill and General Sir Bernard Montgomery in Caen, talking to some of the troops who took part in the D-Day landings.

Colour by Doug
© IWM B 7888

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19 July 1943
British troops and local civilians examine a knocked-out German Tiger I #211 tank from 2./s.Pz.Abt.504, in Sicily.
The Tiger had failed and could not be recovered and was set on fire by its crew.

Colour by RJM

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14 July 1944
Northwest of Saint-Lô, Normandy, France.
Soldiers of the U.S. 3rd Armored Division standing in front of a hedgerow, holding a sign, made out of cardboard and shaped like a German Cross that says, “Soldiers surrender - you are surrounded.”

Two men are armed with M1903 Springfields as a personal weapon. Until late 1944 and the introduction of the M7 Gr***de launcher attachment for the Garand, the M1903 was the platform for gr***de launching and 1 man per squad was armed with a M1903 variant. Also Col Hurley Fuller Regimental OC US 23 INF had his men armed with the 1903 over the Garand at Normandy.

The Battle of Saint-Lô is one of the three conflicts in the Battle of the Hedgerows, which took place between July 7-19, 1944, just before Operation Cobra. Saint-Lô had fallen to Germany in 1940, and, after the Invasion of Normandy, the Americans targeted the city, as it served as a crossroads.
Colour by Jake
Colourised PIECE of JAKE

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In World War II, airborne troops were made up not only of the paratroopers themselves, but also of “glidermen,” the soldiers who arrived on the battlefield aboard gliders. This latter force was highly complementary to the former, and their support was essential during their first days on the battlefield.