horsewasher (28)in #history • 6 years agoWW II FactsA #German paratrooper with an MG42 machine gun in France on June 21, 1944horsewasher (28)in #history • 6 years agoWW II FactsTroops from 51st Highland Division unloading stores from tank landing craft on the opening day of the Allied invasion of #Sicily, Italy, on July 10, 1943.horsewasher (28)in #history • 6 years agoWW II Facts#Soviet soldiers celebrate the retaking of Sevastopol, 1944.horsewasher (28)in #history • 6 years agoWW II Facts#Russian female aircraft spotters on the roof of a building in Leningrad, Russia, in May, 1942.horsewasher (28)in #history • 6 years agoWW II Facts#American soldiers clean captured #German MG 42 general-purpose machine guns in San Vittore del Lazio following the Allied success at the Battle of San Pietro Infine during thr…horsewasher (28)in #history • 6 years agoWW II Facts#English members of the Women’s Royal Navy Service (WRNS, or more popularly, Wrens) move a torpedo for loading into a British submarine at the Portsmouth Royal Dockyard in September, 1943.horsewasher (28)in #history • 6 years agoWW II FactsThe USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24) aflame on her aft flight deck following a #Japanese kamikaze attack on October 30, 1944.horsewasher (28)in #history • 6 years agoWW II FactsFormer U.S. President George H.W. Bush sitting in his Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bomber aboard USS San Jacinto, 1944. Bush flew 58 combat missions during #WWII and received…horsewasher (28)in #history • 6 years agoWW II Facts#German troops with MP 40 submachine guns in Lapland, #Finland, in 1943.horsewasher (28)in #history • 6 years agoWW II Facts#German troops inspecting a #British Daimler Scout Car captured during the failed raid on Dieppe in August, 1942.horsewasher (28)in #history • 6 years agoWW II FactsU.S. Sgt. Frank Shiborski eats a #Thanksgiving turkey leg in Italy on November 22, 1944.horsewasher (28)in #history • 6 years agoWW II FactsA #German Junkers Ju 52 transport airport on the #Greek island of Crete, 1943.horsewasher (28)in #history • 6 years agoWW II FactsFrench resistance fighters working with American paratroopers in Normandy, France, 1944.horsewasher (28)in #history • 6 years agoWW II FactsA close-up of Sgt. Loel Putnam in a gas mask and protective cloth permeable helmet at Chemical Warfare decontamination demonstration at Fort Bliss, Texas, in 1943.horsewasher (28)in #history • 6 years agoWW II FactsPOWs of German 4th Army, after being captured at Minsk in Byelorussia, being marched through the streets of Moscow, Russia, on July 17, 1944.horsewasher (28)in #history • 6 years agoWW II FactsAn American war poster used on the home front, 1942-43.horsewasher (28)in #history • 6 years agoWW II FactsJapanese Myōkō-class heavy cruiser Haguro under air attack by USAAF 3rd Bomb Group, Simpson Harbor, Rabaul, New Britain, on November 2, 1943horsewasher (28)in #history • 6 years agoWW II FactsTwo Soviet Army soldiers stop to use a field telephone during the Battle of Berlin as buildings erupt in flames behind them in April, 1945.horsewasher (28)in #history • 6 years agoWW II FactsAn American B-25D Mitchell bomber of the 13th Bomb Squadron departing Simpson Harbor after an attack, Rabaul, New Britain, on November 2, 1943.horsewasher (28)in #history • 6 years agoWW II FactsThe German 24th Panzer Division moving towards Stalingrad in August, 1942.