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American ships landing troops and supplies on a beach on Okinawa, Japan, 13 April 1945. No photo credit available.

When you see pictures like this you recognise how wildly optimistic the German plans were, for the invasion of the UK

 

[Hardlydank]

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Captured He-111H at an airfield in England (1945). No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

USS Alaska (CB-1), "looking aft from the bow. Note that all the deck equipment is covered with canvas."
Date and location unknown. Mostly likely taken in 1944. No photo credit available.

 

[Lucky13]

 

[Lucky13]

 

[Snautzer01]

1944 Press Photo Lt. Gen. Eaker congratulates Italian pilots for their bravery | eBay

 

[Snautzer01]

1944 Press Photo Bougainville, U.S. Navy PT boat motto "Give me a fast ship..." | eBay

 

[michaelmaltby]

Histomil.com
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[michaelmaltby]

Love affair ......
TAYLOR: Enduring bond between Canada and Holland forged in war
".... April 13, 2020 marks 75 years since the Tor Scots rolled into the Meppel after putting the occupying German forces on the run."

 

[Hardlydank]

([Photo] B-24D Liberator lead assembly ship 'Barber Bob' of 93rd Bomber Group, US 328th Bomber Squadron based on RAF Hardwick, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, Feb-May 1943).

 

[syscom3]

Lots of helping hands are there to assist in getting a wounded hellcat pilot out of his aircraft and down to the medics.

 

[syscom3]

On this date 75 years ago, April 12 1945, President Roosevelt died.

One the greatest presidents this country has been honored to have served.

 

[syscom3]

Wounded women helped by their fellow inmates taking a walk after a liberation of a POW camp at Oberlangen (Strafflager VI-C). The women, soldiers of the Polish Home Army and survivors of the Warsaw Uprising, were imprisoned in the camp after the collapse of the Uprising and, after a long wait, were liberated by soldiers of 1st Polish Armoured Division on 12

April 1945.

 

[syscom3]

Smiling female survivors of the Warsaw Uprising looking through a barbed wire of the former German POW camp at Oberlangen. The women, despatch couriers from various units of the Polish Home Army, were imprisoned in the camp after the collapse of the Uprising and, after a long wait, liberated by soldiers of the 1st Polish Armoured Division on 12 April 1945.

 

[Hardlydank]

April 21 1945

u switched the 1 and 2 around

 

[syscom3]

Patton and Bradley at the Ohrdruf Concentration Camp in Thuringia, Germany, 12 April 1945.

NEVER FORGET!

 

[syscom3]

u switched the 1 and 2 around

LOL, thanks!

 

[syscom3]

An Ilyushin Il-2 from a unit of the 5th Air Army attacking a German firing position and artillery battery southeast of Břeclav during the Bratislava–Brno Offensive, April 12, 1945.

 

[Hardlydank]