carbone14
carbone14
World War II
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"La guerre apprend à tout perdre, et à devenir ce qu'on n'était pas" - Albert Camus. Ni politique, ni idéologique, juste des faits entre conflits, vie militaire et vie civile. Période couverte du traité de Versailles en 1919 à la création de la RFA en 1949. Battlefront et Homefront !https://carbone14.tumblr.com/archive
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Passage à basse altitude d'un Handley Page Halifax II, JB911/KN-X du 77e Escadron de la Royal Air Force lors d'un vol d'essai – Base aérienne de Elvington – Yorkshire - Juillet 1943
Photographe : Clark N S (P/O) - Royal Air Force official photographer
©Imperial War Museums - CH 10593
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Unité de base de l’infanterie allemande parue dans Newsmap – 15 juin 1942
©National Archives and Records Administration - 66395003
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Sous-marin britannique HMS M1 équipé d’un canon de 305 mm
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Maquette de section du HMS M1 au Science Museum de Londres montrant la tourelle de 305 mm
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Roger Schall • Untitled, Paris, 1932
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Finnish soldiers from IR 7 posing for a picture, Rytynoja July 21, 1941.
Original caption says : "Corporal Niemelä with his submachinegunners, of whom Private Lintu shot 12 Soviet officers." (there is no more information).
Private Alvi Lintu, (one of the two men in the center) wounded 3 years later on June 23rd 1944 in Vuosalmi and died the following day.
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[sa-kuva | 29053 | Eronen | Kekäläinen]
(Colour by Jussi)
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The Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka (櫻花[1], Ōka; "cherry blossom"; 桜花 in modern orthography) is a purpose-built, rocket-powered human-guided kamikaze attack-aircraft. This example, number I-I3, is now in the Cosford Aerospace Museum in the UK.
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Infantry of the Canadian Regiment de Maisonneuve moving through Holten to Rijssen, both towns in the middle east of the Netherlands. 9 April 1945.
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Japanese Army pilots before take-off.
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Secretary of War Henry Stimson inspects the 2nd
Armored Division in Berlin, Germany during the Potsdam Conference.- 20 July 1945
Also present: Major General Frank Parks, General George Patton, Colonel W. H. Kyle, J. J. McCloy, H. H. Bundy, and US Secretary of War Henry Stimson.
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A British soldier examines an abandoned German 'Nebelwerfer' near Troarn, Normandy, 20 July 1944. They were feared by all Allied troops in Normandy and caused a high proportion of casualties
© IWM (B 7785)
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He 111 shot down at The Horse and Jockey Pub, Hampshire. England, 12 July 1940
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A member of the 2107th Ordinance-Ammo Battalion inspecting a store of 4000-pound ordnance, some under camouflage netting, along the roadside at the Sharnbrook Ordnance Depot, Bedfordshire, England, UK. July 1943
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Joan Bennett, 1938
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Hawker Hurricane pilots of No. 486 Squadron RNZAF, 1942.
➤VIDEO: https://youtu.be/p_KG3xxnyOQ
➤BRITISH AIRCRAFT SERIES: https://dronescapes.video/British
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Joan Blondell
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Bisnovat SK-1, Russian high speed test aircraft.
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