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[Wurger]

 

[syscom3]

Crash-landed USAAF P-51D Mustang, photographed 4 June 1945.

 

[syscom3]

The forgotten invasion. The Aussies attack Tarakan.

Rockets from U.S. Navy landing craft streak toward the beach at Tarakan as American amphibious craft transport Australian forces in the landings on the island off the east coast of Borneo.

 

[rochie]

from imperial war museum

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

4 Jun 1944: US troops marching into Rome. WWII data base.
https://t.co/HrGPnxuhVv?amp=1

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

The Churchill 'Crocodile' was a mechanical flamethrower highly-feared by the German soldiers. They perceived flame tanks as inhumane contraptions, and were liable to treat captured flame tank crews with far less clemency than they might other crews. No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

40mm Bofors Light AA guns on Mark II mountings lined up at an Ordnance Depot at Bicester, ready for Normandy 1944 D-Day. No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

This day in 1940, British forces successfully evacuated over 338,000 British and French soldiers from Dunkirk. Winston Churchill - "we must be very careful not to assign to this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations." No photo credit was available.

 

[michaelmaltby]

Histomil.com
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[syscom3]

A P-38 destroyed by a Japanese air raid on the airfield. Mindoro, Philippines

 

[Wurger]

 

[syscom3]

F4U Corsair loaded with rockets, NOTS, China Lake, California, June 5, 1945.

 

[syscom3]

USAAF C-54-B-1-DC transport ''The Flying Cross'', taken near Near Kunming China. 5 June 1945.

 

[syscom3]

Wrecked aircraft on deck of the U.S. Navy escort carrier USS Attu (CVE-102) after passing through a typhoon on the morning of 5 June 1945.

 

[syscom3]

U.S. Navy Curtiss SC-1 Seahawk wrecked on board Cleveland-class light cruiser USS Duluth (CL-87) after the typhoon of June 5, 1945.

 

[syscom3]

A marine ordnance man works on the .50 cal machine guns of a Vought F4U Corsair, on one of the USS Block Island's (CVE-106) elevators, 5 June 1945.

 

[syscom3]

Men of US 500th Bomb Group loading M-69 jelly fire (Napalm) bombs, Saipan, Mariana Islands, 5 June 1945.

 

[syscom3]

U.S. Navy Baltimore-class heavy cruiser USS Pittsburgh (CA-72) shown missing her bow in Guam, next to light cruiser USS Duluth (CL-87). Damaged during the 5 June 1945 typhoon.

 

[syscom3]

U.S. Navy Essex-class fleet carrier USS Hornet (CV-12) with 24 feet of her flight deck collapsed over the bow after being damaged 5 June 1945 in a typhoon in the Philippine Sea. 120 knot winds and 60 foot seas caused the damage.

 

[Torch]

U.S. Navy Curtiss SC-1 Seahawk wrecked on board Cleveland-class light cruiser USS Duluth (CL-87) after the typhoon of June 5, 1945.

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nice looking plane,never saw one before