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[Tieleader]

I got to meet several of them when they came to our base as part of a USO tour. The soldiers came with the actors who portrayed them in Band of Brothers.

Lucky dog!

 

[Tieleader]

379th Bomb Group Boeing B-17G, ac# 44-8669, over Bremen, Germany, 30 March 1945.

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Is that a BTO radar gizmo?

 

[Airframes]

Yes, "Micky", or H2x (development of British H2s|)

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

I got to meet several of them when they came to our base as part of a USO tour. The soldiers came with the actors who portrayed them in Band of Brothers.

Very, very cool Adler!

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Wing Commander Reginald W. Reynolds (right), with his navigator, Flight Lieutenant Edward Sismore - the pair that made German air force Commander-in-Chief Hermann Goering "go berserk".
Source: https://reddit.com/r/ColorizedHistory/comments/8jg07k/wing_commander_reginald_w_reynolds_right_with_his/

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

British Duplex Drive M4s prepare for Operation Plunder, the crossing of the Rhine river, 23 Mar 1945. No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Destroyed Elefant tank destroyer in Italy, 1944. https://wrhstol.com/2wFOZOF

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Jeep from the 305th Combat Engineer Battalion of the U.S. 80th Infantry Division.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

A final briefing for the U.S. 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment's 1st Battalion. 1945. (601 x 547).
Source: https://reddit.com/r/HistoryPorn/comments/faet1w/a_final_briefing_for_the_us_507th_parachute/

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

USS New York (BB-34) entering New York Harbor, in March of 1943.
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[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Australian soldier Corporal Bill McDonnell returns to base after completing a fighting patrol on Komiatum Ridge, New Guinea, 1943>

 

[michaelmaltby]

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[Wurger]

 

[Hardlydank]

N1K2 Shiden-Kais of the famed 343rd Squadron

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

KMT Panzer Is captured by the Japanese. No photo credit available.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Men of the 2nd Lancashire Fusiliers, supported by Achilles tank destroyers, wait to go forward near Ferrara, Italy. 22 April 1945. No photo credit available

 

[syscom3]

American Industrial suprememcy. The Facists never had a chance. Boeing B-29 Superfortress aircraft under construction at Boeing's factory in Renton, Washington on March 31, 1945.

 

[syscom3]

USAAF Boeing B-17s of the 398th Bomb Group over Halle, Germany, 31 March 1945.

 

[Snautzer01]

Org WWII Photo: Italian Child Posing With Captured German Remote Goliath Tanks! | eBay

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WW2 Picture Photo The remote controlled Goliath Sprengpanzer Russia 1944 0393 | eBay

 

[Snautzer01]

WW2 Picture Photo Funny German Panzer Tank Jagdpanther crew with umbrellas 0323 | eBay

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