A German soldier, if not wounded then badly shaken, walks past a shattered panzer and into captivity...Italy (per site), date unkown....

Lucky to be alive

Underpaid, terrible conditions, and all to often an awful end...these brave souls, offically non-combatants, were the life line to England who, for too long, stood alone...

The Battle of the Atlantic was not won by any Navy or any Air Force, it was won by the courage, fortitude and determination of the British and Allied Merchant Navy - Rear Admiral Leonard W. Murray



Mercantile "Merchant" Marine

With no cover, and I assume little hope to survive, Soviet soldiers go foward into German fire - one falls, hit, upon leaving the trench...Russia 41/42

(source of photo at bottom)