#battles of ww2

[theworldatwar]

A US soldier surveys the deck of one of the two French battle-cruisers in Toulon - 1944. Both the Strasbourg and the Dunkerque had been scuttled when German forces occupied southern France in Nov 1942

[dronescapesvideos]

U.S. Marine Corps Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless of Marine Scouting Bombing Squadron 241 (VMSB-241) in flight over Midway

➤➤ BATTLE OF MIDWAY VIDEO: https://youtu.be/joqaga0tpyg

[usafphantom2]

Short Sunderland flying boats.

Queen's Island, Belfast, 1943.

I asked last year, so interested to see what new followers think...

What's the collective noun for a group of Short Sunderlands? 🤷‍♂️

@WW2airfields via X

[nocternalrandomness]

The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight's Merlin powered 1940 Mk IIa Spitfire P7350

P7350 is the oldest airworthy Spitfire in the world and the only Spitfire still flying today to have actually fought in the Battle of Britain. She is believed to be the 14th aircraft of 11,989 built at the Castle Bromwich ‘shadow' factory, Birmingham.

[lonestarbattleship]

USS AUGUSTA (CA-31) off Normandy, while boats from USS ANNE ARUNDEL (AP-76) head for the beaches.

Note: the photo has been retouched AUGUSTA's radars, as well as certain items of equipment that appear to have been mounted in the landing boats.

-Information from Navsource: link

Date: June 6, 1944

NARA: 80-G-45720

[dontirrigateme]

Jake McNiece (right) and another paratrooper carrying equipment after a drop near Bastogne in 1944. An original member of the Filthy 13, he jumped in with the pathfinders so that vital supply drops could be made to the paratroopers already fighting there.

Image from oklahoman.com

[deutschland-im-krieg]

Junkers Ju 87G Stuka Panzerknacker (tank buster) belonging to the great Hans-Ulrich Rudel. Note the two BK 3.7 (Flak 18) 37mm guns hung under the wings just outboard of the landing gears. These guns had six shells each and one shot could knock out a T-34. Probably 1943, possibly Kursk, Eastern Front. For more, see my Facebook group - Eagles Of The Reich

[washipuppy]

Just awoke from a dream where I tried to explain kinning to my Mum using a mascot for a flavoured iced tea brand called the 'Hai-Chi lychee'. It had a theme song. That theme-song (for, I cannot stress this enough, a FAKE ICE TEA brand) is stuck in my head.

We'd even looked up the definition of fan fiction to use as a jumping off point, and I found some plush toys of the Hai-Chi lychee stufed into bottles to use as props.

Dream me kins the Hai-Chi lychee.

[opelman]

Desert Ops by Treflyn Lloyd-Roberts Via Flickr: Spitfire JG891 stands on the flightline at Duxford, waiting to take part in the 2023 "Battle of Britain" air show. Aircraft: Royal Air Force Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Vc JG891 (G-LFVC) T-B. Location: The Imperial War Museum's Duxford Airfield, Cambridgeshire.

[floridaboiler]

source - https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute

Of the 51 torpedo bombers that attacked the Japanese fleet #OTD in 1942 during the Battle of Midway, only 7 returned. One was a Grumman TBF Avenger from Torpedo Squadron 8. Engineers identified 64 machine-gun bullet and nine 20-mm cannon hits on the airplane.

[dande1ion-daze]

This is for my graphic design class?? I promise the half tones look better printed

[theworldatwar]

US soldiers of the 3rd Armoured Division manage to get something to eat - Trou-Du-Bois, Belgium, Dec 1944

[dronescapesvideos]

Messerschmitt Bf 110C (A2+AL) of 6./ZG 2 over the south coast of Britain, 1940 ➤➤ Unusual German Aircraft: https://youtu.be/fCgmIL0w2Qs

[usafphantom2]

Credits embedded

[nocternalrandomness]

RAF Fairey Battle Attack Bombers from 218 Squadron over France - 1939

[lonestarbattleship]

Loading drop tanks on Curtiss SB2C Helldivers aboard USS LEXINGTON (CV-16) before a search mission.

Date: October 25, 1944

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: 80-G-284381