War Pictures from History

Panzer IV Ausf. E https://www.instagram.com/p/CS9qp8NMAMk/?utm_medium=tumblr

Red Army infantry in Budapest, Hungary, 1945. https://www.instagram.com/p/CS7FXDmsIbk/?utm_medium=tumblr

November, 1967, Bihn Thuy, South Vietnam. Lt. Commander Donald Sheppard, US Navy, fires a flaming arrow at a Viet Cong bunker concealed in a bamboo hut. https://www.instagram.com/p/CS4geBmrr-h/?utm_medium=tumblr

🇺🇸 The crew of Lieutenant Travis Hoover’s Plane 2 pose with Tung-Sheng Liu, in white jacket, who helped the crew escape capture. Liu later immigrated to the United States and was named an honorary member of Doolittle’s Raiders. https://www.instagram.com/p/CS21UobNw8e/?utm_medium=tumblr

Doolittle Raiders: The crew of B-25 #40-2344, the lead bomber (left to right): Lieutenant Henry A. Potter, navigator; Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle, pilot; S/Sgt. Fred A. Braemer, bombardier; Lieutenant Richard E. Cole, co-pilot; S/Sgt. Paul J. Leonard, flight engineer/gunner. https://www.instagram.com/p/CS21Pjutw99/?utm_medium=tumblr

🇺🇸 A B-25 Mitchell bomber, one of the sixteen involved in the Doolittle Raid, takes off from the flight deck of the USS Hornet (CV 12) bound for the Japanese homeland, April 18, 1942. [U.S. Air Force photo] https://www.instagram.com/p/CS2wBMrsv_q/?utm_medium=tumblr

🇺🇸 Pvt. Clyde Peacock of the 1st MP Platoon, 1st Infantry Division shortly before the Normandy invasion. England, June, 1944 https://www.instagram.com/p/CS2rnvsMt0F/?utm_medium=tumblr

Hero of the Soviet Union Lt. General Pavlov Belov, commander of the 1st Guards Cavalry Corps, with his staff officers in a captured German Sd.Kfz.10 halftrack. Later in the war he commanded the 61st Army. Belov led the longest cavalry raid in the war last five months behind enemy lines. Franz Hadler, head of German OKH wrote about it in his diary: “Cav Corps Belov has again broken out and is moving in the direction of Kirov. Nothing we could brag about. Cav Corps Belov is now floating around the area west of Kirov. Quite a man, that we have to send no less than seven divisions after him." Halder also wrote "Belov did it, after all, keeping seven German divisions on the jump." https://www.instagram.com/p/CSz7c4vJewH/?utm_medium=tumblr

The commander of the Soviet scouts platoon, Lt. P. Burdovitsyn, and the observer, Vahir Saidov, monitor the enemy’s movement using the TR-4X trench periscope. South-Western Front, 1943. [Photo by: Georgi Zelma / Source: albumwar2.com] https://www.instagram.com/p/CSyAHyvNpTQ/?utm_medium=tumblr

Great photo of a Soviet SU-76M self propelled gun (SPG) in Vienna, 1945. https://www.instagram.com/p/CSx_vgtthJm/?utm_medium=tumblr

General John J. Pershing addresses officers of the 1st Infantry Division in Chaumont, France, on April 16, 1918. https://www.instagram.com/p/CSx_ipktuBz/?utm_medium=tumblr

Red Army infantry advance under the cover of an IS-2 heavy tank, Operation Bagration, June 24, 1944. https://www.instagram.com/p/CSxA7wbp6zO/?utm_medium=tumblr

German Heinkel He 111 two-engine bomber bomber wing 26 (KG 26) with its crew and two torpedoes. https://www.instagram.com/p/CSvTtCUN4qM/?utm_medium=tumblr

Soviet 120mm mortar in Vienna, Austria, 1945. https://www.instagram.com/p/CSvRkdJtHwc/?utm_medium=tumblr

Panzer IV Ausf J from the 2nd Panzer Division (2.Pz.Div.) of the Wehrmacht, Destroyed in the French city of Pont-Farcy by soldiers from the US Army’s 35th Infantry Division during the battles for the city on August 2, 1944. In the background of the Panzer IV, a passing GMC-353. https://www.instagram.com/p/CSumQGWJexU/?utm_medium=tumblr

Men of the 2nd Ranger Battalion, US Army before loading embarking from England for Operation Overlord, June, 1944. https://www.instagram.com/p/CSukjs_JMGT/?utm_medium=tumblr

Soviet Naval Infantry of the Northern Fleet, 1942. https://www.instagram.com/p/CSss2bDtonC/?utm_medium=tumblr