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Military stories in color and black and white. #WWII #WWI #Military

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#German self-propelled gun #Sturmgeschutz M42 mit 75/18 850 (i) (captured Italian self-propelled gun Semovente da 75/18), abandoned in a building in the Santa Maria district.

A vehicle of the 2nd Company of the 171st Tank Destroyer Battalion (2. Kompanie of Panzerjäger-Abteilung 171) of the 71st Infantry Division (71. Infanterie-Division). A lighter-colored rectangle is visible above the central towing point, obscuring the vehicle's original Italian registration number.

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15/ Si te interesan historias de guerra, estrategia y episodios poco conocidos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial:
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💬 ¿Qué batalla del Afrika Korps te parece más impresionante?

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🧵 1/ El Afrika Korps no fue solo “el ejército de Rommel en el desierto”. Fue una de las campa��as más brutales, rápidas y cinematográficas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Tanques atravesando dunas, batallas a 50°C y miles de soldados luchando por el control del norte de África. 👇

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14/ Hoy, restos de tanques, bunkers y campos de batalla siguen enterrados bajo la arena del Sahara. El desierto todavía guarda cicatrices de aquella guerra. ⏳

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A gun crew of Guards Sergeant Viktor Evgrafovich Derevyazhenko (born 1921), commander of the 124th Guards Artillery Regiment of the 52nd Guards Rifle Division, awarded the Order of the Red Star and the "For Courage" and "For the Defense of Stalingrad" medals, fires at a German transport during the Battle of Szczecin Bay. The gun is fired from a 76.2mm ZIS-3 model 1942 divisional gun. 1st Belorussian Front.

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Photographic verification of the results of a bombing attack on the railway junction of Fischhausen (now Primorsk, Kaliningrad Oblast). The attack was carried out on April 16, 1945, by a group of Pe-2 aircraft from the 6th Guards Bomber Aviation Division.

From the combat diary of the 6th Guards Bomber Division: “On April 16… the division, carrying out its assigned tasks, carried out concentrated bombing strikes:

— At 11.12-11.17 in two groups consisting of: 1st 19 Pe-2 squadrons, lead Guards Major Bobrov, navigator Guards Senior Lieutenant Kovalenko, 2nd 21 Pe-2 squadron, lead Guards Major Paliy, navigator Guards Major Sinitsa, under cover of 22 Yak-9s of the 130th IAD, 5 Pe-2s in a dive, dive entry H 3200, exit H 1500 meters, the rest in level flight, H 2600-32000 BC 316-320° at the strongpoint of Ave. Fischhausen.

The execution of this mission was supervised by the division commander, Guards Colonel Chuguev, who directly participated in the flight."

Source: Central Archives of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, 6th Guards BAD.

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on Hill 421, between Eft and Büschdorf, resulting in two casualties) and on September 27-28 in the forest near Oberperl.

Later, during the #German occupation, the village of #Magny was annexed to Metz.

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#French #Renault R35 light tanks of the 23rd Tank Battalion (23e bataillon de chars de combat, 23e BCC) in formation on the Place Alexandre Monpeurt in Magny on the occasion of the awarding of the unit's members with the 1939 Croix de guerre (Military Cross).

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In addition to the presentation of the awards, commendations were read out to the battalion's Renault R35 tank crews for their actions shortly beforehand in the fighting in the Saar on September 14-15 (the 3rd company came under concentrated German fire while attacking positions