World War 2 in Color #2

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A breeches buoy is put into service to transfer from a U.S. destroyer to a cruiser survivors of a ship on November 14, 1942.

US Marines speed toward the beaches of Iwo Jima February 19, 1945.

Armored tractors of a Marine battalion commence the charge for the beach at Okinawa, April 1, 1945.

A Supermarine Spitfire Vc 'Tropical' JK707 MX-P crash landed on beach.

A German Jagdgeschwader 54 (JG 54) on the airfield at Immola in Finland. 2nd of July 1944. 

A German crew member cleaning the barrel of a Schützenpanzerwagen "Stummel" on the Eastern Front, c. Summer 1942. 

Soviet Air Force officers, Rufina Gasheva and Nataly Meklin decorated as 'Heroes of the Soviet Union' for their service with the famed 'Night Witches' unit during World War II.

A Kriegsberichter (war correspondent) holding an Arriflex camera 35mm and he is leaning against a knocked out Soviet BT-5 light tank. c.1940/41. 

US Air Force pilot 2nd Lieutenant Robert Wade Biesecker with his crew of the 569th Bombardment Squadron, standing by their B-17 Flying Fortress bomber at RAF Framlingham, in England, 18 October 1943.

Two UC soldiers prepare a gift of special “Easter Eggs” for Adolf Hitler and the German Army. Easter Saturday, March the 10th 1945, during the Battle of Remagen. 

A paratrooper from the American 17th Airborne Division gets a light from a Churchill tank crewman of 6th Guards Armoured Brigade near Dorsten in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, 29th of March 1945. 

Two German soldiers on a broken down and deserted Soviet T-35 heavy tank On the Dubno - Plycza highway, of western Ukraine. June/July 1941. 

Australian soldiers mingle with a section of the crowd gathered in Martin Place during the Victory in the Pacific celebrations, Sydney, 15 August 1945. 

Private (Pte) Albert George Denovan, of Sydney NSW, 2/3 Pioneer Battalion, a former prisoner of war (POW) is reunited with relatives - 1944

Flying Officer Leonard Haines of No. 19 Squadron RAF sits by the cockpit of his Supermarine Spitfire at Fowlmere, near Duxford. September 1940.  

A British soldier takes a break during the approach to Tripoli, Libya beside a swastika and the words 'Heil Hitler' that have been carved into a rocky hillside during January 1943. 

The crew of Avro Lancaster "C for Charlie" of No. 44 (Rhodesia) Squadron RAF, try to warm themselves in Lincolnshire, England, after returning from a raid on Stuttgart, 2nd of March 1944. 

U.S. Marines climbing down the nets into landing craft during the Battle of Peleliu, September-November 1944.

Girls working on shell caps in a munitions factory, somewhere in England. 25th of May 1940. 

Medics of the US. 5th Infantry Division examining GI clothing found with German-captured equipment after the liberation of Diekirch in Luxembourg on the 20th of January 1945.

Royal Marines from, 1st Commando Brigade on the look-out for snipers among the ruins in Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany. 4th of April 1945.

Soviet artillerymen transporting a 76-mm during the forced crossing of the Oder River, Germany, c. December, 1944.

"Lucky Strike" c. 1944. The United States was the only country to equip its troops with an auto-loading rifle as the standard infantry weapon of WWII. It gave their troops a tremendous advantage in firepower, and led General George Patton to call it “The greatest battle implement ever devised.” 

Crew members of Nº537 Soviet IS-2 tank of the 87th Guards Heavy Tank Regiment take a break in Breslau (now Wrocław in Poland) 27th April 1945.

US troops entering the Hammelburg Prison in Germany by opening the main gate with bursts of their M3 "Grease Guns". April 6, 1945.

British Prisoners of War celebrate their liberation from Stalag X1B, 16th April 1945. 

A Sergeant of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps bandages the wounded ear of a mine-detection Labrador dog named 'Jasper' at Bayeux in Normandy, 5th of July 1944.

British Prisoners of War celebrate their liberation from Stalag X1B, 16th April 1945. 

A Browning Automatic Rifle man in the bow of the rubber landing craft provides covering fire as a US 10-man boat crew reaches the beach of Pavuvu in the Russell Islands during 'Operation Cleanslate'. February 1943. 

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visiting bomb damaged streets in the East End of London on the 18th of October 1940. 

While his father chats with a customer at the hardware store, a uniformed actor Jimmy Stewart sets up a date to go fishing,1945.  

A squad leader points out a suspected Japanese position near Baugio, Luzon, P.I., where US troops are in fierce combat with the enemy. 23 March 1945

Two U.S. soldiers of C Company, seek shelter behind a M-4 Sherman tank at Geich, near Düren, Germany, on 11 December 1944.

A 7th Armored Division antitank gun (3-inch Gun M5) covers the approach on a road to Belgium (12/23/44)--Railroad crossing near Vielsalm, Belgium.

9th Army MPs reading of the surrender in the 'Stars and Stripes' in Germany on the 8th of May 1945.

People reading about Germany's on May 7, 1945.