/k/ — Cool WWII photos

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This semi-famous photo from the Stroop report gives a good example of the variety of weaponry used by SS security and Police units during WW2: two of the men have MP-41 SMGs, one has a MP-28 SMG and two others seem to have Suomi SMGs.

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>>65237374 (OP)
the raised wreck of the dutch destroyer 'Van Galen' in Rotterdam, on her way to the breakers (October 1941)
a year earlier, on May 10th, she was bombed on her way down the Nieuwe Waterweg to bombard the german paras which had taken the Waalhaven airfield
despite none of the bombs hitting her, the near misses caused enough damage for her commander to abandon the mission and seek shelter in the Merwehaven
it was decided she was no longer combat effective and scuttled in the harbor, roughly a mile and a half from the Wilton-Fijenoord yard where she was laid down 13 years earlier
Van Galen was the only of her class to perish in dutch waters, the other Admiralen destroyers would meet their ends in the Dutch East Indies

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This German MG42 gunner has been through some shit.

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>>65237542

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Not sure if this is Akagi or Kaga

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Hungary stronk!

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>>65237587
one of the most famous tank duels of the war

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The SS Kronprinzessin Cecilie and her sister, Kaiser Wilhelm II. Both members of the Kaiser-class responsible for starting the four-funneled ocean liner craze of the early 20th Century. Both ships were interned in the United States at the start of the First World War and then later seized by the US Navy for use as troop transports in 1917. After the Armistice, they were awarded as war prizes to the United States, but were considered redundant for use as ocean liners after the National Origins Act of 1924 dramatically curtailed immigration and mothballed in Chesapeake Bay for the next 20 years. In 1940, with the Second World War in full swing, the sisters were offered to the British for use as troop transports, but were rejected owing to their age, high fuel consumption, and poor mechanical state. They were both scrapped later that year.

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STUG DOZER

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>>65237589
The car at :26 was civilians trying to flee that got stuck between both lines of fire.
Book is Spearhead by Makos, supposedly getting a movie.

Maaaaan, I already posted like 75% of what I have in the last thread.

>>65237931
It’s appreciated twice then. Thanks anon

>>65237485
>ayo this war is not bussin no cap

>>65237589
Holy shit.
At 0:37 you can see that the Panther crew is bailing out, right when another round hits or the ammo start cooking off. You can see the flash pushing past the turret ring in one frame.
The Panther TC and gunner had never seen a Pershing before, and held fire.

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155mm gun of 53 Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery on the Caen Front, Normandy July 44

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same as above

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Battle of Crete, near Heraklion. A Ju-52 shot down.

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Men of 1 PARA take cover in a shell hole in Arnhem, 17 September 1944.

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famous photo and posed but posting it anyway

British airborne troops moving through a shell-damaged house in Oosterbeek near Arnhem during Operation 'Market Garden', 23 September 1944.

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The driver of Major General Friedrich Kussin lies dead next to the genral's car near Arnhem during Operation Market Garden. Commander of the local Feldkommandantur, Kussin and his aide, his driver and his bodyguard were killed during the early hours of the operation when they ran into a group of British paratroopers who immediately opened fire.

Interestingly the driver, Gefreiter Jozef Willeke, appears to have been armed with a Dutch Mannlicher M95 No. 4 bicycle riders carbine.

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1941, Soviet POWs clearing the rubble at Viipuri railway station, which was blown up by the Red Army as they retreated from the city.

Their Finnish guard is armed with a bunker version of the Suomi SMG, and a few of the POWs still have their budenovkas, even though the Red Army had begun to phase out this headgear already in the mid 1930's.

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Finnish L-41 "Sampo" machine gun mounted on a tripod. Designed by Aimo Lahti, the Sampo was a Finnish attempt at creating a general-purpose machine gun in the same style as the German MG34 and MG42. Atogether 35 of these machine guns were made between 1941-42 and sent to frontline testing, where it was found to be at best a mediocre weapon.

Any further development of the L-41 was dropped in favor of potentially adopting the MG42 for Finnish use, but that also went nowhere.

>>65238985
Lahti designed like 70% of all finnish small arms didn't he?

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>"Observed enemy soldiers manning machine gun nest on hill to eastward of landing beaches. Fired three salvos, men and gun emplacement destroyed." - action report, USS Doyle
An unknown Gleaves-class destroyer of DESRON 18, possibly USS Frankford, delivers direct-fire 40mm and 5" support from less than 1000 yards off Omaha beach, temporarily what might be considered the world's mightiest infantry fighting vehicle. Though occasionally struck by german artillery and often touching bottom throughout the day, none went hard aground.

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>>65239038
I don't think the Finnish army operated a single small arm of domestic design that didn't have Aimo Lahti involved in one way or another.

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>Commissioning ceremonies on the USS Iowa's after deck, at the New York Navy Yard, NY, 22 February 1943. Note: Mark 38 main battery director with Mark 8 fire control radar on top, 16"/50 triple gun turret, freshly raised National Ensign, and incomplete condition of some features of the ship's after superstructure.

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>Soldiers of the Red Army on the armor of the tank "Tiger" Pz.Kpfw. VI Ausf. E, knocked out at Kursk. The tank belonged to the German 503-th battalion.

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>A sailor of USS S-31 holding the submarine's mascot, 1940s ww2dbase

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>The consequences of a kamikaze attack on the American light cruiser Nashville.(USS Nashville; CL-43).

>A Japanese bomber with two bombs attacked the cruiser during a battle off Negros Island on December 13, 1944. The plane was flying from the side of the port side and exploded at an altitude of about 3 meters from the deck in the area of the central part, the resulting fuel caused a fire on the battery of 127-mm artillery guns (5′′/25 caliber gun). As a result of the explosion and fire, 133 crew members were killed, 190 were injured.

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>>65239423
Gruesome.

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Mo about to tank a Zero