We are the dead. Short days ago we lived. Felt dawn. Saw sunset glow.....

The Wilmot Boys Gave All

The 23 year old farmer, from Wilmot County, Ontario took part in the daring raid, behind German lines at Miglionico and the assault on the Adolf Hitler Line prior to making the ultimate sacrifice on the banks of the Canale Naviglio shortly before the war's end. A street, in Baden, Ontario is named for him.

War Time Grave: Sergeant HL Ditner, 4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards

Killed in Action 05 January, 1945 while leading a counterattack at Canale Naviglio, Italy

Sergeant HL Ditner - 4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards

A man removing the signboard "For Germans only"

Kiev, November 1943

Shatalov A.D., lieutenant, commander of the fire platoon of the N-th anti-aircraft battery 1941

Front row, left to right: U.S. Gen. Omar Bradley, Supreme Commander U.S. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, French. Gen. Pierre-Marie Koenig,  British Air Marshall Tedder; Paris, France, 1944.

Allied Generals

Pte. C.J. Fessler beside his jeep in the Netherlands March 1945. Fessler was the driver for Major E. 'Davie' Fulton, DAAG for 1 Canadian Infantry Division and responsible for moving 1 CID from Italy to the Netherlands in the spring of 1945.

Officers' caravan - Operation Goldflake

Major E. 'Davie' Fulton was DAAG for 1st Canadian Infantry Division, and later Minister of Justice in Diefenbaker Government, and responsible for coordinating the move of 1CID from Italian theatre to Northwestern Europe theatre in the spring of 1945. On his left is Pte. C.J. (Bud) Fessler, his driver. The third soldier is J. Marshall. All three were members of the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada. Following the war, Fulton would bring Fessler to work with him in Ottawa. 

Operation Goldflake

1938 Tschechische Streitkräfte

日本で入手した物です。しかし表紙にはドイツ語で翻訳してもわかりませんでした。予想では外国のナチ党員を統括するナチ党国外組織（Auslands-Organisation)かと思っています
この会議は、「バンベルク会議」かと予想しています。有識者の方教えてください。

これは何ですか？

Henryk Zygalski, Jerzy Różycki, Marian Rejewski podczas spaceru. To oni rozszyfrwali Enigmę

Polsy kryptolodzy

Wrzesień 1939 - polski czołgista spożywa posiłek przy tankietce TK-3 

Wrzesień 1939 r.

パラオで使用され行動不能になった日本軍の特二式内火艇ですパラオの警察署の隣にあります。

パラオの特二式内火艇 

特二式内火艇またはカミ車は日本海軍（海軍陸戦隊）の水陸両用戦車。1942年（昭和17年/皇紀2602年）に制式採用された。昭和以降の兵器の呼称様式に従い皇紀の下2桁を取って「二式」と呼ばれる。

特二式内火艇

Lance-Sergeant Brown and Sergeant Randall greet each other during the link-up between the British Eight Army and the US II Corps in Tunisia, 7 April, 1943.
The campaign had proved to be one of the most difficult and divisive fought by the Allies. 

Tunisia - Comrades in Arms

GIs enjoying a pint in Britain. American views on British beer was not always polite and encounters in British pubs between American and British soldiers were not always calculated to improve relations.

American GIs in a British Pub

Side by side, German and Soviet troops watch a joint victory parade in the streets of Brest-Litovsk during the partition of Poland. The German invasion of Poland
began on September 1, 1939, and the Soviet invasion of Poland on September 17, 1939,
after both countries signed the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact. The treaty was a non-aggression pact and included a secret protocol that divided Poland, Lithuania, Latvia,  Estonia, Finland, and Romania into German and Soviet "spheres of influence, " anticipating potential " territorial and political changes" in those countries. Brest-Litovsk, Poland
(now Brest, Belarus). September 22, 1939 



Parada najeźdzców w Brześciu Litewskim 1939 r.

Private Milburn Henke, one of the first US soldiers to arrive to Britain, steps onto the quay at Belfast, Northern Ireland; January 1942.

Over there...

四式二十糎噴進砲（よんしき20せんちふんしんほう）とは、大日本帝国陸軍が1944年（皇紀2604年）に制式化し、第二次世界大戦末期に使用した口径203mmの噴進砲(ロケット砲)である。硫黄島の戦いや沖縄戦で使用され、簡易な造りで敵に大きな被害を与えられることから本土決戦の切り札としても期待されていた。写真は実際に硫黄島の戦いで使用された実際の物

四式二〇糎噴進砲

 1945年2月19日 - 1945年3月26日まで続いた日本の小笠原諸島の硫黄島での戦いのシーンです。日本軍の司令部があった摺鉢山がアメリカに攻略された瞬間です。


硫黄島の星条旗

My great uncle, 2nd Lt. Charles Peterson, B Co., 2nd Ranger Battalion.  Died 3, Aug. 1944.

2nd. Lt. Charles Peterson

Oberführer Oskar Dirlewanger , shortly after receiving the Slovakian War Victory Cross . Shortly after the Slovakian Nationak Uprising. Circa November 1944

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