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The US Navy Iowa Class battleship USS Wisconsin (commissioned in 1944) is tied up outboard of the hulk of USS Oklahoma (commissioned in 1916), at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, Hawaii, on 11 November 1944.

This is a great example of how battleship development has evolved in 30 years.

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Battleships, Battlecruisers, heavy cruisers, coastal defense ships and pre-dreadnoughts of WW2

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Second Lieutenant Walter Sidlowski kneels over the blanket covered body of an American soldier he had just helped rescue from the surf off Omaha Beach. Exhausted, Sidlowski appears motionless. His dripping wet uniform hugged by an inflated life belt, his face tortured and staring as though he is looking at someone but can’t find the words to speak.

Behind him the scene carries on, other men work to treat those that were saved while waves churn the waters of the English Channel beneath a vast invasion armada. Yet Sidlowski is still, caught in the moment by US Army Signal Corps photographer Walter Rosenblum in one of the most famous images of D-Day.

This image quickly became one of the most iconic of D-Day, used and reproduced by the thousands to represent the titanic struggle that started on the beaches of Northern France on June 6. The only complication to this representation is this photo was taken on June 7, D+1.

(Photo by: Walter Rosenblum/USA)

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352nd Fighter Group P-51 Mustangs

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Heinkel He 111H-2 transported through the town of Roye, France. November 1939. It was intercepted by two Hurricanes of 87 Sqn RAF and shot down by Flt Lt Robert Voase Jeff. It was the first recorded victory for the RAF Advanced Air Striking Force. For his actions, Jeff was awarded the Croix de Guerre and became "the first British officer to receive a French award in the present war." Badly damaged, the Heinkel belly landed at the place called "La Longue Croix", at Staple near Hazebrouck. A wing of the plane struck an electric pylon, while the landing gear broke against a hedge near a small stream. Two French civilians, Jean Ellebout and Eugen Vantours, were the first to reach the bomber. Two of the crew had been seriously wounded. The two others were trying to burn documents and were arrested. Both wounded were brought to Cassel, one later dying of his wounds. The three survivors (including the other wounded) were captured by the French.

➤HD IMAGE: https://dronescapes.video/He-111

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A Luftwaffe crewman installs a Zeiss Ikon ESK 2000 B aircraft camera on the wing of a Messerschmitt Bf 109 Bf 109 Part 2 ➤➤ https://youtu.be/x4uzFtWGa6Q

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Massive German concrete fortifications under construction in the Pas de Calais - 1942

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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

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British troops take cover behind a knocked out German tank during their victory at Second Alamein - Nov 1942

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US soldiers give cover on Omaha beach - 6th June 1944

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My grandpa always use to say that the “Gooneybird” was the best plane he ever flew. When he was stationed stateside in WWII this was all he flew. When he got shipped off to the Pacific Theater they put him flying C-46 Commando’s, and he was none too pleased with the substitute.

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Russian T-34 tank burns, Eastern Front, August 1942

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At 0930 on 22 July 1944, this Messerschmitt Bf 109G-14 "Black 7" W.Nr. 413601, flown by Unteroffizier Jakob Vogel of 8./JG 1 Oessau, was shot down by light flak near Fontenay-le-Poesnel, France, making a good belly-landing in a grass field, only 800 yards away from the enemy lines. This aircraft was the first of its sub-type to be identified, and presented a number of interesting features. At the present stage of the war the most interesting were, perhaps, those which point to the very short time elapsing between its leaving the factory and its destruction.

Technically the aircraft was of interest as it was carrying a special tank containing a fluid known to the Germans as MW 50. None of the guns had been fired and its was found that the ammunition tanks had not been completely filled. Interestingly enough, the G-14 had no actual armour aside from an armoured windscreen. A mere plywood box protected the fuel tank. The cockpit cover was jettisoned before the crash and could not be recovered. No other armour is fitted to this aircraft. For more, see my Facebook group - Eagles Of The Reich

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