Landing Frankrijk op D-Day
“I drew an assault boat to cross in – just my luck. We all tried to crawl under each other because the lead was flying around like hail.” Crossing the Rhine under enemy fire at St. Goar, March 1945. Army. Exact Date Shot Unknown (OWI)
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Photo taken at the instant bullets from a French firing squad hit
a Frenchman who collaborated with the Germans.
This execution took place in Rennes, France. Himes, November 21, 1944.
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This girl pays the penalty for having had personal relations with the Germans.
Here, in the Montelimar area, France, French civilians shave her head as punishment.
Smith, August 29, 1944.
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Public execution near Płaszów-Prokocim train station on June 26, 1942.
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Public execution of polish civilians by Germans in Łódz in 1942.
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An execution of Jews in Kiev, carried out by German soldiers near Ivangorod, Ukraine.
After having occupied a village on the Leningrad sector in 1942, Soviet forces discovered 38 bodies of Soviet soldiers that had been taken prisoner by the Germans and apparently tortured to death.
a Soviet soldier stands guard behind a captured German soldier.
The ruins of Stalingrad -- nearly completely destroyed after some six months of brutal warfare -- seen from an aircraft after the end of hostilities, in late 1943.
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Demonstratie vlammenwerper WW2
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A flame-thrower attacks a Japanese pillbox in Saipan.
American paratrooper James Flanagan (2nd Platoon, C Co, 1-502nd PIR), among the first to make successful landings on the continent, holds a Nazi flag captured in a village assault. Marmion Farm at Ravenoville, Utah Beach, France. 6 June 1944