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Disbanded Luftwaffe in 31 images: captured, abandoned and wrecked German aircrafts

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By April 1945, the German front in the west had disintegrated and in the east the Red Army had encircled Berlin. Despite its belated use of advanced turbojet and rocket propelled aircraft for the destruction of Allied bombers fleets, the Luftwaffe was...read more

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Awesome Images! 200,000 Lego Blocks Used to Remake The Mighty Battleship Yamato

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Yamato was the lead ship of the Yamato class of Imperial Japanese Navy World War II battleships. Yamato was one of the largest battleships ever built and was specifically designed to counter the numerically superior battleship fleet of the United States, Japan’s main rival in the Pacific. See...read more

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She revenged at her husband's death by donating a T-34 tank for the Red Army. She was a Soviet tank driver during World War II

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Mariya Vasilyevna Oktyabrskaya (16 August 1905 – 15 March 1944) was a Soviet tank driver during World War II. Mariya Vasilyevna Oktyabrskaya was married to a Soviet army officer. While married to her husband, she began to...read more

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21 Stunning Images of Destroyed, Abandoned, Defeated, Knocked and Damaged Heavy Tank Destroyer Ferdinand-Elephant

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The heaviest assault gun, the Srurmgeschütz 8.8cm (SdKfz 184), also known as the Ferdinand and the Elefant, resulted from Hitler's frustration at not being able to mount the long-barrel 88mm Pak43/2 L/71 in the Tiger I tank. ...read more

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1943 Ram MkII Tank built then blown up

1943 Canadian Ram MkII Tank built then blown up. This is NOT a rebuild but new lease of life as a battlefield prop from an old Ram tank range target, built for the 2016 War & Peace Show UK. This Ram was not damaged in the explosion, it was only pyrotechnics and petrol. 

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13 movies in which the B-17 Flying Fortress is the main star

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The first appearance of the Flying Fortress in film was a Y1B-17 in the 1938 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) production Test Pilot, although for the crash scene a Douglas DC-2 was modified to stand in for the bomber, the...read more

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18 Impressive images of child soldiers fighting on World War II - Never more!!

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Seventy years ago, as it is happening at the present, children went to war. During World War II, child soldiers fought throughout Europe and Asia. Children frequently fought in insurrections in both the Allied and Axis forces. Hitler Youth, SS Youth Division, German People’s Army, Jewish...read more

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