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[michaelmaltby]

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[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

A Curtiss C-46 Commando full of wounded serviceman being evacuated from Manila, 1945. Photo courtesy of ww1ww2photosandfilms on Tumblr.

 

[FrankHM]

May 20, 1940: German army reaches English Channel at Abbeville, France, splitting Allied forces in two.

May 20, 1944: US troops secure Wakde Island off New Guinea.

May 20, 1945: On Okinawa, US Tenth Army takes Chocolate Drop and Flattop Hills; Marines take Wana Ridge. Japanese troops begin evacuating China to defend Japan.

(Source: Sarah Sudin Blog: Sarah Sundin Blog | WW II History | Historical Fiction Author )

 

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1942 Airborne Practice Loading Anti-Tank Gun in Mockup Transport Orig News Photo | eBay

 

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1945 US Army New 75mm Recoilless Rifle San Lucia Area Italy Original News Photo | eBay

 

[Wurger]

 

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German name: Leichter Ladungsträger Goliath (Goliath Light Charge Carrier)

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[Wurger]

the pic source: the Internet.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Canadian M4 Sherman tanks from the Canadian Governor General's Horse Guards Armoured Regiment in the city of Arnhem during its liberation, April 13, 1945. Royston Leonard/.mediadurmworld.com

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

One of the few pictures from the German's side during the first Fallschrimjager drops during the Invasion of Crete, 20 May 1941. No photo credit was available. Found on Tumblr.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Japanese I-Go crew members convene before the Battle of Khalkin Gol, May 1939. No photo credit available.

 

[Wurger]

the pic source: the Internet.

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[Milosh]

Details from the regiment were called out on service on 26 August 1939 and on active service on 1 September 1939 as The Governor General's Horse Guards, CASF (Details), for local protection duties. Those details called out on active service disbanded on 31 December 1940. Subsequently, the regiment mobilized as the 2nd Canadian Motorcycle Regiment, CASF (GGHG) for active service on 24 May 1940. It converted to armour and was redesignated as The Governor General's Horse Guards, CASF on 9 February 1941; as the 3rd Armoured Regiment (The Governor General's Horse Guards), CASF on 11 February 1941; as the 3rd Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment (The Governor General's Horse Guards), CAC, CASF on 1 January 1943; and as the 3rd Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment (The Governor General's Horse Guards), RCAC, CASF on 2 August 1945. It embarked for Britain on 9 October 1941 and landed in Italy on 19 December 1943 as part of the 5th Armoured Brigade, 5th Canadian Armoured Division. On 20 February 1945 the regiment moved with the I Canadian Corps to North-West Europe as part of OPERATION GOLDFLAKE, where it continued to fight until the end of the war. The overseas regiment disbanded on 31 January 1946. The Regiment lost 71 Killed and 210 wounded in the war.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Lt. Gen. Lucian K. Truscott, Jr. from the headquarters of the 5th US Army, talking to black soldiers from the 92nd Infantry Division after the soldiers beat off an attack by German troops on the hills north of the city of Viareggio in Italy. Not able to locate a source of the photo.

 

[FrankHM]

May 21, 1940: French Ninth Army surrenders.

(Source: Sarah Sundin Blog | WW II History | Historical Fiction Author and Gordon Skene)

 

[FrankHM]

Another "view" of Operation Mercery (Unternehmen Merkur, Μάχη της Κρήτης ).
A self made picture based upon a cover of a cartoon.

PS. Was going to be a reply at Aaron Brooks Wolters post from yesterday...

 

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1944 Camp Davis Rocket Targets for Anti-Aircraft Guns Holly Shelter News Photo | eBay