A slightly expanded photo of the one already posted:
Soldiers belonging to the Royal Canadian Navy Commandos, landing on the Mike sector of Juno Beach, Normandy, France;  June 6, 1944.

Canadians coming ashore

Fighting in the Galicia/Bukovina area, USSR: German self-propelled assault artillery and Hungarian infantry on a country road. 

Soviet Union/Eastern Front

German railroad flatbed cars loaded with brand new Panzer IV medium tanks (pzkpfw IV) on the way to the front; 1943.

Bound for the Eastern Front

B-25B medium bombers lined up on the flight deck of aircraft carrier USS Hornet  during the Doolittle raid against Japan; April, 1942.

Strike back for Pearl Harbor

Australian troops of the 2/7th Cavalry Regiment, 7th Division, advance through the mud and slush on Buna, Papua Territory, the eastern half of the island of New Guinea in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, north of Australia; 28 December, 1942.

New Guinea Campaign

Wehrmacht infantrymen advance across a snowy field on the outskirts of the city of Rostov-on-Don, USSR.

Winter offensive

American soldiers posing with a captured mortar they used to knock out a German 85mm gun; 25 February, 1945.

New owners of a formerly enemy weapon

Hungarian soldiers pose with a German self-propelled "Marder II" tank destroyer, somewhere on the Eastern Front.

Rear view of the weapon

German observers with large telephoto lens take pictures of Russian positions in the Eastern Front; 1941.

High tech equipment

Australian soldiers carrying one of their wounded comrade on the Kokoda Track (or Trail) in New Guinea, South-Western Pacific Ocean; c. 1942-43. 


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