A sergeant of the New Zealand Armed Forces, takes a break and enjoys his pipe.  Note the entrenching tool, the worn shoes, and his classic Lee Enfield rifle.

North Africa, 1941

A NZ Sherman tank passing out a knocked out German tank, across the Senio River. The Tiger was attacked by Piat mortar fire from a member of the 24th Battalion. Photograph taken by George Kaye on the 10th of April 1945.

New Zealand Sherman Tank

Teenaged Serbian partisan, Slavoljub “Slava” Ković, photographed by the SS before his execution.

 Due to his defiance in not revealing the names of his comrades, Slavoljub was tortured and had a Communist star carved with a knife on his forehead, and was then executed.

 Slavoljub Ković, was born on 1924 in Bogatic, Serbia. He issued from a poor family, and had a tough childhood. When he was 3 years old his father died, and due to malnutrition he went to school 2 years late.

 After elementary school, he went to tailoring school, but never finished it because World War II broke out.

 He joined the partisans, but was soon captured by the Nazis in Serbia.

 They took him to the concentration camp near Sabac and tortured him in order to get details about resistance movement. 

 He was tortured repeatedly, but never broke, but sadly did not live to see his enemies defeated.