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A pair of snapshots of the destroyer USS Blue. Photo 1 is the ship entering a dry-dock for repairs in Leyte. Photo 2 is the ship returning home from WW2 to San Francisco in 1945.

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A cafe for the use of German soldiers - Paris, France, date unknown #worldwar2 #ww2 #1940s #paris #france #history

Soldiers from the US 7th Army pour through a breach in the Siegfried Line on their way to Karlsruhe, Germany - 27th March 1945 #siegfriedline #worldwar2 #ww2 #karlsruhe #germany #usarmy #history #1940s

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German soldiers chat to a couple of French ladies outside the Moulin Rouge - Paris, France, date unknown. In reality, this was probably a staged photograph used as propaganda in German media #worldwar2 #ww2 #moulinrouge #paris #france #1940s #propaganda #history

After a Nazi-era roundup in Marseille is recognised as a crime against humanity, victims express relief.

Following a seven-year investigation spurred by victims’ campaigning, France’s National Anti-terrorism Prosecutor’s Office formally clas…

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Canadian soldiers Guard German POWs on Juno Beach - Normandy, France, 6th June 1944 #ww2 #worldwar2 #normandy #dday #france #juno #canadian #1940s #history

#OnThisDay in 1939, four of five No. 150 Squadron Fairey Battles are lost after attacking German positions in the Saar. The surviving aircraft crashed on landing.

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In Sept 1943, German diplomat George Duckwitz warned Danish leaders that the Nazis would deport its Jews. Danish Jews were warned to go into hiding immediately and Danes sprung into action and helped to evacuate 7,500 of Denmark's 8,000 Jews. #denmark #rescue #jews #worldwar2 #Holocaust

In Kiel, Germany in the early 1941, a sailor gets snapshot of the ice surrounding the battleship Scharnhorst. It does provided a closeup view of the top of the armor belt.

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A British RAF Bristol Blenheim MkIV is checked over before another mission - Malta June 1941 #worldwar2 #royalairforce #ww2 #raf #malta #1940s #history #bristol #blenheim

#OnThisDay in 1939, eleven Handley Page Hampdens were sent on reconnaissance over Heligoland Bight, five were shot down. As a result, the aircraft started to operate mainly at night.

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German soldiers get a break somewhere on the Eastern Front - March 1945 #ww2 #worldwar2 #easternfront #sovietunion #ussr #history #1940s

#OnThisDay in 1939, a Fairey Battle of No. 103 Squadron scored one of the first RAF aerial victories of the Second World War when it shot down a Messerschmitt Bf 109.

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NEW VIDEO: "RARE Color FOOTAGE in Normandy 1944: 2nd PANZER Division's COMBAT TACTICS VS Allied Forces EXPLAINED"

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A Japanese Mitsubishi factory used for building medium tanks found abandoned a few months after the end of WW2 - 1946 #ww2 #worldwar2 #mitsubishi #1940s #factory #tank #history #japan

#OnThisDay in 1939, a Blackburn Skua of No. 803 Naval Air Squadron, operating from HMS Ark Royal, scored the Fleet Air Arm's first aerial victory of the Second World War, shooting down a Dornier Do 18.

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