Villers-Bocage.Knocked out Sherman with it's 'wooden' gun and mantlet lying in front.Note the 88mm entry hole on the left of the turret.More on that battle and the 'why' of the wood barrel on :

http://www.strijdbewijs.nl/uitbraak/bocage2aeng.htm

taken from fb/Thomas Laemlein

The Sherman with the wooden gun

General Montgomery stops his car to talk to Royal Engineers working on a road near Catania, Sicily; 2 August 1943.

Hello, chaps

Japanese officers surrender their swords at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
During World War II, Kuala Lumpur was captured by the Imperial Japanese Army on 11 January 1942. They occupied the city until 15 August 1945, when the commander in chief of the Japanese Seventh Area Army in Singapore and Malaysia, Seishirō Itagaki, surrendered to the British administration following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.