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A 6-pdr. anti-tank gun of No. 26 Anti-Tank Platoon, 1st Border Regiment, 1st Airborne Division, at Arnhem, 20 September 1944. The gun was at this moment engaging a German tank and successfully knocked it out. #WWII #WW2
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Men of the 1st Paratroop Battalion, 1st (British) Airborne Division, take cover in a shell hole outside Arnhem, 17 September 1944. #WWII #WW2
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General Montgomery, accompanied by various senior officers, visits the 133rd Parachute Field Ambulance, RAMC, at Oakham, March 1944. #WWII #WW2
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King George VI inspects an airborne jeep fitted with a Vickers machine gun during a visit to airborne forces in Southern Command at Netheravon Aerodrome, 21 May 1942. With him is Major General Frederick Browning, GOC 1st Airborne Division. #WWII #WW2
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82nd Airborne #WWII #WW2
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General Browning and General Gavin. #WWII #WW2
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Fallschirmjäger, Volume 2 #WWII #WW2
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Fallschirmjäger, Volume 1 #WWII #WW2
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Fallschirmjäger #WWII #WW2
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Sd.Kfz.253 interior, Eastern Front, 1941. #WW2 #WWII
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"The Gun Plant:" How General Motors Armed American Troops in WWII #WW2 #WWII
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British He 111 "Delta Lily" of No. 260 Squadron RAF in North Africa. #WWII #WW2
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"Narrow Escape" by Heinz Krebs. Following a bombing mission over southern England in the late summer of 1940, an He 111 of KG 55 is attacked by a Spitfire and badly damaged. A pair of Me 109s of JG 26 come to the rescue, sending the Spitfire diving into the Channel. #WW2 #WWII
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The Luftwaffe: From Training School to the Front - An Illustrated Study 1933–1945 #WWII #WW2
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Luftwaffe Generals: The Knight's Cross Holders 1939–1945 #WWII #WW2
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Avro Lancaster #WWII #WW2
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Flying Officer J.B. Burnside, the flight engineer on board an Avro Lancaster of No. 619 Squadron RAF based at Coningsby, Lincolnshire, checks settings on the control panel from his seat in the cockpit, circa 1943. #WWII #WW2
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An armorer cleans the .303 Brownings in the front turret of an Avro Lancaster of No. 44 Squadron while another member of the ground crew cleans the cockpit windows, Waddington, October 1942. #WWII #WW2
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