Law of War

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In 2014, as we approach the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day invasion, Peter Macdiarmid returned to the invasion grounds to photograph the locations of some iconic - and lessor known - images from the Allied invasion. Presented here are some of the “Then” and “Now” photographs.

In 2014, as we approach the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day invasion, Peter Macdiarmid returned to the invasion grounds to photograph the locations of some iconic - and lessor known - images from the Allied invasion. Presented here are some of the “Then” and “Now” photographs.

In 2014, as we approach the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day invasion, Peter Chris Helgren returned to the invasion grounds to photograph the locations of some iconic - and lessor known - images from the Allied invasion. Presented here are some of the “Then” and “Now” photographs.

(Post-WWI) German proverb (via demons)

Image: Gift of Robert Millett, from the collection of The National WWII Museum

(Can anyone read German?)

Remnants of a Japanese Mitsubishi Zero Fighter from WW2. The Mariana Islands, Pagan Island. Photo by Prizmcluster. .

When Germany surrendered in World War II, military leaders told reporters to keep it a secret. They might have been successful, too, if not for one rogue journalist.

Sgt Bell, A Company 116th Infantry, Hitler’s War: The Western Front (via demons)

An American soldier of the U.S. First Army stands in the middle of rubble in the Monument of the Battle of the Nations in Leipzig after the Allies attacked the city on 18 April 1945. The huge monument commemorating the defeat of Napoleon in 1813 was one of the last strongholds of the German forces in the city to surrender. One hundred and fifty SS fanatics with ammunition and foodstuffs stored in the structure to last three months dug themselves in and were determined to hold out as long as their supplies. The First Army artillery eventually blasted the SS troops into surrender. Leipzig had already sustained heavy and frequent aerial assaults by British and U.S. forces beginning in 1943, leaving the city in complete ruins by war’s end. Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. 18 April 1945. Image taken by Eric Schwab.

In 1945, Josephine Baker received the Croix de Guerre, the Rosette de la Résistance, and was made a Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur, for her underground resistance work against the Germans during World War II. [x]

Dr Vincenzo Palmieri, Professor of Forensic Medicine and Criminology at the University of Naples, dictating results of the body examination of a Katyn Massacre victim.

Canadian air gunners from a Westland Lysander army co-operation squadron practise shooting at a moving target with a camera gun at RAF Odiham, Hampshire.

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Sherman DD tanks of ‘B’ Squadron, 13th/18th Royal Hussars support commandos of No. 4 Commando, 1st Special Service Brigade, on the Rue de Riva-Bella as they advance into Ouistreham, Sword area, 6 June 1944.