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Heer (German army) Sd.Kfz. 250 half track in action near Cherkasy in Ukraine, late 1943

Photograph of Lt. Thomas Whitecloud Entering a C-47 for a Parachute Jump Training

Record Group 75: Records of the Bureau of Indian AffairsSeries: General Photographs of Indians

This photograph shows Lieutenant Thomas Whitecloud climbing into a C-47 for paratrooper training at Fort Benning, Georgia.  An armband on his left arm indicates that he is a medic.  He wears a helmet and his parachute pack.

I heard the crunch of feet in the snow and turned to see Roe coming my way. I could tell by the look on his face that this wasn’t a social visit. “Malark, I’m sorry, but it’s Skip,” he said. “He’s dead. Penkala, too.” I simply sat on the edge of a slit trench like a man who’d been out in the cold too long. Numb. My brain told my mouth to speak but it was like the words were frozen in place. “How’d … it… happen?” I asked, my voice but a whisper. “‘Bout a hundred yards down the line. A major shelling. Muck and Penkala were caught out in the open, then finally found a hole. George Luz had been scurrying around during the blitz, too. Muck and Penkala yelled for him to get in their foxhole.” Roe paused. I kind of nodded, rocked forward and backward a bit. Put my hands over my face, fingers as numb from the cold as my brain from the news. “Luz is down on the snow, snaking his way toward them, and—boom—direct hit on the foxhole. Shell found them as if it had eyes.” I looked away, toward nothing.

~ Don Malarkey

A lone British soldier cautiously makes his way through Perone Square after the German army’s withdrawal - Hauts de France, Sept 1918

A German Panzerkampfwagen III on it's way to the frontlines. There is also a Finnish TK-correspondent riding with the Panzer crew, Vasonvaara, Karelia.

1 July 1941.

The Junkers Ju 290 was produced for one of two primary roles – either as a transport or configured for maritime patrol in support of U-boat operations. The maritime patrol aircraft were assigned to Fernaufklärungsgruppe 5 for Atlantic patrol. This is Ju 290A-3 WNr. 10162 which was found at Salzburg, Austria after the war. Note the Messerschmitt Bf 109G14A/S on the right. For more, see my Facebook group - Eagles Of The Reich

rest in peace, skipper

EUGENE ROE & BABE HEFFRON: BASTOGNE

EUGENE ROE & BABE HEFFRON: BASTOGNE

British soldiers from 'B' Company, 1/6th Queen's Regiment try out their collapsible boats in a farmyard in preparation for crossing the Volturno river, Italy. 8 October 1943

Parachute Regiment gunner firing a Bren from a ditch during Operation Market Garden, Sept 1944

Short-barrelled StuG III leading a column of German soldiers into Russia, 1941

Jagdgeschwader 27 Bf 109 E in flight near Tobruk, summer of 1941

P-51 pilot Lt. Vassver shoots the tail off a FW-190. 5 Dec 1944

Miles M.39B Libellula, a WWII tandem wing experimental aircraft built by Miles Aircraft, designed to give the pilot the best view possible for landing on aircraft carriers.

Kriegsmarineman climbing the fjords with Tirpitz in the background, WWII.

Damage inflicted upon the French battleship Jean Bart by American gunfire and bombs. A French sailor stands guard over what is left of the bow. After Operation Torch, Nov 1942

British battleship HMS Rodney fires her secondary battery during exercises, December 1940

Canadian soldiers examine a German Mauser T-Gewehr. Behind them is a Male Mark V tank. August 1918.

Cpt.Leo H. Schweiter of the 101st Airborne Division with an M1A1 Carbine after the Battle of Carentan, Normandy, France, June 1944.

U.S. Marines from 6th Marine Division, enter the outskirts of Naha, Okinawa. May 1945

Panther with a dozer blade, used to clear rubble from streets.

A 5.5-inch gun from the battleship HMS Hood defend Georgetown at Fort Bedford on Ascension Island (an isolated volcanic island in the South Atlantic). The guns were salvaged from the vessel during a 1934 refit. They are now the only parts of HMS Hood that exist (above sea level).