Picture of the day.

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Two American Marines, Douglas Lightheart and Gerald Thursby, resting during Battle of Peleliu in the Palau Islands, September 15th, 1944. No photo credit available.

 

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Helldiver waveoff, USS Bunker Hill, Caribbean

 

[syscom3]

Soviet Shturmovik's fly over the ruins of Berlin. April 28 1945.

 

[syscom3]

On this day 75 years ago, April 28 1945.
UN delegates meeting in San Francisco

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

B-17s of the 615th Bombardment Squadron, 401st Bombardment Group parked in the snow at Deenethorpe Airfield, England. 12 January 1945. No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Petlyakov Pe-8. No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

The end of fascism in Italy; Mussolini, his mistress and sympathizers lie in a pile in Milan. Mussolini is the one in the bottom left with the rapier in his stomach. April 1945. No photo credit available.
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[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Supermarine Spitfire Mk Vb operated by 336th Fighter Squadron, 4th Fighter Group, USAAF, painted in standard RAF camouflage scheme at RAF Debden, Essex, UK. Early 1943. No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Burned aircraft engine and debris litter the flight deck of the USS Franklin (CV-13). She is the New York Navy Yard to repair the battle damage she received off Japan on March 19, 1945.
Note: USS Rolette (AKA-99) is visible at the far right.
Photographed on April 28, 1945.

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[syscom3]

Escort carrier USS Thetis Bay transporting aircraft to Alameda, Cal, for repair, 1944

 

[syscom3]

A Royal Air Force Avro Lancaster heavy bomber drops food packages over The Netherlands in Operation MANNA.

 

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Royal Air Force Avro Lancaster 'Princess Patricia' of No. 514 Squadron at RAF Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire, England, being loaded with food for Operation MANNA, 29 April 1945.

 

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U.S. Navy seaplane tender USS St. George (AV-16) at anchor at Kerama Retto, 29 April 1945. This remarkable photo of a Kamikaze diving on the USS St. George just as the proximity fuse of an anti-aircraft shell fired by the ship detonated. The Kamikaze aircraft disintegrated a moment later.

 

[michaelmaltby]

Escort carrier USS Thetis Bay transporting aircraft to Alameda, Cal, for repair, 1944
Curtis HellDiver....?

 

[Capt. Vick]

Sure! Why not?

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

German children watch U.S. Tanks of 87th Division, Third U.S. Army, enter town of Kobern, Germany. March 16, 1945. No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

SS-Hauptsturmführer Max Teichmann his driver lie dead on the ground after being shot by U.S troops of the 12th Armored Division. 29 April 1945. No photo credit available.

 

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SS-Hauptsturmführer Max Teichmann his driver lie dead on the ground after being shot by U.S troops of the 12th Armored Division. 29 April 1945. No photo credit available.

Not Teichmann but SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS Ernst Fick and his driver

On April 29, 1945, during the oflag assembly a plane with Polish insygnia had appeared in the sky, circled above the assembly square, tried to signal something and went away. Soon on the road to the camp appeared American tanks. At the same time from the other side of Murnau 2 German cars approached. They stopped upon noticing the tanks. Germans had been taken by surprise. SS officer in the first car opened fire from the machine gun, at the same time his companion jumped out of the veihicle. Both men were killed on a spot by Americans. The same fate met the passangers of the second car. Among the killed Germans was SS general Fik. His briefcase contained the letter signed by Himmler. It was an order to kill all 5000 Polish officers in Murnau. To execute this task Fik had had at his dsposal an SS group in 40 armoured vehicles that started from Munich. Most likely the SS-man intended to assemble the POWs and killed them with the machine guns fire from guard's towers.

Info über Gen.major Ernst Otto Fick - Forum der Wehrmacht