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For You Aussies.
9th November 1937: A mason cements blocks of stone into position, carved with the names of the fallen, in the military ceremony at Villiers-Bretonneux, near Amiens. The memorial is the Australian National Memorial, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, and the names of the 10,860 Australians who have no known grave in France will be carved on it. Completion is expected in spring 1938.
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I just try to imagine the families and beloved ones [of both sides], specially those who were listed as MIA or those who has no known graves!!!

i think over the years, at least, a very small section of these brave soldiers are discovered and buried in nearby cemeteries.

may their souls rest in peace.

 

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The battle ship USS Arizona (BB-39) and aircraft carrier USS Langley (CV-1) at Naval Air Station San Diego, CA. Late 1920's.

 

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An 80th Fighter Group P-40 in Burma, 1943-1945

 

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C-46 Commando's under assembly at one of the Curtiss-Wright factories in Buffalo, New York.

 

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C-46 Commando's under assembly at one of the Curtiss-Wright factories in Buffalo, New York.

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I have a friend who flew those for Air America in the 60s.

 

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Polizei BMW Kradmelder Tarnhelm Wegweiser LENINGRAD Bär Russland

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Polizei Kradmelder Adler Kübelwagen Tarnhelm in Russland 1941

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Polizei Panzerjäger m. Krupp Protze Tarnjacke in Russland 1941
Notice the HiWi's

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Legion Freies Indien

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I have a friend who flew those for Air America in the 60s.

Must have some interesting stories to tell

 

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A Curtiss SBC-3 Seagull scout plane launched from the catapult aboard USS Idaho (BB-42) during the US Navy's Pacific
Fleet maneuvers around Hawaii, in September 1940.

 

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Adlerhorst- Hitler's Western Front bunker. Charles B Carrol in the photo taken by me in early 1962.

 

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Curtiss SOC-3 Seagull stripped for maintenance in the hangar of USS Savannah (CL-42), circa 1938. The plane's engine is
a Pratt & Whitney R-1340 nine-cylinder radial.

 

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This is the view Hitler had from his "Berghof". 1955 color slide.

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

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"Dragon's Teeth" along the Siegfried line in the Saar. 1955. These were designed to stop tanks and other tracked vehicles from crossing.
I took a B & W photo that is an accidental double-exposure of this scene with General George Patton's grave marker in the American Cemetery in Luxembourg superimposed over it. Twilight Zone material for sure!