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litchu

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Im sorry this isn't quite WW2 but this is quite a special photo:



74 funeral cars on their way to a military base to have the victems of MH17 identified
 
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calgoblin

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It's a horrible tragedy. The way some parties have acted and responded to it disgusts me. For the sake of the families, justice needs to prevail.
 
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12th SS in Normandy wearing Italian camouflage clothing.
It'd be lovely to see this in Traction Wars. :D
 
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April 14th, 1945
While on patrol, German submarine U-1206 sank after the toilet was operated improperly.
 
VonMudra

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On this day in 1944 during the Warsaw Uprising, Batalion Zośka liberates the Goose Farm Concentration Camp, located in the remains of the Warsaw Ghetto. Over 300 prisoners remain in the ghetto, being forced by the Germans to continue the destruction of the remnents of the Ghetto. After a short battle, the SS-SD guarding the camp are killed or driven off by an assualt that including one of the Panther tank captured by the Poles a few days before, Magda, shown here:



Upon liberation, almost all the able-bodied prisoners join in the Uprising with Batalion Zośka, and almost all will be killed in combat during the battle's coming weeks.
 
VonMudra

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Haven't really been keeping up with this, so Imma repost something I posted awhile back elsewhere:



Panzer IV Number I01, belonging to the battalion commander of 1st Battalion, Panzer-Regiment 1. All were killed after it was either hit by artillery, or the ammunition exploded, somewhere in the vicinity of Ruszki.

The battle of Piotrkow and Ruszki was a defensive rearguard action and one of the many such victories for the Poles during the campaign. Polish losses were 7 tanks, and the 1st Panzer Division lost about 78 tanks knocked out plus more damaged.

1st Panzer finally meets it's end for the Polish Campaign in the dual battle of Ruszki and Kiernozia, where the Polish Bzura counter-offensive nearly wipes out 1st and 4th Panzer Divisions (both escape, but barely, and with less than 30% of the original tank allotment). Ruszki and Kiernozia end up being named "Hell at Kiernozia" by German survivors of the battle, with Oberst Eberbach of PzRg 35 writing that it "was like being in the Devil's Kettle." Panzer Regiment 35, in support of 1st Panzer, also loses 23 tanks knocked out and 6 damaged in the engagement, and both 1st and 4th Panzer withdrawal from Poland a couple days later with fewer than 80 tanks each. To put that in perspective, 1st and 4th combined started the campaign with over 600 tanks.
 
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litchu

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Today, 70 years ago, operation Market Garden started.

And because one picture says more than a thousand words..



For the ones interested:
 
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Paratroopers land in the Ginkel Heath drop zone marking the Battle of Arnhem. Photographer Richard Watt; Crown Copyright.
 
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