Scout radio operator, 1942

An American Marine poses with a captured Japanese Type 94 tankette; Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean, February 1944.

Infantry support or for reconnaissance

German soldiers ride a Zündapp KS 750 motorcycle in Tunisia; March, 1943.

Half a dozen on a bike for three

Newly captured German POWs on a Normandy field; August, 1944.


German POWs

A German non-commissioned officer relaxing with a smoke, while holding a captured Soviet self-loading SVT-38 semi-automatic rifle; Somewhere on the Eastern Front, 1942.

Posing with a captured weapon

Two soldiers of the 49th British Infantry Division (Durham Light Infantry, 49th West Riding Division) run past a German tank Pz.Kpfw.V "Panther" # 204, which was knocked out in France; June 27, 1944 .

British soldiers and a disabled German tank

 A New Zealand artillery crew of the 87mm divisional 25-pounder cannon (Ordnance QF 25-pounder) moves the gun trail after adjusting to a new target in the vicinity of the town of Cassino, Italy; May 17, 1944.

Adjust for a new target

Private James Sweek of the 2nd United States Marine Division with a captured Japanese Type 92 70mm Battalion Howitzer on Saipan, Mariana Islands; July 1944.

Japanese artillery piece

Volunteers who joined the Volkssturm receive weapons in Berlin. They have Steyr Mannlicher M1890 carbines in their hands; November 1944.

Neither too young nor too old

A wounded Russian soldier (probably a higher ranking officer/commander) being loaded onto a U-2 / Po-2 "Kukuruznik" ambulance plane by nurses, to be flown to a field hospital.

Combat wounded

Presumably 1942 found in 1990.
Novgorod region of the USSR

German killed by Lindemann's spade

Released POWs greet American troops entering Munich, Germany on Dachauer Straße (street). In the foreground is an M36 Jackson self-propelled tank destroyer; May 3, 1945.

Warm reception in Munich

Three SS soldiers with a 7.92 mm MG-34 machine gun in close range of a burning Soviet village; 1941.

Burning houses in sight

71st Aviation Regiment. Pilot Junior Lieutenant Viktor Pavlovich Sigalaev, 1942
Born 1922, died 07.01.1943
Photo by Kremnev

Pilot Junior Lieutenant Viktor Pavlovich Sigalaev, 1942

A group of Japanese army kamikaze pilots of the 76th special unit, in front of a Nakajima Ki-27 (Allied calling code Nate) fighter.  In the battles for Okinawa, the detachment died in full force; April 1945.

Group photo of kamikaze pilots

German soldiers cautiously move along a mountain trail southwest of the rural community of Bagn, (60 miles north-west of Oslo) during the invasion of Norway; April 18, 1940.

Up a snowy mountain trail

A picture taken of the tankers of the 4th squadron A of the 5th Royal Tank Regiment, 3rd Armored Brigade, British 2nd Armored Division of a Cruiser Mk. IV tank in Libya, North Africa; 1941.

A Cruiser tank with crew

Sherman tanks from the Canadian Governor General's Horse Guards Armoured Regiment advancing in the city of Arnhem, Netherlands during its liberation on 15 April 1945.

Canadian tanks moving in

Finnish crew with a Panzerschreck anti-tank grenade launcher ready forthe oncoming Soviet tank; Continuation War, 1942.

Loading the anti-tank weapon

A patrol from the 2/13th Infantry Battalion, 9th Division (Australia), wait in a tank ditch for a favourable opportunity to go further into no-man's land;  8 September 1941.

Fighting in the desert

Soldiers of 141st Infantry Regiment, US 36 Infantry Division use a FlaK M31(r) anti-aircraft gun, captured near Offendorf, Germany, to fire directly on German positions on the opposite side of Rhine river. The gun is missing its scope which is why the aiming is done through its barrel.

Captured Anti-aircraft Gun

British Sexton self-propelled guns driving down the Charlottenburg Chaussee in Berlin during the Four Nations VJ Day parade; 7 September 1945.

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