post some /k/ool WW2 photos
>>65221573Finnish and German officers, alongside Italian, French, American and Japanese military attachès pose for a photo in Axis-occupied Karelia, 2 October 1942. Finland never declared war on the US, and the two countries maintained diplomatic relations during the war.
>>65221589That is fucking wild>I mean we're at war but let's just havea little trip together
(I love the Hotchkiss)
Fallschirmjagers at Leros
North Africa 1942
LVT-mounted flame thrower in action at Peleliu.
Panzer 35 on the Eastern Front
B-24 Liberator crew member in full flight gear.
Two dead soldiers, one British (or possibly Commonwealth) and the other German, next to a doorway at Monte Cassino.
>>65223133qino
Two Soviet female soldiers and an American soldier at the Elbe river.
>>65223127I love the strange mushroom coupola of the 35 tbut probabl only because iirc it was my first (and only) tank in WoT like ... 11 years ago
>>65223158glaaarer
>>65223070Looks like someone mixed 1/35 figures and 1/48 tanks
>>65223179to me it looks appropriateunlike this pic of a M8 scottthat thing looks massive
>>65221589What are the rules here, as a neutral country are they not allowed to initiate hostilities or something? Is it a custodial thing?
>>65223158>>65223185not trying to start shite but why do yanks always look like halfway to being hobos in their WWII pics?
>>65223133Is that the OG flack jacket?
>>65223193Because they were in combat? Everyone else had propaganda units but US soldiers were just grabbed at random.
>>65223198it's literally named >flak jacketI am pretty sure the OG thing must be from ww2
>>65223158>that faceOh they fucked the shit out of that guy after that picture.
>>65223204In USMC slang any sort of chest armor is a "flack jacket".>first forces to mass issue fragmentation vestsUSMC in Korea.
>>65223214first infantry unit maybe Flak Jackets were a thing in WW2>The Royal Air Force subsequently offered the jackets to the United States Army Air Forces, which adopted them as a Defense Standard.[3] The UK subsequently supplied the USAAF with 9,600 flak jackets under lend-lease.>During World War II, flak jackets and steel helmets were worn by U.S. Navy personnel on aircraft carriers during battle
>>65223193It's a mystery.
>>65223233SOVL dough
>>65221589>The wop and the nip are arguing about noodles again, Hans.mis>How tiresome. Let's drink some more of the piss you call beer and go steal the frog's mistress.Peak comfy
not ww2 ... but kinda also still kowl
>>65223206Anon...
German tank crew having a closer look at the Soviet ISU-152 assault gun they knocked out earlier.
>>65223067>big head mode
Marines on Okinawa, one of them aiming a 57 mm M18 recoilless rifle.
>>65223309the two guys in the foreground remind me of the virgin and chad meme
Hungarian AA gun crew on the Eastern front.
>>65223343>that salty dog still using a drum magazine for his Thompson despite them being phases out
>>65223355>Mom, can I have a Wehrmacht?>We have Wehrmacht at home.Wehrmacht at home:
A column of German horse-drawn carriages under attack by Soviet aircraft.
>>65221578what's the guy holding?
>>65223193Less grooming, more raiding
German troops surrendering to Canadians at Saint-Lambert-sur-Dive, Normandy.
>>65223158wtf is Eastwood doing there?
>>65223373rangefinder of sorts
the more I read about the German airborne operations in Holland, the less ambitious Market Garden looks in comparison>5AM on May 10 1940, 12 German He 59s (each carrying 6 troops) land in the middle of Rotterdam to capture the bridges
>>65223233Why care about looks when you're winning?
>>65223193Well, there was a saying or a quote that went like "At war, Germans dressed like they were going to a parade, Brits to sport and Americans to work"
>>65223416Ballsy, but costly. Relatively speaking the Germans lost a lot of people and especially planes in the Netherlands compared to the other fronts in '39/'40.
>>65223355those dudes have a bf% of 0
2 zesty guys sitting on IAR. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAR_80Anyone who knows more about this plane?
>>65223550>Anyone who knows more about this plane?yeaits fucqqing cool
>>65223550>>65223711Can't speak for its real-world performance but this was my favorite plane in IL-2 Sturmovik. Something about its handling just feels right.
>>65223355Holy shit those dudes are fuckin ripped
>>65223193Fuck you we looked awesome
>>65223233Looking like a construction worker after a 10 hour day is very high test
>>65223355>two kill ringsThe entirety of Hungarian success on the Eastern Front
>>65223371This photo always stuck with me for some reason, like you can truly see and almost feel the insane chaos happening on the ground there
helicopters had pretty extensive use in the SEA theatre of WW2 but it's like forbidden knowledge or something you never hear about it.
Sturmgeschutz blown apart by Soviet aircraft, dismembered crew members in immediate vicinity, operation Bagration in 1944.I have a fascination with that operation and a few of my pics will/have been specifically that. I have others of other nations I'll post in-between
Slovak soldier capturing a soviet soldier, 1941
This one is supposedly from the morning Barbarossa was launched in 1941
A squad from Gunther Walther's platoon during the battle of Stalingrad, 1942. We know the platoon leader because he was wounded and airlifted out of the city and thus survived the battle. He ended up surviving the war as well, and he has a long interview on youtube that was super interesting
This is the platoon leader I mentioned, he's to the left of his men in the prior pic but isn't in frame
American at Normandy. His 1903 Springfield is the old version, and he has a grenade launcher secured to the end of the barrel
Hungarians on the Eastern Front, 1941 or 1942. They're lucky enough to be outfitted with the fairly new 35m rifle.
Eastern Front, during Operation Bagration. Panther tank commander enjoys a smoke while scanning the horizon for the sure to be approaching soviet armor
Bulgarians, probably on a policing patrol somewhere in the tracts of land occupied for taking a minor role in the fighting in the Balkans shortly before Barbarossa kicked off in June of 1941
>>65224443My mistake, a Bulgarian and a German
Here's a KV tank with a German kwk 40 L/48 gun mounted
Ferdinand tank destroyer and the huge fucking 88mm shell it fired
Romanian at the eastern front, winter 1942-1943
Look at this sexy beast. P38 Lightning
Cossacks in German service in Russia, 1943
German POWs taken during Operation Bagration. For some reason, one of the men couldn't find a hat or a cloth, and so is wearing his canteen cover as a hat
Honestly, I'm not completely sure of what I'm looking at here, but it's cool. They're armed with 1903 Springfields and one guy has a Johnson LMG
Hungarian armor on review, 38M Toldi tanks in the front, 40M Nimród SPAAGs in the background.
Not WW2 exactly, but officers (most likely military attaches) from several countries observing a parade in Poland just shortly before the war. Can you recognize all of the uniforms?
>>65221589>axis occupied kareliaThe communists were the occupiers
>>65224459Marmon-Herrington MTLS-1GI4, in Suriname used by the Dutch, probably in the 1950s.
>>65224030>>65223550> favorite plane in IL-2 Sturmovikplayed Il-2 1946 and apparently the IAR-80s has iron sights? (at least the earlier variants)
>>65224406lmao is that pic real?dude looks so proud - did he get a Mofa?
>>65224445lmao that thing is actually real?
>>65224947Yes, the Germans captured a significant number of KVs. They upgunned some with the 7.5 cm L/48T-34s, too. Those kept the guns, but they got new cupolas and radios.>>65224518Let's see.Left to right, those standing behind the wooden railing:Far left, barely visible: Can't tell.Fat asian dude: Japan.Standing behind Pole.In front of the left flag pole: Soviet.French.German.US.Not sure.British.In front of the center pole: Looks vaguely German, but no eagles, and medals look wrong. Austrian? Finn? Slovak maybe.Not sure, looks vaguely Austro-Hungarian. I'll call Hungarian.Another Japanese.Italian.Not sure. I've seen that cap before. Swiss? Finn? Swede?Left of the right flag pole: Pole.Right of the flag pole, looking right. Another Soviet.Guy with the weird roundish cap: No idea. Lithuanian?Last fully visible to the right: Not sure, might be Romanian.Center in front of the railing is Polish.Left in front might be Polish NCO, not sure.
>>65223233They're just raggedy ass Marines
>>65224421Love that this thing is essentially the prototype version of a (fuck yeah) Sea King. Look at the proportions and forward viewscreens.
I love this one, gotta have the little morale raisers. Fierce like wildcat inspiration, and also a pinup to keep up a good semi while you're fighting
>>65223214And what do you reckon flak means
>>65221589Neat.
>>65224406Is that Ryan Gosling?
>>65225142Looks like you have some solid knowledge, anon. Congrats! If you are the guy posting pics and info, keep going. Know anything about Fritz X, Goliath or that radar system called Freya?Or some allied tank prototypes, for example
British-made Vickers 8 inch artillery pieces on Tarawa. It's sometimes erroneously claimed that the Japanese captured these guns when they took Singapore and subsequently shipped them to Tarawa to bolster the defenses there, but in reality they had bought them from the Brits in the early 1900's.
Waffen-SS crew operating a 75mm light infantry gun (7.5 cm le.IG 18).
>>65225764>I march
Close call. German AT gun and an incredibly close destroyed T-34.
On the night of 17-18th August 1943, three waves of RAF Bomber Command aircraft, totalling 596 bombers, took off from their bases in England to attack the important German scientific research centre and rocket development site at Peenemunde on the Baltic coast of Germany. The raid was carried out by 324 Avro Lancasters, 218 Handley Page Halifaxes and 54 Short Stirlings. The crews were not briefed on the exact nature of the target, being told that Peenemunde was being used by the Germans to develop radar that promised to greatly improve their night air defence organisation (a direct threat to the Bomber crews). The Operation Order stressed the importance of the raid by stating: “If the attack fails…it will be repeated the next night and on ensuing nights regardless, within practical limits, of casualties”. The primary objective was to kill as many of the personnel involved in the research and development as possible. Secondary objectives were to damage the research facility and destroy the related work and documentation. With this in mind there were three specific aiming points: the scientists’ and workers’ living quarters, the rocket factory and the experimental station.For precision, the crews were ordered to bomb from 7-9,000 feet instead of the more normal altitude of around 18-19,000 feet. A Mosquito diversion to Berlin was mounted to draw off the German night fighters and this was successful for the first two waves of heavy bombers, but unfortunately not for the last wave.Most of the casualties – 29 aircraft – were suffered by the third wave when the German night fighters arrived in force, once they realised that the Berlin raid was a ‘spoof’. This was the first night on which the Germans used their new Schräge Musik weapons, twin upward-firing cannons, fitted to Me Bf 110s. Two Schräge Musik night fighters found the bomber stream flying home from Peenemunde and are believed to have shot down six of the bombers lost on the raid.
90 percent of the pics of the BAR being used in ww2 come from the marines. I just made that fact up but you can't dispute it.
>>65224429Got a link?
>>65226922No, but you have the man's name and access to the internet, I believe in you
>>65223193Literally just clothes that isn't excessively form fitting, with full pockets and bandoleers, and not wearing fucking medals in a combat environment.
Stop romanticizing WWII. JK keep em coming
First in Bastogne!
>Finnish infantryman, with his K31 Suomi sub-machine gun during the Battle of Vuoslami 23-24 July 1944
>U.S. Army soldiers on Bougainville (one of the Solomon Islands). Japanese forces tried infiltrating the U.S. lines at night; at dawn, the U.S. soldiers would clear them out.
>>65223233The LARPer Germ/Jap fears the MurderHobo
>>65224421Pretty sure that there were maybe a couple of dozen prototypes, tops, used in WW2. And that's probably being generous.
The rear gunner position in the rear of the central engine nacelle of a Luftwaffe Blohm & Voss BV 138 flying boat.
Waffen-SS troops of "Der Führer" regiment, part of the SS-Verfügungstruppe (later to become Waffen-SS Division "Das Reich"), in Haarlem in the Netherlands in 1940. As with most early SS combat units, the SS-VT recieved more modern weapons only in limited numbers, and in this case they're armed with older MP-28 SMGs instead of MP-38's.
SS-Polizei partisan hunters, either in Northern Italy or Slovenia. They're armed mainly with Beretta M38 SMGs, with one "lucky" guy having a 10-round magazine for his weapon.
>>65223070Jesus, I feel bad for the poor bastards who had to crew that sardine can.
>>65223142I don't feel this can be right with the date "12-12-43" fighting didn't reach the actual monastery until months later. Polish troops didn't capture it fully until 18th May. Even in early Feb the US advance was still 400 yards away and the Abbey wasn't bombed until mid Feb iirc.
>>6522157816 aircrafts and 1 tank seriously?
Japanese Escort Carrier, SHIMANE MARU, under attack by Avenger aircraft operating from HMS VICTORIOUS, 24 July 1945, Shido Wan, Japan, (1030 hours).
>>65224406RMAO
Always think this photo is the most intense one I've seen even without fire smoke explosion and so.
Not sure which war this is coming from..
Jap POWs unloading cargo from a B-29
>Sergeant Siwash (died May 22, 1954) was a female domestic duck that served as a sergeant in the United States Marine Corps. She was owned by Francis Fagan and she fought in World War II, earning a citation for bravery for her actions at the Battle of Tarawa.>"For courageous action and wounds received on Tarawa, in the Gilbert Islands, November 1943. With utter disregard for her own personal safety, Siwash, upon reaching the beach, without hesitation engaged the enemy in fierce combat, namely, one rooster of Japanese ancestry, and though wounded on the head by repeated pecks, he soon routed the opposition. She refused medical aid until all wounded members of his section had been taken care of."
>>65223070this my problem solver
>>65227801ww1, famously a ww1 photo.
'Out with a South African patrol in the Western Desert'21.7.41
HMS FORMIDABLE returns to Sydney with 1300 POW's and internees from Japan. 1945, On board HMS Formidable en route to Sydney from Manilla.
Coolest WWII Photo of all time coming through.
Whilst waiting for orders to take posts, gunners (of the Surrey & Sussex Yeomanry,) manning S.P. guns, play an impromptu game of cricket. 30.11.44
Officer Cadet Jerzy Lesiak of the 6th Armoured Regiment (2nd Warsaw Armoured Brigade, 2nd Polish Corps) aiming his Thompson submachine gun at a German sniper who decided to surrender by waiving a white flag from ruins of his bunker at Piedimonte San Germano, 25 May 1944.
German sniper, Paul Minich, crawling out of the ruined bunker under a careful eye of a soldier of the 6th Armoured Regiment (2nd Warsaw Armoured Brigade, 2nd Polish Corps) at Piedimonte San Germano, 25 May 1944.
The Battle of Imphal-Kohima March - July 1944: The remains of Japanese dead, equipment and caved-in bunkers on 'Scraggy Hill' which was captured by 10th Gurkha rifles in fierce fighting in the Shenam area.
The Battle of Imphal-Kohima March - July 1944: British 3-inch mortar detachments support the 19th Indian Division's advance along the Mawchi Road, east of Toungoo, Burma.
>>65227834Shit. Imagine if America weaponized Canadian Geese...
>>65224507>SPAAGs3.7 cm?
>>65228145A Canadian Goose with a weapon would promptly burn The Whitehouse, silly. ;)
>>65228145>>65228203Confidence towards the geese unsettles them. I talk to them like they're a bad dog and they stop hissing.Only time a goose ever charged me was when I was a kid and did show fear. Not since.
>>65223371> horse-drawn carriagesthose are clearly tiger tanks, are you blind?
Finnish soldiers showing a 14kg pike fished somewhere in White Karelia.
Combat photo of a Swedish volunteer corps clearing a commie bunker somewhere in Karelia during continuation war.
Japanese Marines in Shanghai clearing houses. There was a ton of melee combat in Shanghai and often poison gas canisters were used against stubborn entrenched defenders. Melee combat was so widespread that the Japanese commissioned a study in Shanghai on the efficacy of swords after protracted use, with many officers securing anywhere from three to a dozen kills per sword.
>>6522818640mm Bofors gun, the Nimrod was a lincense-built copy of the Swedish Landsverk Anti SPAAG. Here's the Finns operating the original Swedish variant.
Luftwaffe Field Division troops with an MG15 reconfigured for ground usage.
Soviet Tankers with a looted MP40 Suppressed.
A somewhat rare photo of a MG34 actually being mounted on a turret ring mount (fliegerbeschussgerät) of a Waffen-SS Panzer III.
>>65223193idk what causes thishowever I would like to note that some 13 y/o cunnioids that were sitting opposite of me on the train called me >hobo looking last weekend
>>65228974there were mp40 supressors?
