American soldiers pinned down on beach on Leyte Island, Philippines, by Japanese mortar and machine gun fire; 20 October, 1944.

Rough going on the beach

The British armored Universal Personnel Carriers and M4 Sherman tanks on a street of a Dutch town of Aalst; 18 September, 1944.

British activity in a Dutch town

The British armored personnel Universal Carriers on the move on a rural road in Burma. 
The picture is taken on the road between Imphal  and Kohima; November 29, 1944.

Carriers advancing with troops

The new Commander, General Clark, inspecting Indian troops.
In December 1944, American Lieutenant General Mark Clark became the new commander and the army group was renamed 15th Army Group.

Inspection of Indian troops

German soldiers cross the border into Russia over the river Narva from Estonia during Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union. In the background can be seen the medieval Ivangorod (Estonian: Jaanilinn) castle and fortress; August 1941.

Crossing into the USSR

A Tommy-gun toting GI with a war dog named Bolo, somewhere on a Pacific island, on guard duty...

The dog alerts approaching enemy

French civilians reading invasion news in Paris; 1940.


German invasion of France

 Dead Russian soldiers atop a T-26 tank at a frontier post. The German soldiers look on as they pass by; 22 June, 1941.

Operation Barbarossa

US Marines transfer a wounded man to a stretcher during the battle for Peleliu, Palau Island, South Pacific; September 1944.

Wounded but alive

Members of a U.S. Army engineer unit stand on “dragon’s teeth” antitank obstacles in a portion of the West Wall during the Saar Offensive; November 1944.

Getting a better view ahead

American soldiers inspect a metal German pillbox pulled out of the ground, installed on the Gustav line between the Tyrrhenian sea (on the west) to the Adriatic sea (on the east) with the focal point being Cassino; Italy; February 15, 1944.

Fortification from which to fire

German soldiers on BMW-R 12 motorcycles are preparing to move into positions for combat operations; USSR, 1942.

German motorcycle troops

British tankers on a Churchill flamethrower tank in France; 1944.

Churchill Crocodile flame-throwing tank

Soldiers of the 244th Infantry Regiment, of the US 70th Infantry Division receive letters in the French commune of Wingen-sur-Moder, after recapturing it from German troops; January 7, 1945.

Good to hear  from home

Dutch children give flowers to the crew of an American  M5 "Stuart" light tank from the 744th tank battalion; Netherlands, October 1944.

 

Soldiers get flowers, kids get candy

Soldiers of the US 4th Armored Division remove a stretcher with a wounded comrade from an M3 Stuart light tank during the battles on the Saar River, France; December 1, 1944.

Not life-threatening wound

An American soldier searches a prisoner of war from the 2nd SS Panzer Division "Das Reich"; Normandy, France, August 1944.

An officer POW

A platoon of American M4 Sherman tanks, attached to the 37th Infantry Division, move on a dirt road in the jungle of Bougainville Island, South Pacific; 1944.

 

Armored activity on Solomon Islands

Baseball-great Joe DiMaggio (left) stands at attention with his fellow US Army recruits after receiving his uniform on Feb. 18, 1943.

You're in the Army, now...

Grumman F6F Hellcat named “Jolly Rogers” of Fighter Squadron Fourteen (VF-14) prepares to take off from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier.

Getting ready for a mission

Tanks and GIs from the US 2nd Armored Division advance near Lemgo, 70 kms south-west of Hanover, Germany, while escorting a captured POW; April 1945.

Closing in on the town of Lemgo

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in North Africa on a relatively rare staff car, an Italian Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 Coloniale, only 150 of this variant were made; June 1942.

Desert Fox - not in his regular car 

American Soldier who was awarded the most Medals of WW2

Audey Murphy

An American M4 Sherman tank stands near the Monument to the Battle of the Nations in Leipzig, Germany; April, 1945..
Next to the tank, children stand among American soldiers, who have come to look at US military equipment. 

Tank in front of monument

Italian Duece who led Italy into World War II.

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